Hi all! Welcome back to Week in Review, the newsletter where we quickly sum up some of the most read TechCrunch stories from the past seven days. The goal? Even when you’re swamped, a quick skim of WiR on Saturday morning should give you a pretty good understanding of what happened in tech this week. Want…
A growing number of robot makers are pledging not to weaponise their creations. This week, an open letter – currently signed by six robotics companies – pledges not to support the use of their creations for deadly purposes. Here’s a copy of the full letter: “General Purpose Robots Should Not Be Weaponized We are some…
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Huobi Global, once China’s top crypto exchange, has been retooling itself since exiting from the home market following Beijing’s crypto ban. Now the company is nearing a takeover by an investment firm. Huobi Global announced today that its controlling shareholder has completed the transaction to sell its entire stake to About Capital, a Hong Kong-based…
A growing number of robot makers are pledging not to weaponise their creations. This week, an open letter – currently signed by six robotics companies – pledges not to support the use of their creations for deadly purposes. Here’s a copy of the full letter: “General Purpose Robots Should Not Be Weaponized We are some…
Click Here to Access the Full Webinar Product as a Service helps manufacturers create different revenue streams and capture aftermarket value, and it helps their customers utilize the assets they need, when they need them, instead of forcing them to make a large upfront capital expenditure. But what are the building blocks needed to start…
A Kenya-based venture studio with a focus on tourism, Purple Elephant Ventures (PEV), has raised $1 million pre-seed funding to build the next generation of startups that use technology to modernize the tourism sector. Investors participating in this round include Klister Credit Corp., a Canadian investment firm, The Untours Foundation, and a number of angel…
Matter has officially launched with the arrival of the 1.0 release of the smart home IoT standard. The Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA) is responsible for creating, evolving, and managing the Matter standard. Today, the CSA and its members released the Matter 1.0 standard and certification program. “What started as a mission to unravel the complexities…
Click Here to Access the Full Webinar Product as a Service helps manufacturers create different revenue streams and capture aftermarket value, and it helps their customers utilize the assets they need, when they need them, instead of forcing them to make a large upfront capital expenditure. But what are the building blocks needed to start…
Alkymi launched in 2017 with a goal of helping financial services companies automate mundane tasks, a kind of lightweight RPA to grab information from emails and spreadsheets and eliminate a lot of copy/paste activity. More recently the company developed a way for a more broad set of customers to create their own automations and connect…
