Equifax says it has acquired Kount, which uses AI for digital ID and fraud prevention services, for $640M; Kount becomes part of Equifax’s Luminate platform (Chris O’Brien/VentureBeat)
Equifax says it has acquired Kount, which uses AI for digital ID and fraud prevention services, for $640M; Kount becomes part of Equifax’s Luminate platform — Equifax announced today that…
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Frankfurt, Germany-based CLARK, which searches for the best insurance rates for its users, raises €69M Series C led by Tencent (FinSMEs)
Frankfurt, Germany-based CLARK, which searches for the best insurance rates for its users, raises €69M Series C led by Tencent — Clark, a Frankfurt, Germany-based digital insurance manager, raised €69m…
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Aleo Systems, which plans to launch its private, programmable blockchain later this year, raises a $200M Series B co-led by Vision Fund 2 and Kora Management (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)
Aleo Systems, which plans to launch its private, programmable blockchain later this year, raises a $200M Series B co-led by Vision Fund 2 and Kora Management — The lovechild of…
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Bored Ape Yacht Club launches ApeCoin, or the $APE token, with 1B in total supply, and forms the ApeCoin DAO, whose founding members include Alexis Ohanian (Lucas Matney/TechCrunch)
Bored Ape Yacht Club launches ApeCoin, or the $APE token, with 1B in total supply, and forms the ApeCoin DAO, whose founding members include Alexis Ohanian — Even among the…
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Charts show TSMC’s challenges: unstable output, need for more debt, higher costs hurting margins, foreign currency swings, droughts, and more (Tim Culpan/Bloomberg)
Charts show TSMC’s challenges: unstable output, need for more debt, higher costs hurting margins, foreign currency swings, droughts, and more — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has quietly grown to a…
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P&G Employees Push Back on Vaccine Mandate: ‘It’s Coercion’
A group of unidentified Procter & Gamble employees produced and distributed a video pushing back against the U.S. manufacturer for mandating that workers be vaccinated for coronavirus in order to…
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Verana Health, which offers an AI-powered data analytics engine for medical research, raises a $150M Series E co-led by J&J Innovation and Novo Growth (Andrea Park/FierceBiotech)
Verana Health, which offers an AI-powered data analytics engine for medical research, raises a $150M Series E co-led by J&J Innovation and Novo Growth — With a new CEO at…
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A key EU lawmaker steering negotiations over the Digital Services Act says she is “optimistic we can make a deal before the end of June” (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
A key EU lawmaker steering negotiations over the Digital Services Act says she is “optimistic we can make a deal before the end of June” — European Union lawmakers and…
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SaaS Labs, which offers business automation tools for sales and support teams at SMBs, raises a $42M Series B, and acquires CallPage and Atolia (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
SaaS Labs, which offers business automation tools for sales and support teams at SMBs, raises a $42M Series B, and acquires CallPage and Atolia — SaaS Labs has raised $42…
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Records show at least three US federal agencies bought Lorex video surveillance equipment from Chinese firm Dahua Technology despite a government ban (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
Records show at least three US federal agencies bought Lorex video surveillance equipment from Chinese firm Dahua Technology despite a government ban — Lorex is owned by Dahua, a technology…
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