The Station: Micromobility in North America, Joby Aviation makes its debut and a sidewalk bot invasion
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Indian bike taxi service Rapido raises $52 million
Rapido, a bike taxi aggregator in India, said on Monday it has raised $52 million in a new financing round as the six-year-old startup looks to find space in a category dominated by Ola and Uber in the South Asian market.
The six-year-old startup's new funding — Series C — was finan
My big jump: Sukhinder Singh Cassidy’s CEO journey
After listening to others pitch me a few different job opportunities while still at Google in 2008, it became clear to me that I would make a better decision if I could fully explore the larger landscape of new companies emerging in Silicon Valley.
I had spent the last several years focusing on Goo
Takeovers and Twitter headaches
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Lucas is still out for a few more days, so I’m filling in for him again on this week’s Week In Review. To recap: I’m Greg. I started at TC back when deciding who to put in your MySpace Top 8 was a very serious matter and being able to summon an Uber with a button pr
Silicon Valley should fight its stigma against military work
Political debate at work was not encouraged when I was training to be a doctor at the LAC+USC Medical Center in the early 2000s.
On the 13th-floor jail ward, we had a professional duty to care for drunk drivers and thieves just like any other patient and leave any opinions about criminal justice po
Gillmor Gang: Who’s on first
On this edition of the Gillmor Gang, Brent Leary shows off his new wireless adaptor for his livestreaming studio. The result is a captivating view of his console as he switches between closeups and incoming feed from the rest of the Gang, all captured in a widescreen cinematic view. The underlying
Edtech's next mission: Go everywhere
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This past week, edtech entrepreneurs, investors and analysts congregated at ASU+GSV, a yearly global edtech conference, to reflect on the sector's newfound spotlight after the massive jolt o
China roundup: Alibaba’s sexual assault scandal and more delayed IPOs
"">Hello and welcome back to technewss's China roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world.
A sexual assault case at Alibaba has sparked a new round of #MeToo reckoning in China. Industry observers believe this is
How the law got it wrong with Apple Card
Advocates of algorithmic justice have begun to see their proverbial “days in court” with legal investigations of enterprises like UHG and Apple Card. The Apple Card case is a strong example of how current anti-discrimination laws fall short of the fast pace of scientific research in the emergin
Growth roundup: Storytelling for startups, early-stage influencers, retail media spend
“I like to think of successful brand-building as creating a company that customers would be upset to separate from their identity,” growth marketing expert Julian Shapiro told us earlier this week. “For example, they'd cease to be the man with Slack stickers all over his laptop. Or the wo
Extra Crunch roundup: 3 lies VCs tell, betting big on Kubernetes, NYC’s enterprise boom
Although older adults are one of the fastest-growing demographics, they’re quite underserved when it comes to consumer tech.
The global population of people older than 65 will reach 1.5 billion by 2050, and members of this cohort — who are leading longer, active lives — have plenty of mon
Daily Crunch: 3 US Senators ask Amazon how biometric payment system will handle customers’ palm prints
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Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for August 13, 2021. We made it to Friday, everyone. Congratulations! Despite it being the end of the week, we still have lots t
Building a growth community in India with Ayush Srivastava of Growth Folks
Indian startups of all sizes are raising record amounts of investment funding this year and getting public exits, as we’ve been covering in recent months. To hear more about the growth behind the numbers we caught up with Ayush Srivastava, a co-founder of growth marketing group Growth Folks (
Google infringed on five Sonos patents, according to preliminary ruling
Way back in January 2020, Sonos sued Google over patent infringement. Today, the streaming speaker company scored an early victory with the U.S. International Trade Commission. A preliminary ruling penned by ITC chief administrative law judge Charles Bullock finds that Google infringed on five pate