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Peak XV Partners backs India’s Digantara to propel space situational awareness

June 20, 2023

Digantara, an Indian space tech startup that is working on space situational awareness, has raised $10 million in a funding round led by Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia Capital India and Southeast Asia) as it plans to kick off commercial space operations and satellite traffic management. This is notably the first space-tech investment by the […]

Peak XV Partners backs India’s Digantara to propel space situational awareness by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch

Google Pixel Tablet review: It’s all about the dock

June 20, 2023

No need to sugarcoat it, the history of Android tablets is rough. There are some exceptions. Samsung, for one, has managed to carve out a nice market for itself in the space, courtesy of nice hardware and heavy Android customization. The Galaxy maker has secured a consistent No. 2 behind Apple – accounting for nearly […]

Google Pixel Tablet review: It’s all about the dock by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

Hyperline is a billing platform for SaaS products

June 20, 2023

Meet Hyperline, a new product that handles pricing and billing for software-as-a-service companies. The company provides integrations so that you can quickly start billing. It then supports different scenarios, such as recurring subscriptions, usage-based billing, custom discounts and more. This isn’t the first company that focuses on pricing and billing — examples include Recurly and […]

Hyperline is a billing platform for SaaS products by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch

WhatsApp introduces feature to automatically silence call from unknown numbers

June 20, 2023

WhatsApp has introduced a new feature to automatically silence calls from unknown numbers. This comes after multiple customers in India, the chat app’s biggest market with more than 500 million users, have complained about an increase in spam calls in the last few months. On Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg announced the call silencing feature along with […]

WhatsApp introduces feature to automatically silence call from unknown numbers by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Gladia turns any audio into text in near real time

June 20, 2023

Meet Gladia, a French AI startup that wants to change how companies interact with audio data. The company develops an audio transcription application programming interface (API) that you can integrate with other products and is supposed to work much better than what’s available out there. And this tech foundation unlocks new use cases around audio. […]

Gladia turns any audio into text in near real time by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch

Alibaba CEO Daniel Zhang to pass the torch and focus on cloud

June 20, 2023

Hours after rumors started circling in China about a possible stepdown of Alibaba’s chairman and CEO Daniel Zhang, the ecommerce behemoth confirmed midday on Tuesday that the executive will hand over the torch. Zhang will be replaced by Joe Tsai, Alibaba’s current executive vice chairman, as chairman, and Eddie Wu, current chairman of Alibaba’s marketplaces […]

Alibaba CEO Daniel Zhang to pass the torch and focus on cloud by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch

Vimeo intros a trio of AI-powered editing features

June 20, 2023

Vimeo, the video hosting and sharing platform, is embracing AI in a major way. This week, Vimeo announced a suite of AI-powered tools designed to help users create scripts, record footage using a built-in teleprompter and remove long pauses and unwanted disfluencies like “ahs” and “ums” from the recordings. They’ll be available starting July 17 […]

Vimeo intros a trio of AI-powered editing features by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch