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This weekend, Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo told Le Parisien that Parisians will get to vote whether they want to ban free-floating electric scooters or not. As I explained last week, Dott, Lime and Tier, the three scooter companies currently operating in the city, have operating licenses that are set to expire on March 23rd, […]

Paris to hold vote on shared scooters by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch

Last Friday, a ton of popular Twitter clients including Tweetbot, Twitterrific, and Echofon were down. Users couldn’t log into their accounts or look at their timelines. At first, it looked like a bug in Twitter API, but radio silence from Twitter and new details indicated that the company deliberately limited access to third-party apps. The […]

Twitter’s third-party client issue is seemingly a deliberate suspension by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Eighteen months after its app was suspended in China, ride hailing giant Didi made a comeback on Monday. The move came as China showed signs of easing up its sweeping regulatory clampdown on the internet sector over the past three years. In July 2021, Chinese authorities ordered the country’s app stores to remove Didi, citing […]

Didi gets China approval to relaunch after 18-month security probe by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch

Kwara, a Kenyan fintech digitizing credit unions (saccos), more than doubled its client base last year, and its eyeing enormous growth in the coming years after raising a $3 million seed extension, and signing an exclusive digital solutions distribution agreement with the Kenya Union of Savings & Credit Cooperatives (Kuscco), the national umbrella body representing […]

Kenyan fintech Kwara raises $3M seed extension, signs deal to reach over 4,000 credit unions by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch

Byju’s has made a key change in its sales strategy, moving away from a business practice that attracted the edtech giant criticism over the years. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup, India’s most valuable, said on Monday its sales people no longer visit potential customers’ houses to pitch to their parents. Instead, the entire sales workforce now works […]

Indian edtech giant Byju’s changes sales strategy in key revamp by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

ShareChat, the Indian social media startup backed by Twitter, Google, Tiger Global and Temasek, has laid off 20% of its workforce — or over 400 employees — just a month after eliminating more than 100 roles. The startup informed its employees about the decision on Monday morning. It deactivated access to accounts and wiped out […]

Google-backed ShareChat cuts 20% workforce to ‘sustain through headwinds’ by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch

When Constantin Robertz was working at Zalora, he was involved in moving warehouses six times as the e-commerce company outgrew its logistics infrastructure. This inspired him to co-found Locad, a logistics provider for omnichannel e-commerce companies that connects its network of third-party warehouses and shipping carriers with a cloud-based platform referred to its “logistics engine.” […]

Locad lands Series A to expand its “logistics engine” across Southeast Asia and Australia by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch

During the pandemic, Tita Ardiati and Bayu Puspito Bhaskoro began developing life coaching content to support employees who were increasingly burned out by working from home. They got a good enough reception that they decided to develop their product into an employee assistance program called Mindtera, which now serves more than 10,000 employees in Indonesia. […]

Jakarta-based Mindtera helps companies keep an eye on employee morale by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch