Fintech startup Jiraaf raises $8.7 million in funding led by Accel, Harmony Partners

“We will be using this money to mainly build our team, improve customer service across categories of business and also for originating more customers,” said cofounder Saurav Ghosh.

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Internet companies Google, Amazon and Cloudflare report biggest-ever denial of service operation

Denial of service is among the web's most basic form of attack and it works by simply overwhelming targeted servers with a firehose of bogus requests for data, making it impossible for legitimate web traffic to get through.

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Karnataka’s new procurement policy aims to give slice of government business to startups

The government has not decided on the share of procurement that should go to startups, but it’s speculated that the figure may be set at 5%.

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Rule curbing AI chip exports to China under final review

The regulation on controls on high-end chips, advanced computing integrated circuits (ICs), and supercomputing was received for review on Oct. 10, according to the Office of Management and Budget website.

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OECD publishes treaty that would replace national digital taxes

The release of the text puts pressure on the United States in particular, where a two-thirds majority in the deeply divided Senate is needed to ratify treaties. The document is the first pillar of a two pillar overhaul of rules for the cross-border taxation of multinational companies, which was agreed in 2021 by nearly 140 countries but whose implementation is proving slow and complicated.

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Govt to seek info from YouTube, Telegram on curbing sleaze; InsuranceDekho raises $60M in funding

Social media companies may have to provide detailed information on the steps they’ve taken to curb pornographic and child sexual abuse material on their platforms. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.

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Jungle Ventures launches programme to invest $2 million or above in seed capital

Jungle Ventures invests in early- to growth-stage companies in Southeast Asia and India. Its portfolio includes Moglix, Livspace, Builder.ai and Atomberg among Indian startups.

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