Author: Zach_Wilson
Lemonade is getting into pet insurance
Lemonade, the homeowners and renters insurance provider that’s raised $480 million, has announced its plans to expand into pet insurance. This marks the startup’s foray into a new insurance vertical. To be clear, Lemonade is simply announcing its plans. Right now, the company is going through the regulatory process, which…
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Iowa Democrats blame ‘coding issue’ for botched caucus results
The Iowa Democratic Party said a “coding issue” was responsible for the botched reporting that delayed the results of the inaugural presidential primary contest on Monday night. The app used to report results of the caucus was only sending “partial data,” according to a statement released on Tuesday morning by…
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Emerge raises $20M to take its digital freight marketplace for truckers up a gear
Trucking is currently the most popular mode of transporting freight in the US, accounting for around $12.5 billion of the $17 billion freight market, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. But with thousands of small and single-vehicle operators and legacy (often paper-based) systems underpinning communications, it’s also one of…
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UK falling behind on 5G awareness
5G awareness in the UK is high but consumers are still largely unaware of the new applications that next generation networks will enable, new research has found. A study by Amdocs found that 30 per cent of Brits plan on purchasing a 5G-compatible handset this year, despite the fact that…
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Neo4j 4.0 graph database platform brings unlimited scaling
Neo4j,the premiere graph database development platform, announced the release of version 4.0 today, which features unlimited scaling among other updates. Graph databases are growing increasingly important as they are used to find connections in data, such as if you bought this, you might like this related item on an e-commerce…
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T-Mobile and Sprint can now verify that callers are real to protect against spam
T-Mobile and Sprint can now verify that calls coming from one another’s network are genuine and show customers that an incoming call is real. The process is meant to protect against spam and robocalls, and it should help where the feature is supported. The verification program, using a system known…
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