Build a digital ops toolbox to streamline business processes with hyperautomation
Reliance on a single technology as a lifeline is a futile battle now. When simple automation no longer does the trick, delivering end-to-end automation needs a combination of complementary technologies that can give a facelift to business processes: the digital operations toolbox.
According to a Mc
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Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for July 13, 2021. Have you gotten into the fake meat craze yet? Or are you sitting on the sidelines still, holding a turkey leg
Apple is reportedly working on a pay later feature for Apple Pay
If you've done any online shopping in the last little while, there's a good chance you've run into services like Affirm and PayPal's Pay in 4. They allow you to purchase something and pay for it later by splitting up the total cost of the item into several installments.
By the lo
Gogo in-flight internet has been renamed Intelsat
The next time you’re on a plane, searching for a Wi-Fi connection while soaring thousands of feet above the ground, don’t look for the Gogo name. The longstanding standard of in-flight internet, Gogo Commercial Aviation, has been rebranded to Intelsat.
Intelsat, an international satelli
Masten Space Systems to develop a GPS-like network for the moon
Masten Space Systems, a startup that's aiming to send a lander to the moon in 2023, will develop a lunar navigation and positioning system not unlike GPS here on Earth.
Masten's prototype is being developed as part of a contract awarded through the Air Force Research Laboratory's AFWERX
Heart Aerospace raises $35M Series A, lands order with United and Mesa Airlines for 200 aircraft
Swedish electric aviation startup Heart Aerospace has received its biggest order to date: 200 of its inaugural ES-19 electric aircraft from aviation giant United Airlines and its regional airline partner Mesa Air Group.
The deal, which includes an option of purchasing up to 100 additional aircraft,
Twitter now lets you limit who can reply to a tweet after the fact
If you’re tired of sending brilliant takes into the Twitterverse only to be met with wave after wave of reply guys, a new Twitter feature could give you some relief.
Starting today, anyone on Twitter will be able to adjust who can reply to individual tweets after they’ve been sent. Prev
Extra Crunch roundup: Crucial API metrics, US startup funding, advanced SEO tactics
On a recent episode of Extra Crunch Live, Retail Zipline founder Melissa Wong and Emergence Capital investor Lotti Siniscalco joined Managing Editor Jordan Crook to walk attendees through Zipline’s Series A deck.
Interestingly, the conversation revealed that Wong declined an invitation to do
Why did file sharing drive so much startup innovation?
One of the great things about editing all of our deep-dive EC-1 startup profiles is that you start to notice patterns across successful companies. While origin stories and trajectories can vary widely, the best companies seem to come from similar places and are conceived around very peculiar themes
Where is suptech heading?
Technology plays a huge role in nearly every aspect of financial services today. As the world moved online, tools and infrastructure to help people manage their money and make payments have burgeoned the world over in the past decade.
With much of the finance world now leveraging technology to cond
Discord buys Sentropy, which makes AI software that fights online harassment
The online chat platform Discord is buying Sentropy, a company that makes AI-powered software to detect and remove online harassment and hate.
Discord currently uses a “multilevel” approach to moderation, relying on an in-house human moderation team as well as volunteer mods and admins
Panda Express is piloting Beyond Meat orange chicken in select locations
Just under a week after Beyond Meat announced that it will be releasing a reworked version of its plant-based Chicken Tenders at restaurants in the U.S., the faux meat company has returned with a potentially sizable restaurant partnership.
Starting July 26, select Panda Express restaurants in South
Nas Academy raises $11 million to help creators build their own MasterClass-like courses
Investors are buying into a creator-led future, and Nas Academy wants to turn that creator influence into a broad network of “virtual universities.”
The Singapore startup is building out a platform for creators to monetize their knowledge, giving them the tools to create their own class
Zero’s FXE offers electric motorcycle fun in a slightly new package
Zero Motorcycles has been around for over a decade and in that time it's consistently improved its fleet of electric bikes. With the new FXE, the northern California company has taken the thoroughly enjoyable FXS supermoto and transformed it into something a bit more futuristic looking with a n