GandCrab Ransomware Shutters Its Operations
After a year of success, its operators say they earned millions — and are ready to retire.
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May: Urbanization and Transportation
Cities are changing. According to the UN (United Nations), 68% of the global population will live in urban areas by 2050, compared to 55% today. What’s more, the UN expects the global population to skyrocket in the next few decades, potentially adding 2.5 billion more people to urban areas by 2050. The post May: Urbanization…
Ecobee Drops a new SmartThermostat That’s Smarter Than Ever
Ecobee just launched the SmartThermostat with voice control, a new and comprehensively updated model from one of the category leaders. We reviewed the new Ecobee SmartThermostat and were impressed with the evolved smart device’s ease of installation, configuration, and operation. Our reviewer also praised the SmartThermostat’s excellent feature set and performance plus its voice and…
Samsung phone pops up on Geekbench, could be a Galaxy S Active
Samsung has a long history of making rugged smartphones and even though we havent seen one since the Xcover 4 back in 2017, we might be getting a successor pretty soon. A new listing on Geekbench revealed an upcoming Samsung SM-G889F with last years Exynos 9810 processor from the S9 family and 4GB RAM. It…
Key Vision Fund investors are reportedly lukewarm on a second fund – TechCrunch
SoftBank shook up the venture capital world with its unprecedented $100 billion Vision Fund, and the speculation continues around its follow-up. The fund hasn’t quite closed $100 billion — it is mighty close… — but that hasn’t stopped reports of a sequel from surfacing for the last 18 months. SoftBank has mown through its allocation…
Owlin, the text and news analytics platform for financial institutions, raises $3.5M Series A – TechCrunch
Owlin, a startup we covered all the way back in late 2012, has raised $3.5 million in Series A funding. The fundraise follows the fintech company’s pivot from a real-time news alert service to a more comprehensive “AI-based” text and news analytics platform to help financial institutions assess risk. The new round is led by…
Registration for Disrupt Berlin 2019 is now open – TechCrunch
A big shout out to all you savvy startuppers — the day you’ve been waiting for has finally arrived. Yup, registration for Disrupt Berlin 2019 is officially open for business. We’re kicking things off with a super early-bird special, and that means only one thing — serious savings. Buy your passes now, and you can…
China says it will ‘soon grant’ 5G licenses for commercial use – TechCrunch
There’s a widely accepted method to interpret China’s official announcements: the shorter the news, the heavier it is. Today, in one concise sentence, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China’s telecom regulator, announced that it will “soon grant 5G licenses for commercial use.” That’s according to the Communist Party newspaper People’s Daily. TechCrunch reported…
PropTech startup Kodit.io raises $13M to automate house buying and selling – TechCrunch
As anyone who has ever tried to buy or sell a home knows, the entire process can be the most stressful of one’s life. Traditional real estate agents rarely make the process any less stressful, leaving the industry ripe for disruption by tech companies which can automate many of the existing processes. Startups like Offerpad…
WorldRemit raises $175M to help users send money to contacts in emerging markets – TechCrunch
The value of remittances globally continues to rise, and today a startup that has built a business targeting money transfers into emerging markets has raised a large round of growth funding to capitalize on that. WorldRemit, the London startup that has focused on enabling competitively-priced, quick money transfers from migrant workers and immigrants living in…
