TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

During her work, she met Jake Soberal, an intellectual property lawyer, who shared Olguin’s desire to leverage the tech industry to effect change at the local level. “Bitwise Industries is working to change entrenched bias and make people in positions of power see that sharing privilege actually strengthens companies.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Packaging is a trillion-dollar-per-year industry that, by and large, has some sustainability challenges. “As a former global brand manager at Unilever leading product innovations, sourcing primary packaging was one of the biggest bottlenecks in my product launch process. Image Credits : Impacked. The company raised a $2.5

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NVIDIA AI Blog

JANUARY 14, 2025

AI is making inroads across the entire healthcare industry from genomic research to drug discovery, clinical trial workflows and patient care. Healthcare has a more severe labor shortage than any other field the industry is expected to be short 10 million workers by the end of the decade, according to the World Health Organization.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

million in pre-seed funding led by European VC firm Target Global. If we look at all the innovation across different industries, Africa’s education system has remained untouched for 50 years; it’s been stagnant.”. Image Credits: Edukoya. And it just struck me that this thing hasn’t changed pretty much for the last 50 years.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

Image Credits: www.ykvision.com. It’s been a hot minute since we checked in with the company, last profiled around the beginning of the global pandemic when its opioid treatment was gaining traction. And, as the industry is moving toward value-add potential, it made sense to go after additional funding to accelerate growth. “We

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2021

Image: Mastercard. Mastercard is phasing out the use of magnetic stripes on its credit and debit cards over the next decade, as the industry moves towards more secure or convenient alternatives like chips and contactless payments, the company has announced. Nowadays, 86 percent of in-person card transactions globally use EMV chips.

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Candid

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The way we work is rapidly evolving amid societal and industry changes in a post-pandemic world. Olanike Mensah, founder of Mosaic Consulting, says, “Despite success in white-dominant workplaces, leading in national nonprofits and becoming an SVP at a Fortune 50 global company, I was unfulfilled.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

million to expand its offering in the global market. Image Credits: Bluecopa. ” “This is a hair-on-fire problem, particularly in high transaction volume industries such as e-commerce, logistics, financial services etc. Tuplejump, another startup Buddhavarapu founded, was acquired by Apple in 2016.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2021

Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images. Since 2018, SpaceX has launched nearly 1,800 Starlink satellites out of the roughly 4,400 it needs to provide global coverage of broadband internet, primarily for rural homes where fiber connections aren’t available. Timeline TBD.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The 08 economic crisis shook the career foundations of myself and my peers; Gen Zs career foundations were disrupted by a global pandemic. They know how the visual world works, how images can convey messages, and how to present images that are compelling and carry the intended meaning. We had to learn it.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Image: Western Digital. Any potential NAND shortages or price fluctuations could affect the PC market over the next few months, which had another big year in 2021 despite global chip shortages and demand for GPUs. Western Digital says it has lost at least 6.5 exabytes (6.5

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The industrial biotech startup is working on bringing a novel protein to market — one it says will offer a nutritious, sustainable alternative to animal-derived proteins. A Solar Foods bioreactor for producing Solein (Image credits: Solar Foods). What if humanity could feed itself and stop consuming the planet in the process?

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The world's premier mobile industry event, MWC was hurt pretty badly during the COVID pandemic, and it even went away entirely in 2020. MWC 2025: What, where and when The MWC, or Mobile World Congress, is a large mobile industry event held annually in Barcelona, typically with more than a hundred thousand visitors.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Artificial intelligence has infiltrated a number of industries, and the restaurant industry was one of the latest to embrace this technology, driven in main part by the global pandemic and the need to shift to online orders. Image Credits: Agot AI. How to choose and deploy industry-specific AI models.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Overall, it had about 500 customers as of January across a range of industries from technology to pharmaceutical to aerospace and defense to banking. Image courtesy of SeekOut. Image courtesy of SeekOut. For Tiger Global Partner John Curtius, SeekOut’s platform has the potential “to transform the world of HR.”. “We

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Buildots’ technology is addressing this gap using AI algorithms to automatically validate images captured by hardhat-mounted 360-degree cameras, detecting immediately any gaps between the original design, scheduling and what is actually happening on the construction site. Germany, Switzerland, Scandinavia and China.

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MARCH 13, 2025

Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images My entire job takes place on my laptop. You might have heard of their image generation model DALL-E or video generation model Sora. But at first glance, it doesnt seem too different from whats been happening in many industries over the past couple of centuries. 4, and most recently 4.5.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Tiger Global led Refyne’s $82 million Series B funding, the two said Wednesday. Existing backers QED Investors, partners of DST Global, RTP Global, Jigsaw VC and XYZ Capital also participated in the new round, which takes the one-and-a-half-year-old startup’s all-time raise to $106 million. Image Credits: Refyne.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

But at a time when some food industry startups are trying to remove animals from the food chain, a company tackling the traditional meat industry is a rarity. Lumachain aims to become the industry standard for how beef, chicken and pork products are produced globally. Image Credits: Lumachain.

