February 21, 2025

Doctors and patients are calling for more telehealth. Where is it?

Maggie Barnidge, 18, has been managing cystic fibrosis her whole life. But not long after she moved out of her home state to start college, she came down with pneumonia and went into liver failure. She desperately wanted to get in touch with her doctor back home, whom she’d been seeing since she was diagnosed…

March 2023

Hear Oma Fertility and Root Ventures talk male IVF challenges on TechCrunch Live

March 29, 2023

Building a company during the pandemic is hard; raising $71.5 million in the fertility sector, an impressive feat at any time. Today, Oma Fertility co-founder Kiran Joshi and Root Ventures Partner Chrissy Meyer join TechCrunch Live at 12 p.m. PDT to talk us through: building in healthcare during a global pandemic and how they stood […]

Hear Oma Fertility and Root Ventures talk male IVF challenges on TechCrunch Live by Neesha A. Tambe originally published on TechCrunch

LeapXpert raises $22M to monitor employee chats for compliance

March 29, 2023

The pandemic brought with it a spike in work-from-home and hybrid work, which increased peoples’ dependence on personal devices — driving businesses to try and rein in their use. It’s been a particular challenge for the financial services industry, which has comparatively strict governance and compliance requirements. In September, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission […]

LeapXpert raises $22M to monitor employee chats for compliance by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

After chargeback fraud debacle, Union54 CEO says fintech in Africa ‘isn’t child’s play’

March 29, 2023

Last July, TechCrunch reported that customers of several fintech apps couldn’t access the virtual dollar card service that these platforms provided. In addition, customers couldn’t create new cards, fund existing ones, or make online and in-store payments and purchases with them. At the heart of this issue was chargeback fraud that Zambian startup Union54, whose […]

After chargeback fraud debacle, Union54 CEO says fintech in Africa ‘isn’t child’s play’ by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch

Paytrix raises $18.3M to build out its one-stop payments shop

March 29, 2023

Payments remains one of the most fragmented of online services, a situation that is only compounded when your business trades internationally. A UK startup called Paytrix says it has raised $18.3 million in funding to build out a solution to fix this: a single platform — and single contract — that lets its customers manage […]

Paytrix raises $18.3M to build out its one-stop payments shop by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

Spera raises $10M for its identity security posture management platform

March 29, 2023

Spera, a Palo Alto-based security startup that provides businesses with the tools to proactively protect themselves from identity-driven threats, today announced that it has raised a $10 million seed funding round led by YL Ventures, with participation from a number of prominent angel investors and serial entrepreneurs. The company’s founders, Dor Fledel (CEO) and Ariel […]

Spera raises $10M for its identity security posture management platform by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Google to roll out new extreme heat alerts in Search soon

March 29, 2023

Google is introducing new extreme heat alerts in Search that are designed to surface information to help people stay safe during heat waves, the company announced on Tuesday. The new heat alerts will roll out in the coming months. Now, when people search for information on extreme heat, they will see information about when a […]

Google to roll out new extreme heat alerts in Search soon by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

Chinese creators use Midjourney’s AI to generate retro urban “photography”

March 29, 2023
China Report is MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology developments in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. Welcome back to China Report! If you saw these images pop up on your timeline, would you be able to tell if they were real photographs of the southwestern city of Chongqing in the 1990s?…

Google wins partial relief in Android antitrust case in India

March 29, 2023

Google received some relief in the key overseas market of India on Wednesday after a tribunal court set aside four of the 10 directives in an antitrust case related to abuse of the company’s dominant position in Android. The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal upheld the $160 million penalty levied on Google by the Competition […]

Google wins partial relief in Android antitrust case in India by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch