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August in Latin America: All the tech news you shouldn’t miss from the past month

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by on September 1, 2014 at 12:11 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Latin America, Roundups

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While Brazil’s falling into recession isn’t good news for Latin America, it remains to be seen how much this will affect the region’s tech scene, which can still count on other long-term factors to fuel its growth. As a result, August was as busy a month as ever, with a flurry of new launches and acquisitions taking place. Here’s the news you don’t want to miss: Done deals Australian telecommunications giant Telstra is set to acquire 98 percent of video streaming and distribution firm Ooyala with a $270 million investment that comes in addition to the $61 million invested in the…

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August in Eastern Europe: All the tech news you shouldn’t miss

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by on September 1, 2014 at 12:02 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Roundups

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The last month of summer has proved what we were suspecting for a while — there’s no such thing as “quiet time” in the tech business any more. Let us help you navigate the tech scene of Central and Eastern Europe with this round-up of the most significant news and deals that happened here in August. If you think that something is missing, or would like to draw our attention to an important story, feel free to ping the author in Twitter (@shlema) or by e-mail at shlema@gmail.com. Startups, funds and accelerators VKontakte co-founder Vyacheslav Mirilashvili has co-founded Yesodot Private Equity,…

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August in Africa: All the tech news you shouldn’t miss from the past month

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by on September 1, 2014 at 11:47 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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August was an exciting month for a number of African companies, with a batch of funding rounds, acquisitions and new product offerings. Funding and acquisitions International voice messaging company Kirusa acquired Ghanaian instant messaging (IM) app provider Saya Mobile. Saya Mobile provides services specifically for African consumers, but Kirusa has now acquired the technology, intellectual property and workforce of the company and will put it to work on Kirusa’s mobile apps. In another high-profile acquisition, South African e-commerce platform Takealot bought online design retailer Superbalist.com. Takealot received US$100 million in funding from Tiger Global Management in May for further expansion…

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This could be the iCloud flaw that led to celebrity photos being leaked (Update: Apple is investigating)

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by on September 1, 2014 at 11:05 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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An alleged breach in Apple’s iCloud service may be to blame for countless leaks of private celebrity photos this week. On Monday, a Python script emerged on GitHub (which we’re not linking to as there is evidence a fix by Apple is not fully rolled out) that appears to have allowed malicious users to ‘brute force’ a target account’s password on Apple’s iCloud, thanks to a vulnerability in the Find My iPhone service. Brute-force attacks consist of using a malicious script to repeatedly guess passwords in an attempt to discover the correct one. The vulnerability allegedly discovered in the Find My iPhone service appears to…

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BBC reveals new coding and computing content to tie-in with new UK school curriculum

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by on September 1, 2014 at 10:31 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Product Updates, UK

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The BBC has today introduced a range of computing and coding-related shows, games and competitions for kids designed to help improve their understanding and enjoyment of the subjects. BBC Children and BBC Learning hope that the new resources will help kids to become more involved in computer science, a desire shared by the UK government, which has introduced new coding and computer elements to the UK’s education curriculum. The Beeb’s additional content coincides with the launch of this new curriculum this week, and incorporates different activities, aimed at primary and secondary school level children. For example, BBC Bitesize content includes study guides and quizzes…

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