HFCL: Making Indian Infrastructure 5G-Ready
With the launch of open-source Wi-Fi 7 Access Point, HFCL has become the first original equipment manufacturer in India to design and launch this Wi-Fi technology to complement the indoor 5G coverage
Exclusive: A record-breaking baby has been born from an embryo that’s over 30 years old
A baby boy born over the weekend holds the new record for the “oldest baby.” Thaddeus Daniel Pierce, who arrived on July 26, developed from an embryo that had been in storage for 30 and a half years. “We had a rough birth but we are both doing well now,” says Lindsey Pierce, his mother. “He…
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Playtika lays off 610 workers, shuts down three online gaming titles amid broader restructure
Playtika, the Israeli tech company that made its name with through a series of wildly successful online gambling and gaming titles with hundreds of millions of players, is leveling the latest swing of the layoffs pendulum. The company today has confirmed that it is laying of 15% of its staff. Playtika currently employs 4,100, so […]
Playtika lays off 610 workers, shuts down three online gaming titles amid broader restructure by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch
Microsoft to acquire 4% stake in London Stock Exchange Group as part of 10-year cloud partnership
Microsoft is to acquire a 4% stake in the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), the company that owns the London Stock Exchange as well as a several other businesses including financial market data company Refinitiv which LSEG acquired from a Blackstone/Thomson Reuters consortium last year for $27 billion. Microsoft’s stake, which it bought from the […]
Microsoft to acquire 4% stake in London Stock Exchange Group as part of 10-year cloud partnership by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch
Nigerian startup Taeillo raises funding to scale its online furniture e-commerce platform
Individuals or businesses buying furniture in Africa can purchase from local furniture stores or global furniture retailers like IKEA. But both options have pros and cons; for the latter, local furniture stores may lack the quality that clients need, while global retailers, in addition to taking several months to ship their products to Africa, can […]
Nigerian startup Taeillo raises funding to scale its online furniture e-commerce platform by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch
Robco links up with $14M led by Sequoia to bring modular robotics to industrial SMBs
After years of outsourcing and offshoring manufacturing to countries with cheaper labour and bigger production ecosystems, the U.S. and Europe are on a mission to bring some of that industrial work back to its own shores. Today, a startup that believes it can help with that shift is announcing some funding. Robco, a Munich-based startup […]
Robco links up with $14M led by Sequoia to bring modular robotics to industrial SMBs by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch
Data Protector: Ranjan R Reddy
Almost 100 fintech, regulated financial institutions, and new-age technology businesses use Reddy’s Bureau today to ensure their customer interactions are friction and fraud-free.
Avarni is building a comprehensive dataset to analyze supply chain emissions
For companies aiming toward net zero, tracking scope 3 carbon emissions is a key challenge. Scope 3 are emissions along a supply and value chain, which means they have to account for a large number of partners. Avarni automates much of the process and says it can cut down the amount of time spent on […]
Avarni is building a comprehensive dataset to analyze supply chain emissions by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch
Fintech giants face uphill battle
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Fintech giants face uphill battle by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch
This Week in Apps: Apple App Store’s new pricing, Twitter app makers shift to Mastodon, debate over Lensa AI
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. Global app spending reached $65 billion in the first half of 2022, up only slightly from the $64.4 billion during the same period in 2021, as hypergrowth fueled by […]
This Week in Apps: Apple App Store’s new pricing, Twitter app makers shift to Mastodon, debate over Lensa AI by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
Is ChatGPT a “virus that has been released into the wild”?
More than three years ago, this editor sat down with Sam Altman for a small event in San Francisco soon after he’d left his role as the president of Y Combinator to become CEO of the AI company he co-founded in 2015 with Elon Musk and others, OpenAI. At the time, Altman described OpenAI’s potential […]
Is ChatGPT a “virus that has been released into the wild”? by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch