December 20, 2024

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A live agent spends hours each week manually documenting routine interactions. Another combs through multiple knowledge bases to find the right solution, scrambling to piece it together while the customer waits on hold. A third types out the same response they’ve written dozens of times before. These repetitive tasks can be draining, leaving less time…

Loop raises $60M to send EV charging infrastructure for a Loop

October 3, 2022

Electric cars are great and all, but internal combustion engines (ICE) have one thing going for them: comprehensive, well-oiled infrastructure that means you can add 300 miles of range to your car, in 5 minutes, at any of 65,000 or so gas stations. Compare that with the one-hour stop at only about 6,000 high-speed charging […]

Loop raises $60M to send EV charging infrastructure for a Loop by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch

Kim Kardashian charged by SEC for pushing crypto, reaches $1.26M settlement

October 3, 2022

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is charging Kim Kardashian for “unlawfully touting” a “crypto security,” the agency announced on Monday morning. The SEC says that Kardashian was in violation of its rules when she promoted a “crypto asset security offered and sold by EthereumMax” without the necessary disclosure that she was paid to […]

Kim Kardashian charged by SEC for pushing crypto, reaches $1.26M settlement by Darrell Etherington originally published on TechCrunch

Deliveroo tweaks ‘dark store’ model to let grocery shoppers in the door

October 3, 2022

In the latest quick commerce headspinner, Deliveroo is experimenting with expanding its rapid grocery business by opening a new type of ‘dark store’ in Central London. As well as functioning as a mini warehouse where Deliveroo staff pick orders for couriers operating on its platform to collect and deliver locally to app users, the new […]

Deliveroo tweaks ‘dark store’ model to let grocery shoppers in the door by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

With $17M in funding, Immerok launches cloud service for real-time streaming data

October 3, 2022

In 2011, the Apache Software Foundation released Flink, a high-throughput, low-latency engine for streaming various data types. A decade later, a startup called Immerok — founded by David Moravek, Holger Temme, Johannes Moser, Konstantin Knauf, Piotr Nowojski and Timo Walther — has developed an Apache Flink cloud service called Immerok Cloud, which is serverless — […]

With $17M in funding, Immerok launches cloud service for real-time streaming data by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Geely’s Europe expansion continues, Argo robotaxis on the Lyft app and Tesla AI Day takeaways

October 3, 2022

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Geely’s Europe expansion continues, Argo robotaxis on the Lyft app and Tesla AI Day takeaways by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch

South African startup Talk360’s seed funding hits $7M after new backing

October 3, 2022

Months after the initial close of its seed round, Talk360, a South African Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) startup, has raised an additional $3 million, bringing the total investment raised in the round to $7 million. Talk360’s latest investors include Allan Gray E2 Ventures (AGEV), Kalon Venture Partners, E4E Africa, Endeavor, existing lead investor HAVAÍC, […]

South African startup Talk360’s seed funding hits $7M after new backing by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch