Xiaomi sues the US government over blacklisting
Smartphone maker Xiaomi has sued the United States government over its inclusion in a military blacklist. The filing, which was submitted on Friday, calls the decision “unlawful and unconstitutional.”
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Telemedico gets $6.6M to grow the reach of its digital health SaaS
Poland-based Telemedico has closed a €5.5 million (~$6.6 million) Series A round of funding. The round is led by Flashpoint Venture Capital, Uniqa Ventures, PKO VC, Black Pearls VC (an existing investor) and Adamed.
Telehealth services specifically, and digital health more broadly, have racked up
Google now gives you more information about the sites in your search results
Google regularly tweaks its search results pages and tries out new designs. It’s not that often, though, that it adds new features to those results, so when it does, it’s worth paying attention to.
Today, Google is adding a new menu item to virtually all search results in English in the
Kleiner Perkins’ Bucky Moore will outline what to think about before raising a Series A at Early Stage in April
Kleiner Perkins is one of the most prestigious venture firms in all of Silicon Valley. The firm has invested in startups like Twitter, Google, Square, Peloton, Spotify, Robinhood and many, many more. As such, the folks at Kleiner Perkins know a thing or two about what it takes to fundraise across t
Robinhood's long weekend brings a total of $3.4 billion to its balance sheet
Popular, highly-scrutinized trading app Robinhood has raised $2.4 billion to its balance sheet from shareholders, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal and then confirmed by the company. The private startup raised $1 billion on Friday, meaning that it has raised $3.4 billion in a handful of
The Station: AutoX meets a robotaxi milestone, Spin adds a third wheel and Lime embraces mopeds
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Ford vehicles will be powered by Google’s Android operating system
Millions of Ford and Lincoln-branded vehicles will be powered by Android operating system beginning in 2023 as part of a six-year partnership announced Monday that will bring embedded Google apps and services to drivers.
Ford and Google said as part of the partnership they will establish a new coll
Ford bets on Google Cloud for its digital transformation
Google and Ford today announced a new partnership around bringing Android Automotive to Ford’s Ford and Lincoln-branded cars, starting in 2023. But at the same time, the two companies also announced that Ford has chosen Google Cloud as its preferred cloud provider.
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Weights & Biases raises $45M for its machine learning tools
Weights & Biases, a startup building tools for machine learning practitioners, is announcing that it has raised $45 million in Series B funding.
The company was founded by Lukas Biewald, Chris Van Pelt and Shawn Lewis — Biewald and Van Pelt previously founded CrowdFlower/Figure Eight (acquire
Felicis’ Aydin Senkut and Guideline’s Kevin Busque will look back on the Series B deal that brought them together
Aydin Senkut is a Swiss Army knife of an investor. He has been on the Midas List for the past seven years, with early investments in companies like Shopify, Rovio, Fitbit, Ayden, Credit Karma, SoundHound and more.
One such investment is Guideline, an enterprise tech company focused on giving small
Apple launches an iCloud Passwords extension for Chrome users on Windows
Apple has introduced an iCloud Passwords Chrome extension that will make life easier for those who use both Windows computers and other Apple devices, like a MacBook or an iPhone. The new browser extension lets you access on your other Apple devices the passwords you saved in Safari, then use them
Amazon says government demands for user data spiked by 800% in 2020
New transparency figures released by Amazon show the company responded to a record number of government data demands in the last six months of 2020.
The new figures land in the company’s bi-annual transparency report published to Amazon’s website over the weekend.
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Amazon expands its biometric-based Amazon One palm reader system to more retail stores
Last fall, Amazon introduced a new biometric device, Amazon One, that allowed customers to pay at Amazon Go stores using their palm. Today, the company says the device is being rolled out to additional Amazon stores in Seattle — an expansion that will make the system available across eight to
5 ways Robinhood's rushed UX changes exacerbated the GameStop crisis
The GameStop debacle has been hailed by many as a first of its kind form of digital activism, with the “crowd” coming together to stick it to Wall Street, and specifically hedge funds that are in the business of short selling.
However, what if you’re a startup or scale-up caught i