June 13, 2025

Powering next-gen services with AI in regulated industries 

Businesses in highly-regulated industries like financial services, insurance, pharmaceuticals, and health care are increasingly turning to AI-powered tools to streamline complex and sensitive tasks. Conversational AI-driven interfaces are helping hospitals to track the location and delivery of a patient’s time-sensitive cancer drugs. Generative AI chatbots are helping insurance customers answer questions and solve problems. And agentic…

Meta’s New Year kicks off with over $410M in fresh EU privacy fines

January 4, 2023

Meta is kicking off the New Year with more privacy fines and corrective orders hitting its business in Europe. The latest swathe of enforcement relates to EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) complaints over the legal basis it claims to run behavioral ads. The Facebook owner’s lead data protection watchdog in the region, the Irish […]

Meta’s New Year kicks off with over $410M in fresh EU privacy fines by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

Roku unveils its first-ever TVs designed and built by the company

January 4, 2023

Roku today is expanding its product line to include a range of smart TVs that are the first ever to be both designed and built by Roku itself. The Roku Select and Roku Plus Series TVs will be Roku-branded HD and 4K TVs available across 11 models, ranging from 24” to 75” in size, and made to […]

Roku unveils its first-ever TVs designed and built by the company by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Product Science, which develops mobile app performance monitoring tools, lands $18M

January 4, 2023

The performance of a mobile app can impact how customers perceive a brand. According to a survey from Dimensional Research sponsored by HP, 53% of app users who responded said they’ve uninstalled a mobile app with issues like lag, while 37% said that they hold an app responsible for performance problems. Given the pace of […]

Product Science, which develops mobile app performance monitoring tools, lands $18M by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: the future of batteries, and China’s chips

January 4, 2023
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. What’s next for batteries Every year the world runs more and more on batteries. Electric vehicles passed 10% of global vehicle sales in 2022, and they’re on track to reach 30% by the…

Salesforce to cut workforce by 10% after hiring ‘too many people’ during the pandemic

January 4, 2023

Salesforce has announced that it’s cutting some 10% of its workforce, impacting more than 7,000 employees, while it will also shutter offices in “certain markets.” In a letter to employees and a corresponding filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff referenced the “challenging” environment in which it’s operating, pointing to […]

Salesforce to cut workforce by 10% after hiring ‘too many people’ during the pandemic by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

Nowatch is a health-focused smartwatch without the watch part

January 4, 2023

Your health is all you’ve got, and you can’t change what you can’t measure, so it’s little wonder that health trackers are everywhere. The problem with a lot of them, however, is that in addition to measuring steps and heart rate and what-have-you, they also deliver a deluge of notifications. Nowatch takes another tack, offering […]

Nowatch is a health-focused smartwatch without the watch part by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch

SurrealDB raises $6M for its database-as-a-service offering

January 4, 2023

There’s plenty of vendors in the managed database services market — and plenty that are well-financed. Take a look at SingleStore, which last October raised $30 million to bring its database tech to new customers. There’s also EdgeDB, which landed $15 million in November ahead of the launch of its cloud database product. Tobie Morgan […]

SurrealDB raises $6M for its database-as-a-service offering by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch