QED and Partech back South African payment orchestration platform Revio in $5.2M seed
The payment landscape in Africa is still fragmented, with several payment operators providing different payment options to customers as well as businesses. Due to this fragmentation, payment failures are inevitable due to factors such as invalid cards, inactive accounts and high dispute rates. One of the few startups working on
Read moreNew research: Vast majority of VC-backed UK startups do *nothing* on climate emissions
Some 76% of the top 500 VC-backed UK startups have done nothing to either measure or offset their carbon emissions, according to new research shared exclusively with TechCrunch. In total, these companies have raised $40 billion in VC funding. Furthermore, of the VCs looked at, the highest only scored 37
Read moreGoogle launches earthquake alerts on Android in India
Google has announced the launch of its earthquake alert system for Android devices in India. The system uses smartphone sensors such as accelerators, which can act as small seismometers and detect tremors. The company on Wednesday said the system, developed with consultation from the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and
Read moreBeing creative with math: The immersive artist who traded a sketchpad for a keyboard
On this sponsored episode, Ben, Cassidy, and Ryan are joined by Luyang Zou, who is a creative coder, artist, architect, and Ambassador for today’s sponsor, Logitech. They chat about the creates amazing immersive spaces that he creates with a keyboard and mouse the process (and Processing), and what software and
Read moreThe writers strike is over; here’s how AI negotiations shook out
After almost five months, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) has reached an agreement with Hollywood studios to end the writers strike. Starting Wednesday, writers will be able to resume work under the conditions established by their new contract. During the historic strike, AI emerged as a key point of
Read moreAtlassian CTO: We were late moving to the cloud, on the ball with AI
The goal of Atlassian's CTO, Rajeev Rajan, and that of the two CEOs is to create one of the top tech companies at the world.
Read moreWhat is Amazon’s [redacted] ‘Project Nessie’ algorithm?
The FTC’s lawsuit against Amazon alleging anti-competitive practices is largely full of things we already knew in a general sense: price hikes, pressure to use Amazon fulfillment and so on. But then we get to a sea of redactions and the mysterious “Project Nessie.” What is it, and could it
Read moreSources: Palo Alto Networks in advanced talks to buy Talon and Dig in a $1B security sweep
Palo Alto Networks’ stock price has been on the rise on the back of strong earnings and growing demand for cybersecurity services, and now the company is using that momentum to do a little shopping. TechCrunch has confirmed with multiple sources that Palo Alto is in advanced negotiations to buy
Read moreWhen there is only one group of a given size
Today’s date, US style, is 9/26/2023, and there is only one group, up to isomorphism, of size 9262023. You could verify this in Mathematica with the command FiniteGroupCount[9262023] which returns 1. For a given n, when is there only one group of size n? There are two requirements. First, n
Read moreTalkdesk conducts third round of layoffs in less than 14 months
Talkdesk, a company once valued at $10 billion that sells software to help large corporations improve customer service, has laid off more employees — the third round of cuts in less than 14 months. A Talkdesk spokesperson confirmed Tuesday via email that it had made “limited headcount reductions in a
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