Daily Archives: March 16, 2020

TransferWise, the London-headquartered international money transfer service most recently valued by investors at $3.5 billion, has partnered with China’s Aliplay for international transfers. The launch enables TransferWise’s now 7 million-plus users to be able to send Chinese yuan from 17 currencies to users of Alipay, which serves more than 1.2 billion people worldwide including via […]

TransferWise partners with Alipay for international money transfers

This entry was posted in Europe Mobile Startups TC TransferWise on March 16, 2020 by Steve O'Hear

In many places, schools and day cares are closed. Here are some tips on how to entertain your little ones, and on how to talk to them about Covid-19.

How to Entertain Your Young Children During Quarantine (2020): iPod ...

This entry was posted in Gear on March 16, 2020 by Adrienne So

We need to go hands-off in the age of coronavirus. That means touching fewer doors, elevators, and sign-in iPads. But once a building is using phone-based identity for security, there’s opportunities to speed up access to WIFI networks and printers, or personalize conference rooms and video call set-ups. Keyless office entry startup Proxy wants to […]

To make locks touchless, Proxy bluetooth ID raises $42M

This entry was posted in Apps Enterprise Fundings & Exits hardware Mobile privacy Security Startups TC on March 16, 2020 by Josh Constine

As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across the U.S., grocery delivery apps have begun seeing record numbers of daily downloads, according to new data from app store intelligence firm Apptopia. On Sunday, online grocery apps including Instacart, Walmart Grocery, and Shipt hit yet another new record for daily downloads for their respective apps, the firm says. […]

Grocery delivery apps see record downloads amid coronavirus outbreak

This entry was posted in Apps e-commerce eCommerce grocery delivery Health Instacart Mobile online shopping on March 16, 2020 by Sarah Perez

Grocery delivery apps see record downloads amid coronavirus outbreak

This entry was posted in Apps e-commerce eCommerce grocery delivery Health Instacart Mobile online shopping on March 16, 2020 by Sarah Perez

Kenya’s largest teleco, Safaricom, will implement a fee-waiver on East Africa’s leading mobile-money product, M-Pesa, to reduce the physical exchange of currency in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. The company announced that all person-to-person (P2P) transactions under 1,000 Kenyan Schillings (≈ $10) would be free starting Tuesday for the next 90 days. The move came […]

Kenya turns to M-Pesa mobile-money to stem the spread of ...

This entry was posted in Health Mobile payments TC on March 16, 2020 by Jake Bright

Remote collaboration tools like Zoom are gathering massive amounts of attention as people begin working from home en masse. But, as with most trends, virtual reality seems to be sitting out this boom. This should be surprising to absolutely no one, but the lack of widespread adoption is not for lack of trying. Virtual reality […]