December 22, 20210CommentsChinese state media says regulators suspended an info-sharing partnership with Alibaba Cloud over accusations it failed to promptly report a Log4j vulnerability (Reuters)
December 22, 20210CommentsIntel faces criticism in China after asking suppliers not to use Xinjiang labor or products, with a Weibo hashtag on the topic drawing over 250M views (Bloomberg)
December 22, 20210CommentsOverjet, which offers AI-powered software for identifying dental disease, raises a $42.5M Series B led by General Catalyst and Insight at a $425M valuation (Christine Hall/TechCrunch)
December 22, 20210CommentsDelivery Hero says it will exit its food delivery business in Germany after seven months and divest its Japanese operations (Ivan Levingston/Bloomberg)
December 22, 20210CommentsInterview with Automattic’s Matt Mullenweg on working from his always-connected RV, making “the Berkshire Hathaway of the internet”, and betting on open systems (David Pierce/Protocol)
December 22, 20210CommentsAn announcement bot for Justin Kan’s NFT platform Fractal was hacked by a scammer who made off with about $150K, before the startup even launched its platform (Lucas Matney/TechCrunch)
December 22, 20210CommentsAustralian startup Vivi, whose wireless tech enables tutors to display teaching material on students’ own devices in classrooms, raises $20M from Quad Partners (Annie Njanja/TechCrunch)
December 22, 20210CommentsApella, which collects data via sensors in hospital operating rooms and analyzes the information using AI to improve surgical quality, raises a $21M Series A (Janice Bitters Turi/Crunchbase News)
December 22, 20210CommentsCEO of OSOM, a privacy-centric smartphone company founded by ex-Essential employees, teases OV1, the company’s first handset slated for launch in summer 2022 (Ryne Hager/Android Police)