TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

TechCrunch is excited to announce Swyft Cities won the TechCrunch Sessions: Mobility 2022 pitch-off and is fast-tracked into the Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt in October. Beyond Aero is runner-up. The Mountain View-based company is committed to improving transportation through the use of autonomous, lightweight, fixed-cable vehicles.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Telecoms and banks lead the majority of online financial transactions carried out in the region via mobile money wallets and bank accounts. But here’s the challenge: While both systems tend to work well when users make transactions within their unique environment, there’s no interoperability for transactions between them.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2023

This week in AI, Amazon announced that it’ll begin tapping generative AI to “enhance” product reviews. Once it rolls out, the feature will provide a short paragraph of text on the product detail page that highlights the product capabilities and customer sentiment mentioned across the reviews. Could AI summarize those?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Within the last 18 months, the four-year-old startup worked on analyzing fraud data from global money networks, verification of mobile money financial statements and blocklist data from various banks and fintechs within the last 18 months. We want to add that depth in more markets, and Appruve gives some of that.”

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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. According to the company over 15,000 merchants use its POS terminals and mobile application.

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CIO

MAY 2, 2024

Siemens Mobility has been on a robotic process automation (RPA) journey for years, growing from five automated processes in 2017 to more than 700 now, transforming the company in the process. There was just one book [on RPA] on the market back in 2017, where today you have hundreds,” says Benjamin Bock, head of RPA at Siemens Mobility. “By

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OTS Solutions

JULY 28, 2022

The financial services industry has changed a lot in the last few years due to innovations in mobile and digital apps and modern technology has made it easier for individuals to invest and borrow money. This blog will examine how mobile app for financial services. What makes people use mobile banking and finance apps?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Founded by Tomilola Adejana and Fredrick Adams in 2018, Bankly is digitizing the informal thrift collections system known with different names such as esusu or ajo in Nigeria. In the absence of a banking system nearby or a disregard for one, the unbanked resort to these traditional systems because they work completely offline.

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2022

Welcome back to Week in Review , the newsletter where we do a quick rundown of the most-read TechCrunch stories from the past week. The idea: When you’ve had a busy few days, you should be able to skim Week in Review and still have a good idea of what’s up lately in tech. Hello hello! Want it in your inbox? Sign up here.

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CIO

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Developers unimpressed by the early returns of generative AI for coding take note: Software development is headed toward a new era, when most code will be written by AI agents and reviewed by experienced developers, Gartner predicts. Walsh acknowledges that the current crop of AI coding assistants has gotten mixed reviews so far.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

Most of the time no one has to think about how the mobile networks we all rely on work. Eridan is a well-funded startup aiming to replace one of the latter with fundamentally different hardware approach could make mobile networks an order of magnitude more efficient. ” asked Kirkpatrick, obviously rhetorically.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Berlin-based micro-mobility startup Tier has raised a significant Series C round of $250 million. Micro-mobility companies roam around cities to replace those batteries. Instead of bringing costs down by relying on underpaid freelancing partners, the company tries to optimize its processes and relies on a centralized system.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Joby Aviation , a California-based company developing electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles (eVTOL) for commercial passenger service , announced the acquisition of Avionyx , an aerospace software engineering firm, on the TechCrunch Sessions: Mobility stage on Wednesday.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

But Frucor Suntory’s 20-year-old sales automation system was holding it back. Unifying four siloed sales tools into one iOS mobile app for easy access to data Frucor Suntory’s outdated on-premises custom sales automation system scattered information across multiple tabs and locations. But simple is as complex does.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Up until this point, the micromobility industry consisted almost entirely of docked and dockless bike sharing systems that were averaging approximately 35 million trips across the United States every year — more than half of them in New York City alone. 4: Open Mobility Foundation created (summer 2019).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

As last-mile delivery increases due to a booming e-commerce scene and pandemic habits now ingrained in consumers’ lifestyles, the biggest market for micromobility will end up being in the commercial space, not focused on consumers. “It ” Nate Jaret, general partner at Maniv Mobility.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2021

In the startup’s view, a new generation of creative-focused tooling will bring the market to an era in which content management systems, or CMSs — say, Substack or WordPress — will not own the center of tooling. That’s Pico’s bet, and so it’s building what it considers to be an operating system for the creator market.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

Founded in 2013 by researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Standard Energy expects one of its main customers to be the energy storage systems (ESS) sector, which the company says is expected to grow from $8 billion to $35 billion in the next five years. “A

