Tiger Global has invested in DealShare, a startup in India that has built an e-commerce platform for middle- and lower-income groups of consumers, just three months after the Indian firm concluded its
Are Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp down for you right now? Us too! And lots and lots of other people too, it seems.We’re getting reports of outages left and right across the three Facebook pr
Edraak, an online education nonprofit, exposed the private information of thousands of students after uploading student data to an unprotected cloud storage server, apparently by mistake.The nonprofit
ShareChat said on Thursday it has raised a new financing round that values it at over $2 billion, joining four other local startups in attaining the unicorn status this week.The Indian social network
Charles, a Berlin-based startup that offers a “conversational-commerce” SaaS for businesses that want to sell on WhatsApp and other chat apps, has raised €6.4 million in funding.Led by Acc
Meesho said on Monday it has raised $300 million in a new financing round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 as the Indian social commerce startup works to become the “single ecosystem that will enab
Security researchers say a powerful new Android malware masquerading as a critical system update can take complete control of a victim’s device and steal their data.The malware was found bundled
WhatsApp’s planned policy changes aren’t sailing smoothly in India, the instant messaging service’s biggest market by users. Indian antitrust body, Competition Commission of India, o
Facebook develops a new way to interact with AR, Uber’s facial recognition policy faces scrutiny and SpaceX’s Starship rocket booster hits a major milestone. This is your Daily Crunch for
Instagram and WhatsApp experienced an apparent outage on Friday. It began around 1:40 pm ET and lasted for more than half an hour.WhatsApp was unable to connect to the server, and messages were not be
Montreal-based Heyday announced today that it has raised $6.5 million Canadian ($5.1 million in US dollars) in additional seed funding.Co-founder and CEO Steve Desjarlais told me that the startup̵
A security vulnerability in a popular iPhone call recording app exposed thousands of users’ recorded conversations.The flaw was discovered by Anand Prakash, a security researcher and founder of
Square buys a majority stake in Jay-Z’s Tidal, WhatsApp improves its desktop app and Hopin raises even more funding. This is your Daily Crunch for March 4, 2021.The big story: Square acquires Ti
Colombian startup Elenas says it’s helping tens of thousands of women make money by selling products online. And today, it announced that it has raised $6 million in Series A funding.That’
A security flaw in a website run by the government of West Bengal in India exposed the lab results of at least hundreds of thousands of residents, though likely millions, who took a COVID-19 test.The
Amber Group has fixed a second security lapse that exposed private keys and passwords for the government’s JamCOVID app and website.A security researcher told TechCrunch on Sunday that the Amber
WhatsApp said earlier this week that it will allow users to review its planned privacy update at “their own pace” and will display a banner to better explain them the changes in its terms. But what ha
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