December 4, 2017
WICASTR brings data to the edge
Content distribution is hard. You want to keep enough of it close enough to favorite customers so they don’t have to wait and reduce latency for new data.…
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December 4, 2017
The Sun Exchange funds solar installations with micro-investments and bitcoin
Solar power could transform small communities around the world, but remote villages can’t always scrape together the thousands of dollars required to install the cells. The Sun Exchange…
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Caspar Health makes rehabilitative care more accessible by putting treatment plans in an app
Caspar Health, a startup launching today at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin, wants to make access to rehabilitative care easier and more accessible. The digital platform allows doctors to assign…
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OnePlus celebrates ‘The Last Jedi’ with a limited edition Star Wars 5T
Star Wars has had a strange smartphone history. The franchise was a no brainer for the Motorola Droid — Verizon actually had to license the name from Lucasfilm,…
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For founders and investors, it’s time for some ‘real talk’ about money
Consciously or not, founders’ attitudes toward money play an enormous role in how they run their startups. These attitudes shape whether to bet on a new line of…
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Broadcom piles fresh pressure on Qualcomm to talk takeover
Last month Qualcomm rejected a $70 per share acquisition offer from Broadcom — but the rival chipmaker isn’t stepping away. Today it’s announced it’s nominated a slate of eleven…
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Reason8 is an AI assistant for managers and meetings
Thanks to technology, making an audio recording of a meeting is a trivially easy task these days. While speech to text services can help tackle the tedium of…
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eTrack Tech has a mission to make manufacturing safer for small businesses
It took Barbara Timm-Brock one near-death experience and three career changes to bring her to the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin to launch eTrack Tech. Timm-Brock wants to make…
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Israeli serial startup stars of blockchain tech return with QEDit, a zero-knowledge proof diligence tool
Leveraging some “mind boggling math” introduced as an update onto the Ethereum blockchain only a few months ago, QEDit is launching its product on our Battlefield stage at…
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Carmaker venture for EV fast-charging teams with gas stations in Europe
Automakers are laying the groundwork for a future in which electric cars are omnipresent – and at least as common a sight on roadways as traditional gas-powered vehicles.…
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