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• no one likes scammersIt’s not the Russian game developer Battlestate Games that banned and exposed 6,700 cheaters from its Escape from Tarkov game. Lorenzo There are more.
• You get a loan, you get a loan!: Ingrid UK-based open banking loan platform Abound has announced a new 601 million investment to ‘strengthen’ its consumer finance business with loans between £1,000 and £10,000 with generous repayment options of up to five years. It writes that it has raised dollars.
• Microsoft’s next destination: In Microsoft’s push for automation, the software giant drops by Business App Suite City to remove its AI-powered Copilot capabilities. Kyle report.

Startups and VC

Also today we release the final episode of the Inside Startup Battlefield podcast mini-series. This is for TechCrunch’s Pitch Contest. It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for — the winner is announced!

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Big Tech Co., Ltd.

Natasha L. We have the latest on WhatsApp. The Meta-owned messaging platform agrees to clean up the user his messages in the European Union so that the terms of service regarding the user are more transparent.

European and US police organizations arrest DoppelPaymer ransomware gang suspects. curly wrote that this particular gang has targeted at least 601 businesses worldwide, and that a patient died in one of the most serious attacks targeting a university hospital in Düsseldorf.

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