Nona Lifestyle Raises $1.4 Million In Pre-Series A Funding
The fund raised will be utilized to develop the company’s backend technology and managed marketplace platform
The Download: China’s winning at advanced manufacturing, and a potential TikTok sale
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The latest threat from the rise of Chinese manufacturing In 2013, a trio of academics showed convincing evidence that increased trade with China beginning in the early 2000s and the resulting flood of…
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Trendsi secures $25M to help sellers and manufacturers predict demand
In the traditional business-to-business world, sellers often don’t know how much of a product they should order. Even at well-run companies, anywhere from 20% to 30% of inventory is either dead (i.e. doesn’t sell) or obsolete, according to one source. The impact on profitability can be quite severe. Dead stock costs sellers and manufacturers as […]
Trendsi secures $25M to help sellers and manufacturers predict demand by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
Samsung seeks smart TV growth with first Tizen OS licensing deals
Samsung has confirmed the first third-party smart TV makers to ship with its Tizen operating system (OS), with several manufacturers preparing to launch Tizen-powered TVs this year across Europe and Australasia. Tizen, for the uninitiated, is a Linux-based OS hosted by the Linux Foundation for more than a decade, though Samsung has been the primary […]
Samsung seeks smart TV growth with first Tizen OS licensing deals by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch
How robotic honeybees and hives could help the species fight back
Something was wrong, but Thomas Schmickl couldn’t put his finger on it. It was 2007, and the Austrian biologist was spending part of the year at East Tennessee State University. As he made his daily walk across some fields to campus, “it felt unpleasant,” he says. “And I didn’t realize why until I heard a…
The Chinese surveillance state proves that the idea of privacy is more “malleable” than you’d expect
It’s no surprise that last week, when the Biden administration updated its list of Chinese military companies blocked from accessing US technologies, it added Dahua. The second-largest surveillance camera company in the world, just after Hikvision, Dahua sells to over 180 countries. It exemplifies how Chinese companies have leapfrogged to the front of the video…
Clerkenwell Health raises £2.1m to test the new wave of psychedelics treatments
Clerkenwell Health, a psychedelic-specialist clinical research organisation, has raised £2.1m in seed funding, bringing the total to date up to £2.5m, which will be used to get the London startup-based fully operational. Investors include Lionheart Ventures, Convergence Partners, and Exceptional Ventures, which was co-founded by Paolo Pio (former MD Europe at Joyance Partners) and Matt […]
Clerkenwell Health raises £2.1m to test the new wave of psychedelics treatments by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch
Is the RPA market in trouble?
Automation Anywhere, one of the largest RPA vendors, raised debt instead of equity. Is that cause for alarm in the market?
Is the RPA market in trouble? by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
This Week in Apps: Twitter gets an Edit button, Instagram increases ads, Google gets serious about wearables
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: Twitter gets an Edit button, Instagram increases ads, Google gets serious about wearables by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
ACLU’s Jennifer Stisa Granick and Google’s Maddie Stone talk security and surveillance at Disrupt
In a world filled with bad actors and snooping governments, surveillance is the one factor that affects almost every business across the globe. While companies like Apple, Signal and LastPass fight against surveillance using end-to-end encryption and by shunning mass data collection — you can’t hand over data you don’t have — too many companies, […]
ACLU’s Jennifer Stisa Granick and Google’s Maddie Stone talk security and surveillance at Disrupt by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch
Living with Apple’s iPhone 14 Plus
What constitutes a big phone in 2022? It’s been a moving target for a number of years now — albeit a target that has been steadily moving in a single direction. It’s tough to determine the exact average display size, but most flagship smartphone screens generally fall somewhere between six and seven inches. In 2010, […]
Living with Apple’s iPhone 14 Plus by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch