For all the talk about emerging markets and their similarities, moves involving African startups expanding to Latin America are rare. Only two significant activities come to mind recently: Migo’s expansion to Brazil and Paga’s planned move to Mexico, their respective second markets outside Africa. What’s rarer, however, is the reverse — Latin American tech startups […]
EBANX: We will be operating in 11 African countries by the end of the year by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch
Incredo’s technology binds real cane or beet sugar with trace amounts of a natural carrier that is able to reduce the amount of sugar in foods by between 30% and 50%.
DouxMatok takes sweet journey to become Incredo after securing $30M by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
Merely months have passed since Microsoft and OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT to the world, sparking a fervor among tech enthusiasts and industry titans. Now, the technology that underpins this generative AI is breaking barriers, reaching remote hamlets miles away from the tech hubbubs of Seattle and San Francisco. Jugalbandi, a chatbot built in collaboration by Microsoft, […]
Microsoft’s AI reaches rural India by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch
Volvo is back with new details on its forthcoming EX30 electric SUV. This time, the Swedish automaker is talking up the vehicle’s carbon footprint, claiming it is smaller “than any Volvo car ever before.” In fact, Volvo is so determined to drive home an air of minimization that it made promotional images of the EX30 […]
What is this? A car for ants? Volvo hypes EX30’s ‘smaller’ CO2 footprint by Harri Weber originally published on TechCrunch
Some customers of Zivame, an Indian online women’s intimate apparel store owned by Reliance Retail, have complained that their accounts were hacked, leading to the exposure of their personal information, including their full names, phone numbers and email addresses. Over the past few weeks, alleged data from Zivame has been sold by hackers on multiple […]
Reliance’s Zivame customers say their accounts were hacked by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch
Jeff Cardenas pulls out his MacBook. Apptronik’s co-founder and CEO has a slideshow he wants to show, running down the Austin startup’s seven-year history. It does, indeed, take a bit of contextualizing. Like many fellow robotics firms, the company was fueled by government contracts in its earliest days. First up was Valkyrie 2, the second […]
Apptronik readies its humanoid robot for a summer unveil by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch
Ford CEO Jim Farley called it a “personal bullet train.” Doug Field, the automaker’s chief advanced product development and technology officer, described it as “groundbreaking.” Ford’s next-generation full-sized SUV EV might turn out to be both — if the automaker’s claimed advances in physics and energy loss translate into the real world. Ford’s next-generation EV […]
Ford tries zagging in the EV arms race by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch
Episode Six, a global payments and banking infrastructure provider, today announced that it raised $48 million in a Series C funding round led by Avenir with participation from Anthos Capital. In an email, CEO John Mitchell said that the tranche will be used to expand Episode Six’s go-to-market efforts and scale its business as the company […]
Episode Six raises $48M to streamline payment processes by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
MEPs in the European Parliament took the opportunity of a rare in-person appearance by Ireland’s data protection commissioner, Helen Dixon, to criticize the bloc’s lead privacy regulator for most of Big Tech over how long it’s taking to investigate the video-sharing social media platform TikTok. This concern is the latest expression of wider worries about […]
TikTok’s lead privacy regulator in Europe takes heat from MEPs by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch