Investors chase wealthtech startups in India as affluent class grows
Investors are betting on Indian wealthtech startups as a growing middle class turns to diversify investments and startups challenge traditional financial advisors for high-net-worth clients. Premji Invest is in advanced stages of talks to lead a funding round of $30 million to $40 million in Dezerv, an app offering a
Read moreSeed VCs are turning to new ‘pro rata’ funds that help them compete with the big firms
Three companies with new funds deploy capital to support seed and Series A VCs looking to exercise their pro rata rights. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreYouTube and LinkedIn have games now, and here’s how you can play them
Here are the latest companies venturing into the gaming scene and details about each offering, including pricing, examples of titles and supported devices. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreCIOs’ concerns over generative AI echo those of the early days of cloud computing
CIOs trying to govern generative AI have the same concerns they had about cloud computing 15 years ago, but they've learned some things along the way. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreCalculating when a planet will appear to move backwards
When we say that the planets in our solar system orbit the sun, not the earth, we mean that the motions of the planets is much simpler to describe from the vantage point of the sun. The sun is no more the center of the universe than the earth is.
Read moreSonangol Subsidiary Chooses Emerson for Automation in Angola
MSTelcom, a subsidiary of the Sonangol Group, has chosen Emerson to provide its full automation portfolio for energy and industrial customers in Angola, advancing the country’s objectives in hydrocarbon production leadership. Their collaboration aimed to expand MSTelcom’s ability to offer engineering services to energy and industrial clients. “Our work together
Read moreWhat can devs do about code review anxiety?
For this episode, we spoke with Carol Lee, PhD, principal research scientist in the Developer Success Lab at Pluralsight, about her research into code review anxiety, how developers are coping, and how a workbook can help.
Read moreMicrosoft’s Midnight Blizzard source code breach also impacted federal agencies
Illustration by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge In March, Microsoft notified the US Department of Veterans Affairs that it was impacted by the security breach that enabled the Russian hacking group known as “Midnight Blizzard” to steal some of the company’s source code, reports Bloomberg. Already assigned blame for
Read moreTwilio alerts Authy two-factor app users that ‘threat actors’ have their phone numbers
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Twilio says someone has obtained phone numbers associated with its two-factor authentication service (2FA), Authy, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. In a security alert on Monday, Twilio warns that the “threat actors” may try to use the stolen phone numbers to carry
Read moreOpenAI’s ChatGPT Mac app was storing conversations in plain text
Image: The Verge Until Friday, OpenAI’s recently launched ChatGPT macOS app had a potentially worrying security issue: it wasn’t hard to find your chats stored on your computer and read them in plain text. That meant that if a bad actor or malicious app had access to your machine, they
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