Tag: TechInnovation

USA. Legislative efforts and policy frameworks within the Section 230 debate (Chris Riley and David Morar, Brookings)

In recent years, policymakers have attempted to tackle the harms associated with online platforms via an ineffective bricolage of finger-pointing, performative hearings grilling various CEOs, and,...

Amazon bets on Hindi voice shopping to reach wider India (Manish Singh, TechCrunch)

Speaking of Amazon — which is reportedly conducting an investigation to find whether its lawyers bribed government officials in India — the company announced today it...

Amazon starts probe over bribe to gov’t officials by its lawyers in India, report says (Manish Singh, TechCrunch)

Amazon has launched an investigation into the conduct of its legal representatives in India following a complaint from a whistleblower who alleged that one...

FloBiz raises $31 million to scale its neobank for small businesses in India (Manish Singh, TechCrunch)

FloBiz, an Indian startup that is building a neobank for small- and medium-sized businesses in the South Asian market, said on Monday it has...

Xata is a database service for serverless apps (Romain Dillet, TechCrunch)

Meet Xata, a startup with a new take on managed databases. The company runs your database for you and turns it into an API so...

Pakistan edtech startup Maqsad gets $2.1M pre-seed to make education more accessible (Kate Park, TechCrunch)

Taha Ahmed and Rooshan Aziz left their jobs in strategy consulting and investment banking in London earlier this year in order to found a mobile-only education platform...

Tencent says users can now access external links on WeChat (Global Times)

Photo:VCG Tencent said on Friday that users can access external links in the one-to-one chat scene after upgrading to the latest version of WeChat, a...

Future of Testing in Education: Artificial Intelligence (Laura Jimenez and Ulrich Boser, CAP)

Despite the often-negative discussion about testing in schools, assessments are a necessary and useful tool in the teaching and learning process. This is especially...

Vietnam-based CoderSchool gets $2.6M pre-Series A to scale online course platform (Kate Park, TechCrunch)

CoderSchool, a Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam-based online coding school startup, announced today $2.6 million in pre-Series A funding to scale up its online...

TikTok is hiding a viral challenge that has kids stealing their school’s soap dispensers (Taylor Hatmaker, TechCrunch)

It’s back to school season and on TikTok, that means students are inexplicably stealing everything that isn’t bolted down. The latest TikTok trend to generally...

Inside Reach Capital’s edtech-powered returns (Natasha Mascarenhas, TechCrunch)

Reach Capital, a San Francisco-based venture firm co-founded by Jennifer Carolan and Shauntel Garvey, focused exclusively on edtech for years before the sector ballooned with unicorns. The rare,...

Tiger Global-led $100M investment makes Apna India’s fastest unicorn (Manish Singh, TechCrunch)

A 22-month-old startup that is helping millions of blue- and gray-collar workers in India learn new skills and find jobs has become the youngest firm to...

In growth marketing, signal determines success (Jonathan Martinez, TechCrunch)

Unlike a weak phone signal solely causing a grainy sound, in growth marketing, it can mean the difference between a successful program or a...

The FDA should regulate Instagram’s algorithm as a drug (Daniel Liss, TechCrunch)

The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday reported Silicon Valley’s worst-kept secret: Instagram harms teens’ mental health; in fact, its impact is so negative that it introduces...

Front introduces customer-centric features with deeper CRM integration (Romain Dillet, TechCrunch)

Customer communication platform Front is holding an event today to introduce three new features. These new features focus on showing you more information about your customers...

News aggregator SmartNews raises $230 million, valuing its business at $2 billion (Sarah Perez, TechCrunch)

SmartNews, a Tokyo-headquartered news aggregation website and app that’s grown in popularity despite hefty competition from built-in aggregators like Apple News, today announced it...