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Red Hat open sources StackRox, the Kubernetes security platform it acquired last year May 17, 2022

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Last January, Red Hat announced that it was acquiring Kubernetes security startup StackRox, a company that had raised over $65 million since it was founded in 2014.

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Curious Thing’s voice AI communication platform asks the right questions May 17, 2022

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Sydney-based Curious Thing is an aptly-named startup. The voice AI communication platform can call people and ask them questions like “How are you feeling today?” and then follow up with “how does it feel compared to yesterday?”

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Tech giants pledge $30M to boost open source software security May 16, 2022

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Tech giants including Amazon, Google and Microsoft have pledged millions of dollars to bolster the security of open source software.

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Binance halts Luna and UST trading across most of its spot pairs following meltdown May 16, 2022

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Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, has suspended trading of Terraform Labs’ Terra (Luna) and TerraUSD (UST) tokens across most of its spot pairs, and for Luna, additionally across all of cross margins and isolated margins pairs following one of the biggest meltdowns in the history of cryptocurrencies.

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Elon Musk says Twitter deal “temporarily on hold” over spam May 13, 2022

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Twitter staff must really be wishing for a quiet life… Elon Musk, the gadfly billionaire who recently decided he wants to add the social media platform to his collection of tech firms, has just tweeted that his $43BN bid to buy the company is “on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts.

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TopUp Mama looking to solve sourcing challenges for restaurants May 13, 2022

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Stock-outs, unpredictable prices of farm produce and a lack of working capital are among the challenges that plague small restaurants and food vendors in emerging markets.

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Interswitch receives $110M investment from LeapFrog and Tana Africa Capital May 12, 2022

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African payments company Interswitch has secured a $110 million joint investment from LeapFrog Investments and Tana Africa Capital to scale its digital payment services across the continent, the two private investment firms said in a statement Wednesday.

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Educapital aims to raise a $160 million fund focused on edtech and future of work May 12, 2022

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VC firm Educapital recently announced that it has reached the first close of its second fund.

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Faye hopes to do for travel insurance what Lemonade did for general insurance May 11, 2022

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While (former) startups like Lemonade came along to attack the tired world of insurance, the travel insurance market is now coming in for the same treatment from the likes of Safetywing (covered by TCÂ here) and Battleface.

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Tenyx raises $15M to build more intelligent voice-based customer service AI May 11, 2022

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Automating customer service tasks, particularly those that require agents to speak with customers on the phone, is something of a holy grail in the enterprise.

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