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May 2023

Fairphone gets its audio groove on with repairable over-ear BT headphones

May 11, 2023

Dutch social enterprise Fairphone is best known for its mission to build ethical smartphones via a brand that promises fairer wages for supply chain workers and design choices that encourage consumers to cherish and repair the hardware rather than toss last year’s model thanks to modularity and a web shop selling replacement (and upgradeable) spare […]

Fairphone gets its audio groove on with repairable over-ear BT headphones by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

Microsoft makes strategic investment into Builder.ai, integrates its services into Teams

May 11, 2023

Builder.ai tapped into a new wave of businesses wanting their own native apps with a turnkey approach, accelerated by the rapid digitization of life during the pandemic. That led to led to a $100 million Series C funding round last year led by Insight Partners, taking the company’s total funding to $195 million. It’s now […]

Microsoft makes strategic investment into Builder.ai, integrates its services into Teams by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch

Google’s new Labs page lets you sign up for its AI experiments

May 11, 2023

This year’s Google IO was all about AI. The company announced a number of AI-powered features across its products on Wednesday. The search giant also launched a new page called Google Labs to let people sign up for these experiments and test out AI-powered features for feedback before the wider release. Currently, you can look […]

Google’s new Labs page lets you sign up for its AI experiments by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

SoftBank Vision Fund loses $32 billion in a year on startups valuation cut

May 11, 2023

SoftBank Vision Fund lost $32 billion in the financial year ending March as the Japanese investment giant, the most prolific global investor in tech startups, suffers from the valuation corrections across its private and public tech backings amid weakening global economy. The loss surged 68% from the same period a year prior, when SoftBank had […]

SoftBank Vision Fund loses $32 billion in a year on startups valuation cut by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

Everseen raises over $70M for AI tech to spot potential retail theft

May 11, 2023

In 2007, Alan O’Herlihy, who previously worked with large SAP installations as well as retail, set out to find a way to help retailers minimize “shrinkage,” or where a store has fewer items in stock than in its recorded inventory. He settled on computer vision as the solution to the problem, and founded a company, […]

Everseen raises over $70M for AI tech to spot potential retail theft by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Wingcopter, Germany’s drone delivery startup, raises another $44M from the EIB

May 11, 2023

Wingcopter, a startup out of Germany that has made a name for itself in the world of delivery drones used primarily for delivery of medicine and other goods to remote areas, has picked up some more financing to expand its business. The European Investment Bank is putting €40 million (close to $44 million) into the […]

Wingcopter, Germany’s drone delivery startup, raises another $44M from the EIB by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

Wingcopter, Germany’s drone delivery startup, raises another $44B from the EIB

May 11, 2023

Wingcopter, a startup out of Germany that has made a name for itself in the world of delivery drones used primarily for delivery of medicine and other goods to remote areas, has picked up some more financing to expand its business. The European Investment Bank is putting €40 million (close to $44 million) into the […]

Wingcopter, Germany’s drone delivery startup, raises another $44B from the EIB by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

Disney’s Hotstar loses 8.4 million subscribers as Ambani’s JioCinema ascends

May 11, 2023

Disney, the global entertainment conglomerate operating a variety of streaming platforms, suffered a 2% contraction in its total subscriber base for the quarter ending March this year. The decline is largely attributed to one specific streaming service: Hotstar. The Disney+ Hotstar platform, catering to viewers in India and Southeast Asia, lost 4.6 million subscribers during […]

Disney’s Hotstar loses 8.4 million subscribers as Ambani’s JioCinema ascends by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

APAC startups: Apply to Startup Battlefield 200

May 11, 2023

TechCrunch Disrupt is a global event, and the Startup Battlefield 200 cohort reflects the rich geographic genius the world has to offer. Although we’ve never had a startup from Antarctica, that’s probably just a matter of time. Right now, however, we’re looking at the countries that make up APAC and Oceania. APAC and Oceania: Join […]

APAC startups: Apply to Startup Battlefield 200 by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch