To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s greatest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3:00 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Thursday September 2, 2021. TechCrunch is largely retired tomorrow thanks to a Pan-Yahoo corporate hiatus. But don’t worry, all systems will continue to work as … Read more
TikTok makes it easy for brands and agencies to work with the influencers who use its service. The company is introducing a new “TikTok Creator Marketplace API” that enables marketing companies to integrate more directly into TikTok’s Creator Marketplace, the video app’s internal influencer marketing platform. Launched in late 2019, the Creator Marketplace website allowed … Read more
Urbanbase, a Seoul-based company developing a 3D spatial data platform for interior planning and design, announced today that it has raised $ 11.1 million (13 billion won) in a Series B + round as it is scaled Has. This financing round was led by Hanwha Hotel & Resort, a subsidiary of the South Korean conglomerate … Read more
India-based tech startup Salesken.ai has secured an exposed server that has spilled private and sensitive data on one of its customers, Byju’s, an education technology giant and India’s most valuable startup. According to historical data from Shodan, a search engine for exposed devices and databases, the server has been unprotected since at least June 14th. … Read more
Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has revived bill to create a new federal agency to protect Americans from the invasive practices of tech companies that operate in their own backyards. Last year, Gillibrand (D-NY) introduced the Data Protection Act, a proposal to create an independent agency to address modern privacy and technology concerns that existing state … Read more
Here’s what you need to know: Attorney General Merrick B. Garland is meeting on Monday with leaders from three news organizations that were targeted by the Trump Justice Department.Credit…Tom Brenner for The New York Times The Justice Department will tighten its rules for when law enforcement officials may seize information about members of Congress and … Read more
Facebook is facing new antitrust investigations in Europe. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and the EU Competition Commission both announced a formal investigation into the social media giant’s activities today – with likely coordinated timing. Competition regulators will look into how Facebook uses data from advertisers and users of its single sign-on tool … Read more
We are still learning of the damage three months after aviation data giant SITA reported a data breach. Air India announced this week that the personal data of approximately 4.5 million passengers had been compromised following the incident at SITA, the data processor for the Indian airline. The information stolen included the passenger’s name, credit … Read more
An artist’s conception shows Telesat’s Phase 1 LEO satellite in orbit. (Telesat illustration) How will Pentagon planners deal with the streams of data expected to rain down from a constellation of satellites monitoring hotspots in orbit? Microsoft and Ball Aerospace have shown that the cloud can handle it – and not just handle it, but … Read more
Charna Parkey is the data science director of the Seattle startup Kaskada. (Courtesy photo by Charna Parkey) Growing up, Charna Parkey was always the “technical person” in her house. In high school, she got IT certifications, and by the time she got to college, she took as many engineering courses as possible. On the recommendation … Read more