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Happy weekend, folks, and welcome back to the TechCrunch Week in Review. Bypassing FB 2FA: Meta created a new centralized system so users could manage their logins for Facebook and Instagram, but a bug could have allowed malicious hackers to switch off 2FA just by knowing a user’s phone number.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

and millions of those end up in shelters where they aren’t always reunited with their owners, due to their lack of identification or a microchip. A new mobile app, Shadow , aims to tackle this problem by leveraging a combination of a volunteer network and A.I. the Dallas shelter system and others. Image Credits: Shadow.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Back at CES 2020, Labrador Systems co-founder/CEO Mike Dooley told me, “I think there are fewer fake robots [at the show] this year.” At the time, the company had rented a suite where it was showing off an early version of the system it would come to call, fittingly, Retriever. Image Credits: Labrador Systems.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Atrium, a 100-person legal tech startup founded by Justin Kan, shut down in March after failing to find an efficient way to replace the arduous systems of law firms. Ultimately, Atrium’s failure shows how difficult and unprofitable it could be to disrupt a traditional and complicated system. Atrium (2017-2020). PicoBrew (2010-2020).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

This leads to ballooning healthcare costs with the healthcare system spending $150 billion annually to take care of this population, Asar said. Its technology utilizes web and mobile-based applications to provide remote patient monitoring and connection to dedicated therapists on a daily basis.

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OTS Solutions

JUNE 3, 2022

Clinics that use cutting-edge technology will continue to thrive as intelligent systems evolve. Health care can be delivered instantly via 5G mobile technologies. Qualcomm’s 5G enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) is widely expected to be the driving force behind the upcoming mobile industry revolution.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

And there was one specific event several years back, the EcoMotion mobility event in Israel, that Smith says really helps to highlight its investment ethos. ” A large chunk of early-stage deals fall apart in the due diligence phase. . ” A large chunk of early-stage deals fall apart in the due diligence phase.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

In the wake of the bank’s collapse, founders in Africa have been forced to review their banking options to cushion their startups from such eventualities. We don’t have (in Africa) a financial system that is remotely mature enough to deal with startup financing. Federal Reserve acted to save the day. Nala, a U.K.-based

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Unlike other African countries, South Africa also has a functioning credit system with the prevalent use of credit cards. And this is certainly due to the consumer and merchant education that we had to go through over the past seven years as it was quite an innovative solution that no one was really familiar with before.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

I nvestors can run extremely lean operations with access to proprietary deal flow, automated deal filtering and on-demand experts to support due diligence, research and portfolio support. Joining the expert platform on Pariti, he began to review companies and provided feedback to other founders.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

Link tagging is handy for tapes for product reviewers and references to other social profiles of a creator — no need for “link in bio” here. The startup is aiming to publicly launch after a few months of the invite system. Along is currently available only on iOS, and has a waitlist system.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

A tabletop console gaming system, Gameboard , also lets family members enjoy fun time, instead of just chat time, with one another. Its “Housing” section included three companies focused on personal mobility. It hosts hundreds of games, including role-playing games. For individuals, the clinic section included two startups.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

Prismic , a company building a content management system, has raised a $20 million Series A funding round. Headless content management systems are a bit different from traditional content management systems. Headless content management systems are a bit different from traditional content management systems.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

The address verification system merchants use to verify a purchaser is who they say they are, involves sending information to a bank that is returned to the merchant with a score of whether that match is legitimate. “In That process involves manual analysis and constant adjusting due to fraud. In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Israeli startup TriEye has raised $74 million to commercialize a type of sensing technology that can be used to help autonomous and driver-assistance systems to see better in adverse conditions. While SWIR sensing is not new, it has mostly been restricted to the aerospace and defense industries due to its high cost.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2023

Welcome, friends, to TechCrunch’s Week in Review (WiR), the newsletter where we recap the week that was in tech. Taking a page from mobile gaming: Retaining mobile app subscribers is harder than it was last year, but paywall optimization and gamified UX can help. Now, on with the recap. Lorenzo has the story.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2022

It was the first time the 32-year-old customer service executive was informed about the circulation of her roughly edited photos after taking her mugshots from the government ID she had initially submitted to get credit from a mobile loan app called Fast Coin.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

That makes SmartRyde special and the company will continue to promote partnerships with online travel agencies, travel agencies and mobility companies, Kimura added. Due to the impact of COVID-19, there has been a change in the way people travel, such as avoiding congestion. SmartRyde announced today it has secured a $1.6

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

You have lectures and demonstrations, vocabulary lists, illustrations, and if you pay for it online, you can have someone review your work over video. Currently it’s for desktop browsers only but the team is planning a mobile app as well. “The mobile apps we aim to do for free.”

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