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Meta makes NSO fall: $ 168 million for a cyber attack via WhatsApp
The Meta group obtained on Tuesday, May 6, 2025 the conviction of the Israeli company NSO Group on Tuesday, May 2025 to pay $ 168 million, including 167 million in a punitive basis, for the attack on Pegasus against more than 1,400 users of WhatsApp in 2019. The jury recognized facts of oppression, fraud and malice. NSO, already registered on the black list of the American trade department, says that he cannot pay damage. Meta now requires an injunction to prohibit NSO with any access to its platforms and demand the destruction of the spy code. This judgment constitutes a world first against the illegal use of supervision software.
Tiktok sanctioned by 530 million euros for illegal data transfer to China
The European Union has inflicted a fine of 530 million euros in Bytedance, a parent company of Tiktok, for illegally transferring European user data to China. The Irish data protection authority (DPC), the main regulator of the group in Europe, gave the platform six months to end these transfers not in accordance with the GDPR. The survey revealed that Tiktok stored data on Chinese servers, in contradiction with his previous official statements. The regulator also points to the absence of sufficient measures to prevent the potential access of the Chinese authorities, in a legislative context incompatible with European standards. Tiktok, already sanctioned in 2023 for shortcomings on minors data, announces to call.
TEMU changes its strategy: to a 100 % local offer to escape from surcharge
Faced with the end of customs exemptions on small packages and import duties climbing up to 145 %, TEMU abandons its model based on cheap imports from China. The e-commerce site held by PDD Holdings will now sell exclusively American merchant products for American consumers, as part of a “local fulfillment” model. This repositioning aims to bypass the price barriers imposed under the Trump administration, while maintaining stable prices for customers. Already, TEMU had started to pass the new taxes on its prices with overloads displayed to payment. This turn could foreshadow a broader reorganization of the Chinese giants of online sales, while Shein and Alibaba also suffer the hardening of American trade rules.
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Kalent raises 1 million euros to industrialize recruitment by AI
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- Reelevant lift 6 million euros to personalize the last kilometer of digital marketing
- Poppins: a medical video game for dyslexic children, supported by a lifting of 5 million euros
- Didomi lifts 72 million euros to find a place in a recomposition data market.
Skillvue raises 5.5 million euros to reveal hidden talents in business
The Milanese startup Skillvue raised 5.5 million euros from 360 capital, which leads this round table alongside Italian investors like IFF, 14peaks and vertical orbita. Founded in 2021, the startup is developing an AI platform to identify, assess and develop internal skills, beyond conventional functions. Already adopted by Carrefour, Douglas or Randstad, Skillvue multiplies its uses in the HR sectors. Funds will be used to develop AI -based assessment agents and accelerate its international development.
Parloa raises 111 million euros to revolutionize customer service by AI
The German startup Parloa raised 111 million euros from sustainable capital Partners, Altimeter Capital and General Catalyst, bringing its valuation to nearly a billion euros. Founded in 2018 in Berlin, the company develops a platform of conversational agents doped at AI, capable of interacting by phone or messaging with a high level of personalization. This lifting comes a year after a turn of 61 million euros.
Anysphen raises 835 million euros and triples its valuation to 8.4 billion
The Californian startup Anysphere, behind the programming assistant Cursor, has just completed a table of 835 million euros led by Thrive Capital, with the participation of Andreessen Horowitz and Accel. This lifting makes its valuation jump to 8.4 billion euros, compared to 2.3 billion last January. Founded in 2022 by four MIT graduates, Anyspir claims 200 million euros in annual recurring income in April, carried by the dazzling adoption of Cursor, capable of generating nearly a billion lines of code daily. Used by Stripe, Openai or Spotify, the tool is essential in front of Github Copilot as a productivity standard in the generative AI.
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- OPENAI is attacking online shopping / The United States criminalizing Deepfake pornography / conversion optimization becomes more strategic than the acquisition
- Pass lap at 20 billion dollars for Elon Musk / Shein Counter-attack in the face of the Anti Fast-Fashion / Deliveroo law is about to fall into the bag of …
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