SoftBank’s Vision Fund has single-handedly changed the game when it comes to tech startup investment. And that’s why I’m excited to announce that SoftBank Vision Fund investment director Carolina Brochado is joining us at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin. Carolina Brochado isn’t a newcomer when it comes to VC investment. She’s worked for years at Atomico in…
TikTok is beginning to dabble in social commerce. The short-form video app said it has started to allow some users to add links to e-commerce sites (or any other destination) to their profile biography as well as offer creators the ability to easily send their viewers to shopping websites. The company said the roll-out of…
IoT module maker Telit said revenues climbed 7.8 per cent to $274.5 million in the nine months to the end of September, compared with $254.7 million in the year-ago period. The company has also announced new intergrated SIM (iSIM) software for its Qualcomm-based NB-IoT and LTE-M modules. Revenues from its cloud and connectivity division were up…
welcomia / 123RF Stock Photo Every product out there has a buying season. You get the best deals on winter coats is during the summer, and the best time to buy a motorcycle is the winter when no one is riding. Cars are no different, and when shopping for a new car, every advantage means…
Tesla gained ground and moved up four spots in the latest Annual Auto Reliability Survey from Consumer Reports, thanks largely to improvements with the Model 3. Reliability has improved in the Model 3 and Model S enough that Consumer Reports can now recommend the two models. Consumer Reports announced Thursday the results of its Annual…
The problem of how to find the potential treasure trove hidden in millions of pounds of trash is getting a high-tech answer as investors funnel $16 million into the recycling robots built by Denver-based AMP Robotics. For recyclers, the commercialization of robots tackling industry problems couldn’t come at a better time. Their once-stable business has…
Homeis, a startup building networking tools for immigrant communities, officially launched its community for Mexican immigrants this week. Co-founder and CEO Ran Harnevo (pictured above) previously founded video syndication company 5min, which was acquired by AOL, where he served as the global president of the company’s video division. (AOL also bought TechCrunch and then was…
Surely just about everyone was surprised when the Department of Defense last month named Microsoft as the winner of the decade-long, $10 billion JEDI cloud contract — none more so than Amazon, the company everyone assumed all along would be the winner. Today the company confirmed earlier reports that it was challenging the contract award…
Stephen Eaves, the chief executive of a new startup which promises to overlay data on electricity distribution has spent years developing data management technologies. Eaves’ first company, the eponymous Eaves Devices focused on energy systems in aerospace and defense — they converted the military’s fleet of B2 bombers to use lithium ion batteries. The second…
German fashion house Hugo Boss has been applying advanced analytics to its production plants in four ways, it told IoT Solutions World Congress in Barcelona last week. These variously cover predictive maintenance, line optimisation, and efficiencies around consumption of materials and energy. Speaking during a panel session during the Barcelona show, Erkut Ekinci, the company’s…
