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Daily Crunch: Months after rejecting a $17B bid, Zendesk sells to private equity group for $10.2B

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CEO Anatoly Yakovenko announced this week that its first product, the Osom OV1, will be an Android smartphone that supports decentralized apps reliant on the Solana blockchain. Now Google threat researchers have confirmed much of Lookout’s findings and are notifying Android users whose devices were compromised by the spyware.

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Daily Crunch: Thousands of Google Play users download Android banking trojan

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There’s also a neat DeFi event coming up , and TC Sessions: Mobility will feature Nuro co-founder Jiajun Zhu , which is fun as the company is worth $8.6 Yet more spyware is out there, stealing your data : Sadly, the name of the Android spyware that is sucking up folks’ information is called TeaBot, which is a super-cute moniker.

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Daily Crunch: India’s Central Bank says cryptocurrency ‘may even be worse’ than Ponzi schemes

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We have a busy slate for you today, including news sure to annoy the blockchain faithful, new funds, Facebook’s latest rebrand and more. It is an interesting argument against Windows and the larger Web (we kid), but does raise notable points regarding mobile security and consumer expectations. The TechCrunch Top 3. The latest?

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The Future of Security

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Mobile device securit y, which is becoming more urgent with an increase in remote work and mobile devices. However, as cloud computing increased, experts recognized that traditional strategies and solutions would not work in a mobile-first/hybrid world. Mobile Device Security.

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Announcing the agenda for TechCrunch Disrupt 2022

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Bankrolling the Blockchain with a16z Crypto. Launched in 2020, Solana gained worldwide renown for being one of the fastest blockchains with a rapidly growing developer ecosystem. The Great Expectations of Crypto and Blockchain. But first, he’s tackling another problem: soggy delivery. Tuesday, October 18.