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It’s Friday, and after a week as cold as midwinter, we’re slouching into our office chairs with hot coffee.
For Black History Month, we appreciate the story of Sojourner Truth, an American abolitionist and women’s rights activist. Born into slavery, she escaped with her infant son and became the first black woman to successfully sue for freedom for a family member in 1828. To learn more about her, this TED-Ed mini-documentary is a good place to start, and if you want to go deeper, don’t miss Patricia and Frederick McKiss’s inspiring biography.
TechCrunch’s Top 3
- Game on.Amazon is in talks to buy Indian video streaming giant MX Player from Times Internet. Manish Reports. The video application is popular for its support of a wide range of video formats and reliability on low-cost Android smartphones, expanding into original content in recent years and garnering more than 300 million users worldwide,” he wrote.
- Fishing is lostReddit confirmed that hackers accessed its internal data through what it called a “sophisticated phishing attack” targeting its employees. Carly He wrote. The company said the attack gave hackers access to documents and source code.
- And, as soon as he came, he left: Five days ago, India banned more than 90 apps, some linked to China, related to loans. today, Manish This ban has been lifted on apps like PayU’s LazyPay, Kissht, KreditBee and Indiabulls’ Home Loans, he wrote.
Startups and VCs
Today was a very slow day on the news front – I think everyone has a Friday issue today. But here are a few stories worth a closer look:
How to manage third-party cyber security risks that are too expensive to ignore
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Every early-stage startup relies on third-party vendors to handle some aspect of their business: No one wants to build a shopping cart, credit card processing, or ID verification app from scratch.
But now that third-party data breaches are a regular occurrence, teams must make managing that risk part of their daily routine, writes John Sigler, Logitech co-founder and chief product officer.
“No matter how well you clean things up, your company’s reputation will cost you in lost business down the road,” he wrote.
Three more from the TC+ team:
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Big Tech Inc.
Connected automotive company Autonomo is being acquired in an urgent reverse merger. Ingrid Reports. Autonomo went public in a 2021 SPAC, valued at $1.4 billion at the time, but that has since dropped to $70 million. Ingrid writes, “It’s been a rough road for smart mobility technology – with macroeconomic pressures, slow growth and next-generation technology like autonomous systems and a cold tech investment market all keeping young businesses from continuing and growing their businesses. . Otonomo is perhaps the latest victim in that pile, but it may not be the last.
If you’re into classic games, it was one of our top stories of late yesterday. SarahIt’s a remastered, free-to-try version of Myst coming to iOS.
And we have five more for you:
