It’s Friday and we’re lounging in our office chairs with a hot cup of coffee after a week as slow as winter molasses.
This Black History Month, we are amazed by the story of Sojourner Truth, an American abolitionist and women’s rights activist. She was born into slavery, escaped with her daughter, and was the first black woman to successfully sue for a relative’s freedom in 1828. If you want to learn more about them, this Ted-Ed mini-documentary is a great place to start and if you want to dig deeper, check out Patricia and Frederick McKissack’s touching biography.
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game one: Amazon is in talks to acquire Indian video streaming giant MX Player from Times Internet, man reports. He writes that the video app is “popular for its support for a wide variety of video formats and reliability on low-cost Android smartphones, has expanded to include original content in recent years, and has amassed over 300 million users.” the world”.
No more phishing: Reddit confirmed that hackers accessed its internal data in what it describes as “an advanced phishing attack” targeting its employees, carly the company writes that the attack gave hackers access to documents and source code.
And as fast as it came, it went: five days ago, India banned more than 90 loan-related applications, some of which were linked to China. Today, man writes that this ban has been lifted for apps like LazyPay by PayU, Kissht, KreditBee and Home Loans by Indiabulls. Startups and VCs
Today was a pretty slow day on the news – I think everyone has a case of Friday today. However, here are some of the stories worth taking a closer look at:
Manage third-party cybersecurity risks that are too expensive to ignore
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Every early-stage startup relies on outside vendors to handle some aspects of its operations — no one wants to build a shopping cart, credit card processing, or identity verification application from scratch.
But with third-party data breaches becoming a regular occurrence, teams need to make managing this risk part of their day-to-day work, writes Jon Siegler, co-founder and chief product officer at LogicGate.
“No matter how well you clear things up, the impact on your company’s reputation will continue to weigh on you in lost business in the future,” he writes.
Three more from the TC+ team:
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Connected car company Otonomo is acquired by Urgently in a reverse merger. Ingrid reports. Otonomo went public in 2021 in a SPAC valued at $1.4 billion, but has since fallen to $70 million. Ingrid writes: “It has been a bumpy road for smart mobility technology, with macroeconomic pressures, slower development and the introduction of next-generation technologies such as autonomous systems and the investment market for refrigeration technology making it difficult for companies to attract younger people. to maintain and grow their business. . Otonomo may be the last victim of this accident, but maybe not the last.”
If you like classic games, this was one of our popular stories from yesterday. SarahIt is a remastered and free version of Myst available for iOS.
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Jason Jack is an experienced technology journalist and author at The Nation View. With a background in computer science and engineering, he has a deep understanding of the latest technology trends and developments. He writes about a wide range of technology topics, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, software development, and cybersecurity.
