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Seattle startup DefinedCrowd lands $50M to help Mastercard, BMW, others improve their AI services
Artificial intelligence services require mountains of reliable data to reach their full potential. Seattle startup DefinedCrowd is filling that need…
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Los Angeles-based challenger bank HMBradley officially opens its virtual doors
The Los Angeles-based digital challenger bank, HMBradley, opened its virtual doors to the public today, allowing the thousands of waitlisted…
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Gates, Wellcome and Mastercard launch $125 million fund to finance COVID-19 treatments
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome, and Mastercard announced a new initiative yesterday to accelerate technologies designed to identify,…
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Africa e-tailer Jumia reports first full-year results post NYSE IPO
Pan-African e-commerce company Jumia got into the black (by a small amount) on its gross profit vs. fulfillment expenses, expanded…
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Trump to halt immigration from Africa’s top tech hub, Nigeria
The Trump administration announced Friday it would halt immigration from Nigeria — Africa’s most populous nation with the continent’s largest…
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Mastercard infused in PoS solutions provider Pine Labs
Pine Labs and Mastercard yesterday have now confirmed an investment by the IS payment and technology into the homegrown…
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Mastercard acquires security assessment startup, RiskRecon
Mastercard announced today that it is acquiring RiskRecon, a Salt Lake City startup that uses publicly available data to build…
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China Roundup: facial recognition lawsuit and cashless payments for foreigners
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what…
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PayPal is the first company to drop out of the Facebook-led Libra Association
PayPal has become the first company to walk away officially from Facebook’s Libra, a cryptocurrency and related association that it…
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