William Turton / Bloomberg: Profile of Anne Neuberger, the NSC deputy advisor at the center of increasing tension over control between US agencies handling cybersecurity — Anne Neuberger, the Biden administration’s Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology, organized a virtual summit on ransomware for Oct. 13, 2021.
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Alex Heath / The Verge: Nick Clegg says Meta refused a Russian order to stop the independent fact-checking and labeling of content from four state-owned media organizations on Facebook — The Russian government says Facebook blocked four local media accounts — The Russian government has partially blocked access …
Financial Times: Sources: WhatsApp is struggling to sign up local partners for its business payments service in Brazil and is still awaiting approval from the central bank — Plan to allow users to send payments to companies via messaging app runs into clashes with partners.
Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Fictiv, which offers tools to predict manufacturing costs and other variables, raises a $100M Series E led by Activate, bringing its total funding to $192M — It used to be getting from prototyping to manufacturing meant long, expensive trips to places like Shenzhen and a whole lot of trial and error.
Tim Keary / VentureBeat: Nashville-based Phosphorus Cybersecurity, which helps businesses monitor and patch vulnerable IoT devices, raises a $38M Series A — Today, Nashville, Tennessee-based internet of things (IoT) security startup, Phosphorus Cybersecurity, announced it had closed a $38 million series …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Tel Aviv-based Laminar, which helps companies manage public cloud data security, emerges from stealth with $37M across seed and Series A — The cloud may be the direction that much of enterprise IT is moving today, but it still remains a major source of security issues …
Aislinn Keely / The Block: A coalition of crypto companies, including Coinbase, Circle, and Robinhood, announce TRUST, an anti-money laundering platform for securely sharing customer data — Quick Take — A coalition of US crypto firms has created a centralized solution to the information sharing requirements of the travel rule.
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Smartling, which offers automated cloud-based translation tools, raises $160M led by Battery Ventures, bringing its total funding to over $220M — As the pandemic drives businesses online, translation is becoming a key part of the digital transformation equation.
Ian Sherr / CNET: Apple debuts Tracker Detect, an Android app that lets users scan for AirTags or Find My items that may be traveling with them without their knowledge — Apple’s following through on a promise to help Android users identify nearby AirTags and Find My trackers that aren’t with their owners.
Kate Park / TechCrunch: South Korea’s Greenlabs, which wants to digitize the entire value chain of agriculture space from crop production to distribution, raises a $140M Series C — Greenlabs, a South Korean agtech startup, announced this week it has closed a $140 million Series C led by BlueRun Ventures …