Monthly Archives: November 2022

Software supply chain security is broader than SolarWinds and Log4J

Dan Lorenc Contributor Share on Twitter Dan Lorenc is CEO and co-founder of Chainguard. Previously he was staff software engineer and lead for Google’s Open Source Security Team (GOSST). He has founded projects like Minikube, Skaffold, TektonCD and Sigstore. SolarWinds and Log4j have made software supply chain security issues a topic of intense interest and…

Pearpop raises $18M at a $300M valuation to scale its social collaboration marketplace

Pearpop, a marketplace for social collaborations, announced today that it has raised an extension to its 2021-era Series A funding round. The company has added $18 million to its Series A, bringing its valuation to $300 million. Since its launch in October 2020, Pearpop has raised $34 million in funding. The new investment includes funding…

Twitter’s security issues predate Elon Musk – and firing staff isn’t going to help

A month of Twitter’s new management passed and the blue bird icon hasn’t stopped making headlines.  A tumultuous series of back and forths finally led to Musk’s takeover at the end of October, finally culminating in a $44 billion deal. The richest man in the world offered to buy the popular social media platform for,…

I visited KFC’s pop-up London pub, where guests can get fried chicken delivered to their table and everything is chicken-themed. Take a look inside.

Grace Dean/Insider KFC opened its first-ever pub, “The Colonel’s Arms,” on Friday in Hammersmith, London. The pub, launched to celebrate the FIFA World Cup, heavily promotes KFC’s delivery service. It features chicken-drumstick table soccer, chicken wallpaper, and framed photos of the Colonel – take a look inside. KFC has just opened its first-ever pub, called…

Chicken prices are finally falling and it’s triggering a resurgence of fast-food chicken sandwich wars

Irene Jiang / Business Insider Chicken breast and wing prices are decreasing from inflation heights. Popeyes, Wingstop, Burger King, and Wendy’s all recently added new chicken sandwiches to menus. Executives at Burger King and McDonald’s praised sales growth driven by chicken menu items. Chicken prices are finally falling, and it’s good news for fast food…

From the future of work to algos for home pricing, these are what the brightest young minds in real estate are working on

Hello! Dan DeFrancesco nervously checking in from NYC ahead of the big US-Iran World Cup game.  Today we’ve got stories on the latest casualty of the FTX debacle, a deep dive on a terrifying financial product PE firms are cooking up, and how one college athlete has racked up more than $250,000 in endorsement deals. But…