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…

Silkhaus gets $7.75M to digitize short-term rentals across emerging markets

November 15, 2022

Silkhaus, a Dubai-based platform for short-term rentals coming out of stealth, has raised $7.75 million in seed funding, money it plans to use for expansion across South Asia, Southeast Asia and the MENA region.  Venture capital firms that participated in the round include Nuwa Capital, Nordstar, Global Founders Capital, Yuj Ventures, Whiteboard Capital and VentureSouq. […]

Silkhaus gets $7.75M to digitize short-term rentals across emerging markets by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch

Bird may not have enough funds to continue shared micromobility business

November 14, 2022

Just hours after Bird said it had overstated revenue for more than two years by recognizing unpaid customer rides, Bird dropped a growing concern warning. In a regulatory filing, the company said it might “need to scale back or discontinue certain or all of its operations in order to reduce costs or seek bankruptcy protection.” […]

Bird may not have enough funds to continue shared micromobility business by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

The 2023 Innovators Under 35 competition is now open for nominations

November 14, 2022
You might ask why MIT Technology Review creates a list of 35 Innovators Under 35 every year. Part of it, of course, is to recognize the good and important work done by people just starting out in their careers—and you can be a part of that process by nominating great candidates right here, starting today…

The Amazonification of Uber

November 14, 2022

It’s been six months since Uber hosted Go, Get, a global smorgasbord of product reveals and features that covered everything from booking party buses and voice ordering for Uber Eats to linking travel plans to Gmail and skipping the food lines at sports stadiums. The product reveals aren’t just about creating new revenue streams or […]

The Amazonification of Uber by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

Is Elon Musk’s Twitter about to fall out of the GDPR’s one-stop shop?

November 14, 2022

Helmed by erratic new owner Elon Musk, Twitter is no longer fulfilling key obligations required for it to claim Ireland as its so-called “main establishment” under the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a source familiar with the matter has told TechCrunch. Our source, who is well placed, requested and was granted anonymity owing […]

Is Elon Musk’s Twitter about to fall out of the GDPR’s one-stop shop? by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch