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JULY 2, 2022

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The retail landscape has undergone massive shifts in recent years to adopt self-checkout systems. But major retailers like Walmart, Target, and Dollar General are starting to phase out self-check in some locations because they’ve contributed to higher rates of shoplifting and inventory loss. The benefits are potentially huge.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Two years ago, the African tech ecosystem saw newfound attention from global players that translated to the continent’s best year of receiving venture capital. From varying sources, it is estimated up to $2 billion went into African tech startups in 2019. AfricArena, a tech ecosystem accelerator, pegged deals to close between $2.25

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

He called the deal “a remarkable turnaround” for Zelto, a company that has stared down a few near-death experiences, including cash flow and product market fit problems, during its 10-year-old life. wants to help recruiters find technical talent by inferring skills from GitHub code, Paul reports. Big Tech Inc. Zack has more.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

million seed round boosts Butlr Technologies ’ ability to apply its real-time people-sensing technology beyond commercial real estate and retail uses to monitor falls and other movements for active seniors who are aging in place. We can bring dignity back to the technology world, while also understanding users’ needs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The “native retail” startup announced today that it has raised $5 million in seed funding led by Accel. What a time to take a leap and start a company at the intersection of hospitality and physical retail, two industries that were getting decimated,” he said. Then it’s delivered to your home in a few days.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Over the past two years, Asia’s retailers were forced to do virtual meetings instead of visiting in-person trade shows or conferences to source new brands and products due to the pandemic lockdowns.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

In Nigeria, POS terminals are used to process card payments at retail locations as well as for agency banking purposes, a branchless banking system where agents act like human ATMs. One of the biggest challenges to the mass adoption of card payments at retail locations is the rate of transaction failures due to poor internet connection.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

“Brands don’t need to worry about connecting the marketing stack anymore.”. Where success in traditional retail has been determined by “location, location, location,” Tagrin said e-commerce is “all about consumer attention.” Yotpo CEO Tomer Tagrin.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

In 2015, Rehmann teamed up with his longtime business partner Steve Moran to explore Lake Victoria and perform some feasibility studies on how they could use technology to disrupt the country’s cold chain markets. They raised an angel round to start Victory Farms before launching in mid-2016 to serve a market with about a $1.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

Following nearly four years in the prototype phase, Cana Technology is unveiling what it calls the “world’s first molecular beverage printer” after securing $30 million in funding from venture foundry The Production Board. The new funding is being heavily invested into the supply chain and continued technology development, Mahar said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

With Grab’s announcement of its imminent Nasdaq listing and GoJek merging with Tokopedia to form tech giant GoTo , casual international observers could be forgiven for believing that Southeast Asia’s tech universe only comprises similar companies. Unsurprisingly, tech startup growth is booming as well.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

But of late, they’re braving a new market shaped by three major trends: stunted online shopping growth, the impact of the latest iOS privacy updates on social media customer acquisition strategies (leading to higher costs) and macroeconomic uncertainty. The new retail challenge. retail sales in Q4 of 2021, down from 13.6%

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CIO

JANUARY 5, 2025

Research from Gartner, for example, shows that approximately 30% of generative AI (GenAI) will not make it past the proof-of-concept phase by the end of 2025, due to factors including poor data quality, inadequate risk controls, and escalating costs. [1] AI in action The benefits of this approach are clear to see.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Ho argued that those platforms (whether they offer delivery services, user reviews or marketing tools) all have the same underlying model: “They seek to take over a small business’ customer base and then charge them a tax to start reaching those customers.” “The incentives are more aligned,” he said.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Luca , a startup building price planning and prediction tools for retailers, today announced that it closed a $2.5 In ten months, we succeeded in plugging a massive hole in Uber’s profit and loss using pricing tech. ” Mann describes Luca as a “pricing co-pilot for enterprise retailers.” That got us thinking.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

Cymbio , a Tel Aviv-based startup focused on what it calls “brand-to-retailer connectivity,” announced today that it has raised $7 million in Series A funding. Whereas adding a new market might normally require a cost-benefit analysis (“How much money will it cost me to set up this retailer?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Terraa , a Moroccan B2B tech-enabled food distribution platform, has raised $1.5 It intends to provide a consistent and competitively priced market for the produce, helping farmers cut back on the post-harvest losses often driven by lack of markets, especially in times of overproduction.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Sindhya Valloppillil is the founder and CEO of Skin Dossier, a venture partner at Next Gen Ventures, a freelance writer and formerly a beauty industry executive and marketing professor. It may not be as glamorous as D2C, but beauty tech is big money. Smart packaging with IoT and distributed ledger technology.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The company also offers due diligence and acquisition financing from Thrasio-owned Yardline Capital and a new service called Flippa Legal. Online retail, as a share of total retail sales , grew to 19.6% Our strategy is verification at the source, i.e. data,” Hutchison said. in 2020, up from 15.8%

