Steven Scheer / Reuters: YL Ventures: Israeli cybersecurity firms raised $4B in 2024, up 100%+ YoY from $1.89B, across 89 rounds, including 50 seed or early stage that totaled $400M  —  Israeli cybersecurity firms raised $4 billion in 2024, more than double that of 2023, led by firms seeking to protect the cloud along … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Source: Flipkart hires Kabeer Biswas, co-founder of Dunzo, an Indian delivery startup that had raised $500M+, to lead its quick commerce unit, Flipkart Minutes  —  Flipkart has hired Kabeer Biswas, the co-founder of Indian delivery startup Dunzo, as the Walmart-owned e-commerce group expands its quick-commerce business in the country. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alicja Ptak / Notes From Poland: Putin, a new English-language Polish film about Vladimir Putin in which AI is used to superimpose his real face onto an actor, sparks a debate about AI use  —  A new English-language Polish film about Vladimir Putin, in which the Russian president is portrayed using AI-powered special effects … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Istanbul-based gaming startup Grand Games, the publisher behind Magic Sort and Car Match, raised a $30M Series A led by Balderton, after a $3M seed in 2024  —  Gaming startups, specifically those building casual mobile games, are very hot in Turkey right now, and today … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yimou Lee / Reuters: Taiwan’s National Security Bureau says daily average cyberattacks on government departments doubled YoY to 2.4M in 2024, and most were by Chinese cyber forces  —  Cyberattacks on Taiwan government departments doubled in 2024 from the previous year to an average of 2.4 million attacks a day … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Carly Page / TechCrunch: Ivanti warns that threat actors exploited a critical-rated zero-day in its widely used Connect Secure VPN tool to compromise its corporate customers’ networks  —  U.S. software giant Ivanti has warned that a zero-day vulnerability in its widely-used enterprise VPN appliance has been exploited … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Dublin-based Xocean, which provides ocean data to the energy and hydrography industries using uncrewed surface vessels, raised €115M  —  Xocean, an Irish marine robotics startup that provides ocean data to the energy and hydrography industries using uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Amazon launches Amazon Retail Ad Service to let companies show ads in search results, product pages, and other areas of their site, initially in the US  —  Amazon has turned into an online ad juggernaut in recent years, with brands paying big bucks for premium placement on the retailer’s websites. Lees verder op Tech Meme