The National Institute of Standards and Technology could fire as many as 500 staffers, according to multiple reports — cuts that further threaten a fledgling AI safety organization. Axios reported this week that the US AI Safety Institute (AISI) and Chips for America, both part of NIST, would be “gutted” by layoffs targeting probationary employees […]
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In countries where English is not a main language, listed companies not only have to deal with financial disclosure regulations, but make sure their investor materials are available in English for global backers. WritePath make the process faster and scalable by combining its AI tech with human translators. The Taipei-based startup’s clients include Foxconn, ASUS, […]
Taiwanese startup WritePath’s AI tech speeds up financial disclosure translation by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch
India currently doesn’t plan to put restrictions on how much time individuals, including youngsters, spend playing games online, taking a different approach from the neighboring nation China that rocked the local gaming market after enforcing strict new measures last year. Rajeev Chandrasekhar, India’s minister of state for electronics and information technology, told the lower house […]
India doesn’t plan to limit play time for online game usage by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch
Kenya-based MyHealth Africa, an integrated healthcare platform changing how people access medical services, by connecting patients with local and international health specialists and hospitals, is growing its reach in Africa, and plans to further expand in Middle East and South Asia next year. The growth plan comes against the backdrop of $1 million seed funding […]
MyHealth Africa, a startup connecting patients with health specialists across the globe, lands $1M funding by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch
Suplyd, a procurement platform for hotels, restaurants and catering (HoReCa) businesses in Egypt, has raised $1.6 million pre-seed funding from Endure Capital, Seedstars, Camel Ventures, Falak Startups, and a number of angel investors. Founded in January this year, Suplyd’s B2B platform brings efficiency in the supply chain operations for businesses in the food service industry […]
Egypt’s Suplyd raises $1.6M to digitize restaurants supply chain by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch
Tesla CEO Elon Musk sold over 20 million shares of the company stock between Monday and Wednesday. The sale is worth about $3.5 billion, according to a regulatory filing. Musk’s latest stock dump follows the nearly $4 billion worth of shares he sold last month. Musk hasn’t provided a reason publicly for the share sell […]
Musk sells $3.5B worth of Tesla stock as investors voice concern over Twitter involvement by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch
The Covid-19 pandemic grounded travel and tourism to a halt, but as those sectors pick up speed again, so too are the more promising startups in them raising money to keep up. Today, a startup called Mews — which provides a cloud-based hotel property management platform with tools covering reservations, payments, and more — announced […]
Mews books $185M for its SaaS-based hotel management platform by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch
Singapore-headquartered startup Plugo has secured $9 million in a Series A funding round. The company offers a complete spectrum of e-commerce support services for direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands, from making a website, setting up a payment system, and managing marketing to handling shipping, warehousing, and logistics. In other words, Plugo enables D2C merchants to focus on […]
Plugo, an e-commerce support platform for D2C brands in Southeast Asia, picks up $9M Series A by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch
A notable development for the fraught issue of cross-border data flows from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Wednesday: After two years of closed-door discussions, the intergovernmental organization has adopted a declaration on government access to data held by private sector entities. The declaration, which has been adopted by the 38 OECD countries […]
OECD adopts declaration on trusted government access to private sector data by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch