Middle Eastern on-demand trucking platform TruKKer, which matches shippers and freight carriers, raised $100M from Investcorp and others ahead of a planned IPO
Middle Eastern logistics startup TruKKer raised $100 million from investors including Bahrain-based asset manager Investcorp …
VerSe Innovation rolls out its news aggregator Dailyhunt in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, and Kuwait, with over 5K content partners in the region
Kul Bhushan / Tech in Asia :
How Binance, which trades on its own exchange and plays several roles that may pose conflicts of interest, remains mostly unaccountable to its customers
On May 19, 2021, Francis Kim thought he had hit it big. The Australia-based entrepreneur had been dabbling in derivatives trading … Tweets: @mrmadwhips , @bigmeaninternet , @silvermanjacob , @safuuni...
How Binance, which trades on its own exchange and plays a number of roles that pose conflicts of interest, remains mostly unaccountable to its customers
On May 19, 2021, Francis Kim thought he had hit it big. The Australia-based entrepreneur had been dabbling in derivatives trading … Tweets: @silvermanjacob , @silvermanjacob , @bigmeaninternet , @saf...
Bahrain-based cryptocurrency exchange Rain Financial raises a $110M Series B co-led by Paradigm and Kleiner Perkins, following a $6M Series A in January 2021
Brandy Betz / CoinDesk :
Researchers: NSO Group used location data from thousands of unsuspecting people while pitching its COVID-19 contact-tracing tech to governments and journalists
Researchers say NSO's use of real data “violated the privacy” of thousands of people. — Spyware maker NSO Group used real … Tweets: @evacide , @josephfcox , @marietjeschaake , @zackwhittaker , and @...
Sources detail NSO Group's sales in Gulf states, where it has made deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars in the past few years for its Pegasus spyware
Chaim Levinson / Haaretz : Tweets: @billmarczak , @kyleworton , @sarahleah1 , @congo_red_jr , @marwasf , @ruslantrad , @avischarf , @agnescallamard , and @lorenzofb Tweets: Bill Marczak / @billmarcza...
How Bahrain's government used FinFisher spyware to target a political activist
A Spy in the Machine — In November 2005, during the dead of night, five black cars pulled up in front of the home of Moosa Abd-Ali Ali. The doors opened, and a group of men stepped out.