Trendsi secures $25M to help sellers and manufacturers predict demand

October 10, 2022

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

October 10, 2022

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

October 10, 2022
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…

Google removes The OG App from the Play Store as founders think about next steps

October 10, 2022

Almost a week after Apple removed The OG App from the App Store, an Instagram client that promised to provide an ad-free and suggestion-free feed, Google followed the suit and booted the app off the Play Store. In a Twitter thread, co-founders of Un1feed, the company that published The OG App, said that the startup […]

Google removes The OG App from the Play Store as founders think about next steps by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch