Urbanbase, a Seoul-based company developing a 3D spatial data platform for interior planning and design, announced today that it has raised $ 11.1 million (13 billion won) in a Series B + round as it is scaled Has. This financing round was led by Hanwha Hotel & Resort, a subsidiary of the South Korean conglomerate … Read more
Daniel Liss is the founder and CEO of Dispo, the digital disposable camera social network. More posts by this contributor Today’s real story: The Facebook monopoly This is the second post in a series on the Facebook monopoly. The first post explored how the U.S. Federal Trade Commission should define the Facebook monopoly. I am … Read more
When Salesforce announced its Salesforce + streaming platform, Paul Greenberg and Brent Leary of CRM Playaz interviewed Colin Fleming, SVP of Global Brand Experiences for the CRM firm (disclosure: I work at Salesforce). I later asked Brent about his show on that episode of the gang. Brent: With all the things that privacy and cookies … Read more
What does a company do need to differentiate wireless earbuds in 2021? Since good hardware is almost ubiquitous, this question is becoming increasingly difficult to answer. I’ve probably tested around 10 different sets of buds over the past year and, frankly, they were all pretty good. Companies like Nura and Nothing are taking interesting approaches … Read more
China has not finished curbing the impact of local internet services on the world’s most populous market. After an increasing series of regulatory raids in recent months, the nation released draft guidelines on Friday regulating the algorithms that companies run to provide referrals to users. In a 30-point draft guideline published on Friday, the Cyberspace … Read more
Voice skins have become a very popular feature for AI-based voice assistants to personalize some of the more anodyne aspects of helpful, but also boring and robotic speaking voices that you get from services like Alexa. Now, a startup developing voice skins for various companies to use in their services, as well as third parties … Read more
Hims & Hers co-founder and CEO Andrew Dudum said Thursday his company was in the process of distributing 10,000 primary care and mental health visits to displaced Afghan refugees. Founded in 2017, San Francisco-based Hims & Hers has built a multi-specialty telemedicine platform connecting consumers with licensed healthcare professionals. In one blog entry, Dudum wrote … Read more
It’s been less than a week since Tesla hosted its AI Day, a livestream event full of technical jargon designed to get the best AI and vision engineers to work for Tesla and help the company grow autonomously , and CEO Elon Musk already comes up with some hot takes on the “Full Self-Driving” (FSD) … Read more
Khatabook, a startup helping merchants in India digitize their bookkeeping and accept online payments, announced Tuesday that it has raised $ 100 million in a new round of funding to prepare for financial services rollout . The startup’s new round of funding – a Series C – was led by Tribe Capital and Moore Strategic … Read more
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine full approval, making it the first vaccine to achieve this status. The mRNA-based vaccine has been available through an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) since the end of last year and will continue to be offered under this designation to people aged 12 to … Read more