Can AI help founders fundraise more quickly and easily?
With venture totals slipping year-over-year in key markets like the United States, and concern that venture firms themselves are struggling to raise more capital, founders might be worried. After all, if private-market investment doesn’t perk up in the coming quarters, we could be on track for yet another year of
Read moreGoogle brings a variation on ‘Circle to Search’ to iPhone users
Google has found a way to bring a variation of its clever “Circle to Search” gesture to iPhone users. The new interaction, launched in January, allows Android users to search from anywhere on their device by circling, highlighting, scribbling or tapping, making it easier to engage with Google Search from
Read moreAlways-on video portal lets people in NYC and Dublin interact in real time
A new sculpture going live on Wednesday in the Flatiron South Public Plaza in New York is not your typical artwork. It combines technology, sociology, anthropology and art to let people interact with one another in real time in two places. In this case, it’s between New York City and
Read moreTechCrunch Minute: When did iPads get as expensive as MacBooks?
Apple’s iPad event had a lot to like. New iPads with new chips and new sizes, a new Apple Pencil, and even some software updates. If you are a big fan of Apple hardware, well, it was probably a good day. Now you can get an updated and thinner iPad Pro,
Read moreMTN Rwanda Q1 Unaudited Results Released
MTN Rwanda Stock Exchange (RSE), as well as the related Group SENS announces its unaudited results for the quarter ended March 31, 2024. The key highlights are: Total subscribers increased by 7.0% year-on-year (YoY) to 7.4 million Active data subscribers increased by 13.6% YoY to 2.5 million Active Mobile Money
Read moreBye-bye bots: Altera’s game-playing AI agents get backing from Eric Schmidt
Autonomous, AI-based players are coming to a gaming experience near you, and a new startup, Altera, is joining the fray to build this new guard of AI agents. The company announced Wednesday that it raised $9 million in an oversubscribed seed round, co-led by First Spark Ventures (Eric Schmidt’s deep-tech
Read more$450M for Noname, two billion-dollar rounds, and good news for crypto startups
This morning on Equity, we have good news for crypto founders, notes on Akamai's $450M acquisition of Noname, and billion-dollar deals from Wiz and Wayve. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreGoogle Deepmind debuts huge AlphaFold update and free proteomics-as-a-service web app
Google Deepmind has taken the wraps off a new version AlphaFold, their transformative machine learning model that predicts the shape and behavior of proteins. AlphaFold 3 is not only more accurate, but predicts interactions with other biomolecules, making it a far more versatile research tool — and the company is
Read moreIs Amazon SA a Threat or Opportunity for SA Businesses?
Firstly, the fact that the largest eCommerce business in the world has come to SA proves that there is major growth still to come in eCommerce in SA. If that wasn’t the case, they wouldn’t have come here. This sentiment is backed up by Discovery’s recent Spend Trend report which
Read moreUber promises member exclusives as Uber One passes $1B run-rate
Uber plans to deliver more perks to Uber One members, like member-exclusive events, in a bid to gain more revenue through subscriptions. “You will see more member-exclusives coming up where members have exclusive access to events and experiences, which will kind of surprise and delight our members,” said Uber chief
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