June 18, 2025

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Growfin’s AI-based cash collection SaaS expands further to US and Asia

March 7, 2023

Cash management — tracking who needs to pay an invoice and whether it’s been done — can make or break a business. Now, a startup building SaaS software to help finance departments manage this more intelligently is announcing some funding to expand after seeing strong demand. Growfin, a Singapore- and San Francisco–based fintech startup that […]

Growfin’s AI-based cash collection SaaS expands further to US and Asia by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch

Atlassian cuts 5% of its workforce

March 7, 2023

Atlassian, the company behind tools like Jira, Confluence and Trello, today announced that, after a reorg a month ago, it is now laying off about 500 employees. That’s about 5% of its total workforce. Atlassian co-founders and co-CEOs Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar note in today’s announcement that this move shouldn’t be seen as a […]

Atlassian cuts 5% of its workforce by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Meet UniUni, Shein’s last-mile solution delivered by gig drivers

March 7, 2023

When we talk about e-commerce logistics, we think of an industry controlled by entrenched players like Amazon, FedEx and national postal systems. At the start of the pandemic in 2019, a brave startup from Vancouver, BC decided to take on the incumbents with a new model — last-mile delivery using an Uber-esque network. During the […]

Meet UniUni, Shein’s last-mile solution delivered by gig drivers by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch

Fire TV launches a new dedicated Oscars hub that lets users predict the winners

March 6, 2023

Amazon announced today the launch of a dedicated Oscars hub on Fire TV where movie buffs can get ready for the 2023 Academy Awards ceremony, including watching all the nominated movies as well as cast their votes via the interactive voting experience, “Oscars predictions,” where users can vote for Oscar winners directly on the screen. […]

Fire TV launches a new dedicated Oscars hub that lets users predict the winners by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch