Bloomberg An Indian startup that aims to use artificial intelligence (AI) to deliver faster and more personalised customer support for corporate clients is raising $51 million in funding from investors including March Capital Partners and Chiratae Ventures. Uniphore Software Systems Pvt, based in Chennai and Palo Alto, California, plans to use the emerging technology to change the labor-intensive business of ...

Bloomberg Huawei Technologies took the wraps off its “HarmonyOS” operating system, offering the first glimpses of in-house software that may someday replace Google’s Android and reduce its reliance on American technology. To begin with, the open-source software will skip smartphones and instead find its way into everything from cars and watches to personal computers by 2020, Richard Yu, chief executive ...

Bloomberg A unit of state investment company Temasek Holdings Pte has invested in Secretlab, a Singapore-based maker of chairs for players of electronic games, to help drive growth. Heliconia Capital Management Pte’s purchase of a minority stake values the five-year-old company at between $144 million and $216 million, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. “Secretlab is now ...