Deliverr bags $250 million in a Series E funding round
Deliverr, a United States-based e-commerce fulfillment business, announced that it raised about $250 million in a Series E capital raise round. The round was led by a new investor Tiger Global. Old and existing investors also participated, which included GLP, 8VC, Activant, Coatue and Brookfield...
Google wins $4.3 billion class action suit filed in the UK Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ruled in favour of the search engine giant in the recently fled Lloyd vs Google lawsuit. Google’s tech company Mountainview won the case, losing $4.3 billion (approximately £3.2 billion) in damages. If the Court had not ruled in...
Spotify Acquires Findaway: A New Chapter in Music Streaming
On 11th November, Sweden-based music and podcast streaming giant announced its plans of acquiring Findaway – an audiobook distribution company. Findaway is a firm that operates multiple businesses which also includes distributing audiobooks to multiple platforms. It also offers audiobook creation services via Findaway Voices....
Stalkerware Apps: Understanding and Protecting Yourself from Spyware
Introduction There’s no denying the fact that technology has made our lives easier. And while there are numerous pros of technology, losing control of privacy is one big con (more like a price we pay) we have to deal with for using technology. The State...
11 Creative Things to Do with Old Mobile Phones
Bought a new smartphone? Congratulations! Now that you’ve upgraded to a better mobile phone, you’re probably wondering: what to do with your old mobile device? Yes, you can always sell your old mobile phones or recycle them, but if you are looking for some innovative...
After Twitter, TikTok tests a tipping feature for select creators
ByteDance-owned short video social networking app TikTok is testing a new feature that allows select creators on its platform to receive tips from their fans directly on their profiles. The in-app feature was first noticed by a creator on TikTok, Jera Bean. According to the...
Trump Media & Technology Group to launch TRUTH Social
Former United States President Mr Donald Trump announced his plan to launch his own social media platform ‘TRUTH Social’. The move comes about nine months after his official Facebook and Twitter accounts were suspended by the platforms. He said that he will be launching his...
What is privacy technology & why is it important for businesses?
Despite the pandemic when investors reportedly were more careful with their investments, investors have poured a whopping $4.6 billion in cumulative funding in promising and emerging privacy tech companies. At the time of publishing this blog, Crunchbase showed the number of organizations in the privacy...
Facebook stock price falls after over 6-hour global outage
On October 4th, Facebook (and its sister apps – Instagram and WhatsApp) servers went down for, by far, the longest time in years of their operations. At about 9 A.M. PDT (on the United States West Coast), Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp vanished from...
How to protect your digital infrastructure from cyber attacks?
In today’s tech-savvy era, people use the internet to look for anything and do everything. Especially since the pandemic, a sudden hike was noticed in the number of people using digital mediums for working remotely, storing information, learning, buying things and paying for them. This...
