BlackRock and Reliance’s finance unit to form asset management venture
The world’s largest asset manager is re-entering India — and it’s doing so in a partnership with India’s richest man. Jio Financial Services and BlackRock said Wednesday they have agreed to form a joint venture, called Jio BlackRock, as the Indian conglomerate Reliance’s finance unit begins the lucrative asset management
Read moreFirst Canadian class action suit filed in GoAnywhere MFT hacks
Several proposed class action lawsuits have been filed in the U.S. stemming from the exploitation and data thefts in January from a vulnerability in Fortra’s GoAnywhere MFT file transfer software. Now a Canadian action has been filed. Last week a Saskatchewan-based law firm, Merchant Law Group. launched a national class
Read moreViolence Flairs as Kenyans Protest Against Tax Raises
The response to tax increases in Kenya has been progressively violent after days of protesting. Reports from the Guardian and Aljazeera show that the demonstrations are becoming a threat to human life. Teargas and live ammunition have been used against protestors to try and halt the commotion. Rising living costs
Read moreMinister Champagne takes steps to ensure TTC riders have wireless coverage
Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne announced yesterday that he is initiating a consultation to revise the licenses of Rogers, Bell, Telus and Videotron to ensure all Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) riders have wireless coverage, “including 911 service, in all subway tunnels and stations, followed by voice, data and text as soon
Read moreHewlett Packard Enterprise Joins AI Cloud Market with HPE GreenLake Expansion
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced its entry into the AI cloud market, expanding its HPE GreenLake portfolio to offer large language models (LLMs) to enterprises of all sizes. This new service provides a multi-tenant supercomputing cloud platform for on-demand access to large-scale AI capabilities. Introducing HPE GreenLake for LLMs, the
Read morePlatform engineering is just DevOps with a product mindset
Since it was introduced in 2009, the DevOps mindset has encouraged organizations to put resources behind improving metrics like lead time, deployment frequency, change failure rate, and mean time to recovery (MTTR). This approach worked for many leading engineering organizations to develop, deliver, and ship software faster and more efficiently
Read moreEffectiv’s fraud tools determine if it is you or your deep fake making that bank withdrawal
We have the power to transfer money to anyone, from anywhere, without having to step foot in a bank branch. And with great power comes great responsibility amid bank transfer or payment fraud amounting to $1.6 billion in 2022. Ravi Sandepudi, co-founder and CEO of Effectiv, told TechCrunch that now
Read moreCollaborative Robotics raises $30M to develop and deploy ‘novel cobot’
A year after unveiling Collaborative Robotics, Brad Porter is still playing it close to the vest. He’s not ready show off the company’s hardware — or even describe it in too great of detail. “I’m being careful about not revealing the design,” he tells TechCrunch. “We’re not really like anything
Read moreProtect AI raises $35M to build a suite of AI-defending tools
Protect AI, a startup building tools to harden the security around AI systems, today announced that it raised $35 million in a Series A round led by Evolution Equity Partners with participation from Salesforce Ventures, Acrew Capital, boldstart ventures, Knollwood Capital and Pelion Ventures. The tranche is more than double
Read moreBumble launches a separate BFF app for friend friending
Dating app company Bumble announced today that it releasing a separate app called “Bumble for Friends” aimed at finding friends in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the Philippines, the U.K. and the U.S. Bumble originally launched BFF mode in the main app in 2016. With this new app, it aims to
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