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Extra Crunch roundup: cohort analysis, YC Demo Day recaps, building your supply chain

TechCrunch

To compete with retail banks, many newcomers are offering customers credit and debit cards ; developer-friendly APIs make issuance relatively easy, and tools for managing processes like KYC are available off the shelf. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Anu Muralidharan, COO, Expensify.

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New Zealand-based Imagr thinks camera-based AI is the future of shopping trolleys

TechCrunch

The early-stage startup has invented tech that attaches to the trolley and uses cameras to detect and label products, adding them to a virtual cart where shoppers can checkout without ever interacting with a human or waiting in a line. . million in seed funding at the end of November 2019 in a round led by Toshiba Tec.

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Ameelio’s free video calling service for inmates goes live at first facilities

TechCrunch

Ameelio , a nonprofit startup that intends to replace inmate-paid video calling in prisons with a free service, is making inroads against the companies that have dominated the space for decades. “We maybe had 8,000 users when we spoke to you, and a few months later we launched our mobile app.

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Driving toward 10G and Beyond: CableLabs Engagement in Standards Organizations and Industry Consortia

CableLabs

CableLabs is helping enable the use of commercial off-the-shelf hardware and virtualization technologies for fixed, mobile and converged network functions. CableLabs’ Standards Organization Engagements June 2020 – 2021. Driving Convergence of Fixed and Mobile Access Across Wired and Wireless Networks.

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Building vs. Buying Software Solutions: Which One is Right for Your Business?

Sunflower Lab

You need to hire developers, buy hardware and software, and allocate resources to design, develop, and test the solution. • On the other hand, buying an existing solution can be cheaper and faster because the vendor has already done the heavy lifting. Let’s explore the intricacies of the build vs. buy dilemma.

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Moving Beyond a Lift and Shift Migration Strategy

Hypergrid

It reduces complexity, simplifying the roles of your IT personnel, eliminating the necessity to support and maintain hardware and on-prem resources. It reduces complexity, simplifying the roles of your IT personnel, eliminating the necessity to support and maintain hardware and on-prem resources. Simplification yields large benefits.

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Moving Beyond a Lift and Shift Migration Strategy

CloudSphere

It reduces complexity, simplifying the roles of your IT personnel, eliminating the necessity to support and maintain hardware and on-prem resources. It reduces complexity, simplifying the roles of your IT personnel, eliminating the necessity to support and maintain hardware and on-prem resources. Simplification yields large benefits.