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Read moreNigeria: Google Cloud and Moniepoint Join Forces
Google Cloud and Moniepoint have partnered to provide financial services to underbanked businesses in remote areas of Nigeria. The collaboration aims to bridge the banking gap in suburban locations and make financial services accessible to millions of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). With over 41 million micro-businesses in Nigeria, enabling
Read moreHashtag Trending Jun.20-AI startups lack data despite flush with cash; IBM claims breakthrough with quantum computing; Is Meta falling behind in AI development?
AI companies are flush with cash, but can’t find the data they need, IBM claims a breakthrough in quantum computing and despite claiming victory, has Meta fallen behind on the development of AI? These and more top tech news stories from Hashtag Trending and Tech News Day. I’m your
Read moreThese are the first Denon-branded Nura headphones
Nura suffered the same quiet fate as countless startups before. The innovative Australian firm was effectively acqui-hired by Masimo, which has been amassing its own arm of audio brands. The Southern Californian medical device company previously purchased numerous familiar names, including Bowers and Wilkins, Polk Audio and Denon. Unlike those
Read moreShaquille O’Neal will discuss investing in Edsoma, life as a mogul and more at Disrupt
Talk about a slam dunk. Shaquille O’Neal, 15-time NBA All-Star, four-time NBA Champion and three-time NBA Finals MVP, will join us at TC Disrupt 2023, which takes place September 19-21. Following nearly two decades in the NBA, Shaq has built an estimated $400 million business empire — moving easily from
Read moreDiabetes management startup Clivi wants to be ‘Livongo of Latin America’
Over 422 million people around the world have diabetes, with the World Health Organization noting that the majority of those with the disease are living in low-income and middle-income countries. In Latin America, there are over 40 million adults with diabetes, according to Statista. And, with the global digital health
Read moreCloudflare launches Observability, a tool to beef up web monitoring
Organizations increasingly see observability — the ability to measure a system’s current state based on the data it generates — as key. In a recent survey from New Relic, more than three-quarters (78%) of IT decision-makers and practitioners said that they saw observability as an enabler for achieving business goals.
Read moreRose Rocket, whose platform helps transportation companies communicate, raises $38M
In 2015, Justin Sky, Justin Bailie and Alexander Luksidadi — all veterans of the trucking and logistics industry — came to the realization that, in order to get to a stage of real-time collaboration, the entire trucking industry needed to come online. Shippers, carriers and brokers — the intermediaries between
Read moreParrot AI, a transcription platform that turns speech into text, raises $11M Series A
Artificial intelligence touches many aspects of professional industries, including medicine, legal, business, information technology and more, as of late; AI-powered transcription service is one example that has become an integral part of those fields. Parrot AI, a transcription platform offering speech-to-text depositions for the legal and insurance industry, said Tuesday
Read moreSpotify’s will reportedly launch HiFi audio through a costlier premium subscription
A couple of years after its original announcement, Spotify will finally launch its HiFi tier with lossless music streaming through a “Supremium” plan later this year, which might cost more than the current premium plan of $9.99 per month. A report by Bloomberg noted that the company is launching this
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