Governments around the world want to know a lot about who we are and what we’re doing online and they want communications companies to help them find it. We don’t know a lot about when companies hand over this data, but we do know that it’s becoming increasingly common.

Shufflebrain co-founder Amy Jo Kim was practising lean startup methodology before there was a name for it.

Localz has raised £100,000 ($A187,000) after winning European omni-channel retailer John Lewis’ JLAB incubator program, taking its total seed funding just shy of $1 million.