Tag: big data

Dynamic pricing is actually far more common than most think and is used every day by household brands like Alaska Airlines, Amazon, Google, and Ticketmaster…

The U.S. Department of Justice sued Apple Thursday over monopolistic practices. The complaint accuses Apple of moulding its privacy and security practices in ways that benefits the company financially. One quote particularly jumps out where the DOJ calls Apple’s privacy and security justification an “elastic shield”: “Apple deploys privacy and security justifications as an elastic…

WhatsApp announced Thursday that users can now pin up to three messages in a chat to access them easily. Until now, users could pin only one message on top of a conversation with a contact or a group. Both Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and WhatsApp head Will Cathcart announced this feature on their respective WhatsApp…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinInnovationRx is your weekly digest of healthcare news. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here. Google’s chief health officer Karen DeSalvo at the company’s annual Check Up event. katie jennings Google’s chief health officer Karen DeSalvo described an “inflection point in AI, where we can see its potential…

Chances are you may have noticed that many commercial vehicles are now electric vehicles — think about delivery vans, telecom minivans, utility maintenance trucks, etc. But there are still many diesel-powered commercial vehicles because it’s simply too expensive and too complicated to switch to an all electric vehicle fleet overnight. That’s why Pelikan Mobility has been…

Sameer Brij Verma, a high-profile investor at the venture firm Nexus, will be leaving the fund later this year, he confirmed to TechCrunch, in a move that has sent shockwaves through the Indian VC industry. Verma plans to launch his own venture firm in India, with the inaugural fund expected to have a corpus of…

Crypto exchange OKX is ceasing services for users in India, it said in an email to customers Thursday, advising them to withdraw their funds by April-end. The move follows Apple and Google pulling the eponymous app of OKX in the country after an Indian government agency said many crypto exchanges were operating illegally in the…

Startups in Europe, faced with an ongoing economic slowdown in the region, continue to struggle on the fundraising front. Meanwhile, European VCs that are hedging their bets by growing their focus on startups that either have a global/U.S. play in mind — or are in the U.S. already — are seeing a lot of interest…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinThe best mattresses on Amazon are easy to shop for, affordable and convenient. Plus, Prime members get the added bonus of 2-day shipping. However, not every bed in Amazon’s inventory is worth adding to your cart. To help with your search, we pored over dozens of Amazon reviews and…

In a never-ending saga between Google and France’s competition authority over copyright protections for news snippets, the Autorité de la Concurrence announced a €250 million fine against the tech giant Wednesday (around $270 million at today’s exchange rate). According to the competition watchdog, Google disregarded some of its previous commitments with news publishers. But the…