IMDb founder steps down as CEO after 35 years
IMDb, the Amazon-owned online database that provides information on movies, TV shows, and celebrities, announced on Tuesday that its founder, Col Needham, is stepping down as CEO. Nikki Santoro, who has served as the chief operating officer since 2021, has been appointed as his successor. Santoro’s appointment is significant, as
Read MoreAnthropic plans to release a ‘two-way’ voice mode for Claude
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says that the company plans to release a “two-way” voice mode for its chatbot, Claude, as well as a memory feature that lets Claude remember more about users and past conversations. Speaking to The Wall Street Journal at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Amodei also
Read MoreNemetschek Group Unveils AI Assistant
The Nemetschek Group, a software provider for the AEC/O and media industries, unveiled a preview of the AI Assistant, the group’s first AI-agent-based technology, for Archicad. Introduced at Munich’s BAU 2025, the leading trade fair for architecture, materials, and systems, the AI Assistant streamlines creative exploration while saving time and
Read MoreQomodo raises $13.9M to expand BNPL for Italy’s main-street retailers
Payments and financial solutions are two-a-penny at this point, but mostly for online e-commerce. What about physical stores? In 2023 Qomodo, a Milan-based “all-in-one” payment methods aggregator for physical merchants, came out with a €34.5 million ($36.9 million) pre-seed round (mostly debt), which we covered, to expand the BNPL model
Read MoreVFS Global Debuts Indonesia e-Visa on Arrival Online Platform
VFS Global has launched a new user-friendly and efficient online platform to streamline Indonesia’s Electronic Visa on Arrival (e-VoA) application process for travelers, promote inbound tourism, and improve the overall customer experience. The platform is consistent with the Indonesian government’s continuous efforts to improve tourist infrastructure and services. The new
Read MoreHPE investigating security breach after hacker claims theft of sensitive data
A well-known hacker claims to have stolen source code and user data from the enterprise IT giant © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read MoreMoneyHash, which provides single access to payment services in MENA, banks $5.2M
When merchants or companies launch online, they typically start by partnering with one or two payment processors. But as they grow and expand into new regions, they often need to onboard additional payment partners to meet different customer (and sometimes regulatory) needs, a process that comes with some hurdles. That’s
Read More#DRA2025 Welcomes LexisNexis Risk Solutions as Key Gold Sponsor
IT News Africa is proud to introduce LexisNexis Risk Solutions as a Gold Sponsor for the upcoming Digital Retail Africa 2025 conference in partnership with Proudly South Africa, e-Commerce Forum South Africa, and Retail Brief Africa. The event, scheduled for January 30, 2025, at the Cape Town International Convention Centre,
Read MoreKarmen secures $9.4 million for its revenue-based financing products
French startup Karmen has secured a small funding round so that it can improve its instant financing products. The company offers short-term loans to small companies facing a working capital crunch. It’s a €9 million equity-and-debt round ($9.4 million at today’s exchange rates) with Seventure Partners buying a stake in
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