3 Smart Pharma Picks Serving Gains

February 1, 2024
With rising healthcare expenditure, growing need for precision medicine, innovations in biologics and gene editing, and rapid adoption of advanced technologies, the pharma industry is well-poised for significant growth and…

MessageBird rebrands as Bird, and slashes prices by 90% on SMS to take on Twilio

February 1, 2024

No, don’t think Bird Scooters. Think Bird, formerly MessageBird. For the Amsterdam-based unicorn is now re-branding as such after reportedly acquiring the Bird.com domain name a couple of years ago, allegedly for many millions. Founded in 2011 by Adriaan Mol and Robert Vis, the cloud communications platform for enterprises is also launching a range of […]

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3 Biotech Stock Sensations to Snatch up This Week

February 1, 2024
The future of the biotech industry appears promising, fueled by technology-driven advancements, increasing merger and acquisition maneuvers, and developing product pipelines. Given this backdrop, quality biotech stocks BioNTech SE (BNTX),…

Why recycling alone can’t power climate tech

February 1, 2024
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. The potential to use old, discarded products to make something new sounds a little bit like magic. I absolutely understand the draw, and in some cases, recycling is going to be a…

Signalling more consolidation may come, smart-bus startup Zeelo acquires Kura, a smaller player

February 1, 2024

A small UK startup which combined a school bus service with a software platform to safeguard pupils has been acquired by ‘Smart buses’ startup Zeelo, which last year raised a $14 million war chest for expansion. Founded in the UK in 2010, Kura, which had previously raised £3.8 million in a Private Equity round from […]

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Byju’s investors call for EGM to remove founder following rights issue

February 1, 2024

A group of large investors in Byju’s has called for an extraordinary general meeting seeking to change the leadership at Byju’s days after the edtech group launched a rights issue at $25 million pre-money valuation. “The resolutions being put forward for the EGM to consider include a request for the resolution of the outstanding governance, […]

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CARPL guides healthcare providers through the growing market of radiology AI apps

February 1, 2024

There’s an acute shortage of radiologists around the world, which means it is harder for medical teams to get imaging studies done. As a result, more than 200 companies have sprung up to create applications that use AI to automate different parts of the radiology process. CARPL, a radiology marketplace that counts Singapore’s government as […]

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This robot can tidy a room without any help

February 1, 2024
Robots are good at certain tasks. They’re great at picking up and moving objects, for example, and they’re even getting better at cooking. But while robots may easily complete tasks like these in a laboratory, getting them to work in an unfamiliar environment where there’s little data available is a real challenge. Now, a new…