Microsoft now more focused on ‘killing Zoom’ than Slack, says Stewart Butterfield
At technewss Disrupt 2021, Slack founder and CEO Stewart Butterfield and Salesforce COO Bret Taylor discussed their $28 billion merger, announced last December, a deal the Department of Justice signed off on this summer but that shareholders still seem to be second-guessing. At least, they aren
Cellino is using AI and machine learning to scale production of stem cell therapies
Cellino, a company developing a platform to automate stem cell production, presented today at technewss Disrupt 2021’s Startup Battlefield to detail how its system, which combines AI technology, machine learning, hardware, software — and yes, lasers! — could eventually democratiz
Koa is helping African consumers make better money moves
While Delila Kidanu grew up in Nairobi, Kenya, mobile money platform M-Pesa was the go-to fintech platform for her and most Kenyans.
The Safaricom-owned product provides basic access to financial services like sending and receiving money and purchasing airtime. Yet, some Kenyans still lack other di
The casualties of China's education crackdown
Once the darlings of Wall Street and venture capital as recently as the beginning of this year, China's edtech firms are now wondering if they will be able to remain solvent long enough to see the beginning of the next.
In a series of sweeping regulations, the central government has taken a wre
The Blue Box is betting on the future of at-home breast cancer tests
You can take a pregnancy test or colon cancer test from your bathroom, or, these days, a COVID-19 test from the comfort of your living room. You might one day be able to get a breast cancer screening at home, too, if you have a urine sample and an artificial nose.
That's the vision behind The
Fortnite likely isn’t coming back to the App Store anytime soon
While Apple and Fortnite’s big, dramatic lawsuit didn’t seem to reach the conclusion either party actually wanted, its resolution offered some hope for Fortnite lovers that the title could be finding its way back to the App Store and onto their Apple devices.
And yet… It seems tha
Software supply chain platform Cloudsmith raises $15M Series A led by Tiger Global
Cloudsmith, a cloud platform for software supply chain management, has raised a $15 million Series A funding round led by Tiger Global, which it claims is the largest-ever Series A funding round in Northern Ireland since 2005 (according to PitchBook data). The company plans to use the new funding t
Tide encryption is ready to end the cyber breach pandemic
The global pandemic, along with the digital transformation it accelerated, broadened corporate attack surfaces exponentially. As a result, there were almost 1,800 publicly reported data breaches in the first six months of 2021 alone, accounting for the exposure of 18.8 billion records. Among these
Prenome could help pregnant women better predict and manage gestational diabetes
“We're always trying to stick something up a women's something.”
Stevie Cline, the co-founder of Prenome, is tired of how invasive diagnostic processes are for women, even with modern technology and broader healthcare advancements. So, she teamed up with her former co-worker, Sarah Broz
Electric utility bike company Ubco scores $10M strategic investment with TPK
"speakable-summary" dir="ltr">New Zealand-based electric utility bike company Ubco announced a new strategic partnership with TPK Holdings, a Taiwanese electric components manufacturing company.
As part of the agreement, TPK will be leading Ubco’s Series B with a $10 million investment, bringi
Microsoft wants cloud computing to reshape natural disaster modeling, but challenges remain
Weather forecasting is a notoriously challenging field, but it's an endeavor that is becoming ever more vital to the daily functioning of our planet. Climate change is intensifying the scale and devastation of natural disasters, from wildfires and typhoons to floods and cyclones. Knowing precis
How Calendly is building a platform by turning scheduling into a center-stage event
The tools you use most often are the ones you think about the least. Calendly, an app that helps people plan, schedule and follow up on meetings, may be a perfect example of that.
Today, some 10 million people send Calendly links to millions of others to sort out meeting slots. But perhaps because
Brave’s non-tracking, browser-based video conferencing tool is out of beta
Brave, the startup behind the eponymous non-tracking browser, has launched a non-tracking video conferencing add-on out of beta — letting all users make and receive video calls straight from their browser.
The tool, called Brave Talk, has been in beta testing since May last year. And Brave to
Microsoft announces Surface Laptop Studio and Duo 2 ahead of Windows 11 launch
With the first major Windows release in a half-dozen years looming over the horizon, Microsoft has just unveiled a big slate of new hardware. The Surface line has always been viewed as a sort of proof of concept line for an operating system that hasn't always inspired the most cutting-edge hard