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The identity crisis experienced by Chinese startups is brought to light by TikToks hearing in Congress.

On Thursday morning, TikTok, a Chinese online service with 150 million monthly active users in the United States, is scheduled to testify before Congr

On Thursday morning, TikTok, a Chinese online service with 150 million monthly active users in the United States, is scheduled to testify before Congress over Chinas possible effect on the industry titan of short videos. Chinese businesses developing in the West are subject to tighter controls over how their data leaves China, and their Chinese heritage is a persistent source of national security worries as tensions between the two giants rise. Earlystage firms are considering strategies to hide their Chinese identity and retain user data in the country where they operate in order to avoid being targeted by Western authorities. Although ByteDance endeavoured to localise TikToks activities, it didnt appear that this was enough to appease American regulators. Venture capital firms offer their portfolio companies advice on how to Read More..

B2B Tech News | 6 months ago      

Beam, a fintech startup that aims to speed up contractor payments, receives $4 million from an exStripe engineer.

Beam, a fivemonthold startup looking to make it easier for general contractors to pay subcontractors and collect their own paychecks, has acquired $4

Beam, a fivemonthold startup looking to make it easier for general contractors to pay subcontractors and collect their own paychecks, has acquired $4 million in a venture investment round headed by Accel. The startups founder and primary investor both previously worked for years at payments behemoth Stripe. Beam, founded in San Francisco, focuses on providing smaller and midsized general residential contractors with a mechanism to streamline payments, invoices, and receipts in one location in order to help them save time and, ultimately, money. He also observed that many of these companies are tiny, familyrun firms SMBs with few staff and scant resources. Beam asserts that it charges lower fees for transactions than, for example, PayPal or Zelle, which also impose caps, in order to help keep costs down for contractors. Read More..

B2B Tech News | 6 months ago      

Fifteen showcases the most recent model of its docked, shared bikes.

The businesses formerly known as Smoove and Zoov—these two oddball businesses united a few years ago—now go by the moniker Fifteen. new docks and

The businesses formerly known as Smoove and Zoov—these two oddball businesses united a few years ago—now go by the moniker Fifteen. new docks and bicycles Fifteen has introduced a brandnew bikesharing programme in Marseille. Except in large stations with several charging stations, you can only unlock the bike that is currently at the end of the station. You put the bike you just unlocked aside and secure it again in a particular location close to the station if there is a problem. The electric bike from Fifteen is more modular in terms of the bicycle. Read More..

B2B Tech News | 6 months ago      

Comprehensive security is provided by the new Intel vPro platform.

The full spectrum of 13th Gen Intel Core CPUs powers the new Intel vPro platform. Multitasking content creation is up to 45% faster than on a contempo

The full spectrum of 13th Gen Intel Core CPUs powers the new Intel vPro platform. Multitasking content creation is up to 45% faster than on a contemporary AMD PC. Performance of Windows applications is up to 2.3 times faster than on a mobile PC that is 3 years old. Up to 25% greater business application performance when compared to an Apple M2, and up to 40% quicker Windows programme performance when compared to a contemporary AMD notebook6. Up to 58% faster than a modern AMD notebook in creating reports while working together. Developers of cuttingedge applications have access to cuttingedge processing performance, remote device manageability, robust security features, and more with 13th Gen Intel Core processors on Intel vPro platforms. Read More..

B2B Tech News | 6 months ago      

With $168 million from Series C, the reselling marketplace Kreams valuation rises to $742 million.

Kream, a platform for reselling luxury products such as handbags, apparel, and accessories, has received $168 million 220.6 billion won in a Series C

Kream, a platform for reselling luxury products such as handbags, apparel, and accessories, has received $168 million 220.6 billion won in a Series C financing, more than doubling its previous valuation of $306 million in October 2021. This increase values Kream at roughly $742 million. It has now raised more than $266 million in total. According to chief business officer CBO Mingook Kim, the company will use the Series C funds to invest more, primarily in Asia, in line with its longterm objective of strategically connecting Asiabased reselling platforms so that its users can use Kream and its C2C resale affiliates to buy and sell upmarket goods. Also, Kream will expand its selection of luxury goods and new brands. Read More..

B2B Tech News | 6 months ago      

Plural entices a pioneering AI and mRNA vaccine to become its newest partner.

Plural, a VC we highlighted last year on the opening of its €250 million earlystage venture fund, is one of the newest VC funds to wear its former o

Plural, a VC we highlighted last year on the opening of its €250 million earlystage venture fund, is one of the newest VC funds to wear its former operators flag on its sleeve. In addition to developing mRNA vaccination technology, HelixNano is an AIdriven biotech business that has taken on the fight against COVID and cancer. As an angel or venture capitalist, Namih has so far invested in the following companies Robin AI, a generative AI company for the legal sector Phasecraft, the quantum software company spun out of UCL Omnipresent, the remote work platform and AtlasML, tools for the machine learning community, acquired by Meta AI. Ian Hogarth, of the band Plural Unemployable, stated in a statement Carina adds enormous knowledge with her scar tissue from HelixNano and experience as an investor. Read More..

B2B Tech News | 6 months ago      

Arubas CyrusOne climate neutral data center complies with the Pact.

CyrusOne and Aruba, two large European data centre operators, announced that they had successfully audited an operating data centre as compliance with

CyrusOne and Aruba, two large European data centre operators, announced that they had successfully audited an operating data centre as compliance with the terms of the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact CNDCP or Pact. The Pact establishes strict criteria for environmental performance and sustainability goals in five major areas energy efficiency, green power use, water use, recycling, and waste heat reuse. Every Pact members must assess their compliance with the Pacts aims using data from January 1 to December 31 after the first anniversary of their signature. Furthermore, audited conformity with the Pacts climateneutral targets could open the door to such green finance. The data centre sector is becoming increasingly scrutinised. Read More..

B2B Tech News | 6 months ago      

Rwazi to scale its market insight stage supported by $4 million seed subsidizing

Rwazi, a market intelligence business, is trying to fill this gap by giving market insights backed by data acquired directly from customers. The firm,

Rwazi, a market intelligence business, is trying to fill this gap by giving market insights backed by data acquired directly from customers. The firm, which was founded in 2021, is now expanding in emerging areas, notably Africa, where it claims to have a presence in 40 nations. Rwazi collects information such as product usage, consumption frequency, and household budgets and income. What data the company obtains is based on the requirements of its SaaS product users. Rwazi, which was a part of the Techstars Los Angeles development programme last year, now has 50,000 users. Read More..

B2B Tech News | 6 months ago