digital services
Consumers and data are driving changes in the insurance sector: Where are we headed?
Digital transformation in insurance is still in its early stages, but the combination of data, automation and massive investments in the sector is a powerful driver for change.
Stripe flexes its fintech muscle with Financial Connections to pull banking data automatically
Stripe, the payments behemoth valued at $95 billion a year ago and now reportedly inching closer to an IPO, today announced a new product that fills in some significant gaps…
Google has announced a package of additional controls for users of its productivity suite, Google Workspace (neé G Suite), in Europe — which it’s rolling out by the end of…
Most businesses today struggle with securing the data and infrastructure they already have. In the multidimensional world of the metaverse, this will become exponentially more difficult.
Yugabyte stores up $188M more for its open-source distributed SQL database model, now valued at $1.3B+
Today’s world is run on data, and the amount of it that is being produced, managed and used to power services is growing by the minute — to the tune…
African fintech OPay valued at $2B in SoftBank Vision Fund 2-led $400M funding
Chinese-backed and Africa-focused fintech company OPay raised $400 million in new financing led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Bloomberg reported Monday, valuing the company at $2 billion. The round, which…
Health clouds are set to play a key role in healthcare innovation
The U.S. healthcare industry is amidst one of the biggest transformations any industry has seen since the dot-com boom of the late 1990s.
In its latest ambitious digital policy announcement, the European Union has proposed creating a framework for a “trusted and secure European e-ID” (aka digital identity) — which it said today…
Europe to press the adtech industry to help fight online disinformation
The European Union plans to beef up its response to online disinformation, with the Commission saying today it will step up efforts to combat harmful but not illegal content — including…
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Indonesian payments infra startup Xendit raises $64.6M in Accel-led Series B
Fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic, digital transformation is happening all over the world. And Southeast Asia is no exception. Indonesia’s Xendit, a startup focused on building digital payments infrastructure for the region, has just raised $64.6 million in a Series B led by Silicon Valley heavyweight Accel. The funding brings the total amount raised by…
As DevOps takes off, site reliability engineers are flying high
We see the emergence of site reliability engineers not as a new trend, but one closely coupled with the theme of DevOps over the last decade.
BMW wants to sell you subscriptions to your car’s features
BMW today announced a number of updates to its in-car software experience during a VR press event, complete with a virtual drive through Munich to show off some of these…
Audi launches high-tech car unit Artemis to fast-track a ‘pioneering’ EV to market
Audi has created a new business unit called Artemis to bring electric vehicles equipped with highly automated driving systems and other tech to market faster — the latest bid by…
Can API vendors solve healthcare’s data woes?
A functioning healthcare system depends on caregivers having the right data at the right time to make the right decision about what course of treatment a patient needs. In the…
5G is now live in 24 markets, GSMA predicts it’ll be 20% of global connections by 2025 — and eyes a big tech break-up
The next-gen flavor of mobile connectivity, 5G, is now live in 24 markets globally, according to GSMA’s annual state of the global mobile economy report. The cutting edge network tech…
San Diego’s Trust & Will raises $6 million for online estate planning
Estate planning in the U.S. is a $180 billion industry and, unlike many of the other areas in the multitrillion-dollar financial services market, it’s one that has yet to see…
New Orleans declares state of emergency following ransomware attack
New Orleans declared a state of emergency and shut down its computers after a cyber security event, the latest in a string of city and state governments to be attacked…
BMW today announced that it is finally bringing Android Auto to its vehicles, starting in July 2020. With that, it will join Apple’s CarPlay in the company’s vehicles. The first…
YouTrip, a challenger bank in Southeast Asia, raises $25.5M for expansion
Singapore-based startup YouTrip thinks consumers of Southeast Asia deserve a taste of the challenger bank revolution happening in the U.S. and Europe, and it has raised $25.5 million in new…
Acting as the data integrator between hospitals and digital health apps brings Redox $33 million
Investors have forked over $33 million in a new round of funding for Redox, hoping that the company can execute on its bid to serve as the link between healthcare…
On the heels of a $40 million round, TriNetX brings its services for drug trials to Europe
The market for technology and services for clinical drug trials is expected to reach $68.9 billion over the next seven years. The trials, which are necessary to bring new healthcare…
Audi to spend nearly $16 billion on self-driving car tech, electrification through 2023
Audi, the German luxury automaker under VW Group, said Tuesday it will invest €14 billion ($15.95 billion) over the next five years on future transportation technologies such as electric mobility,…
UK health minister sets out tech-first vision for future care provision
The UK’s still fairly new in post minister for health, Matt Hancock, quickly made technology one of his stated priorities. And today he’s put more meat on the bones of…
Commerce Dept. to send “digital attachés” to Mexico, South Korea and four other nations
The U.S. Department of Commerce is opening six new international markets for its Commercial Digital Attaché program, according to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, who spoke with TechCrunch…
