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BadVR is using government grants to build a business that’s independent of venture capital – StockSharksNewsh
When the Los Angeles-based extended reality data visualization company, BadVR, first heard that one of its earliest benefactors, Magic Leap, was about to shed 1,000 jobs and was fighting for its life, the young startup was unfazed.…
CP to pilot hydrogen-powered train to decarbonize freight transport
Canadian Pacific says it will pilot a new project to build a hydrogen-powered train. The railway company says the line-haul locomotive will be the first of its kind in North America once it is retrofitted with hydrogen fuel cells and new…
UiPath Says It Filed Confidentially for IPO, Could Be Valued at More Than $20 Billion
UiPath Inc., an automation software maker that could be valued at more than $20 billion, said it has filed confidentially for an initial public offering. The size and price of the offering hasn’t been determined yet, UiPath said in a…
Goldman Sachs Reportedly Picked to Lead Coinbase IPO
One day after cryptocurrency market operator Coinbase announced that it confidentially filed the regulatory paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for an initial public offering (IPO), a report indicates that the…
Fintech Focus Roundup For December 12, 2020
Webull CEO On Crypto Assets, Innovation What Happened: Anthony Denier, CEO of Webull Financial, recently joined “The Raz Report,” where he discussed Webull’s expansion into cryptocurrency trading. Denier said Webull is making…
Google’s labor stumbles – StockSharksNewsh
Welcome back to Human Capital, a weekly newsletter that looks at the latest in diversity and inclusion in tech, as well as labor. This week, Google made headlines a couple of times for its workplace issues, while Coinbase found itself…
How one company reached revenues of $200M without VC money – StockSharksNewsh
Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday?…
Drones Are Poised to Reshape Home Design
Let’s say you want a hamburger. With a few taps on your phone—no onions, please—the order is placed, with delivery set for within the hour. Soon, your specially wrapped burger appears on the horizon, borne aloft by a humming drone. A…
It’s holiday season for tech unicorns – StockSharksNewsh
Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. PT). Subscribe here. Did you follow all of the unicorn news from the last couple of weeks? No? Here’s a list of…
Mexico’s President Pushed Hard for Release of General Arrested in U.S.
MEXICO CITY—The October arrest in the U.S. of Mexico’s former defense minister sparked anger among senior Mexican military officers, a key factor that led President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to push hard for the release of the…
Hulu’s ‘Happiest Season’ casts fresh characters in a familiar story – StockSharksNewsh
“Happiest Season,” a new film on Hulu, feels like a traditional, Christmas-themed romantic comedy — with one important exception. The movie stars Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis as Abby and Harper, a lesbian couple who are visiting…
How to Build a Home on the Moon
The home is pelted with micrometeorites as fast as bullets and jostled by quakes that last for hours. Temperatures can climb past 250 degrees during the day and plunge below -200 degrees at night. Looking out the window risks radiation…
Alibaba (NYSE:BABA), JD.com (NASDAQ:JD) – JD.com Begins Limited Acceptance Of Chinese Digital Yuan Currency
Chinese e-commerce giant and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA) competitor JD.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: JD) will become China’s first platform to begin accepting a digital version of the country’s currency, according to Reuters. What…
Web Summit will hold Rise 2022 in Kuala Lumpur, launch a new event in Tokyo – StockSharksNewsh
Web Summit announced today that it will revive Rise, one of Asia’s largest tech conferences, in March 2022, moving it to Kuala Lumpur after five years in Hong Kong. It also announced a new event, called Web Summit Tokyo, that will launch…
As cyclical stocks rebound, investors eyeing whether their earnings comeback will justify the move
Caterpillar Inc. excavators are displayed for sale at the Whayne Supply Co. dealership in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S., on Monday, Jan. 27, 2020. Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty Images This week, investors shifted money away from…
Neuroglee gets $2.3 million to develop digital therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases – StockSharksNewsh
There are now about 50 million people with dementia globally, a number the World Health Organization expects to triple by 2050. Alzheimer’s is the leading cause of dementia and caregivers are often overwhelmed, without enough support.…
Amazon Is Beefing Up Its Cloud Call-Center Tools as More Customer-Support Staff Work From Home
Amazon. com Inc.’s cloud division Tuesday said it is introducing new features to make it easier for call-center agents to help customers, amid growing demand for cloud-based customer-service centers during the coronavirus pandemic. Among…
This Week On Benzinga Cannabis Hour: Entourage Effect’s Matt Hawkins, Cannaphyll CEO Jude Bond, Leah Thomas of The Greens Girl
Entourage Effect Capital managing director Matt Hawkins, Cannaphyll CEO Jude Bond and Leah Thomas from The Greens Girl Co. are this week’s guests on the Benzinga Cannabis Hour. Javier Hasse and Elliot Lane will preside over an in-depth…
‘The Crown’ introduces its Princess Diana – StockSharksNewsh
“The Crown,” Netflix’s lavish historical drama about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, has returned for a fourth season that focuses on Elizabeth’s relationship with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and on Prince Charles’ troubled…
Anger, Fear and Sorrow Consume Armenians Leaving Land Returned to Azerbaijan
KALBAJAR, Azerbaijan—Charred homes and businesses line the main road that cuts through the mountain villages in this part of the South Caucasus. A faint smell of smoke hangs in the air. On the side of one torched building someone has…
