Alpha Medical, a telemedicine company focused on women’s healthcare, closed a $24 million Series B round on Tuesday. It’s another company situated squarely in the crosshairs of a pandemic-fueled boom in telemedicine investment, though Alpha Medical’s approach has one notable difference: you won’t be logging on to any Zoom calls. Alpha Medical was founded in […]
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Folio’s 24-year-old founder is bootstrapping a curated, online bookstore
In the midst of TechCrunch Disrupt, hundreds of founders will video call into Startup Alley, eager to share what makes their company stand out. But 24-year-old Clare Carroll’s video background speaks for itself as she calls in from her NYC apartment, which doubles as a stock room for hundreds of books she sells online. Just […]
The Oversight Board wants Facebook to explain its controversial rules for VIPs
Karissa Bell Contributor Karissa Bell is a Senior Editor at Engadget More posts by this contributor YouTube has removed 1 million videos for dangerous COVID-19 misinformation The Oversight Board is pushing Facebook to provide more information on its controversial “cross-check” system, following a report that the company has allowed celebrities, politicians and other public figures […]
Apple is reportedly working on mental health monitoring using iPhone data
Kris Holt Contributor Share on Twitter Kris Holt is a contributing writer at Engadget. More posts by this contributor Google Meet will automatically adjust webcam brightness in your browser Disney+ ‘Hawkeye’ trailer shows Clint Barton’s past catching up with him Apple is reportedly working on ways to help detect and diagnose conditions such as depression, […]
Happaning aims to be a ‘Google Street View’ for video
A new startup called Happaning wants to make video a more immersive experience by allowing people to watch the same event from multiple perspectives. Or, as co-founder and CEO Andrew Eniwumide likes to say, it’s “Google Street View, but with video.” The company believes its unique technology offering these multi-vantage point videos could ultimately do […]
Tatum lets you interact with blockchains using API calls
Meet Tatum, a blockchain infrastructure startup that wants to make it much easier to develop your own blockchain-based product. The company operates a platform-as-a-service product so that you don’t have to manage your own nodes and learn how to interact with each client. Tatum is participating in TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt. While blockchain […]
Nigerian fintech Hervest wants to bring financial inclusion to more African women
After years of working in marketing for a number of financial services companies, Solape Akinpelu came to a conclusion: There was an “alarmingly low adoption” by women for financial services in her home country of Nigeria and all of Africa as a whole. “I could see women living the reality around me,” Akinpelu recalls. “These […]
Luos is building an API to help embedded engineers connect easily to any hardware component
Luos, a participant in the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield competition this week, wants to make it easy for embedded hardware developers to connect to any hardware component, such as a motor or sensor, then build a reusable configuration profile to give them the same type of flexibility that software engineers have with microservices. Luos CEO […]
Built by a refugee, Enlight’s edtech tool bets it can help students hope harder
Raised in a Tanzania refugee camp, Dieumerci Christel’s first brush with entrepreneurship began with a stick of gum. In the early 2000s, kids in his camp were all gravitating toward a brand of gum named after Barack Obama, the then-soon-to-be U.S. president. Noticing the budding interest, Christel began selling Obama gum to his friends, and […]
Let’s Encrypt’s root certificate is about to expire, and it might break your devices
One of the largest providers of HTTPS certificates, Let’s Encrypt, will stop using an older root certificate next week — meaning you might need to upgrade your devices to prevent them from breaking. Let’s Encrypt, a free-to-use non-profit, issues certificates that encrypt the connections between your devices and the wider internet, ensuring that nobody can […]
COVID-19: The Unvaccinated Pose a Risk to the Vaccinated
Q: How do people who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 pose a risk to people who have been vaccinated? A: An unvaccinated person who is infected with COVID-19 poses a much greater risk to others who are also unvaccinated. But vaccines are not 100% effective, so there is a chance that an unvaccinated person […]
Docs startup Almanac raises $34 million from Tiger as remote work shift hardens
As companies continue to delay their returns to the office and find temporary remote work policies becoming permanent, the startups building tooling for remote work-first cultures are finding a seemingly endless supply of customers. “Companies are finding the shift to remote work is not a one-time aberration due to Covid,” Almanac CEO Adam Nathan tells […]
‘Waste of money’: Canadians lament C$612 million election that changed little
September 21, 2021 By Rod Nickel WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) – Canadians woke up to a virtually unchanged political landscape on Tuesday after an expensive pandemic election they did not want, with many venting their fury at the C$612 million ($477.60 million) cost. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals won the election https://ift.tt/3tYwHkY, but it was unpopular […]
UK inflation expectations jump in September – Citi/YouGov
September 21, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) – The British public’s expectations for inflation over the next year and over the longer-term jumped this month, raising the risk that the Bank of England will tighten policy to stop them becoming unmoored, Citi said on Tuesday. The British public’s expectations for inflation over the next 12 months surged […]
Facebook to launch portable version of Portal video chat device
September 21, 2021 By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) – Facebook on Tuesday announced two new models of its Portal video calling devices, including its first portable version. The social media company also said it was testing with several U.S. companies a service for businesses to remotely manage Portal work accounts and devices. Facebook has not provided […]
U.S. market better able to aborb potential market shock compared with 2008-SEC chair
September 21, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. market is in a better position to absorb a potential global shock from a major company default compared with the years prior to the 2007-2009 financial crisis, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chair Gary Gensler said on Tuesday. Gensler’s remarks follow a jittery trading day for Wall […]
Factbox-What analysts have to say about Evergrande as default risks rise
September 21, 2021 HONG KONG (Reuters) – Worries about the fate of beleaguered developer China Evergrande Group have rattled markets around the world, and investors are looking for possible intervention by Beijing to stem any domino effects across the global economy.[L1N2QN02R] Here are some highlights of what analysts have been saying about the cash-strapped company […]
GM details the motors that will power its electric Hummer and other EVs
Igor Bonifacic Contributor Igor Bonifacic is a contributing writer at Engadget. More posts by this contributor Rivian announces membership plan with complementary charging and LTE connectivity Microsoft Office 2021 will be available on October 5th General Motors has spent a lot of time recently talking up the capabilities of its upcoming Ultium battery technology but […]
Seth Rogen explains how Houseplant promotes cannabis without breaking the rules
I was annoying Seth Rogen. We had just started the interview, and while he politely answered my questions, he was growing tired of talking about his celebrity status. He was more interested in discussing how the company he co-founded is succeeding by overcoming countless regulatory hurdles. To him, that success has little to do with […]
British employers offer more signing bonuses in tight labour market – survey
September 21, 2021 (Reuters) – Some British employers are offering more signing bonuses to tackle labour shortages and overcome hiring bottlenecks, data from Indeed Hiring Lab’s quarterly report showed on Tuesday. The share of job postings advertising signing bonuses on Indeed UK rose 75% to 0.51% in the three months ending August 31, especially for […]