TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

I’m a native French data scientist who cut his teeth as a research engineer in computer vision in Japan and later in my home country. My experience in Japan taught me the difficulty of moving to a foreign country for work. In Japan, having a point of entry with a professional network can often be necessary.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Joby Aviation is partnering with Japanese airline ANA to bring aerial ridesharing services to Japan. Joby’s intent to start up operations in Japan comes to light a week after the company announced plans to launch an air taxi service in South Korea in partnership with SK Telecom. The air taxi market prepares to take flight.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Zeals , a Tokyo-based startup that lets businesses communicate with their customers via its chat application, said Thursday it has secured $27.2 JIC Venture Growth Investments led the Series E equity funding, with participation from Z Venture Capital , a venture investment arm of Z Holdings, Japan Post Capital and Salesforce Ventures.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

When Masaya Aso worked on autonomous driving technology at Bosch in Japan and Germany, he realized that “many tasks were still manual as over 85% of warehouses have almost no automation at all.” It wants to use its existing clients’ relationships to enter the U.S. In addition to the U.S. billion by 2028, up from $1.97

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

With both the quantum market in Europe and Japan growing quickly, Classiq is focusing its efforts on these geographies right now, in addition to the United States. If I had to name two, it would be Japan and Germany. Series A round for its quantum software development platform. Image Credits: Classiq. Classiq raises $10.5M

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Boost Biomes , the Y Combinator-backed developer of microbiome-based bio-fungicides and bio-pesticides for agricultural applications, has added $2 million in funding and picked up a new strategic investor in Japan’s Universal Materials Incubator.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

For the first time, it partnered with AngelList to help create an open application process. Startups who were interested in participating in the program could simply complete the application while also supplementing it with data from AngelList. SupplyHog: developing a new way to purchase building materials.

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The Verge

JUNE 28, 2021

Honda revealed the name of the first of two electric SUVs it plans to sell in North America , and it’s one that many have already guessed, thanks to a recent trademark application. The Prologue will be the first of two vehicles that Honda is co-developing with General Motors , using the US automaker’s Ultium battery packs.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Tailor , a Japan-based back-end enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform, said today it has raised $4.3 Japanese enterprises have been suffering from high maintenance costs and slow development. The company says approximately 70% of the software industry spend in Japan goes to building customized products.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In one of the latest developments, Bisu — a Tokyo-headquartered healthcare startup that has built a lab-grade testing device that can be used at home for diagnostics that translate into actionable health data — has raised $3.2 Cue Health raises $100 million to speed development of rapid, portable COVID-19 diagnostics.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

Oasys, a Japan- and Singapore-based startup that’s building a blockchain for gaming developers, has just raised $20 million. Some of the biggest obstacles facing blockchain-based applications are slow transactions and high gas fees, the costs incurred when a transaction is added to a blockchain.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

as well as a large swathe of insurers in Japan, specifically Tokio Marine Nichido, Mitsui Sumitomo, Aioi Nissay Dowa and Sompo. will overtake Japan as Tractable’s biggest market soon. .” Customers that have integrated with Tractable to date include Geico in the U.S., ’s Admiral Group, as well as Ageas, a top U.K.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Macrometa , the edge computing cloud and global data network for app developers, announced today it has raised a $20 million Series A. It will hire for its engineering and product development centers in the United States, Eastern Europe and India, and add new centers in Ukraine, Portugal, Greece, Mexico and Argentina.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 7, 2011

And of course, in a less developed country, there unlikely to be a well-functioning 911 system: SMS may be the best way of signaling a specific need. As a thought experiment, imagine this approach being used in the Japan tsunami. Captain Lopez is a sophisticated user of information, and can direct her team appropriately.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Based in Japan, biotech startup Dioseve ’s ambitious goal is to grow human oocytes, or eggs, from other tissue. Dioseve’s mission might sound like it comes out of science fiction, but it’s based on a scientific technique called induced pluripotent cells stem (iPS) cells, which was first developed in 2006.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 8, 2011

Most people who are familiar with Microsoft’s Windows Azure platform know of it as a cloud platform for building, hosting, and scaling web applications. Second Harvest in Japan. What few are aware of, however, is that the Windows Azure platform also has the capability of serving communities that have been affected by disasters.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

It is developing a fully automated bug-hunting engine that is currently ready for Solana-based projects and plans to launch one compatible with Ethereum in August. The firm aims to help simplify developers’ move to the web3 industry by handling their entire crypto strategy in exchange for future crypto revenues. games to web3.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2016

There was a time—not too long ago—that drone technology, while in its infancy, was being dismissed by many experts in product development fields as a passing fancy, a mere hobby or pastime that few people ever thought would have important real-world applications.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

