Arrenda, a Mexico City-based fintech company, is offering digital financial services to the real estate market of Latin America and closed on $26.5 million in a pre-seed round of equity and debt. The funding round was a mix of $1.5 million in equity and $25 million in debt financing. Fasanara Capital led the investment and…
Mobility platform Spoke has announced that it will use T IoT from T-Mobile and Deutsche Telekom to protect vulnerable road users (VRUs) like cyclists. Spoke aims to protect VRUs by connecting vehicles like bicycles to the IoT and providing greater awareness of their presence to motorists using cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) technology. Mishka Dehghan, Senior Vice…
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It was with great fanfare in 2015 that Apple announced that certain MacBook models would ship with redesigned keys, so-called “butterfly” keys, designed to fit in the laptops’ shallower cases. Replacing the traditional scissor-based switches with a new “butterfly” mechanism, the company boasted that it shaved off 40% thickness per key. But problems emerged. In…
Berg Insight says that global cellular IoT connections grew an impressive 22 percent in 2021. According to the company’s analysts, global cellular IoT connections reached 2.1 billion last year. No particular region stood out for growth. The major regional markets of China, Western Europe, and North America grew similarly during the year as the world…
Microsoft has confirmed that it won’t be introducing a previously announced new policy that would effectively ban developers from selling open source software on the Windows app store. Section 10.8.7 of its Microsoft Store Policies document, which was updated in mid-June and had been due to come into effect on Saturday (July 16), had said…
Berg Insight says that global cellular IoT connections grew an impressive 22 percent in 2021. According to the company’s analysts, global cellular IoT connections reached 2.1 billion last year. No particular region stood out for growth. The major regional markets of China, Western Europe, and North America grew similarly during the year as the world…
Uber has agreed to settle a lawsuit alleging that the ride-hail company violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by overcharging riders with disabilities. The company will offer several million dollars in compensation to more than 65,000 Uber users who were “charged discriminatory fees due to disability,” according to a statement from the United States…
Mobility platform Spoke has announced that it will use T IoT from T-Mobile and Deutsche Telekom to protect vulnerable road users (VRUs) like cyclists. Spoke aims to protect VRUs by connecting vehicles like bicycles to the IoT and providing greater awareness of their presence to motorists using cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) technology. Mishka Dehghan, Senior Vice…
Syrius Robotics, a Chinese startup that makes autonomous robots for warehouses, just secured 50 million yuan ($7.4 million) in a Series B funding round, lifting its total raised so far to $40 million. The four-year-old company specializes in what’s called automated mobile robots (AMR), in contrast to some of its competitors that offer automated guided…
