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Back to news homeUltimate Guide to Effective Next-Gen Network Security for Organizations
There has been a gradual but wide-scale shift in the business world, compounded by the movement restrictions and other impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, to a remote work model. These […]
Return to Office 2021: Made Possible By IoT
Even as more businesses have begun requiring their employees to return to the office, there remains considerable anxiety and apprehension within the workforce. A recent Honeywell survey, aimed at assessing […]
Sustainable, Resilient Cities
We need sustainable and resilient cities—we need the technology and intelligence to enable them. But we also need to be thinking about building cities with materials that can be reused. […]
Uber’s first head of data science just raised a new venture fund to back nascent AI startups
Kevin Novak joined Uber as its 21st employee its seventh engineer in 2011, and by 2014, he was the company’s head of data science. He talks proudly of that time, […]
VCs discuss the opportunities – and challenges – in Pittsburgh’s startup ecosystem
Ahead of our TechCrunch City Spotlight: Pittsburgh event tomorrow, I spoke to current Mayor Bill Peduto and Dave Mawhinney, the executive director of Carnegie Mellon University’s Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship. […]
Emotion-detection software startup Affectiva acquired for $73.5M
Smart Eye, the publicly traded Swedish company that supplies driver monitoring systems for a dozen automakers, has acquired emotion-detection software startup Affectiva for $73.5 million in a cash-and-stock deal. Affectiva, […]
SightCall raises $42M for its AR-based visual assistance platform
Long before Covid-19 precipitated “digital transformation” across the world of work, customer services and support was built to run online and virtually. Yet it too is undergoing an evolution supercharged […]
Expect an even hotter AI venture capital market in the wake of the Microsoft-Nuance deal
Microsoft’s huge purchase of healthtech AI company Nuance led the technology news cycle this week. The $19.7 billion transaction is Microsoft’s second-largest to date, only beaten by its purchase of […]
Technology With Heart is What We Need: The Role of AI and Deep Tech Towards Urban Resilience and Sustainability | Mustafa Mousa
Technology With Heart is What We Need: The Role of AI and Deep Tech Towards Urban Resilience and Sustainability Mustafa Mousa Co-founder & CEO, Sadeem Technology Mustafa is a cofounder […]