KaiOS, the feature phone platform startup, raises a modest $3.4M to train its sights on growth in Africa • TechCrunch

KaiOS, the feature phone platform startup, raises a modest $3.4M to train its sights on growth in Africa • ProWellTech

Smartphone shipments have been declining in what has been a rough year for mobile handsets, and that’s meant even more pressure on an already-precarious sliver of the mobile market: feature phones. Today, one of the players in that space, the feature phone operating system startup KaiOS, is getting a small financial injection that both speaks…

Key art for the Fortnite Chapter finale event, Fracture.

Fortnite Chapter 3 Fracture Finale: When it starts, how to play

Once you’ve finished eating your Thanksgiving leftovers and before you start decorating your Christmas tree, it’s time to get ready for Fracturethe Fortnite Chapter 3 finale event. Epic Games recently revealed more details about the event in a blog post, letting players and content creators know what to expect and how to prepare for it….

A user dresses up their character in Miitomo.

We already had the perfect social media platform: Miitomo

Whether or not you agree with Twitter’s current direction under Elon Musk, it’s safe to say that the social media platform is going through a rough patch. Its staff has been gutted, it’s been notably buggier in recent weeks, and there’s a general instability in the air that has advertisers concerned. All that, coupled with…

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Halo Infinite’s Winter Update bodes well for its future

It’d be an understatement to say it’s been a rough run for Halo Infinite. The latest in the classically Xbox-centric first-person shooter series, Infinite was released in November 2021 to a steady stream of positive reviews, though its popularity quickly died off due to an unintuitive progression system, a mountain of bugs, and a disappointing…

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Gaming to boost mental health: 5 tips from a psychologist

Video games are an undeniably great way to unwind, escape reality, and have some fun — but they’re also a double-edged sword. Under certain circumstances, playing video games can easily morph from a fun and lighthearted activity to a problematic behavior that leads to irritability, addiction, and social isolation. So what’s the best way to…

Ukio, a premium apartment rental platform for Europe's 'flexible workforce', raises $28M • TechCrunch

Ukio, a premium apartment rental platform for Europe’s ‘flexible workforce’, raises $28M • ProWellTech

Ukio, a short-term furnished apartment rental platform aimed at the “flexible workforce,” has raised €27 million ($28 million) in a Series A round of funding. The cash injection constitutes €17 million in equity and €10 million in debt, and follows some 14 months after the Spanish company announced a €9 million seed round of funding….

Taktile raises $20M to help fintech companies test and deploy decision-making models • TechCrunch

No-code fintech services startup Taktile closes $20M Series A round • ProWellTech

To get a roundup of ProWellTech’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Soooo you may have received the, erm, first edition of Daily Crunch yesterday, where we mentioned a certain conference, placing it in the wrong country. Whoops — we updated the headline. Sorry,…

HyperloopTT's SPAC public debut may be going nowhere fast • TechCrunch

HyperloopTT’s SPAC public debut may be going nowhere fast • ProWellTech

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HyperloopTT) has entered into a definitive merger agreement with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Forest Road Acquisition Corp. II, which is led by former Disney executives Tom Staggs and Kevin Mayer. The combined company will list shares at a pre-money valuation of $600 million. In theory, hyperloop technology is a vacuum tube-based…