Transportation Weekly: Amazon'S Secret Acquisition And All The Av Feels
Ambitious Singapore startup Delegate wants to bring its event booking platform to the US: Jon Russell
It’s not often that you hear about a startup from Singapore with ambitions to expand to the U.S, but that’s exactly the goal for event booking service Delegate. Founded in August 2015, the company aims to be a one-stop shop for booking an event, that covers c…
Startup names may have passed peak weirdness: Joanna Glasner
For years, decades even, startup names have been getting weirder. This isn’t a scientific verdict, but it is how things have seemed to someone who spends a lot of hours perusing this stuff.
Startups Weekly: Spotify gets acquisitive and Instacart screws up: Kate Clark
This week in startups: Turvo takes center stage, a mental health unicorn emerges and Reddit rakes in cash.
Feel the beep: This album is played entirely on a PC motherboard speaker: Devin Coldewey
If you're craving a truly different sound with which to slay the crew this weekend, look no further than System Beeps, a new album by shiru8bit — though you may have to drag your old 486 out of storage to play it. Yes, this album runs in MS-DOS and its music …
Transportation Weekly: Amazon's secret acquisition and all the AV feels: Kirsten Korosec
Welcome to Transportation Weekly; I’m your host Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch. I cover all the ways people and goods move from Point A to Point B — today and in the future — whether it’s by bike, bus, scooter, car, train, truck…
Waymo CTO on the company's past, present and what comes next: Kirsten Korosec
A decade ago, about a dozen or so engineers gathered at Google’s main Mountain View campus on Charleston Road to work on Project Chauffeur, a secret endeavor housed under the tech giant’s moonshot factory X. Project Chauffeur — popularly know as the “Google s…
Facebook picks up retail computer vision outfit GrokStyle: Devin Coldewey
If you've ever seen a lamp or chair that you liked and wished you could just take a picture and find it online, well, GrokStyle let you do that — and now the company has been snatched up by Facebook to augments its own growing computer vision department.
Lyft says it has more wheelchair accessible vehicles available in NYC: Megan Rose Dickey
Lyft, which has faced at least one lawsuit pertaining to its alleged discrimination against people with physical abilities, announced today it has expanded its wheelchair accessible vehicle (WAV) service in New York City. Details on the blog are very scarce (…
FDA chief summons Altria and JUUL to Washington to discuss teen vaping: Jonathan Shieber
The head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is calling Altria and Juul to meet in Washington to discuss their tie-up and how it impacts the companies’ plans to combat teen vaping. Earlier this year, Altria invested $12.8 billion investment in Juul. “Aft…
Athenascope nabs $2.5M seed led by First Round to bring gamers AI-edited highlight reels: Lucas Matney
As massive cross-platform gaming titles become even larger time-sucks for a lot of people, it’s probably worth reflecting on how to savor your in-game accomplishments. Streaming of eSports celebrities on sites like Twitch has taken off like no one imagined, b…
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