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Varjo, an early mover in building XR headsets and software for enterprises, taps $40M

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Varjo describes the latter two as strategic: It’s not clear how the Swiss finance and banking giant is working with Varjo, but Foxconn is a potential manufacturing partner for its devices, CEO Timo Toikkanen said in an interview. We also said that the ultimate incarnation would need to be as good as real life.

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Daily Crunch: Mos evolves from fintech into challenger bank, as early users start post-college lives

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But first up is Natasha’s dive into Mos , which founder Amira Yahyaoui says is gunnin’ to become “the incumbent bank in the U.S.” And speaking of the metaverse, Mozilla is shutting its VR browser. Hardware is hard. Today’s startup news has a few Tiger rounds, a toilet paper headline and more. Tesla recalls 817,00 cars : Why?

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Meet the 11 startups graduating from the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator

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So without any further ado, let’s meet the companies: Aires Medical is a hardware company that has developed a handheld ventilator for COPD patients, who normally need cumbersome medical equipment to get around outside of the house. Cquence charges based on the number of seats using the platform and minutes of footage ingested.

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Investors double down on tech stocks in massive DoorDash, Airbnb, C3.ai IPOs

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The startup grew to about $40 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR), at which point it ran into issues with a third-party system that would integrate hardware, and support and services software, which sparked a shift in its thinking. China watches and learns from the US in AR/VR competition. The company set out to build a platform.

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Dutch startup hub Utrecht emerges from Amsterdam’s shadow

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Area ecosystem wranglers such as StartupUtrecht, UtrechtInc, Holland Startup, Utrecht Community and others bring startups, scaleups, corporates, angels, VCs, local government, banks and universities together to build the local startup ecosystem. However, they seem to think it’s weaker in design, hardware, fintech, robotics and agritech.

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6 Disruptive Trends Shaping the Future of Mobile App Design & Development Sector

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We are experiencing a transformation in everything we do right from the way we conduct business to health to social life to banking to education to every activity we carry out on a day-to-day basis. Mobile applications make the most out of these hardware capabilities and features to come up with the functionality best suitable to the users.

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Top Mobile Development Trends In 2021 Everyone Should Get Ready For

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Undeniably, the gaming zone is all set to reap benefit from the higher bandwidths of fifth-generation connections: Developers create mobile gaming hardware that is all set to mirror 5G’s advancements. Even, there is an unprecedented rise of AR and VR technology within the education spectrum. The outcome? And this trend is here to stay.

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