Sudanese fintech Bloom nabs $6.5M, backed by Y Combinator, GFC and Visa – TechCrunch

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Bloom, a Sudan-based fintech that offers a high-yield savings account and adjacent digital banking services, has raised a $6.5 million seed round. This investment is coming after the startup’s undisclosed pre-seed round last year. This financing welcomed participation from fintech giant Visa, Y Combinator, U.S.-based VCs Global Founders Capital and Goodwater Capital and UAE-based early-stage…

Japanese e-commerce enabler AnyMind raises funding in equity, debt for acquisitions – TechCrunch

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The pandemic has triggered more demand for online shopping and fueled many smaller retailers to establish their own online offerings. Japanese commerce enabler AnyMind, which helps brands and influencers’ online operations, has closed a ¥5 billion (approximately $36 million) Series D round on the back of that boost to make additional acquisitions in Japan and…

New Study Finds Most Enterprise Vendors Failing to Mitigate Speculative Execution Attacks

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With speculative execution attacks remaining a stubbornly persistent vulnerability ailing modern processors, new research has highlighted an “industry failure” to adopt mitigations released by AMD and Intel, posing a firmware supply chain threat. Dubbed FirmwareBleed by Binarly, the information leaking assaults stem from the continued exposure of microarchitectural attack surfaces on the part of enterprise…