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It’s Friday and we’re lounging in our office chairs with a hot cup of coffee after a week that’s been as slow as midwinter molasses.
For Black History Month, we are in awe of the story of Sojourner Truth, who was an American abolitionist and women’s rights activist. Born into slavery, she escaped with her young daughter and became the first black woman to successfully sue for the release of a family member in 1828. For more on her, this Ted-Ed’s mini documentary is a great place to startand if you want to go deeper, don’t miss the moving biography by Patricia and Frederick McKissack.
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- game in: Amazon is in talks to acquire Indian video streaming giant MX Player from Times Internet, manish reports. He writes that the video app is “popular for supporting a wide range of video formats and reliability on low-cost Android smartphones, has expanded into original content in recent years, and has amassed more than 300 million users worldwide.” the world”.
- No more phishing: Reddit confirmed that hackers accessed its internal data in what it calls “a sophisticated phishing attack” targeting its employees, carly writes The company said the attack gave hackers access to documents and source code.
- And just as quickly as it came, it was gone.: Five days ago, India banned more than 90 apps, some associated with China, related to loans. Today, manish writes that this ban has been lifted on apps, such as PayU’s LazyPay, Kissht, KreditBee and Indiabulls’ Home Loans.
Startups and VCs
Today has been a pretty slow day on the news front – I think everyone has a case of Fridays today. However, here are some of the stories worth taking a closer look at:
How to manage third-party cybersecurity risks that are too costly to ignore
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Every early-stage startup relies on third-party vendors to handle some aspect of its operations—no one wants to build a shopping cart, credit card processing, or identity verification app from scratch.
But now that third-party data breaches are occurring regularly, teams need to make managing that risk a part of their daily operations, writes Jon Siegler, co-founder and chief product officer at LogicGate.
“No matter how well you clean things up, the impact on your organization’s reputation will continue to cost you lost business in the future,” he writes.
Three more from the TC+ team:
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Connected car company Otonomo is being acquired by Urgently in a reverse merger, ingrid reports. Otonomo went public in a 2021 SPAC, at the time valued at $1.4 billion, but has since dropped to $70 million. Ingrid writes: “It has been a bumpy road for smart mobility technology, with macroeconomic pressures, slower development and next-generation technology launches such as autonomous systems and the investment market in refrigeration technology all which makes it difficult for younger companies to maintain and grow their businesses. Otonomo is perhaps the latest victim of that shock, but it may not be the last.”
If you like classic games, one of our popular stories from yesterday was Sarahit is a remastered and free version of Myst that comes to iOS.
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