Autonomous delivery company Nuro has acquired Ike, a startup founded by veterans of Apple, Google and Uber Advanced Technologies Group that aimed to commercialize self-driving trucks. The deal, the latest in a busy season of acquisitions and consolidation in the autonomous vehicle industry, brings together two companies that have deep ties and shared technology. And [âŠ] Read more âș
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So, onto 2021 we go. Let's see if the bulls are right again. Read more âș
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Voyager Space Holdings continues to build up its portfolio of strategic space service offerings with the acquisition of a majority stake in X.O. Markets, the parent company of Nanoracks. Nanoracks has provided commercial space services for years now, and most recently provided the Bishop Airlock that was installed on the International Space Station. Bishop is [âŠ] Read more âș
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The undoing of Nikola continues. Today, the company announced the termination of its contract with Republic Services for 2,500 garbage trucks. Announced back in August, the deal had Nikola building garbage trucks in 2023 with on-road testing scheduled for 2024. This is the latest deal to unravel for Nikola as it tries to patch up [âŠ] Read more âș
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When we examine any year in enterprise M&A, itâs tempting to highlight the biggest, gaudiest deals â and there were plenty of those in 2020. Iâve written about 34 acquisitions so far this year. Of those, 15 were worth $1 billion or more, 12 were small enough to not require that the companies disclose the [âŠ] Read more âș
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Ahead of the turning of the New Year, many people are wishing they could do something about the environment. Now, a UK startup hopes to make our environmental impact more personal. Yayzy has now launched an iOS app (but Android is coming) which literally links to your bank account to work out the environmental impact [âŠ] Read more âș
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ByteDance, TikTokâs Chinese parent company, is entering the health industry as it seeks to diversify a business dependent on advertising and livestreaming sales. The company, which prides itself on content algorithms, has started seeking talent in AI drug discovery across Mountain View, Shanghai and Beijing, its recruiting page shows. âWe are looking for candidates to [âŠ] Read more âș
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Instant messaging app Telegram is approaching 500 million users and plans to start generating revenue starting next year to keep the business operational, its founder Pavel Durov said on Wednesday. Durov said he has personally bankrolled the seven-year-old business to date, but as the startup scales he is looking for ways to monetize the instant [âŠ] Read more âș
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Youâve heard of challenger banks? Now meet the challenger energy suppliers. The UKâs Octopus Energy has attained a $2.06 billion valuation (ÂŁ1.5 billion) after attracting a $200 million (ÂŁ150 million) investment from Tokyo Gas for a 9.7% stake, in order to launch a joint venture. Octopus will own 30% of the venture, with Tokyo Gas [âŠ] Read more âș
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Lalamove will extend its network to cover more small Chinese cities after raising $515 million in Series E funding, the on-demand logistics company announced on its site. The round was led by Sequoia Capital China, with participation from Hillhouse Capital and Shunwei Capital. All three are returning investors. According to Crunchbase data, this brings Lalamoveâs [âŠ] Read more âș
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WeRide, one of Chinaâs most-funded startups developing autonomous driving capabilities, said on Wednesday that it has raised a $200 million strategic round from Chinese bus maker Yutong. Mega investments arenât uncommon at companies like WeRide developing the next-generation level 4 driving standard, which denotes that the car can handle the majority of driving situations independently without [âŠ] Read more âș
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TaskRabbit has reset an unknown number of customer passwords after confirming it detected âsuspicious activityâ on its network. The IKEA -owned online marketplace for on-demand labor said it reset user passwords out of an abundance of caution and that it âtook steps to prevent access to any user accounts,â a TaskRabbit spokesperson told TechCrunch. âAs [âŠ] Read more âș
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The stimulus bill includes significant changes to copyright law and enforcement, the Biden administration may have to build a presidential Twitter following from scratch and we round up the startups that shut down this year. This is your Daily Crunch for December 22, 2020. The big story: Stimulus bill increases penalties for illegal streaming services [âŠ] Read more âș
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Content moderation has been a thorny topic in 2020. And when I say âthorny,â I mean in the sense of having multiple congressional hearings on the subject. Twitter and Facebook in particular have been mired in concerns around the subject, fielding complaints that they both havenât done enough to weed out problematic content and suggestions [âŠ] Read more âș
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Tesla stockâs miraculously bizarre 2020 might have a gone different way had Appleâs Tim Cook agreed to a meeting in recent years, or so says Elon Musk. Reacting to Reutersâ recent news that Apple has not abandoned its electric car program and is still pursuing plans to build a physical vehicle, Musk tweeted that in [âŠ] Read more âș
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Bandit ML aims to optimize and automate the process of presenting the right offer to the right customer. The startup was part of the summer 2020 class at accelerator Y Combinator . It also raised a $1.32 million seed round in September from YC, Haystack Fund, Webb Investment Network, Liquid 2 Ventures, Jigsaw Ventures, Basecamp Fund, [âŠ] Read more âș
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NASA has finished work on a new launchpad at its Kennedy Space Center in Florida â Launch Complex 48 (LC-48), a pad that will be able to support smaller launch vehicles than either LC-39A or B, or SLC-41, which currently host SpaceX, SLS and ULA launches respectively. Itâs designed to be able to be used [âŠ] Read more âș
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AWS, Amazonâs flourishing cloud arm, has been growing at a rapid clip for more than a decade. An early public cloud infrastructure vendor, it has taken advantage of first-to-market status to become the most successful player in the space. In fact, one could argue that many of todayâs startups wouldnât have gotten off the ground [âŠ] Read more âș
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If 2020 showed us how hard âZoom schoolâ really is, then 2021 should not be about creating more versions of Zoom schools. Read more âș
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In this country, we have a longstanding peaceful transfer of power for the executive office, even in the wake of the hardest-fought elections. Certain circumstances have led many to question whether the tradition will continue come January 20. Despite his very vocal protestations, however, the current president has agreed to step aside, should all of [âŠ] Read more âș
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