After an abrupt shutdown, Munchery’s small business vendors are the ones picking up the bill – TechCrunch

Munchery’s vendors claim the food delivery startup took advantage of them in its final hours, knowingly allowing them to continue making deliveries it couldn’t pay for. Earlier this week, Munchery surprised customers with an email announcing it would cease operations, effective immediately. It did not, however, notify any of its vendors of the news, according to…

Zimbabwe’s government faces off against its tech community over internet restrictions – TechCrunch

More posts by this contributor Flutterwave and Visa launch African consumer payment service GetBarter Harley Davidson reveals more about its push into electric vehicles After days of intermittent blackouts at the order of the Zimbabwe’s Minister of State for National Security, ISPs have restored connectivity through a judicial order issued Monday.   The cyber-affair adds…

Singapore’s Credit Culture raises $29.5M for its soon-to-launch digital loan business – TechCrunch

Singapore’s digital fintech companies are attracting investor attention and dollars in 2019. Fresh from Singapore Life — a digital-only insurer — raising $33 million across two recently closed rounds, so Credit Culture, a digital loan specialist — has banked SG$40 million ($29.5 million) ahead of its imminent launch. Credit Culture has raised its capital from…

To fight election meddling, Google’s cyber unit Jigsaw extends its anti-DDoS protections to European politicos – TechCrunch

Jigsaw, the cybersecurity-focused division owned by Google parent Alphabet, is now allowing political organizations in Europe to sign up for its anti-web flooding technology for free. Until now, the free-to-use technology designed to protect political campaigns and websites against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks — dubbed Project Shield — was only available to news sites and journalists,…