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This Week in Apps: Play Store revamp, Google antitrust suit updates, BeReal’s real traction

October 15, 2022

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: Play Store revamp, Google antitrust suit updates, BeReal’s real traction by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Fast Forward Venture Studio to build African startups from idea to scale

October 14, 2022

Opeyemi Awoyemi, one of Nigeria’s well-known serial founders, is back with another outfit. It’s not a tech company this time — Awoyemi co-founded online jobs site Jobberman (which was acquired by ROAM Africa in 2016) and Whogohost, a bootstrapped hosting platform — but instead, a venture studio: Fast Forward Venture Studio. Awoyemi choosing this route […]

Fast Forward Venture Studio to build African startups from idea to scale by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch

Clear Capital lays off 27% of its global staff

October 14, 2022

Clear Capital, a real estate valuation technology company and firm, is laying off 27% of its staff months after freezing mass hiring, TechCrunch has learned from sources. A spokesperson for Clear Capital confirmed the layoffs to TechCrunch but did not share the specific number of employees impacted. Last November, the company announced they had 1,400 […]

Clear Capital lays off 27% of its global staff by Andrew Mendez originally published on TechCrunch

Touchlab to begin piloting its robotic skin sensors in a hospital setting

October 14, 2022

Manipulation and sensing have long been considered two key pillars for unlocking robotics’ potential. There’s a fair bit of overlap between the two, of course. As grippers have become a fundamental element of industrial robotics, these systems require the proper mechanisms for interacting with the world around them. Vision has long been a key to […]

Touchlab to begin piloting its robotic skin sensors in a hospital setting by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

Innovation talk with Goldman Sachs TxB

October 14, 2022
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Luc Teboul, managing director and head of engineering—transaction banking at Goldman Sachs, talks to Kapol Tandon, business head—Americas at Infosys Finacle, about what differentiates their first ever cloud-native transaction banking platform, TxB, from that offered by incumbents. Click here to continue.

Brown-Forman CISO Sailaja Kotra-Turner talks about the cybersecurity war

October 14, 2022
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Brown-Forman’s global information security leader and CISO Sailaja Kotra-Turner shares her cybersecurity insights with Jeff Kavanaugh, chief learner at Infosys Knowledge Institute. Click here to continue.

An architecture for mature enterprise AI

October 14, 2022
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Enterprise AI has generally not scaled well or worked across business functions. It also struggles to react quickly enough to fast-changing markets. A reference architecture can help businesses scale AI that is more agile, holistic, and future-proof. Click here to continue.