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This small French company wants to build the open alternative to Kindle and Kobo

November 30, 2023

For the past decade, three companies have been building full-fledged ebook ecosystems with devices, apps and digital bookstores all working perfectly together — Amazon, Rakuten and a tiny company called Vivlio. While Amazon’s Kindle is the clear leader and Rakuten’s Kobo the obvious challenger, Vivlio has been building an open European alternative to these two tech […]

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Nucleos puts secure, tablet-powered education in the hands of inmates

November 30, 2023

Inmates in correctional facilities around the country have wildly varying levels of opportunity to prepare for life after release. Nucleos is a startup that hopes to make the kind of e-learning tools we tend to take for granted available to inmates with an all-in-one service that’s free for them to use. There are numerous barriers […]

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Salesforce Ventures and Female Founders Fund back Kenyan climate-tech Amini in $4M seed round

November 30, 2023

Amini, a Kenya-based climate-tech startup bridging the environmental data gap in Africa, has raised $4 million seed funding in a round led by Salesforce Ventures and the Female Founders Fund. Climate-tech VC Satgana also participated alongside other investors, including Pale Blue Dot and Superorganism, who had previously backed the startup in its $2 million pre-seed […]

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Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on culturally aware LLMs, developer productivity and FemTech

November 30, 2023

By tradition, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels caps off the AWS re:Invent conference with his last-day keynote. A more recent tradition is that he also uses that day to publish his predictions for the coming year. This time around, I sat down with Vogels for a wide-ranging interview ahead of his keynote to delve a little […]

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Tech-enabled warehousing startup Huboo raises another $36.6M amid continued e-commerce growth

November 30, 2023

When consumers switched to home deliveries and “digitized” their lifestyles during the pandemic, it led to a surge in e-commerce sales and thus, also, in the need for warehousing and shipping. But of course, most e-commerce businesses outsource this function. Amazon’s ‘Fulfilled By Amazon’ (FBA) service has boomed on its own platform, but if you’re […]

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