IT総合 Tomasz Tunguz’s Theory Ventures bets $12M on Initia, the ‘iOS for web3’
The promise of blockchain to change the world hasn’t materialized. For the most part, the technology has instead e...
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IT総合 IT総合 Telegram CEO Durov’s arrest hasn’t dampened enthusiasm for its TON blockchain
Telegram has had a tough few weeks lately. The messaging app’s founder, Pavel Durov, was arrested in late August a...
IT総合 How Jobright uses AI to help foreign workers navigate the US job market
Leveraging large languge models, Jobright created an AI agent that acts as a headhunter tailored to individual job seeke...
IT総合 AI tutors are quietly changing how kids in the US study, and the leading apps are from China
Evan, a high school sophomore from Houston, was stuck on a calculus problem. He pulled up Answer AI on his iPhone, snapp...
IT総合 GrubMarket buys Butter to give its food distribution tech an AI boost
Winston Chi, Butter's founder and CEO, told TechCrunch that "most parties, including our investors and us, are making mo...
IT総合 Global crypto firms turn to Hong Kong for refuge — and opportunity
With U.S. regulators continuing to ramp up scrutiny, crypto startups and founders are looking to Hong Kong to support th...
IT総合 Alliance DAO is attracting more Asia founders amid US crypto crackdown
The graduates of Alliance DAO are often useful indicators of investor appetite and user adaption trends within the crypt...
IT総合 Here’s a lab-grown diamond startup that’s attracted a16z’s attention
Throughout hip-hop’s long history, jewelry has served as an important vehicle for artists to convey their ideas an...
IT総合 Microsoft’s $1.5B check for G42 shows growing US-China rift
As the Gulf region gains growing strategic importance for the tech war between the U.S. and China, Microsoft makes a big...
IT総合 HD raises $5.6M to build a Sierra AI for healthcare in Southeast Asia
Chatbots have come a long way. For years, they were limited to responding with predetermined replies that followed a sim...
IT総合 TikTok ban could harm Amazon sellers looking for alternatives
In March, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill that could force ByteDance to divest TikTok or ...
IT総合 The Carevoice raises $10M Series B, bucking the funding slowdown in health tech
The field of insurance technology has had a rough time. About 7 years ago, early insurtech companies promised to disrupt...
IT総合 Taiko raises $37M to build web3 infrastructure for a censorship-free internet
Amid the speculation and volatility in the casino-like crypto land, there remains a subset of individuals who espouse bl...
IT総合 Ex-Meta employees’ Aptos tests Hong Kong’s crypto appetite
Ever since Hong Kong legalized cryptocurrency trading last June, blockchain projects from the West have been paying more...
IT総合 Morph Studio lets you make flims using Stability AI-generated clips
Want to weave various Stability AI-generated video clips into a movie? Now there’s a tool for that. Morph Studio, ...
IT総合 Initia raises $7.5M seed round to simplify blockchain development
It’s hard to keep track of crypto’s technical development, but one thing hasn’t changed much: blockcha...
IT総合 Alibaba staffer offers a glimpse into building LLMs in China
Chinese tech companies are gathering all sorts of resources and talent to narrow their gap with OpenAI, and experiences ...
IT総合 Armenia’s 10web brings AI website-building to WordPress
Generative AI has done an impressive job in improving productivity in a wide range of areas, including website building....
IT総合 Backed by Chinese carmaker Great Wall, Haomo raises $14M for autonomous driving tech
After a few years of funding frenzy, autonomous driving companies in China are experiencing a slowdown in investment. So...
IT総合 Tencent’s gaming cash cow Honor of Kings sets sights on MENA
Honor of Kings, Tencent’s massively popular mobile game, has its eye set on the international market in 2024. Star...
IT総合 Alibaba faces reckoning with once-vaunted ‘new retail’ strategy
In 2017, “new retail” began appearing in Alibaba’s earnings reports. Coined by the Chinese e-commerce ...
IT総合 This gaming startup tries to show ‘AI + crypto’ is not a fad
Before the world became fixated on artificial intelligence, thanks to generative AI’s advances, cryptocurrency was...
IT総合 AR glasses with multimodal AI nets funding from Pokémon Go creator
In the week when gadget lovers around the world are enchanted by Vision Pro, a young, brave startup is trying to carve o...
IT総合 China’s generative video race heats up
On Monday, Tencent, the Chinese internet giant known for its video gaming empire and chat app WeChat, unveiled a new ver...
IT総合 Despite global frenzy, investor enthusiasm in China’s AI startups wanes
In 2023, the global frenzy around artificial intelligence, fueled by the advent of ChatGPT, swept across the world. In C...
IT総合 China’s Xpeng is bringing its Tesla FSD equivalent to overseas owners
Xpeng, Tesla’s challenger from China, has its eye on the international market and plans to use its smart driving s...
IT総合 Facing roadblocks, China’s robotaxi darlings apply the brakes
A few years ago, robotaxis were the darlings of venture capitalists in China. A cadre of audacious startups, including D...
IT総合 Propelled by ‘science for humanity,’ this Chinese AI startup sets sight on US
Amid rising geopolitical tensions, many Chinese tech companies find themselves recalibrating their overseas pursuits, of...
IT総合 EthSign brings DocuSign-like features to Line, Telegram with a web3 twist
Despite the ongoing regulatory crackdown on the crypto industry and the collapse of some of its poster children, the und...
IT総合 Datalogz raises $5M to deal with your business intelligence sprawl
In recent years, there has been a proliferation of business intelligence tools that aim to help companies make critical ...