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Welcome again to the Daily Crunch for Friday, June 18. Congratulations! You’ve made it to the top of the week with out Alexander, who will return bright-eyed on Monday.
TechCrunch has the day without work for Juneteenth, so this can be a tad pared down. And by “a tad pared down” I imply rather a lot pared down.
To begin off, how about you may have a take heed to the most recent episode of our award-winning podcast, Equity. Natasha and Danny managed to fill the half hour even sans Alex, so test it out.
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Speaking of podcasts, Spotify introduced it acquired Podz, a podcast discovery app. With increasingly podcasts popping up in numerous classes, it’s getting tougher and tougher to decide on ones you like, not to mention discover them. Spotify is hoping it will assist shore up its platform by offering quick clips that apparently provide you with sufficient info to subscribe, or not, and hold utilizing the platform on your podcast listening functions.
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Ford is having fun with its EV second. The firm simply introduced its E-Transit cargo van and F-150 Lightning Pro. The automaker has added to its EV steady with the acquisition of Electriphi, a battery administration and fleet monitoring software program startup.
And talking of fleets! Gopuff, an on-demand items, meals and alcohol supply service, acquired rideOS, a fleet-management platform. The $115 million acquisition ought to assist the corporate with its plans to develop into New York.
Startups and VC
Indian fintech startup BharatPe is in superior phases of talks to boost about $250 million in a brand new financing spherical led by Tiger Global. The Series E spherical offers the agency a pre-money valuation of $2.5 billion. The spherical hasn’t closed, so phrases might change, sources cautioned.
More fleet motion is afoot! KeepTruckin, a {hardware} and software program developer that helps trucking fleets handle automobile, cargo and driver security, raised $190 million in a Series E spherical. The firm, now valued at over $2 billion, hopes to take a position the dough into its AI-powered merchandise (GPS monitoring, ELD compliance and dispatch and workflow) and enhance its sensible dashcam, which it claims immediately detects unsafe driving behaviors like mobile phone distraction and shut following and alerts drivers in actual time.
Mediflash is a brand new French startup that desires to enhance temp staffing in healthcare amenities, reminiscent of nursing properties, clinics and psychological well being amenities. The firm acts as a market that connects well being amenities with caregivers who, it says, can count on extra income — as much as 20% — whereas amenities find yourself paying much less.
Big Tech Inc.
The London-based Centre for Economic Policy Research organized a few panel discussions to look at the necessity for markets-focused competitors watchdogs and consumer-centric privateness regulators to suppose outdoors their respective “legal silos” and discover inventive methods to work collectively to sort out the problem of Big Tech market energy. Read evaluation by Natasha Lomas concerning the conversations, which introduced collectively key regulatory leaders from Europe and the U.S. She says the discussions supplied a glimpse into what the longer term form of digital markets oversight may appear to be at a time when contemporary blood has simply been injected to chair the FTC.
The U.Okay.’s chief information safety regulator has warned over reckless and inappropriate use of reside facial recognition in public locations. The info commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, famous that quite a few investigations already undertaken by her workplace into deliberate purposes of the tech have discovered issues in all circumstances.
Revisiting EC-1s
Since it’s an off day for us right here, now’s an ideal time so that you can atone for the EC-1s now we have revealed thus far this 12 months. Grab a number of buckets of popcorn and your beverage of selection and settle into some weekend studying.
Tonal
Tonal is a singular entrant within the upscale…
