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Alphabet’s smart city project is winding down and Google will take over its products. Sidewalk Labs CEO Dan Doctoroff announced the news in a letter, in which he noted he is stepping down for health-related reasons. A spokesperson confirmed to Engadget that Sidewalk Labs products will be fold

"speakable-summary" dir="ltr">The rise and pact of influencers has been one of the biggest forces in how the modern online social landscape has evolved in recent tes. Now, a company that’s tapping into that influencer juggernaut, and specifically how it is playing out in the world of marketing

Enterprise SaaS for measuring company carbon emission is hot. Only recently Planetly was acquired by OneTrust for an undisclosed amount. And there are plenty of other startups in the space such as Plan A, Watershed, and Emitwise, all with their own take on the market. Now France-based Sweep, which

The European Parliament has agreed its negotiating position on draft legislation to put limits on how Big Tech can operate with the aim of rebooting competition and fair dealing in digital markets. The proposal also takes aim at so-called ‘killer acquisitions’ where powerful platforms b

Re:cap, a non-dilutive funding platform in a similar vein to Pipe.com and Capchase but based in Europe, has closed a Seed financing round of $111.5 million, in a mix of growth capital and liquidity for the revenue-based financing platform. re:cap's first product is now officially going live, fo

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UBQ Materials, which claims it has developed a plastic-like material made from 100% unsorted household waste, has raised a $170 million funding round led by TPG Rise, TPG's global impact investing platform, made through TPG Rise Climate, the firm's dedicated climate investing fund, and The

Investment from VC and PE into climate tech is booming, reaching $87.5 bilion over H2 2020 and H1 2021, with in excess of $60 billion in the first half of 2021 alone, according to a new report from PWC. This is a 210% increase from the $28.4 billion invested in the 12 months prior; some 14 cents of

Meta is expanding its bug bounty program to reward researchers who report data scraping. The change will allow researchers to report both bugs that could enable scraping activity, as well as previously scraped data that has already been published online. In a blog post, Meta says it believes it is

As part of its recently announced 2022 lineup, Volvo subsidiary Polestar introduced a new single-motor variant of its Polestar 2 electric sedan. If you were waiting on an EPA estimate before reserving one, wait no more. You can expect to get about 270 miles of range on a single charge from the car

A team at Google is today launching a new service called Qaya, which will allow creators to easily set up new web storefronts where they can sell their products and services directly to their audiences. The project is the latest to emerge from Google’s in-house project incubator, Area 120, wh

The challenges facing the U.S. transportation system are plentiful and worsen each year. As demand on our nation's roadways increases, so do safety, efficiency and sustainability issues. The historic $1 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, one of the largest and wide-reaching infras

It was only earlier this week that we learned StudyFree — which connects students with international educational opportunities — had raised a $3 million seed round. But there's more to this than being accepted on a traditional course. The pandemic has turned education into a remote industry

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