EV startup Canoo is gearing up for production in Oklahoma factory

EV startup Canoo has hired hundreds of employees and is homing in on a production date, but critical milestones including landing a battery supplier remain, according to the company’s second quarter earnings report. Canoo’s earnings report comes just a few weeks after the company’

Daily Crunch: Israel-based stroke therapy tech startup BrainQ raises $40M

To get a roundup of technewss's biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for August 16, 2021. While the world deals with myriad issues, we're sticking to our usual remit. Hugs and love to everyone,

Takeovers and Twitter headaches

Hello friends! 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

Thanks for reading Startups Weekly. Want the weekly digest in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here.  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

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

Daily Crunch: 3 US Senators ask Amazon how biometric payment system will handle customers’ palm prints

To get a roundup of technewss's biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. 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 (

Lamborghini’s Countach LPI 800-4 is an 802-horsepower hybrid supercar

After all the leaks and teases, Lamborghini has finally announced its new hybrid-engine Countach. Thankfully, almost everything you need to know about the car is in its model designation: LPI 800-4. The first part is short for Longitudinale Posteriore Ibrido, referencing how the pow

Audio out-of-home advertising is reinventing personalization

Do you remember the first time you received a personalized ad? Perhaps you discussed a product with a friend, and the next day, an advertisement for that product popped up on social media. It almost makes you think someone's listening to your conversations, doesn't it? Over time, consumers

Pushing for an ‘apolitical’ workplace is immoral (and unrealistic)

“We are not a social impact company. No more societal and political discussions on our company account.” That's been the recent message from a number of tech CEOs who have declared that they want the companies they run to be “apolitical” and employees to focus solely on the goals of gro

Daily Crunch: Tiger Global leads $33M Series B for construction tech platform Agora

To get a roundup of technewss's biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for August 12, 2021. A few things to kick us off: First, the worlds of politics and technology are increasingly butting heads. W