. “Businesses scrambled to transition their everyday processes to contactless alternatives; however, these applications often relied on an internet connection to function effectively. Developers can use it to subscribe to data that they need or want to see. Ditto’s platform emerged as a solution to these challenges.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

Spire’s network of satellites is designed to provide customers with a “space-as-a-service” model, allowing them to operate their own payloads, and access data collected via an API their developers can integrate into their own software.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

million students in Korea and Japan. The ACT development comes after Riiid said that the former CEO of ACT, Marten Roorda, was joining its international arm Riiid Labs as its “executive in residence,” so that could point to more ACT prep applications for other markets, too. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2023

Apple has partnered with Globalstar to provide SOS connectivity with its new iPhone 14 , and T-Mobile is planning to begin low-earth orbit (LEO) connectivity in 2023 through SpaceX, which recently filed an application with the US FCC to include direct-to-cellular capabilities in its Gen 2 Starlink satellites.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

This February, Africa and emerging market-focused Nestcoin raised a pre-seed round to build, operate and invest in its web3 applications, including crypto content platform Breach Club and gaming guild Metaverse Magna (MVM). Nine months after its launch last December, the latter has completed a seed sale token round of $3.2

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

As our hardware editor Brian Heater noted, “it could have some potentially useful applications for eldercare, including fall detection.”. BOCCO emo has already undergone a trial program in Japan and is currently being used at hospitals in the country. BOCCO emo robot. BOCCO emo is one of the latest robot created for nursing homes.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2021

TMYTEK plans to use its expertise, gleaned from helping other researchers develop 5G infrastructure, to create what its chief executive officer describes as a “complete 5G industrial chain.” Other investors included Taisic Materials, ITEQ, Tamagawa Electronics, and Taiwan’s National Development Fund.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

National regulatory policies are struggling to keep pace with the advancement of technology, the growth of the satellite population, and the development of new activities in orbit. According to applications submitted to the U.S. On-orbit services – the key to a sustainable future.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

The company’s technology, including integrated circuits, 3D sensors, camera modules and AI-based software, have a wide range of applications, such as robotics, touchless controls, autonomous vehicles and smart retail. The new funding will also be used to expand eYs3D’s product development and launch a series of 3D computer vision modules.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

He earned a master’s degree from Villanova, but it was in human resources development. This ex-Marine had faced daunting challenges, such as planning communications operations in Afghanistan and helping evacuate hundreds of people from an area in Japan contaminated by a nuclear spill. He graduated from a college I’d never heard of.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

It allows them to pick a central point on campus that’s operationally or logistically beneficial, and then build a whole set of virtual restaurants that can only be delivered through robots,” Benjamin Anderson, Grubhub’s director of campus business development, told TechCrunch. The lay of the land.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Brian Dresher , director of business development at Mashable. The point here is to focus on your goals and then think about how the online application can help you achieve what mission. Matthew Mahan , vice president of impact at Causes. Noah Everett , founder of TwitPic. Claire Williams Diaz talks Hope140, T.W.E.E.T.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

But while there are ride-hailing and bus-hailing applications in some of these cities, there’s a dire need for journey-planning apps to improve mobility for users and reduce the time they spend commuting. Japan’s SBI Investment also participated in the round. According to Naspers, the size of its check was $3 million.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

“We are very excited to partner with the outstanding team at Speak, who are well-positioned to deliver on this powerful application of generative AI — making language learning effective and accessible,” Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s COO and the manager of the OpenAI Startup Fund, said in a statement.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

That includes a $34 million investment first reported back in 2018 , and a later round from investors including Japan’s energy and metals company, Eneos Holdings that closed recently. So the initiative developed a charging unit for swapping batteries. Bacon, founder of the multibillion-dollar hedge fund, Moore Capital Management.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

Europe, China, Japan and others have been installing a new generation of GNSS satellites (GNSS is the generic name for GPS, which is the specific name for the U.S. L5 was “designed to meet demanding requirements for safety-of-life transportation and other high-performance applications,” as the U.S. government describes it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2007

where he is clearly demonstrating how micro-blogging applications like Twitter could be used, specially, in emergencies, and not just to carry on with that declarative living we all seem to enjoy quite a bit. application that??? application that???s s in wide use, so many people are already familiar with it and wouldn???t

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The notification app J-ResQ was developed in response to the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The app was developed on the Windows Azure platform, a cloud-based platform for building and hosting web applications. Shelter information is updated every 30 minutes. Notifying Family and Friends.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Some of the big players in the market today include Indeed.com — owned Japan’s HR giant Recruit Holdings, which itself is valued at around $66 billion and owns other brands like SimplyHired — ZipRecruiter, which went public last year; LinkedIn; and the search giant Google. “This is crucial,” said Martínez.

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