Month: September 2021
Portcast gets $3.2M to create more transparent and sustainable supply chains
Portcast founders Dr. Lingxiao Xia and Nidhi Gupta For many manufacturers and freight forwarders, managing logistics is still a very manual process: tracking shipments with a call or online lookup, and entering that data into an Excel spreadsheet. Portcast, which describes itself as a “next-generation logistics operating system,” makes the…
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After years of inaction against adtech, UK’s ICO calls for browser-level controls to fix ‘cookie fatigue’
In the latest quasi-throwback toward ‘do not track‘, the UK’s data protection chief has come out in favor of a browser- and/or device-level setting to allow Internet users to set “lasting” cookie preferences — suggesting this as a fix for the barrage of consent pop-ups that continues to infest websites…
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Commerce platform ShopUp raises $75 million led by Valar in Bangladesh’s largest funding
ShopUp, a startup that is digitizing neighborhood stores in Bangladesh, has raised $75 million in a new financing round that is also the largest in the South Asian market. Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures led ShopUp’s $75 million Series B financing round. Prosus Ventures as well as existing investors Flourish Ventures,…
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Microsoft Flight Simulator Top Gun update delayed with the movie – here’s the new date Microsoft Flight Simulator Top Gun update
When Paramount Pictures pushed back the film release of Top Gun: Maverick, it created a ripple effect that cascaded into the studio’s other releases. Now, those waves are also reaching the gaming world, as Microsoft Flight Simulator’s Top Gun-themed expansion is also delayed. Developer Asobo Studio announced the delay in…
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ProtonMail court order leads to the arrest of French climate activist
The private email service Protonmail is drawing harsh criticism from its users after providing IP information linked to a French activist who used the service, as first reported by TechCrunch. The data was requested as part of a broader investigation into a group of climate activists who have occupied a…
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Security audit finds major issue in Mozilla VPN Mozilla VPN on a Smartphone
A security audit carried out by German cybersecurity outfit Cure 53 has found a number of vulnerabilities in the Mozilla VPN apps and clients. Carried out in August, the exercise brought up two medium vulnerabilities and one item of concern that was rated as high. The latter, FVP-02-014, could have…
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