Proton Mail desktop app officially launches, but remains for premium subscribers only
Proton Mail, the end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) email service from Swiss company Proton, is now officially available via a dedicated desktop app some three months after debuting in beta. However, despite previous claims that the client would be available to all Proton Mail users in early 2024, the company has decided
Read moreLago, a Paris-based open source billing platform, banks $22M
A startup out of Paris that began life building marketing tools has raised $22 million after making a successful pivot into billing — a space it discovered was even more broken among potential customers. Lago, developer of an open-source billing platform, has picked up the funding across two rounds of
Read moreAccelerating Archimedes
One way to approximate π is to find the areas of polygons inscribed inside a circle and polygons circumscribed outside the circle. The approximation improves as the number of sides in the polygons increases. This idea goes back at least as far as Archimedes (287–212 BC). Maybe you’ve tried this.
Read moreWhat African B2B e-commerce startups can learn from OmniRetail’s profitable run
Save for fintech and cleantech, B2B e-commerce and retail was the leading destination for venture capital dollars over the last five years. The premise of digitizing the continent’s mom-and-pop convenience stores and offering various solutions to streamline logistics and procurement processes saw hundreds of millions of dollars flood the segment,
Read moreAvanti Communications Welcomes New Sales Director
Avanti Communications (Avanti) has appointed industry veteran Chris van Rooyen as its new Sales Director. With a decade of success at Liquid Intelligent Technologies, van Rooyen brings his extensive market knowledge and 25 years of telecommunications expertise to spearhead enterprise sales at Avanti in South Africa. In his new role,
Read moreFlapmax Launches Women in AI Fellowship on Generative AI
Flapmax, an innovator in artificial intelligence solutions, has unveiled the initiation of its Women in AI (WAI) Generative AI Fellowship program as part of its FAI Institute initiative. The program aims to empower women in AI and foster innovation in AI research and development, particularly in underserved communities like those
Read moreNigeria’s Youverify raises $2.5M to enhance anti-money laundering compliance
Youverify, a Nigerian provider of identity verification and anti-money laundering (AML) solutions for banks and startups, secured a $2.5 million investment from Elm, which specializes in offering ready-made and customized digital solutions to public and private institutions in Saudi Arabia. The pre-Series A investment from Elm also includes a strategic
Read moreAmazon now lets sellers create listings through a URL by using AI
Amazon launched generative AI-powered features last year to help sellers quickly create listings by entering just a few words about the product. The company is now making it easier for sellers to create listings if an item is already listed on their website. The e-commerce giant’s new tool uses AI
Read moreAs European dynamism gathers momentum, Elaia and partners double down with new deep tech fund
Elaia's third deep tech seed fund, DTS3, is double the size of the two previous funds, and signals the momentum that is forming around an emerging concept: European dynamism. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreA bug in an Irish government website that exposed COVID-19 vaccination records took two years to publicly disclose
The Irish government fixed a vulnerability two years ago in its national COVID-19 vaccination portal that exposed the vaccination records of around a million residents. But details of the vulnerability weren’t revealed until this week after attempts to coordinate public disclosure with the government agency stalled and ended. Security researcher
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