Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft Edge now automatically generates image labels for screen readers on Windows, macOS, and Linux, improving the experience for blind and low vision users — Ideal for blind or low vision web users — More than half of the images on the web are missing alt text, according to Microsoft.
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Friday, March 18, 2022
Microsoft Edge now automatically generates image labels for screen readers on Windows, macOS, and Linux, improving the experience for blind and low vision users (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Thursday, March 17, 2022
Grocery delivery app Getir raises a $768M Series E at an $11.8B valuation led by Mubadala with Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global, and others participating (Dan Taylor/Tech.eu)
Dan Taylor / Tech.eu:
Grocery delivery app Getir raises a $768M Series E at an $11.8B valuation led by Mubadala with Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global, and others participating — Confirming earlier rumours, Getir has reined in $768 million at a decacorn valuation of $11.8 billion.
Tokyo-based mobile banking app Kyash raises a $41M Series D from Block, Greyhound, and others; report says it is Block's first investment in Asia (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
Kate Park / TechCrunch:
Tokyo-based mobile banking app Kyash raises a $41M Series D from Block, Greyhound, and others; report says it is Block's first investment in Asia — Kyash, a Tokyo-based mobile financial app, has raised $41.2 million (4.9 billion JPY) Series D funding. — The round comes from a number …
Indian fintech payment firms may not have significant data advantages over banks: Report
Sources: Alibaba and Tencent are planning to cut tens of thousands of jobs combined this year as companies try to cope with China's regulatory crackdown (Reuters)
Reuters:
Sources: Alibaba and Tencent are planning to cut tens of thousands of jobs combined this year as companies try to cope with China's regulatory crackdown — Alibaba Group (9988.HK) and Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) are preparing to cut tens of thousands of jobs combined this year …
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
iUNU, whose LUNA robot moves on greenhouse roofs and uses AI to detect problems with plants and find spots that are ready to harvest, raises a $24M Series B (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)
Brian Heater / TechCrunch:
iUNU, whose LUNA robot moves on greenhouse roofs and uses AI to detect problems with plants and find spots that are ready to harvest, raises a $24M Series B — Not going to lie, iUNU (pronounced “you knew") is not the easiest name (further confusing matters is the presence of a robot called “LUNA").
Wasoko, formerly Sokowatch, a Kenya-based B2B marketplace that offers a BNPL service to retailers, raises a $125M Series B, source says at a $625M valuation (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)
Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch:
Wasoko, formerly Sokowatch, a Kenya-based B2B marketplace that offers a BNPL service to retailers, raises a $125M Series B, source says at a $625M valuation — Informal retail is king in Africa, with hundreds of billions of dollars of consumer goods are sold through its channels yearly.
iQoo Wireless Sport Neckband earphones launched, priced at Rs 1,799
Treehouse, which provides DeFi data analytics, raises a $18M seed led by an "undisclosed large fintech investor", with Binance and others participating (Jamie Crawley/CoinDesk)
Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk:
Treehouse, which provides DeFi data analytics, raises a $18M seed led by an “undisclosed large fintech investor”, with Binance and others participating — Treehouse aims to provide retail investors the infrastructure needed for them to make informed decisions on their DeFi positions
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has an NFT update for Instagram users
Why Germany has warned users of Russian antivirus software Kaspersky
Facebook-owner Meta fined $18.7 million by Irish watchdog, here's why
A look at Jony Ive's work with LoveFrom; Ive bought a city block in SF's Jackson Square and could raise ~$1B with Sam Altman by end of 2024 for an AI device (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)
Tripp Mickle / New York Times : A look at Jony Ive's work with LoveFrom; Ive bought a city block in SF's Jackson Square and could...
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
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It’s that time of year, Silicon Valley’s investor technocrati and advice-giving Twitter celebrities descended upon Pier 48 in San Francisco ...