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Mozilla buys Fakespot, a startup that identifies fake reviews, to bring shopping tools to Firefox

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Mozilla announced today that it has acquired Fakespot , a startup that offers a website and browser extension that helps users identify fake or unreliable reviews. Fakespot’s offerings can be used to spot fake reviews listed on various online marketplaces including Amazon, Yelp, TripAdvisor and more.

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Butter raises $7M to end ‘accidental’ customer churn due to payment failure

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It was there that he realized there was an astounding number of subscriptions that failed to renew or even go through to begin with due to payment-related issues. Ultimately in 2016 alone, he helped the company recover over 10 million Xbox Live subscriptions, which resulted in over $100 million in recovered revenue. to $5 million.

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With fresh capital, Symend aims to build a better debt collection system

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A 2016 whitepaper from the Association of Credit and Collection Professionals International found that debt rose from $150 billion to over $600 billion in the previous five years. ” With fresh capital, Symend aims to build a better debt collection system by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch.

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Accord, which offers a platform to manage sales processes, secures $10M

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Compounded with that fact, there is no system to reinforce a consistent, repeatable sales process, even if you have the ideal sales journey all figured out.” Ross also mentioned Quip, a company Salesforce acquired in 2016, which embeds collaborative business process documents, spreadsheet and chat inside of Salesforce.

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The NIS2 Directive: why cyber-resilience is the new normal for European organisations

CIO

Due to be adopted as law by member states by October 2024, the EU Network and Information Systems (NIS2) Directive is the most important cybersecurity legislation ever enacted across member states. One of the biggest challenges will be NIS2’s emphasis on boosting supply chain security, widely acknowledged as a major potential weakness.

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FlexID gets Algorand funding to offer self-sovereign IDs to Africa’s unbanked

TechCrunch

One of the startups working toward this vision is Zimbabwe’s FlexID, which is building a blockchain-based identity system for those excluded from the banking system due to their lack of identity documents. million in 2016. The number of bank accounts in the country stood at 1.5 million in 2020. million in 2020.

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12 famous ERP disasters, dustups and disappointments

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In November 2021 it turned on a new ERP system intended to support international growth with improved operational visibility and financial reporting capabilities. The company was forced to develop new processes to keep information flowing around the business, and hire a third-party consultant to sort out the ERP system at a cost of $3.8