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London-based outsourcing giant Capita left a trove of data exposed online for 7 years, TechCrunch has learned, just weeks after the company admitted to a data breach potentially impacting customer data.  Requesting anonymity, a security researcher alerted TechCrunch to an … Continue reading →

Netherlands-based Instruqt has a product allowing companies to more easily test how a new software would run inside their organization. After bootstrapping its way to growth, it has now raised €15 million in a Series A round led entirely by … Continue reading →

A few weeks before Warner Bros. Discovery launches its new HBO Max/Discovery+ streaming service, Max, TechCrunch spoke with WBD chief technology officer Avi Saxena and chief product officer Tyler Whitworth about building the new platform from the ground up, rolling … Continue reading →

Kenya is proposing new taxes to tap the growing digital economy in a bid to grow domestic revenues and narrow its fiscal deficit in response to the ongoing cash crunch. The East African country plans to charge a 3% tax … Continue reading →

Samsung overtook Apple through a slender 1% lead to secure the top spot in smartphone shipment volumes during the first quarter of 2023, despite the ongoing contraction of the smartphone market, according to a new report. The South Korean electronics … Continue reading →

Apple launched 20 new games Thursday on Apple Arcade including a new exclusive Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles title along with classic games like Temple Run and Snake.io. Paramount Global’s TMNT Splintered Fate is a “roguelike adventure” game where you must … Continue reading →

Yesterday, Fingo, a YC-backed Kenyan fintech, launched its neobank, which it developed in collaboration with Pan-African financial institution Ecobank Kenya. The Ecobank subsidiary unveiled the neobank, the first of its kind in the East African country, according to the pair, … Continue reading →

Meesho has cut 15% of its workforce, or 251 roles, as the Indian social commerce startup pares its expenses to improve its financial health and confront the “economic reality.” This is the second round of job cuts at Meesho, which … Continue reading →

Small to medium-sized enterprises contribute 60% of Indonesia’s gross domestic product. But companies in the D2C space still struggle to compete against bigger brands. Praktis wants to put them on a more level playing field. The startup, which handles everything … Continue reading →

It’s been almost five years since this editor sat down with longtime VC Harry Nelis and three other investors from Accel’s London office to talk about the trends rippling through the venture industry. At the time, our talk largely centered … Continue reading →