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…

Aura, the frame and photo startup, raises $26M as app users near 3M and frames sold pass 500K

November 22, 2022

Aura, a startup founded by early Twitter employees that makes digital frames and photo sharing apps that can also be used to update those frames, has pulled in some funding to expand its business as it closes in on three million users of its app and half a million frames sold. The company has raised […]

Aura, the frame and photo startup, raises $26M as app users near 3M and frames sold pass 500K by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

Amazon launches second cloud region in India, pledges $4.4 billion investment

November 22, 2022

Amazon has set up its second AWS region in India and says the cloud unit will invest more than $4.4 billion in the South Asian market by 2030, part of the company’s attempts to widen its growing cloud tentacles across the globe. The retailer said Tuesday that it has launched an AWS infrastructure region in […]

Amazon launches second cloud region in India, pledges $4.4 billion investment by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: China’s social credit law, and robot dog navigation

November 22, 2022
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. Here’s why China’s new social credit law matters It’s easier to talk about what China’s social credit system isn’t than what it is. Ever since 2014, when China announced plans to build it,…

Visible launches activity-tracking platform to tackle Long COVID

November 22, 2022

A new activity-tracking platform is launching out of stealth today with $1 million in pre-seed funding, with a view toward helping those suffering from Long COVID track and manage their symptoms. Visible, as the company is called, is the brainchild of Harry Leeming, a London-based engineer who says he has suffered from Long COVID for […]

Visible launches activity-tracking platform to tackle Long COVID by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

UK confirms antitrust probe of Android-iOS ‘mobile duopoly’ focused on browsers and cloud gaming

November 22, 2022

The UK’s antitrust watchdog has moved to deepen its scrutiny of the Apple and Google mobile duopoly — kicking off an in-depth investigation into elements of the pair’s mobile ecosystem dominance by probing their approach toward rival mobile browsers and cloud gaming services which it’s concerned could be restricting competition and harming consumers. The move […]

UK confirms antitrust probe of Android-iOS ‘mobile duopoly’ focused on browsers and cloud gaming by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

Indian social network Koo gains popularity in Brazil but faces moderation challenges

November 22, 2022

Elon Musk taking over Twitter has sent some people to look for alternatives such as Mastodon and Hive. In Brazil, however, many are showing more inclination toward the India-based social network Koo. But just a week into the launch in the South American market, Koo is already facing moderation and security challenges. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup […]

Indian social network Koo gains popularity in Brazil but faces moderation challenges by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch