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Nowports raises $16M to build the OS for LatAm’s shipping industry

TechCrunch

Nowports raised its initial seed round in 2019 after graduating from Y Combinator’s Winter 2019 batch with a mission to innovate the freight forwarding industry by helping companies — with an emphasis on SMEs — improve the import process. “In Nowports raises $5.3 Our 2021 goal is 400% to 600%,” de los Rios told TechCrunch.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: How To Boost the Cybersecurity of AI Systems While Minimizing Risks

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As nations and organizations embrace the transformative power of AI, it is important that we provide concrete recommendations to AI end users and cultivate a resilient foundation for the safe development and use of AI systems,” she added. Those are some key drivers fueling demand for cybersecurity insurance, a market expected to grow at a 22.3%

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Mainframe modernization holds the key to IBM i success

CIO

Introduced 35 years ago as OS/400, a survey of IBM i users by Forta found that seven out of 10 use IBM i, an operating system developed by IBM for IBM Power Systems, to run more than half of their applications. For companies to maximize the value of a powerful operating system like IBM i, it’s the only way.

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DriveNets connects with $262M as demand booms for its cloud-based alternative to network routers

TechCrunch

Including the company’s debut round of $110 million led by Pitango when it first came out of stealth mode in 2019, DriveNets has now raised just over $580 million. “During the COVID-19 pandemic they grew their existing networks based by simply buying more of the same to minimize the operational burden,” said Susan.

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QA Wolf exits stealth with an end-to-end service for software testing

TechCrunch

QA Wolf , a cloud-based platform designed to detect bugs in software, today exited stealth and announced a $20 million funding round led by Inspired Capital with participation from Notation Capital, Operator Partners and Thiel Capital and several angel investors (among them Peter Thiel). Neither, obviously, are very desirable scenarios. .

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What has KOBO360 been up to in the last 2 years?

TechCrunch

For the online logistics space, it’s not difficult to see why investors were quite curious about the market. Logistics operators in Africa suffer from various problems, from inconsistent pricing, which stems from a fragmented supply-and-demand market, to paper documentation and little or no access to financing.

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Micromax, smartphone sales stalled, eyes a steer into electric vehicles

TechCrunch

Micromax Informatics once had a firm grip on the local mobile phone market in India, for a time passing stalwarts like Samsung, icons like Apple and many more to be the biggest handset maker of them all. “Indian vendors were just not able to compete in any of these levers — product, marketing, channel, etc. .

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