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Maureen @Maureen - over 3 years ago

Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving arm, raises $2.5B in second external investment round

Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving arm, raises $2.5B in second external investment Google’s former self-driving project that is now a business unit under Alphabet, said Wednesday it raised $2.5 billion in its second outside funding round. The company said in a blog post it w...continued

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Nelson @Nelson - over 3 years ago

Bringg nabs $100M at a $1B valuation for a last-mile delivery platform for retailers

With many consumers making the switch to online shopping in the last year due to COVID-19 and largely staying active on those platforms even after physical shops and the freedom to move about them have been restored, companies that are enabling those services are continui...continued

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Casper @Casper - over 3 years ago

TravelPerk buys UK-based Click Travel in latest pandemic purchase

Business trip booking platform TravelPerk has bagged another rival — picking up UK-based Click Travel. Terms of the deal are not being disclosed but we’re told it’s the third — and largest — acquisition for TravelPerk to date.The Barcelona-based startup has been on a bit ...continued

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Arvid @Arvid - over 3 years ago

FabricNano raises $12.5M to help scale its cell-free fossil fuel alternative technology

It’s not often that you hear DNA described as a wafer – but that’s the analogy that Grant Aarons, the founder of FabricNano, a cell-free biomanufacturing company uses to describe his company’s major product. That DNA, the company hopes, will make a dent in a growing globa...continued

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Casper @Casper - over 3 years ago

TravelPerk buys UK-based Click Travel in latest pandemic purchase

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Pablo @Pablo - over 3 years ago

Meet Nickson, the furniture-as-a-service startup that Barack Obama’s ex-financial adviser just ba...

Ever toured an apartment and fell in love with the model unit?You’re not alone. Harvard Business School grad Cameron Johnson is a former institutional real estate investor and Greystar exec turned startup founder who realized that very often, “renters would try to rent th...continued

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Cyril @Cyril - over 3 years ago

This week in growth marketing on TechCrunch

TechCrunch is trying to help you find the best growth marketer to work with through founder recommendations that we get in this survey. We’re sharing a few of our favorites so far, below.We’re using your recommendations to find top experts to interview and have them write...continued

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Maureen @Maureen - over 3 years ago

Pittsburgh’s Locomation puts a convoy twist on autonomous trucking

The Pittsburgh Strip District, once home to Industrial Age giants Alcoa, Heinz, U.S. Steel and Westinghouse, has evolved over the past decade into a technology and robotics hub, and notably, a testbed of autonomous vehicles. That activity has more recently spilled out be...continued

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Jaydon @Jaydon - over 3 years ago

5 reasons why should you attend TC Early Stage 2021: Marketing

It’s almost go-time for all you early-stage startup founders. That’s right, on July 8-9 thousands of determined entrepreneurs around the world will gather virtually for the best little two-day bootcamp we like to call TC Early Stage 2021: Marketing and Fundraising.Two day...continued

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Elliott @Elliott - over 3 years ago

Indian tech startup exposed Byju’s student data

India-based technology startup Salesken.ai has secured an exposed server that was spilling private and sensitive data on one of its customers, Byju’s, an education technology giant and India’s most valuable startup.The server was left unprotected since at least June 14, a...continued

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Moises @Moises - over 3 years ago

Juul and the business of addiction

Several years ago, I went to a splashy launch party for a new tech product, which is a pretty normal thing for tech companies to have. It was at a hip warehouse space in Manhattan, there was cool lighting and a great DJ, free food — the company had pulled out all the stop...continued

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Casper @Casper - over 3 years ago

Shogun, a front end e-commerce page builder, nabs $67.5M as retailers look for alternatives to ma...

E-commerce marketplaces continue to play a major role in how consumers buy goods online and how retailers show off and sell goods to those consumers, accounting globally for 47% of all e-commerce sales. But today, one of the startups that has built technology…

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Vijay Mistry @Maverick_19 - over 3 years ago

What Is The Best Way To Lose Belly Fat In 2021?

