TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

App Store optimization (ASO) and Apple Search Ads (ASA) are potent tools for promoting apps that can significantly boost conversion rates. Every prospective user encounters an app’s page in the App Store, influencing their decision to download or purchase.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Convenience stores are typically places people run into while gassing up or if they need a quick snack, but when the global pandemic hit and no one wanted to go indoors with others, some could not survive. That was the case with Adit Gupta’s parents, who owned a convenience store in New Jersey that began struggling due to lack of business.

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APRIL 6, 2023

For Foodstuffs North Island, the supermarket cooperative behind well-known brands like New World, Pak’nSave, and Four Square, several of their stores were cut off, damaged, and without connectivity as a result. Then came the challenge of how to get the kit out to the affected stores with the roads cut off.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

Sari-saris are small neighborhood stores in the Philippines that are often run on pen and paper ledgers. It also plans to build a department that engages sari-sari stores and provides additional services with parters, plus build an open platform for financial institutions and brands to connect directly with sari-sari owners.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

E-commerce is booming, but among the biggest challenges for entrepreneurs of online businesses are finding a place to store the items they are selling and dealing with the logistics of operating. Tyler Scriven, Maxwell Bonnie and Paul D’Arrigo co-founded Saltbox in an effort to solve that problem.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2022

grocery sales still happen in stores, companies like Clerk want to bring some digitization to the brick-and-mortar grocery experience. Clerk took in $5 million in Series A funding two years ago, led by Silverton Partners, and since that time, grew its network size by 350%, going from 750 stores to now 2,700 stores.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Alternatively, customers can schedule an order in advance for a specific date and time, similar to most major food delivery apps, or arrange for an order to be picked up where Gopuff offers retail and in-store shopping. The in-store shopping experience remains rather limited. According to Gopuff, only in BevMo!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

In partnership with AiFi , a startup that aims to enable retailers to deploy autonomous shopping tech cost-effectively, Microsoft today launched a preview of a cloud service called Smart Store Analytics. It might sound like a lot of personal data Smart Store Analytics is collecting. million purchases to date.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2023

Then more recently, it’s been software, like with Steam on the PC, or the Epic game store. Reaching players through social media, obviating app stores and rendering on the client side makes sense for both gamers and developers, Artie believes.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Tortoise, a startup that began in 2019 with a mission to rebalance scooters for shared operators like Spin and shifted last year to robotic last-mile sidewalk delivery , is pivoting yet again in a new direction: mobile smart stores. Tortoise expands remote operated robotic delivery to convenience stores across the US.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

How we scaled our App Store performance by approximately 200% in 1 year Get the TechCrunch+ Roundup newsletter in your inbox! After conducting a series of A/B tests and testing keyword campaigns and custom product images, “the overall number of downloads increased by 210%, and purchases surged by 157%,” she writes.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

AI research and deployment company OpenAI has launched the GPT Store , a web directory of custom versions of ChatGPT. Unveiled January 10, the GPT Store offers a range of GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) models developed by OpenAI partners and the community.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

SAST was to host a moderated, vetted “app store” for internet-connected cameras that would allow developers to build software on an open standard — software mainly focused on security and “business intelligence” use cases. Image Credits: Azena.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Tecton.ai , the startup founded by three former Uber engineers who wanted to bring the machine learning feature store idea to the masses, announced a $35 million Series B today, just seven months after announcing their $20 million Series A. AWS launches SageMaker Data Wrangler, a new data preparation service for machine learning.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2023

This time around, the AI app that has surged to the top of the App Store is EPIK, a photo-editing app that lets users generate nostalgic, 90s-inspired “yearbook” photos of themselves as one of its many templates. Another week, another AI app going viral. Similar to other recently popular AI apps, EPIK works by having […]

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Apple is breaking with holiday tradition: The company announced early last month that its App Store will continue to review developer submissions over the holidays, welcome news for app developers facing their busiest season. ” The end of a headache.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Foxtrot is changing the way we think about convenience stores, and just picked up $100 million in new Series C funding to expand its brick-and-mortar footprint to 50 new retail locations in the next two years. The company, founded by Mike LaVitola and Taylor Bloom in 2014, is reimagining the corner convenience store. 11, 6:29 a.m.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

The App Store on Apple made this such a beautiful integrated platform. So we just said: hey, let’s create that app store for the web.” I can go to settings and disable location sharing for Facebook. But if you look at the web, you have 100 websites, Figma, Airtable, Smartsheet — everything.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Arzooo, an Indian startup that is attempting to bring the “best of e-commerce” to physical stores, has raised $70 million in a new financing round as it looks to scale its retail platform across the South Asian market. These are the stores that fall in the lowest slab of the value chain.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Some of the top firms urged their portfolio managers to diversify their assets as the bank was collapsing, and are continuing to do so, even though regulators have stepped in to guarantee that all depositors would get access to their stored cash. Nothing is guaranteed, except when it is, for now, right?

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JANUARY 3, 2024

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

For London-based Dent Reality , one opportunity is in creating specific small-scale experiences that showcase the powers of the technology — and hyper-localized mapping — starting in venues like grocery stores. Investors see an opportunity in Dent’s efforts; the London startup has closed a $3.4

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AUGUST 18, 2022

New research from Cybersource and PYMNTS.com finds that more than one-third of shoppers are turning to smartphones when shopping in-store. In addition, 59% of merchants support mobile features to help them make a purchase.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Retail tech startup Daalchini , which offers smart vending machines to hundreds of brands in India, has raised $4 million as it works to establish autonomous smart stores and vending machines in every 200 meters of habitable area in the country. She said that unlike markets including Japan and the U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

million in seed financing to push its vertically integrated, dark store-based on-demand grocery model in a country where it says online grocery shopping remains largely untapped. Even on home soil Pop Market has Delivery Hero-owned efood to contend with (and Delivery Hero is now an investor in Berlin-based dark store operator Gorillas ).

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The rise of omnichannel operations has redefined the landscape, placing new demands on the roles of VP of Supply Chain, VP of Store Operations, and Directors of Omnichannel Operations. This demand for speed places a magnified lens on the picking and packing processes in stores, and many brands still struggle with operationalizing this flow.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

Another online grocery delivery and “dark store” operator breaks cover today: London-based Jiffy , which aims to deliver fresh groceries and household essentials in around 15 minutes, has raised £2.6 Jiffy says it will use the injection of capital to launch its first stores in London, as early as this month.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Mom-and-pop corner store owners in Latin America manage relationships with over 100 different suppliers, on average, often traveling long distances to pick up inventory, so they aren’t able to regularly restock. Chiper , founded in 2018 by CEO Jose Bonilla, is already the primary supplier and operating system for over 40,000 corner stores.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Google and Match announced today they’ve reached a settlement in the antitrust battle Match waged against the tech giant, even as the court case continues with Fortnite maker Epic Games.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

As Hosking explained, currently the retail industry focuses on three areas in developing and executing assortment plans in-store: product category strategy (i.e., finding the right products for a store), category planning and optimization and planogram design and creation. and Japan. . billion in Q1 2022 compared to $26.6

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