All the headlines from our Tech Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 3 2021 // Colorado-based reThought Insurance, a managing general agency focused on the flood insurance market, has secured $15.5 million in investment to accelerate its growth.The company currently writes flood coverage for complex...
Jul 30 2021 // FRISS, a provider of AI-focused fraud prevention and detection products for P/C insurers, raised $65 million to help it carve out new product lines and market reach.The company said it serves insurers in more than 40...
Jul 29 2021 // Agentero raised $13.5 million in new financing designed to boost and help expand its digital insurance network for agents.The California-based insurtech, launched in 2017, is designed to help insurance agents access...
Jul 29 2021 // Insurtech venture investment keeps climbing ever higher, with new records reached for the second quarter as well as the first half of 2021, according to the latest Willis Towers Watson report on the sector.Global insurtech...
Jul 27 2021 // Transnet SOC Ltd., South Africa’s state-owned ports and freight-rail company, declared force majeure at the country’s key container terminals after disruptions caused by a cyber attack five days ago.The measure...
Jul 26 2021 // This post is part of a series sponsored by The Hanover Insurance Group.Over the last decade, we have witnessed many types of unpredictable disasters, including terrorist attacks, wars, earthquakes, economic crises,...
Jul 23 2021 // Insurtech startup bolttech announced it has acquired i-surance, a next-generation B2B2C digital insurance platform based in Berlin.Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. The transaction is part of...
Jul 23 2021 // JOHANNESBURG – A cyber attack has disrupted container operations at the South African port of Cape Town, an email seen by Reuters on Thursday said.Durban, the busiest shipping terminal in sub-Saharan Africa, was also...
Jul 23 2021 // Two Democratic U.S. senators on Thursday will add to the stack of bills going after Section 230 – a law that protects tech companies from being sued over content posted by users – making such platforms...
Jul 21 2021 // Virginia Tech says it was targeted in two recent cyberattacks but feels confident no data was stolen.Virginia Tech spokesman Mark Owczarski told the Roanoke Times that a few university units used Kaseya, a U.S. software...
Jul 19 2021 // The United States on Friday took a new stab at Russia’s cybersecurity industry, restricting trade with four information technology firms and two other entities over “aggressive and harmful” activities...
Jul 13 2021 // Global vaccinations of seafarers are going too slowly to prevent outbreaks on ships from causing more trade disruptions, endangering maritime workers and potentially slowing economies trying to pull out of pandemic...
Jul 8 2021 // BRUSSELS – The European Commission fined German carmakers Volkswagen and BMW a total of 875 million euros ($1 billion) on Thursday for colluding to curb the use of emissions cleaning technology they had developed.The...
Jul 7 2021 // InsurTech NY will be accepting applications for its growth-stage InsurTech accelerator. The application window will be open from July 7 to August 2 and applications will be accepted through the InsurTech NY website.The...
Jul 5 2021 // Businesses worldwide are fighting sophisticated data scientists as they battle to protect their data-rich computers from cyber crime – and the costly attacks are not going to stop, an expert at insurer Sompo Holdings...
Jul 2 2021 // A team of technical experts from the federal government and outside specialists are going to gather building material samples and study soil conditions in order to determine the engineering reasons behind the collapse of a...
Jul 2 2021 // Carrot General Insurance Corp., South Korea’s first digital-only insurance provider, announced that it has raised 100 billion won (US$88.7 million), which equals its founding capital raised in 2019.The Seoul-based...
Jul 2 2021 // India’s central bank warned about the growing presence of technology giants in the country’s digital financial services and payment systems which could pose a financial stability risk.In its semi-annual...
Jul 1 2021 // Insurance tech startup bolttech on Thursday said it raised $180 million in a funding round, led by private investment firm Activant Capital Group, that valued it at more than $1 billion.The New York and Singapore-based...
Jun 30 2021 // U.S. regulators on Tuesday said they would keep a closer eye on the automotive industry as it rolls out advanced driver safety systems, tracking the new technologies to spot potential defects faster.The National Highway...