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The Verge

JULY 7, 2020

266/Versatile Video Coding, as Fraunhofer says it’s designed to be a successor to the industry-standard H.264/Advanced 265/High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) formats that combined make up about 90 percent of global digital video transmission and compression on the market today. The codec’s full name is H.266/Versatile Furthermore, H.266/VVC

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

A growing market : Christine writes that Italy’s ban on cultivated meat could set the industry back. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch Dear Sophie, After three tries, I was finally selected this year in the H-1B lottery! Is that you, Bob? Ask Sophie: What to do if selected/not selected in H-1B lottery? What do we do next?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Founded in 2015, London-based Sensat is one of a number of so-called “digital twin” software companies that serve construction, mining, energy and similar industries with tools to replicate their physical footprint in the digital sphere. Image Credits: Sensat. Sensat thermal imaging for leak detection.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

Amit Anand is a founding partner of Jungle Ventures and an early pioneer and leader in the development of Southeast Asia’s venture capital industry. Globally, social commerce is on the path to becoming a $1.2 trillion industry by 2025 , with the biggest gains being made in Brazil and India. Amit Anand. Contributor.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

JANUARY 16, 2025

Industry leaders Amdocs, Cerence AI and Lowes are among those using NeMo Guardrails to safeguard AI applications. Deployed in customer service across industries like automotive, finance, healthcare, manufacturing and retail, the agents can boost customer satisfaction and trust.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Image: Silk EV. The two companies didn’t release any specifications about the S9, or any photos, save for a teaser image. Byton once had its own global ambitions. A new engineering and design startup called Silk EV headquartered in Italy’s venerable Motor Valley is more than just another attempt at making an electric hypercar.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

The global problem of an over-abundance of CO 2 in the atmosphere is ongoing, and a huge area that needs to be addressed, given the amount pumped out by industry. It claims to be able to capture CO 2 from industrial emitters at the point of emission using “synthetic biology” to develop biocatalysts (bacteria).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

For some, the pandemic was the final nail in the coffin, but in many cases, cracks in business models were already starting to surface well before COVID-19 ground the global economy to a screeching halt. Image Credits: Darrell Etherington. Image Credits: HubHaus. Image Credits: Hipmunk. Photo: Thomas Barwick/Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Over the past decade, the Israeli cybersecurity industry has secured its place as a formidable wellspring of technological innovation. No longer famous only for its high level of human technological capital born and bred in elite army intelligence units, the Israeli industry has matured into a veritable ecosystem of its own.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 12, 2020

To feed the planet’s growing population, global agriculture will need to produce more food in the next 50 years than in the previous 10,000 — at a time when climate change is making our crops less productive,” reads the new Mineral website. “To We hope that better tools will enable the agriculture industry to transform how food is grown.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

San Francisco-based venture capital firm Global Founders Capital led the seed round. Image Credits: Vendease. From the time Vendease launched until now, one thing has remained constant in the industry it plays in: the fluctuation of food prices in Nigeria. In a statement, Donald Stalter, the managing partner (U.S.)

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In fact, the global crisis resulted in its revenue dropping to $0, according to CEO and co-founder Ariel Cohen. No other company is able to provide a single, unified T&E [Travel & Expense] solution for enterprise companies on a global scale.”. Image Credits: TripActions.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

The global market for consumer packaged goods apps is forecasted to reach $15 billion by 2024. However, the industry is still using outdated platforms that, in some cases, lead to a loss of 5% of sales when goods are out of stock, Dinardo said. Aforza’s trade promotion designer mobile image. Image Credits: Aforza.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The challenge, however, is that some of the nonprofits making real impact on improving representation and equity in tech are often overly reliant on financial support from the same industry they’re seeking to hold accountable. As long as we can stay independent in our work and its outcomes, we benefit from industry support.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Photo by Cliff Lipson/CBS via Getty Images. This was the only request I had in our ever changing industry! One song, Easy on Me , holds the Spotify record for the most global listens in a single day , kicking k-pop group BTS off of their throne. Our art tells a story and our stories should be listened to as we intended.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Tiger Global and Bessemer Venture Partners co-led the two-year-old startup’s $25 million financing round. Image Credits: Rupifi. A timely shot of working capital enables these merchants, who otherwise run some of the world’s most economically sound businesses, to significantly boost their revenues, several industry figures have shown.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The global pandemic has heightened our understanding and sense of importance of our own health and the fragility of healthcare systems around the world. This will redefine healthcare as a data-driven industry, and when that happens, it will leverage the power of AI — its ability to continuously improve with more data. Kai-Fu Lee.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Heimdal is a startup working to pull that CO2 back out at scale using renewable energy and producing carbon-negative industrial materials, including limestone for making concrete, in the process, and it has attracted significant funding even at its very early stage. Image Credits: Heimdal. Image Credits: Heimdal.

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