Nearly 20 years after finding success in helping startups build products, Canadian interface design firm Metalab has launched Metalab Ventures to invest in many of those product-led startups. Serial entrepreneur and investor Andrew Wilkinson started Metalab in 2006, a...

When a hacker called the company that his gang claimed to breach, he felt the same way that most of us feel when calling the front desk: frustrated. The phone call between the hacker, who claims to represent the ransomware gang DragonForce, and the victim company...

Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures (VKAV) plans to back up to 21 growth-stage companies across the continent after closing its first fund at $60 million. The pan-African VC hit the milestone following fresh backing from Nigeria’s SCM Capital formerly Sterling Capital...

X, formerly Twitter, is rolling out support for passkeys , a new and more secure login method compared with traditional passwords, to all iOS users globally. The option had first debuted in January , but only for iOS users in the U.S. In an update to the X @Safety...

WordPress.com owner Automattic is acquiring Beeper , the company behind the iMessage-on-Android solution that was referenced by the Department of Justice in its antitrust lawsuit against Apple. The deal, which was for $125 million according to sources close to the...