Indian research firm Convergence Catalyst is ready for its second act: Manish Singh
A 9-year-old is smashing the shuttle far and wide, and frantically pacing back and forth on the court in Bangalore, India, as her competition refuses to back down. Her rival is not a human. She is playing against a machine that is mimicking the game of badmin…
AWS partners with Kenya's Safaricom on cloud and consulting services: Jake Bright
Amazon Web Services has entered a partnership with Safaricom — Kenya’s largest telco, ISP and mobile payment provider — in a collaboration that could spell competition between American cloud providers in Africa. In a statement to TechCrunch, the East African …
Clearview said its facial recognition app was only for law enforcement as it courted private companies: Taylor Hatmaker
After claiming that it would only sell its controversial facial recognition software to law enforcement agencies, a new report suggests that Clearview AI is less than discerning about its client base. According to Buzzfeed News, the small, secretive company l…
Latin America roundup: Softbank adds $1B, Stori raises $10M and Grow Mobility puts on the brakes: Sophia Wood
After investing nearly $2 billion of its Innovation Fund in Latin America in 2019, Softbank announced this month that it would add an additional $1 billion into the fund to continue supporting tech startups across the region. While the Japanese investor faces…
SeeHow helps cricketers train smarter: Henry Pickavet
Like baseball, cricket relies on grass, dirt, wood, cork, spit, spin, drop and rise en route to either victory or loss. And like baseball — and just about any other sport, really — cricket coaching staffs and their players worldwide are looking for more ways …
Senate passes ‘rip and replace’ bill to remove old Huawei and ZTE equipment from networks: Brian Heater
The U.S. Senate today voted unanimously to pass the Secure and Trusted Telecommunications Networks Act. Written as a response to recent concerns around Chinese hardware manufacturers, the bill would ban purchase of telecom equipment from embattled Chinese man…
DocuSign acquires Seal Software for $188M to enhance its AI chops: Frederic Lardinois
Contract management service DocuSign today announced that it is acquiring Seal Software for $188 million in cash. The acquisition is expected to close later this year. DocuSign, it’s worth noting, previously invested $15 million in Seal Software in 2019. Seal…
Stem is offering cash advances to help musicians stay independent: Anthony Ha
Stem, a startup that helps independent musicians get paid, is expanding with a new financing program called Scale. Co-founder and CEO Milana Rabkin Lewis described the company’s core offering as a way for collaborators to “memorialize the split” of the procee…
Fear and liability in algorithmic hiring: Natasha Lomas
It would be a foolish U.S. business that tried to sell chlorine-washed chicken in Europe — a region where very different food standards apply. But in the high-tech world of algorithmically assisted hiring, it’s a different story. A number of startups are sell…
Teebike turns any bike into an electric bike – TechCrunch:
Teebike is a new French startup that wants to make it easier to switch from a good old sweat-based bike to an electric bike. With Teebike, you don’t have to get rid of your existing bike and buy a new one. You just have to replace the front wheel. The device …
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