© Reuters. By Sarah El Safty and Mariam Rizk CAIRO (Reuters) – Ahmed Ramadan, a 44-year-old father of three, started using instalment payment services eight months ago after feeling the sting of high prices that have squeezed Egyptians’ pockets over the last year. He used the services to buy a television, a mobile phone for…
Indian startup FreshToHome, which sells fresh fish and meat to consumers in the South Asian market and the Middle East region, has courted a new backer: Amazon. Amazon, through its India-focused Smbhav Venture Fund, has led a $104 million Series D financing round in the Bengaluru-headquartered startup, the two said Tuesday. The new round for…
Amazon has been working on ramping up how it works with telecoms carriers as customers and partners — an ambition pushed in no small part by slowing growth for cloud services overall at AWS and its big rivals Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. Now, one week ahead of MWC in Barcelona — one of the…
Artificial intelligence will shake up many professions, but many AI startups are likely to fail, as tech startups did during the dot-com bubble, a key VC investor says…
Later today Coinbase, the American crypto giant will report its fourth-quarter and full-year 2022 results. Given continued turbulence in the cryptocurrency market, and a rough doubling in the value of Coinbase’s stock since the December timeframe, TechCrunch has long awaited this particular set of data. While Coinbase is no longer a startup, it is a…
Welcome back to Inside Startup Battlefield, the TechCrunch podcast where we take you behind the scenes of one of tech’s top startup competitions. In the second episode, we take a trip to TechCrunch Disrupt 2022 to hear pitches from the top five companies: Aaron Hall from Intropic Materials, Elizabeth Lawler from AppMap, Chad Mason from…
Safety has become a fundamental factor of consideration for selecting the right car for purchase. Many customers are okay to shell out more dollars in order to have a safer car. Though generally safety is loosely referred to the presence of multiple airbags, supporting ADAS and crash test results, the scope of a safe car
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Pedestrians are reflected on a wall of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) head office in central Sydney, Australia, October 3, 2016. REUTERS/David Gray SYDNEY, Feb 21 (Reuters) – Australia’s central bank, startled by the risk that inflation could prove stickier than previously thought, abandoned all thought of pausing at its…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Houses are seen in Seoul August 1, 2012. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s household credit shrank in the fourth quarter of 2022, its first quarterly decline in nearly a decade, central bank data showed on Tuesday. The country’s total household credit fell 0.2%, or 4.1 trillion won ($3.16 billion),…





