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…

AWS launches Application Composer, a low-code tool for building serverless apps

December 1, 2022

At its re:Invent conference today, AWS announced the launch of AWS Application Composer, a new low-code tool for visually designing and building serverless applications. The service provides developers with a visual canvas and a simple drag-and-drop interface to create the application architecture, connect their resources and design their functions. As AWS CTO Werner Vogels not […]

AWS launches Application Composer, a low-code tool for building serverless apps by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

A tool for analyzing face-to-face sales pitches lands funding from UiPath co-founder

December 1, 2022

So much software is dedicated to helping businesses improve interactions online, whether it be aimed at sales, marketing or customer service. But despite the prevalence of the internet and an increase in digital commerce, the fact remains that over 85% of commerce still happens offline in the United States.  Enter Rillavoice, a new startup with […]

A tool for analyzing face-to-face sales pitches lands funding from UiPath co-founder by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch

X1 gets 50% valuation boost, aims to give consumers a way to buy stocks via credit card reward points

December 1, 2022

X1, a consumer fintech startup which recently launched an income-based credit card to the public, has raised an additional $15 million in funding.  This round caught our attention for a few reasons. For one, a consumer fintech raising in this environment is a bit counter to the narrative that startups in the space are generally […]

X1 gets 50% valuation boost, aims to give consumers a way to buy stocks via credit card reward points by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch

Google’s Reading Mode app helps visually impaired people read long-form content

December 1, 2022

Along with its Android update for December, Google has launched a new app called Reading Mode today. It helps people with visual imparities and dyslexia read the content on the screen — especially articles. The newly released app works on any device running Android 9.0 or above. Once you install it on your phone, you will have […]

Google’s Reading Mode app helps visually impaired people read long-form content by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Google’s latest Doodle lets you create your own mini arcade game

December 1, 2022

Today’s Google Doodle lets you make, play and share your own mini arcade game to honor the memory of videogame pioneer Jerry Lawson. Lawson led the team that developed the first home video gaming system with interchangeable game cartridges. Today would have been his 82nd birthday. The interactive Doodle starts off by taking you through […]

Google’s latest Doodle lets you create your own mini arcade game by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

Twitter alternative Hive shuts down its app to fix critical security issues

December 1, 2022

The team at the newly popular Twitter alternative Hive is in over their head. The company has now taken the fairly radical step of fully shutting down its servers for a couple of days in response to concerns raised by security researchers who discovered a number of critical vulnerabilities on Hive, several of which they […]

Twitter alternative Hive shuts down its app to fix critical security issues by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Mozilla acquires the team behind Pulse, an automated status updater for Slack

December 1, 2022

Firefox developer Mozilla is making a rare foray into the world of mergers and acquisitions, with news that it has snapped up recently-shuttered California-based productivity startup Pulse. Terms of the deal haven’t been disclosed, but the deal is tantamount to an “acqui-hire,” with Mozilla looking to deploy the Pulse team across an array of machine […]

Mozilla acquires the team behind Pulse, an automated status updater for Slack by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch