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Walmart readies another $2.5 billion investment in India’s e-commerce and payments Walmart is making another big bet on India’s booming digital economy The world’s largest retailer is injecting another $2.5 billion into its India business, as the company looks to accelerate its growth in the country’s burgeoning e-commerce and payments market. Walmart’s investment will come
Qiara is a new home security service for the French market What is Qiara? Qiara is a new home security service for the French market. The service offers a variety of features to help keep your home safe, including: Remote access to your home security system 24/7 monitoring of your home Home automation features How
FJ Labs, the early-stage venture firm founded by Fabrice Grinda and Jose Marin, has closed on $260 million across two new funds. The firm, which focuses on e-commerce and marketplace startups, has been one of the most active early-stage investors in recent years. It has backed companies like Udemy, Alibaba, OfferUp, and Compass. The new
Getsafe expands to France starting with home insurance Getsafe, the digital insurance startup from Germany, is expanding to France. The company is starting off with home insurance and is planning to add more products in the future. Getsafe is a digital insurance startup that was founded in Germany in 2015. The company offers a variety
According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, Silicon Valley startup Welcome to the Jungle has raised $54 million in a Series C funding round, led by Index Ventures. Welcome to the Jungle is a Job platform that helps companies post job openings and find the best candidates for the role. The platform is
Supernormal raises $10M to automatically transcribe and summarize meetings Supernormal, a startup that provides an AI-powered tool to automatically transcribe and summarize meetings, has raised $10 million in a seed round of funding. The round was led by Accel, with participation from GV (formerly Google Ventures) and FirstMark Capital. Supernormal co-founder and CEO Jigar Mehta
Google spares three Area 120 R&D projects The search giant announces that three of its Area 120 experimental products will live on. Google has announced that three of its Area 120 experimental products will live on, despite the company shuttering the majority of its in-house incubator earlier this year. Area 120 was launched in 2016
Daily Crunch: ‘Network issue’ causes cloud outage that takes down multiple Microsoft services for 4+ hours The outage affected Office 365, SharePoint, Dynamics 365, Azure Active Directory and more Microsoft today acknowledged that a major cloud outage that took down multiple Microsoft 365 services for more than four hours yesterday was caused by a “network
The thing we thought was happening with robotic investments is definitely happening A new study has found that the thing we thought was happening with robotic investments is definitely happening. Between 2013 and 2016, the number of American firms investing in robotics grew from 66 to 91. In that same time period, the number of
Sources tell us that Dell has acquired Cloudify, a cloud orchestration startup, for around $100M. This is a big win for Cloudify, which has raised $21.5M over the last four years. Cloudify enables developers to automate the deployment and management of cloud-based applications. It is used by some of the largest enterprises in the world,