Hackers are breaking into AT&T email accounts to steal cryptocurrency
Unknown hackers are breaking into the accounts of people who have AT&T email addresses, and using that access to then hack into the victim’s cryptocurrency exchange’s accounts and steal th
Ex-Flipkart exec’s Flash app wants to be an inbox for your e-commerce needs
India-based startup Flash wants to reduce the spam you get by providing an email ID that you can use for all e-commerce needs, and it will even reward you to use the service.
Shortwave email app introduces AI-powered summaries
Last year, a bunch of Google executives launched an email app called Shortwave, which aimed to fill in the gap left by the search giant’s Inbox app. Now, the company has introduced an AI-powered
Sublime nabs $9.8M for an anti-phishing email security platform built on collective, crowdsourced rules
Malicious hackers are getting ever more creative with the techniques they use to break into networks to steal data and wreak havoc, but their primary route for opening that door has remained pretty co
Lavender lands $13.2M for its AI-powered email marketing engine
Years ago, Will Allred and William Ballance were developing a tech platform, Sorter, to apply personality and communication psychology to marketing campaigns. Just as Sorter was heading to market, the
3 views: Meetings are bad, yo. Choose emails
Hear us out. It’s conventional wisdom that meetings are killers of productivity and morale and happy work environments. So why not write an email?
OneSignal lands $50M to automatically optimize SMS, in-app and email campaigns
OneSignal, a platform that powers notifications for mobile apps and more, today announced that it raised $50 million in a Series C round led by BAM Elevate with participation from SignalFire and other
Email will be with us until the universe dies, so these startups are working to make it better
Email is a necessary evil. Startups have taken note. We're looking at two of them, Gated and EtherMail.
Google faces ‘spam ads’ ePrivacy complaint in France
Google is facing a fresh privacy complaint in Europe over ads it inserts into its Gmail email service in the guise of emails. Privacy advocacy group, noyb, has filed the complaint with France’s
Twitter fixes security bug that exposed at least 5.4 million accounts
Twitter says it has fixed a security vulnerability that allowed threat actors to compile information of 5.4 million Twitter accounts, which were listed for sale on a known cybercrime forum. The vulner
Discord gives servers a way to intercept spam and harmful content, will expand premium memberships
Discord is introducing a native way for servers to preemptively detect and block harmful messages and spam. The tool, called AutoMod, is available today and will allow anyone who moderates one of Disc
Workrise fixes API that spilled users’ personal information
Workforce management unicorn Workrise has fixed an exposed API that was spilling some users’ personal information. The Austin, Texas-based startup, which previously went by RigUp, was founded in
ProtonMail buys email alias startup SimpleLogin
Proton, the Geneva, Switzerland-based startup behind the eponymous E2E encrypted webmail service ProtonMail, has acquired French startup SimpleLogin, which offers a freemium, open-source service for c
Cloaked raises $25M Series A to generate privacy-friendly identities on the fly
Cloaked, a Boston-based startup that allows users to generate unique email addresses and phone numbers when creating online accounts, has secured $25 million in Series A funding. Founded in 2020 by br
Too much email? Try Gated, which asks unknown senders to make a donation first
If you aren’t drowning in email these days, you either don’t have an email account or you are a very young person who marketers haven’t discovered quite yet (they will!). To push bac
Google discovers threat actor working as an ‘initial access broker’ for Conti ransomware hackers
Google’s Threat Analysis Group has observed a financially motivated threat actor working as an intermediary for the Russian hackers, including the Conti ransomware gang. The group, which Google refe
Google Docs now lets you draft emails with others and export them to Gmail
Google is introducing a new feature in Google Docs that aims to make it easier to collaborate on an email draft, the company announced on Wednesday. The new Google Docs email draft template lets users
Nvidia confirms it is investigating a cybersecurity incident
U.S. chipmaker Nvidia has confirmed that it’s investigating a cyber incident that has reportedly downed the company’s developer tools and email systems. Nvidia told TechCrunch in a statement t
Shortwave wants to bring back Google Inbox
Google’s Inbox experiment was a glorious thing while it lasted. Launched as an invitation-only service in 2014, it was the company’s next-gen email client. Because it was so good, it’
How to build and maintain momentum in your fundraising process
When you’re raising venture capital for your startup, you will have to hustle like you’ve never hustled before. As CEO, your primary job is building and maintaining momentum for your investment de