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Role of AI In Hiring Software Engineers

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Popular AI techniques like computer vision and object recognition have revolutionized the scope of working across healthcare, science, retail, and education to improve the accuracy of success. Nowadays, AI-powered software is used to automate the daily set of business operations and ease product hassles of departmental stakeholders.

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Vaayu, a carbon tracking platform for retailers, pulls in $11.5M seed round led by Atomico

TechCrunch

Signs of that are appearing with the emergence of startups like Vaayu , offering — what it claims — real-time monitoring of retail sales at a granular, transaction-specific level, designed to help retailers reduce their carbon footprint.

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5 Things To Look For When Evaluating AI Startups

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Roughly 75% of that value will emanate from productivity gains across customer operations, sales and marketing, software engineering, and R&D. Bob Ma is an investor at Copec Wind Ventures , where he invests in retail, fintech, consumer and energy technologies. For context, the United Kingdom’s entire GDP in 2021 was $3.1

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Hong Kong-based Pickupp makes logistics more affordable for e-commerce sellers

TechCrunch

Called Shop On Pickupp, the platform enables merchants to move more of their retail operations online and has been used to digitize marketplaces like the Shilin Singapore Night Market during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sensing a market opportunity, Pang began using her software engineering background to think of a solution.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

It does this both by offering online retailer integrations where Klarna appears as an option at check out, and through its own “shopping mall” app, where users can browse all the stores that let you pay with Klarna. Today, Klarna is most certainly a tech company, employing 1,300 software engineers out of a staff of over 3,500.

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Founded by Adyen and Affirm alums, Ansa aims to help merchants create virtual wallets for customers

TechCrunch

But as of now, few merchants outside of retail giants such as Starbucks offer that ability. Having the ability to load up a digital wallet to pay for goods and services at businesses you frequent, and then earn rewards for those purchases, would be convenient and well, rewarding.

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Nestcoin raises $6.45M pre-seed to accelerate crypto and web3 adoption in Africa and frontier markets

TechCrunch

Peer to peer transactions and retail trading are two of the biggest drivers of crypto adoption on the continent. It recently backed AltSchool Africa, an entry-level tech talent project introducing Africans to software engineering and web3 courses like blockchain.

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