Month: March 2021
Otrium raises $120 million for its end-of-season fashion marketplace
Otrium has raised a $120 million round just a year after raising its $26 million Series B round. BOND and returning investor Index Ventures are leading the round. Existing investor Eight Roads Ventures is also participating. The concept behind Otrium is quite simple. When items reach the end-of-season status, brands…
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Monk’s Hill Ventures and Glints on how Southeast Asian startups can cope with the region’s talent crunch
A lot has changed since Monk’s Hill Ventures released its first report on tech compensation in Southeast Asia five years ago, with base salaries and competition for top talent jumping dramatically. But one thing has remained the same since 2016: startup compensation data, including information about base pay, bonuses and…
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SolarWinds hackers infiltrated emails of top Trump officials Hacker
New details have emerged regarding the SolarWinds hack following an Associated Press (AP) investigation in which it interviewed more than a dozen current and former US government officials. The news outlet has learned that the Russian hackers believed to be responsible for the hack gained access to email accounts belonging…
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Amazon Repeatedly Violated Labor Laws During The Pandemic — And So Far Has Faced Almost No Consequences
Amazon repeatedly violated the rights of employees who pushed for health and safety improvements during the coronavirus pandemic, according to the nation’s top labor regulator. But a year after the global health crisis began, the company has so far faced minimal consequences. As COVID-19 spread in the spring of 2020,…
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IBM launches quantum computing developer certification Quantum Computer
With the quantum era just around the corner, interest in quantum computing has grown tremendously over the past few years which is why IBM has announced the world’s first ever developer certification for programming a quantum computer. According to a report from the market research firm P&S Intelligence, quantum computing…
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Even LinkedIn is making a Clubhouse clone
It feels like just about every big tech company is working on a Clubhouse-like social audio feature — Twitter’s Spaces feature is rolling out now, Facebook is reportedly building one, Spotify is making one, Mark Cuban has one, even Slack is getting in the game. But now, the idea of…
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