Tech
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418Naspers co-leads $14.5M extension round in mobility startup WhereIsMyTransport
Many people in emerging markets depend on informal public transport to move across cities. But while there are ride-hailing and bus-hailing applications...
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France fines Google $268M for adtech abuses and gets interoperability commitments
France’s competition watchdog, L’Autorité de la concurrence, has fined Google up to €220 million (~$268M) in a case related to self-preferencing within...
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Gillmor Gang: Fractured Fairy Tales
1971 is the name of the year and an Apple TV+ documentary series billed as The Year That Music Changed Everything. It’s...
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520Google’s Gradient Ventures leads $8.2M Series A for Vault Platform’s misconduct reporting SaaS
Fixing workplace misconduct reporting is a mission that’s snagged London-based Vault Platform backing from Google’s AI focused fund, Gradient Ventures, which is...
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Elon Musk officially hits the brakes on Tesla Model S Plaid+
Tesla CEO Elon has made it official and publicly cancelled plans to produce the Model S Plaid+, a supercharged version of the...
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China’s drive to compete against Starlink for the future of orbital internet
There has been a wave of businesses over the past several years hoping to offer broadband internet delivered from thousands of satellites...
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499In search of a new crypto deity
Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review! Last week, I wrote about tech taking on Disney. This week, I’m talking...
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404Get thrifty, and your startup might just acquire a generation
Etsy, a marketplace for kitschy and creative DIY goods, acquired Depop, a hippy and thrifty marketplace for resale goods, for $1.625 billion...
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Um, where is the SEC when it comes to SPACs and conflicts of interest?
Today, my colleague Kirsten Korosec reported that the autonomous vehicle startup Aurora is close to finalizing a deal to merge with one...
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Cruise can now give passengers rides in driverless cars in California
Cruise, the autonomous vehicle subsidiary of GM that also has backing from SoftBank Vision Fund, Microsoft and Honda, has secured a permit...