Once you've been avoiding exercise for so long, you finally decide to try exercising to shed your belly fat. In other words, if you start a healthy lifestyle, you'll be better off than if you don't, as it's better to start late than never.No matter how much you eat, you w...continued

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Casper @Casper - over 3 years ago

GitHub previews new AI tool that makes coding suggestions

GitHub has unveiled a new product that leverages artificial intelligence to help you write code more efficiently. Named GitHub Copilot, today’s new product can suggest lines of code and even sometimes entire functions. GitHub has partnered with OpenAI to deve…

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Wilmer @Wilmer - over 3 years ago

AWS is buying encrypted messaging service Wickr

Amazon’s cloud services giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) is getting into the encrypted messaging business. The company has just announced that it has acquired secure communications service Wickr — a messaging app that has geared itself towards providing services to governm...continued

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[email protected] @Chikwanha - over 3 years ago

10 Top Tips To Successful Drop-shipping Business

Many entrepreneurs have found success in the dropshipping industry. For those who aren't familiar, dropshipping is a business term used for a situation where a seller sets a retail price for an item, collects the payment, sends the wholesale cost to a dropshipper and the ...continued

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Elvie @Elvie - over 3 years ago

Orbion, manufacturer of in-space plasma propulsion systems, raises $20M Series B

Orbion, manufacturer of in-space plasma propulsion systems, raises $20M Series propulsion developer Orbion Space Technology has raised $20 million in a Series B funding round, which it says it will use to scale production capacity of its Aurora propulsion system.The Mich...continued

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Patrick @Patrick - over 3 years ago

Airbank centralizes all your business bank accounts and financial data

Meet Airbank, a startup that is taking advantage of open banking regulation and related APIs to aggregate all your bank accounts. Focused on startups and small and medium companies, the company wants to build an all-in-one banking interface to access financial data, initi...continued

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Casper @Casper - over 3 years ago

Legal marketing haiku: Firm descriptions in 160 characters or less - Reuters

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Casper @Casper - over 3 years ago

Faction raises $4.3M to deploy 3-wheeled EVs for driverless delivery

Faction Technology founder and CEO Ain McKendrick didn’t have the $1 billion or the time that a typical automotive program might need to design and manufacture an EV that could be used for driverless delivery. So, he turned to power sports to fulfill his visi…

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Maureen @Maureen - over 3 years ago

Ford acquires Electriphi as it prepares to woo EV fleet customers

Ford acquires Electriphi as it prepares to woo EV fleet has two electric vehicles in the pipeline — the E-Transit cargo van and F-150 Lighting Pro —aimed at commercial customers. Now, the automaker is rounding out its future EV commercial business with the acquisition o...continued

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Delia @Delia - over 3 years ago

Italy’s Commerce Layer raises $16M led by Coatue for its headless commerce platform

“Headless” commerce — a set of tools that companies can use with their own customized front ends to build apps for selling goods and services — have become a huge business, not just because companies are seeing a bigger demand than ever before for people buying online, bu...continued

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Sandrine @Sandrine - over 3 years ago

How to launch a successful RPA initiative

How to launch a successful RPA more than 25 years of experience as a technical and business consultant, Kevin Buckley helps organizations improve business efficiencies, reduce business costs and improve business outcomesthrough software automation. Robotic process aut...continued

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Casper @Casper - over 3 years ago

Baby Boom or Bust? | History Today

When the pandemic sent the world into lockdown in March 2020, many commentators quipped that a mini baby boom would follow nine months later. The reality was entirely different. Financial insecurity, increased parental responsibilities and anxiety about the future, along ...continued

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Casper @Casper - over 3 years ago

Haskins' goal: Prove love of football to Steelers

11:44 AM ETPITTSBURGH -- Speaking for the first time since his release from Washington, former first-round quarterback Dwayne Haskins said he has one primary goal as he attempts to reboot his career with the Steelers."I just wanted to prove to the coaching staff and my te...continued

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