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

It’s been a very tough year for Placer.ai ’s core customer segments of retail and commercial real estate, to put it mildly. But the foot traffic and location analytics startup saw growth in new categories, including consumer packaged goods (CPG) and hedge funds that use its tech to perform due diligence.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Uberall , which works with retailers and other brick-and-mortar operators to help them update and provide more accurate information about themselves across the plethora of apps and other services that consumers use to discover them, is announcing $115 million in funding.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Amazon has become the pacemaker in commerce, and today a startup that’s been building technology to help retailers keep up with it in the world of physical stores is announcing some funding to expand its business. It will also be doubling down on expanding its technology.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

India’s market regulator has tightened disclosure norms for firms looking to file for an initial public offering after lackluster performance of more than half a dozen tech startups in the past year and a half. The regulator said the new step is aimed at bringing parity between retail and private equity investors.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

“Soci became an essential partner to brands for this transformation, which led to an increased need for brands to turn to technology to manage their presence in local digital market channels.” ” Khoury has a colorful background. ” Khoury has a colorful background.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

So while the company, of course, wants to be robust for developers, Vo says it is even more focused on brands that lack technical resources or domain expertise. We concluded that Productfy has the only market-ready solution to be sold to customers,” Khranyan told TechCrunch. “We It currently has eight clients, including HatchCard.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2021

James Nash is CEO and founder of inbeta , a tech-enabled talent specialist using data, social listening and human science to help corporations overcome bias. Technology and data analysis can help you here, providing robust insights on the messages you’re sending. Technology and training in tandem can help with that.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

Curacel , the YC-backed startup that is developing insurance infrastructure for the African market, has launched a new interface that allows digital businesses like those in retail, fintech, e-commerce and logistics to add insurance to their core products. without the outsized market of South Africa. The opportunity is massive.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

99 Twitter problems, and Apple might have one : It’s no secret that Elon Musk thinks Apple’s 30% IAP (“inventor assistance program” to those of us not up on tech lingo) transaction charge to developers is “a lot.” OTI raises $55 million for technology to remove screen obstructions. Big Tech Inc. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

The benefits of honing technical skills go far beyond the Information Technology industry. Strong tech skills are essential in today’s changing world, and if your employees consistently and proactively enhance their IT skills, you will help them improve both personally and professionally. Yes, it may feel overwhelming.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

Bob Ma is an investor at WIND Ventures , where he invests in energy, retail and mobility startups. Most major retailers are scrambling to catch up to Amazon by partnering with last-mile delivery startups. This results in inefficiencies due to a lack of technologies such as route optimization as well as a lack of operating scale.

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CIO

APRIL 11, 2024

Simultaneously, increases in compute power have made it easier to implement AI use cases at the retail edge. That’s a perfect opportunity for some long-awaited retail use cases to turn prime time. RFID has several other beneficial uses in clothing retail. RFID tags have been around for decades and now cost just pennies.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

While there, they came up with a way to use A/B testing to create a way of dealing with payments in different markets. Tabor explained that the e-commerce landscape in Latin America was consolidated, meaning few banks controlled more of the market. That process involves manual analysis and constant adjusting due to fraud.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2022

However, while it’s earned a market footprint of sufficient scale as to matter in the consumer financial technology market, it’s not considered a fintech company per se. retailers that already accept Apple Pay. retailers that already accept Apple Pay. That could be changing. This concept should be familiar.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

Almost half of all Americans play mobile games, so Alex reviewed Jam City’s investor deck, a transcript of the investor presentation call and a press release to see how it stacks up against Zynga, which “has done great in recent quarters, including posting record revenue and bookings in the first three months of 2021.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

The technology for online shopping is not up to snuff — when you click on something, everything has to reload compared to an app like Instagram.”. More people shopping on their mobile devices creates friction due to downloading an app for each brand. 4 views on the future of retail and the shopping experience.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

For one, as one source told me, BlackRock’s investment is a show of faith in the SMB 401(k) market — one where the firm hasn’t historically played. ’s auto-enrollment provisions (among others), will make 401k plans more impactful at the lower end of the market, and Human Interest is well-positioned to execute.”.

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