5G is the current revolution in wireless technology, and every chip company old and new is trying to burrow their way into this ultra-competitive â but extremely lucrative â market. One of the most interesting new players in the space is EdgeQ, a startup with a strong technical pedigree via Qualcomm that we covered last [âŠ] Read more âș
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Automating and controlling devices and energy usage in homes has potentially become a bit easier thanks to an integration between Span, the startup making a digital fusebox replacement, and  Amazonâs voice recognition interface, Alexa. The integration also comes with a $20 million new cash infusion from Amazonâs Alexa Fund and the massive insurance company Munich [âŠ] Read more âș
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CrediBook, a startup that helps Indonesian retail wholesalers digitize the financial side of their operations, has raised $1.5 million in pre-Series A funding led by Wavemaker Partners, with participation from Alpha JWC Ventures and Insignia Ventures Partners. The capital will be used for product launches and expansion into more Indonesian cities. Founded in February 2020, [âŠ] Read more âș
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Twitter is getting into the newsletter business. The social media company is announcing that it has acquired Revue, a Dutch startup that allows users to publish and monetize email newsletters. While Revue hasnât driven the same wave of âis this the future of media?â think pieces as Substack, it counts major publishers like Vox Media [âŠ] Read more âș
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Fleksy, an autocorrecting AI keyboard which competes with big-guns like Googleâs Gboard and Microsoftâs Swiftkey, has a new way to catch usersâ eyes: Art keyboards. Itâs just launched FleksyArt: A marketplace for artists to sell digital works to its users so they can customize the look of their keyboards. Fleksy has had keyboard themes before. [âŠ] Read more âș
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Grindr, a gay, bi, trans and queer hook-up app, is on the hook for a penalty of NOK100,000,000 (aka âŹ10M or ~$12.1M) in Europe. Norwayâs data protection agency has announced itâs notified the US-based company of its intention to issue the fine in relation to consent violations under the regionâs General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) [âŠ] Read more âș
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Atomico, the European venture capital fund that typically invests at Series A and Series B, has made a number of internal promotions, including making SaaS and enterprise-focussed investor Ben Blume a partner at the firm. The step up from principal to partner comes after 8 years spent at Atomico, which Blume first joined in 2013 [âŠ] Read more âș
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Reilly Brennan loves cars. The native Michigander happily did grunt work for an automotive magazine as an undergrad at the University of Michigan before landing a gig as a trackside communications manager at General Motors, spending a few years as an editor and a general manager with an automotive publisher called NextScreen, then becoming a [âŠ] Read more âș
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Remagine, a financing platform offering banking services to high-growth companies with an âimpactâ twist, has raised âŹ20 million ($24M) in a Seed funding round. The Berlin-based startup has been operating in stealth mode, but already has 20 clients under its former brand name âGet Conscious Growthâ. Its backers include former Global Head of Google Payment [âŠ] Read more âș
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Klook, the Hong Kong-based travel activities platform backed by SoftBank Vision Fund, announced the closure of $200 million in funding for its Series E round, lifting the startupâs total capital raised to date to $720 million. Aspex Management, an investment fund focused on Asia Pacific led the round, alongside existing backers Sequoia Capital China, Softbank [âŠ] Read more âș
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During a visit to India in 2014, Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos made a splashy announcement: His firm was investing $2 billion in the South Asian nation, just a year after beginning operations in the country. Amazonâs announcement underscored how far India had come to open up to foreign firms. The nation, which had largely [âŠ] Read more âș
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Blackberry and Chinese search engine giant Baidu have agreed to expand a partnership that aims to give automakers the tools they need to launch next-generation connected and autonomous vehicles in China. Under the deal, Baiduâs high-definition maps will be integrated into Blackberryâs QNX Neutrino Real-Time Operating System. The embedded system will be mass produced in [âŠ] Read more âș
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President Joe Biden said Monday the U.S. government would replace the entire federal fleet of cars, trucks and SUVs with electric vehicles manufactured in the United States, a commitment tied to a broader campaign promise to create 1 million new jobs in the American auto industry and supply chains. The commitment, if it bears out, [âŠ] Read more âș
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As the United Kingdom prepares to sharpen its focus on how it regulates big tech companies, Facebook is taking a big step up in the role it plays in presenting media to the U.K. public, and into how it works with the countryâs media industry. Today it is launching Facebook News in the U.K., Facebookâs [âŠ] Read more âș
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If social networks and other platforms are to get a handle on disinformation, itâs not enough to know what it is â you have to know how people react to it. Researchers at MIT and Cornell have some surprising but subtle findings that may affect how Twitter and Facebook should go about treating this problematic [âŠ] Read more âș
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Twitter pilots a new tool to fight disinformation, Apple brings celebrity-guided walks to the Apple Watch and Clubhouses raises funding. This is your Daily Crunch for January 25, 2021. The big story: Twitter unveils Birdwatch Twitter launched a new product today that it says will offer âa community-based approach to misinformation.â With Birdwatch, users will [âŠ] Read more âș
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This week, Latch becomes the latest company to join the SPAC parade. Founded in 2014, the New York-based company came out of stealth two years later, launching a smart lock system. Though, like many companies primarily known for hardware solutions, Latch says itâs more, offering a connected security software platform for owners of apartment buildings. [âŠ] Read more âș
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We believe one of the most important trends to gain traction in the last three years to be point-of-sale financing, now referred to as Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL). Read more âș
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A walk is, more often than not, a solitary experience. As far as the age of COVID-19 is concerned, thatâs probably more bug than feature. Itâs a way to escape the confines of a shutdown for a few glorious moments, to get some air and, for better or worse, reflect on the day thatâs passed [âŠ] Read more âș
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Starting next month, Facebook will open up academic access to a dataset of 1.3 million political and social issue ads, including those that ran between August 3 and November 3, 2020 â Election Day in the U.S. Facebookâs Ad Library, launched in 2019, offers a searchable database of all ads running on Facebook and Instagram. [âŠ] Read more âș
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