News ReliaQuest, a managed cybersecurity and intelligence services provider, raises $300M led by KKR, says its revenue grew more than 450% in the past three years (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News) 5 days ago kiama About This Page This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared… SHARE THIS POST
News Story of Vietnamese hacker “Hieupc”, who was earning $125K/month running a bustling identity theft service, and was recently released from prison (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security) 6 days ago kiama About This Page This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared… SHARE THIS POST
News Google and Facebook remove Hong Kong as a destination for the proposed Pacific Light Cable Network undersea cable project, refile keeping Taiwan and Philippines (Todd Shields/Bloomberg) 6 days ago kiama About This Page This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared… SHARE THIS POST
News China’s state media quoted a government adviser, who said ByteDance should study the new export list and “seriously and cautiously” consider halting TikTok deal (Wall Street Journal) 6 days ago kiama About This Page This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared… SHARE THIS POST
News Walmart sells Shoes.com and Bare Necessities lingerie brand as a part of a broader streamlining of its digital businesses to focus on its main website (Matthew Boyle/Bloomberg) 6 days ago kiama About This Page This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared… SHARE THIS POST
News China updates its export control list, adding AI tech including “personalized content recommendations based on data analysis”, which may affect TikTok US sale (Coco Liu/Nikkei Asian Review) 6 days ago kiama About This Page This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared… SHARE THIS POST
ELECTRONICS Raji: An Ancient Epic Review: A Feminist Fable and a Commendable Debut 7 days ago kiama Raji: An Ancient Epic is an unusual thing — a console-quality game made in India,… SHARE THIS POST
News How Jack Ma’s Ant Financial transformed within five years from a mobile payments platform into Ant Group, a digital supermarket of financial services (Financial Times) 7 days ago kiama About This Page This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared… SHARE THIS POST
News Source: London-based investment firm Centricus and Triller are seeking to buy TikTok’s operations in the US, Australia, New Zealand, and India for $20B (Dinesh Nair/Bloomberg) 7 days ago kiama About This Page This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared… SHARE THIS POST
News Walmart’s interest in TikTok can be explained by estimates social commerce in China will hit $242B in 2020, aided by apps like TikTok’s Chinese version Douyin (Sherisse Pham/CNN) 7 days ago kiama About This Page This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared… SHARE THIS POST