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How AI can help make cities work better for residents
In recent decades, cities have become increasingly adept at amassing all sorts of data. But that data can have limited impact when government officials are unable to communicate, let alone analyze or put to use, all the information they have access to. This dynamic has always bothered Sarah Williams, a professor of urban planning and…
Google rolls out new features across Maps, Search and Shopping
Google announced today that it’s introducing a slew of new Maps, Search and Shopping features. The company revealed majority of the new features during its Search On event in September and is now starting to roll them out to users. Search Starting today, users will be able to use Search to find their favorite dish […]
Google rolls out new features across Maps, Search and Shopping by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch
Mozilla looks to its next chapter
Mozilla today released its annual “State of Mozilla” report and for the most part, the news here is positive. Mozilla Corporation, the for-profit side of the overall Mozilla organization, generated $585 million from its search partnerships, subscriptions and ad revenue in 2021 — up 25% from the year before. And while Mozilla continues to mostly […]
Mozilla looks to its next chapter by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch
Namecoach raises cash to teach users how to correctly pronounce names
We’ve all been faced with a name that’s difficult to pronounce. But not everyone considers the consequences of their mispronunciations. In a piece for Fast Company, Madhumita Mallick, the head of inclusion, equity and impact at Carta, recalls how her name became a source of anxiety even when she was a grade-school student. Studies have […]
Namecoach raises cash to teach users how to correctly pronounce names by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
Terzo lands $16M to extract key data from contracts
Contract governance is the steps taken to make sure agreed-upon terms between a company and its suppliers are met. It’s an essential part of doing business, and the consequences for getting it wrong can be steep. McKinsey estimates that poor contract governance can cost organizations up to 9% of their total revenue, which equates to […]
Terzo lands $16M to extract key data from contracts by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
ReadySpaces, which offers co-warehousing spaces to corporate customers, secures $20M in debt
Jon Zimmerman — the co-founder of ReadySpaces, a warehouse storage provider for small businesses — was working in the self-storage market when he had the idea for a product with the flexibility of self-storage but the capabilities of a traditional warehouse, aimed primarily at enterprise customers. His partner, Kevin Petrovic, had a different company that […]
ReadySpaces, which offers co-warehousing spaces to corporate customers, secures $20M in debt by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
The Download: cattle’s deadly tick-borne disease, and molten salt batteries
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. A new tick-borne disease is killing cattle in the US In the spring of 2021, Cynthia and John Grano, who own a cattle operation in Culpeper County, Virginia, started noticing some of their…
PR software giant Cision acquires Factmata, the fake news startup that pivoted to monitoring all kinds of online narratives
Fake news, and the identification and eradication of it, has long been thought of as the purview of social media platforms, where a lot of that tends to be shared. Today, one of the more ambitious tech startups in the field of fighting fake news is getting acquired — not by a social media platform, […]
PR software giant Cision acquires Factmata, the fake news startup that pivoted to monitoring all kinds of online narratives by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch
TAM takedown: Investors are looking for market opportunity, not just size
Entrepreneurs should show investors that they truly understand the market opportunity from the bottom up, customer by customer.
TAM takedown: Investors are looking for market opportunity, not just size by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch
Gravitics raises $20M to make the essential units for living and working in space
The space industry is on the cusp of a revolution. The cost of launch, which has dramatically decreased over the past five years, will continue to drop as heavy-lift rockets like SpaceX’s Starship and Relativity’s Terran R become operational. Parallel to these developments, multiple private companies have introduced plans to build commercial space stations for […]
Gravitics raises $20M to make the essential units for living and working in space by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch