Robinhood’s sinking value is proof that “free” can often be very costly – TechCrunch

[ad_1] One thing I love about fintech is the promise of unlocking more tools for more people. In a broad sense, the current era of fintech has done just that – people around the world now have access to financial services that were earlier either completely out of reach before, or, at a minimum, prohibitively […]

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Clerk bags new capital to improve in-store grocery shopping experience – TechCrunch

[ad_1] Much of the grocery focus over the past three years has been around online adoption, but as long as 90% of US grocery sales still happen in stores, companies like Clerk want to bring some digitization to the brick-and-mortar grocery experience. CEO Marlow Nickell co-founded Austin-based Clerk with Don Oelke and Edward Cates in […]

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China’s logistics robot maker VisionNav raises $ 76M at $ 500M valuation – TechCrunch

[ad_1] Industrial robotics has in recent years become one of the hottest tech sectors in China as the country encourages the use of advanced technology to enhance efficiency on the production floor. VisionNav Robotics, which specializes in autonomous forklifts, stacking vehicles and other logistics robots, is the latest industrial robot maker from China to get […]

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Apple’s App Tracking Transparency helps privacy but can’t stop all targeted ads

[ad_1] When Apple rolled out its long-awaited, much-hyped privacy update one year ago this week, it was accompanied by an ad that attempted to visualize what the new feature did. In it, there’s a man going about his day, and every time he interacts with a business, an employee latches on and starts following him […]

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Revise raises $ 3.5 million to build rails for programming NFTs – TechCrunch

[ad_1] A popular criticism of NFTs is that they are just static JPEG files. Technically, they are not, of course. They are pieces of code on a blockchain, which means they can be programmed to have various qualities. The NFTs that go on sale on marketplaces such as OpenSea are already programmed with instructions on […]

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Glorang scores $ 10M Series A to expand its edtech marketplace across Asia – TechCrunch

[ad_1] Gloranga Seoul-based edtech startup that offers after-school classes and extracurricular activities via online for students between the ages of 3 and 18, said Friday it has raised a $ 10 million Series A funding co-led by Korea Investment Partners and Murex Partners, along with Japan’s Pksha Capital. The new funding, which brings its total […]

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In the latest earnings release, Twitter admits to miscounting users for the second time – TechCrunch

[ad_1] To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 pm PT, subscribe here. It’s Thursday, April 28, 2022, and Haje’s blood pressure is slowly returning to what passes for normal after raging about Social Security numbers for a few minutes. Look, it’s hard to […]

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