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Butlr Technologies, developing anonymous people sensors, inks $7.9M seed round

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million seed round boosts Butlr Technologies ’ ability to apply its real-time people-sensing technology beyond commercial real estate and retail uses to monitor falls and other movements for active seniors who are aging in place. We can bring dignity back to the technology world, while also understanding users’ needs.

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Customer service: five trends

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Every organization has an ‘open kitchen’ due to digital customer service A restaurant chef, working in an open kitchen has to think twice about the ‘3-second rule’ when it comes to fallen food. Even due to social media, all organisations are operating with an open kitchen nowadays. Did a piece of food fall on the floor?

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Gen Z social app Yubo rolls out age ‘estimating’ technology to better identify minors using its service

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Yubo , a social livestreaming app popular with a Gen Z audience, announced today it’s becoming one of the first major social platforms to adopt a new age verification technique that uses live image capture technology to identify minors using its app, in order to keep them separated from adult users. The app doesn’t run ads.

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Daily Crunch: Ending a 4-year partnership, DoorDash will stop delivering Walmart groceries next month

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Falling Facebook : The social media giant is “losing its grip,” as Sarah put it, on younger consumers who are preferring newer apps like TikTok and BeReal. ” A locker for your keys : If hackers get hold of secret codes and drain the wallets, users have no way to recover their funds. In 2019, it was 78.86 Big Tech Inc.

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Payments remain the darling of the fintech space

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And lastly, wealth tech made an impressive showing in terms of investor interest. Wealth tech companies brought in $1.7 Either way, let’s hope 2023 brings with it greater due diligence, less ego and more viable business models. billion across 164 deals in the fourth quarter. We certainly don’t need a repeat of last year.

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8 founders, leaders highlight fintech and deep tech as Bristol’s top sectors

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is gaining in popularity as a great place to start a tech firm. The country is quickly catching up to China on the tech investment front, with VC investments reaching a record of $15 billion in 2020, according to TechNation. city for tech investment. outside London, according to Whitecap’s 2019-2020 Ecosystem Report.

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Do you need another app to discover beautiful places when you travel?

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In the summer of 2019, Timilehin Ajiboye became intrigued with the idea of building a travel app after conversations with a circle of friends. And while social media, growing exponentially over the past decade, has changed the way we communicate and connect, it has also changed how we travel. Social media and travel.

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