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Digital Onboarding grabs $58M to help banks with profitable customer engagement
Financial institutions spend hundreds of dollars in marketing and awareness to get a customer to open an account that often doesn’t get used. Digital Onboarding wants to help.
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IP analysis platform PatSnap launches CoPilot, its new AI assistant
Founded in 2007 to help IP and R&D professionals do their jobs more efficiently, Singapore-based PatSnap‘s first product was a global patent search database. Now it’s building out its suite of AI products with the launch of its AI assistant CoPilot. CoPilot lets users search patent and non-patent literature more quickly, which the company says […]
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Google says Russian espionage crew behind new malware campaign
Google researchers say they have evidence that a notorious Russian-linked hacking group — tracked as “Cold River” — is evolving its tactics beyond phishing to target victims with data-stealing malware. Cold River, also known as “Callisto Group” and “Star Blizzard,” is known for conducting long-running espionage campaigns against NATO countries, particularly the United States and […]
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The Legal Lowdown of Starting a New Business: A Startup Lawyer Explains
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Staking technology provider Kiln raises $17 million in rare crypto funding round
2023 hasn’t been the best year for crypto companies. According to PitchBook data, VC investments in crypto companies are down by 68% in 2023 compared to 2022. To be fair, crypto companies still raised $9.5 billion. But that’s a small number compared to 2022, the year during which crypto companies raised $30 billion. And yet, […]
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Farm-ng makes modular robots for a broad range of agricultural work
Agriculture is poised to be one of the next great robotics categories. Everyone needs to eat, and much of what we eat in this part of the world comes from large farms. Farm work is tough on the body and requires long hours in sometimes extreme environments. It can also be difficult to hire and […]
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