Amazon launches a $70 air quality monitor for Alexa

Amazon unloaded a whole slew of new smart home devices back in late September, but a smattering of products are still trickling out ahead of the holidays. Certainly a... Read more »

Ethyca raises $7.5M, open sources Fides for developers to build privacy tools directly into their codebases

Ethyca, the privacy-by-design technology startup that has built a unique set of APIs, detection tools and analytics to make it easier for organizations to adhere to data privacy policies... Read more »

Blotout raises $3M seed to build privacy-focused customer data platform

As companies deal with a growing array of privacy laws like GDPR and CCPA, they are looking for solutions that help them not only understand their customers better, but... Read more »

E-scooter company Neuron trials 1,500 scooters that can detect and correct unsafe riding

Singapore-based Neuron Mobility, an e-scooter-sharing company, is updating its N3 scooters with a new operating system and additional on-board sensors that will help it detect and correct dangerous or... Read more »

Spyware firm NSO and others added to US banned Entity List

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UK’s Labour Party hit by third-party data breach

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Egypt’s Breadfast wants to build ‘Gopuff for Africa and Middle East’, gets $26M backing

The market for grocery delivery across Africa and the Middle East is worth over $50 billion. And Egypt, buoyed by a young and growing population, is a big market... Read more »

Femtech startup illumigyn secures $33M to provide women with accessible and affordable medical care

According to World Health Organization, cervical cancer, the fourth most common cancer among women, affected approximately 570,000 women and resulted in about 311,000 death in 2018.  A startup called illumigyn built a... Read more »

Security Think Tank: SASE – marketing buzz or the future of security?

In recent months, the term secure access service edge (SASE) has become prominent and has been promoted by numerous vendors. SASE stands for a concept that integrates a range... Read more »

Bypa-ss raises $1M pre-seed to expand health tech product across Egypt

Digital healthcare continues to thrive globally following the effects of the pandemic last year, but venture capital inflows differ regionally with Africa lagging behind the rest of the world.... Read more »
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