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Smile Identity expands African footprint with acquisition of Appruve to strengthen ID verification services

TechCrunch

Founded by Mark Straub and William Bares in 2017, Smile Identity is a major player in Africa’s ID verification and KYC compliance industry. Fraud data, mobile money data, government data queried against national ID systems, AML, PEP screening checks, sanction screening, both global and local KYB business verification data.

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Ultraleap’s mid-air haptics tempts Tencent to join its $82M Series D fundraising

TechCrunch

It was way back in 2017 that the company that became Ultraleap (Ultrahaptics, as was) demonstrated at TechCrunch Disrupt a technology that pioneered ultrasound to replicate the sense of touch. And as was hinted at back in 2017, automakers are looking to make the ‘in-cabin experience’ a real thing. ” Then there’s automotive.

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PopSQL aims to be a modern data team’s best friend

TechCrunch

But what you often have to do next is save the query somewhere, send it to someone else so they can review it and make sure it’s good or if you make a data table or charts, have an easy way to share that.”. “The most basic task is connecting to the database, writing the query, then getting the results,” he added.

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Virtual meeting platform Vowel raises $13.5M, aims to cure meeting fatigue

TechCrunch

Vowel is launching a meeting operating system with tools like real-time transcription; integrated agendas, notes and action items; meeting analytics; and searchable, on-demand recordings of meetings. In 2017, Harvard Business Review reported that executives spent 23 hours in meetings each week.

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Fermyon raises $20M to build tools for cloud app dev

TechCrunch

As engineers at Deis, and then DeisLabs once Microsoft acquired it in 2017, their team explored the container landscape and built the package manager Helm as well as Brigade and other tooling. Fermyon set out to build a suite of tools that enables developers to build, deploy, and then operate WebAssembly binaries in a cloud context.”

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Make a resolution to clean up your digital act? Here’s how

The Parallax

Did you get hacked in 2017? That includes the operating system, the programs and apps that run on it, and the aforementioned Internet of Things. Tech companies often have extensive privacy policies written in dense legalese, but that doesn’t mean you should do your due diligence about a new product before buying it.

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WannaCry Ransomware Review and Global Impact.

ProtectWise

Any network with hosts running a version of the Windows operating system missing the MS17-010 patches is vulnerable to WannaCry's infection mechanism. The patches for Microsoft (currently supported) operating systems were released on March 14, 2017 following the Shadow Brokers leak. Who Created The Malware?