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Three years after hackers first teased AT&T's alleged grand theft of customer data, a compromising vendor leaked the complete data set online this week. This includes the personal information of approximately 73 million of his AT&T customers. New analysis of the complete leaked dataset, including names, home addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers, and dates of birth, shows that the data is real. Some AT&T customers have confirmed that the leaked customer data is accurate. However, AT&T has not yet disclosed how its customers' data ended up online. The hacker first claimed to have stolen millions of AT&T customer data…
UK-based limited partners Venrex and Samos Investments are this week helping launch a new venture capital firm aimed at investing in startups primarily led by Ukrainians in the war-torn country and abroad. . LP is best known as an early institutional investor in the successful early-stage startup funds Seedcamp and Entrepreneur First. 1991 Ventures is the brainchild of Ukrainian brothers Denis and Viktor Gursky, who are well known for running incubation and accelerator programs in the country. The UK-based venture capital firm has launched a £15 million ($18.8 million) fund to invest in startup talent in both Ukraine and Central…
Threads, Instagram's Twitter-like app, is adding live scores for sports matches. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday that Threads has begun testing live scores for NBA games and that the platform plans to add support for more leagues in the future. The launch of this feature comes as Threads continues to challenge X, which has been providing live scores for sports games for nearly a decade. With this new feature, Threads hopes to attract users who would normally visit X to discuss live games and keep up with the latest developments. Threads not only adds live scores, but when users…
On home turf Apple has enjoyed many years of relatively light regulatory scrutiny compared to Big Tech peers. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) opened a monopoly case against Google back in October 2020, for instance. It followed with a second antitrust case at the start of last year, targeting Google’s adtech. While the FTC has been pursing an antitrust case against Meta over a similar timeframe. And who could forget Microsoft’s Windows era tango with US antitrust enforcers? Thursday’s DOJ antitrust suit, accusing Apple of being a monopolist in the high end and US smartphone markets, where the iPhone…
The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Apple for allegedly monopolistic smartphone practices. Not only federal agencies are involved in this issue, but also 15 states and the District of Columbia. As you might expect, Apple disputes this claim. The potential impacts are myriad, from consumer messaging to smartphones and smartwatches. And while the Justice Department's lawsuit has many detractors, such as TechCrunch, which offers a little history lesson here, the App Fairness Coalition, which counts Epic and Spotify among other companies, , highly praise this lawsuit. Regulators and technology companies are naming a more iconic duo. Today, we see…
You go on a Tinder date and go home, but things are escalating. You don't really know or trust this guy, and he doesn't want to get an STD, so…what happens? A company called Calmara asks men to take a picture of their penis and use AI to tell them whether their partner is “transparent.” Let me just say right away that you shouldn't take a picture of someone's genitals and scan it with an AI tool to determine whether or not they should have sex. Karmala's premise includes more red flags than a bad first date, but considering the…
Hello. Welcome to Equity, the startup business podcast. Uncover the numbers and nuances behind the headlines. This is a Friday episode where we dig into the week's most important stories and discuss emerging themes. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Mary Ann, Becca, and Alex were on board this week. Becca, of course, is her one of two hosts on TechCrunch's Found podcast. In this podcast, founders talk about how they built what they built and how they made it happen. However, in today's “Stocks” we found out: Deal of the Week: Mary Ann wanted to talk about…
The Biden administration announced Monday that six new countries have joined the international coalition to combat the spread of commercial spyware sold by companies such as NSO Group and Intellexa. Now, some investors are announcing that they are going all in on the fight against spyware. But at least one of those investors, Paladin Capital Group, had previously invested in companies that developed malware, according to leaked slide decks dated 2021 obtained by TechCrunch. He previously told TechCrunch that he “exited” the company at some point. In recent years, the U.S. government has led efforts to limit, or at least…
Don't miss your chance to shine in the highly anticipated “So You Think You Can Pitch” segment at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024 in Boston on April 25th. It's rare to get honest feedback before facing investors. At TC Early Stage, three lucky founders will each present their 4-minute pitch deck in front of a panel of expert judges and gain valuable insight to refine their approach. Previous panelists have come from notable companies such as Building Ventures, 1Sharpe Ventures, and Emergence Capital. Apply now! Entries close tonight, March 22nd at 11:59pm PT. Here's how it works TechCrunch will select three…
The Justice Department has accused Apple of operating like a monopoly, and the impact of this lawsuit goes far beyond iOS and the iPhone itself. Apple's antitrust scrutiny is at its peak. The U.S. Department of Justice announced a lawsuit Thursday accusing the company of acting like a monopoly, locking in iPhone customers and restricting competitors from developing hardware and software. The case comes on the heels of significant antitrust litigation against Apple outside the United States, and while it is a wide-ranging and complex case, we will discuss the details of the Justice Department's case, the industry's response, and…