Tesla, Walgreens, DraftKings, Square and more
CEO of Tesla Motors Elon Musk reacts following the company’s initial public offering at the NASDAQ market in New York June 29, 2010 Brendan McDermid | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Tesla — Tesla…
WhiteHat Jr’s founder files $2.6M defamation suit against critic – StockSharksNewsh
Karan Bajaj, an Indian entrepreneur who teaches meditation and in a recent book guides others on how to avoid noise, is going after the most vocal critic of his startup. Bajaj, founder of coding platform aimed at kids WhiteHat Jr, has…
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:REGN) – Regeneron’s COVID Treatment Gets Emergency FDA Approval
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued emergency use authorization for Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc‘s (NASDAQ: REGN) COVID-19 antibody cocktail. Why It Matters: The two antibodies in the treatment, casirivimab and imdevimab,…
Week in Review: Venture-backed loneliness – StockSharksNewsh
Hello everyone and welcome back to Week in Review! Natasha here, subbing in for Lucas while he’s out. This week, we’ll talk about loneliness raising money and how Zoom fatigue is fueling innovation. For everyone celebrating, happy…
Xesto is a foot-scanning app that simplifies shoe gifting – StockSharksNewsh
You wait ages for foot-scanning startups to help with the tricky fit issue that troubles online shoe shopping and then two come along at once: Launching today in time for Black Friday sprees is Xesto — which, like Neatsy, which we wrote…
G-20 Leaders Meet Virtually Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia—Saudi Arabia opened a summit of G-20 leaders Saturday that was held virtually because of the coronavirus pandemic, which has ravaged the global economy and infected nearly 58 million people. King Salman bin Abdulaziz…
Marissa Mayer is back and she wants to fix your address book
Marissa Mayer, former CEO of Yahoo! Inc. Bloomberg | Getty Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer on Wednesday announced the launch of Sunshine, a consumer software start-up that is debuting with an address book app that relies on artificial…
A bug meant Twitter Fleets could still be seen after they disappear – StockSharksNewsh
Twitter is the latest social media site to allow users to experiment with posting disappearing content. Fleets, as Twitter calls them, allows its mobile users post short stories, like photos or videos with overlaying text, that are set to…
Apple slashes commissions, Twitter launches Fleets, warnings about Parler – StockSharksNewsh
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the TechCrunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 204 billion downloads and…
How the pandemic drove the IPO wave we see today – StockSharksNewsh
This is The TechCrunch Exchange, a newsletter that goes out on Saturdays, based on the column of the same name. You can sign up for the email here. I had a neat look into the world of mental health startup fundraising planned for this…
Uber’s Black employee base shrinks – StockSharksNewsh
Welcome back to Human Capital, where I break down the latest in diversity, equity and inclusion, and labor in tech. TL;DR: This week, Apple announced its third head of diversity and inclusion in four years, Uber’s Black employee base…
Suffering Emerging Markets Can Bounce Back From the Depths
Asia’s emerging-market stocks are on track to outperform peers elsewhere in the world by the greatest margin in a quarter of a century this year, as stocks in East Asia’s manufacturing hubs steam ahead. But that yawning crevasse could…
5 user experience fails and how to fix them – StockSharksNewsh
Hulu is the first major streaming platform to offer a social watching experience. And with most major league sports now being allowed to resume behind closed doors, Hulu’s combined proposition with ESPN will likely help entertain the…
More States Offer Covid-19 Contact-Tracing Apps, But Adoption Is Uneven
Covid-19 contact-tracing apps from Apple Inc. and Google are coming to more states, along with evidence that they can help slow infections as long as enough people use them. Fourteen states and Washington, D.C., have recently adopted the…
All IPOs should be paid for in Robux – StockSharksNewsh
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast (now on Twitter!), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is an all-time first for the show, it’s an Equity Leftovers. Which means that we’re…
Watch SpaceX launch a satellite that will monitor the world’s oceans – StockSharksNewsh
SpaceX is set to launch a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Saturday morning, with a target liftoff time of 9:17 AM PST (12:17 PM EST). This is the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Mission, which carries a satellite of…
‘Futures Outlook’ Traders Weigh In On Copper
Brian Stutland said on CNBC’s “Futures Outlook” copper is trading higher on the news of vaccine and the reflation trade. He sees a real demand for copper and before he starts to buy it, he wants to see a trade above the 2017-2018 high. In…
Despite commitment to anti-racism, Uber’s Black employee base has decreased – StockSharksNewsh
Uber today released its latest diversity report, showing a decline in the overall representation of Black employees in the U.S. despite an increased focus on racial justice this year in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd. In…
Mobileye taps Luminar to supply lidar for its robotaxi fleet – StockSharksNewsh
Luminar, the buzzy sensor startup that is on the verge of becoming a publicly traded company, locked in a supplier deal to furnish Intel subsidiary Mobileye with lidar for its fleet of autonomous vehicles. The deal, announced Friday, will…
Tesla Motors, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA), Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) – Tesla Short Sellers Have Taken A $4B Hit This Week
A huge 2020 got even better this week for Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) investors after Tesla was confirmed it will be added to the S&P 500 index. Tesla shares hit new all-time highs of $508.61 this week following the S&P 500 news in one of…
Airlifts and Body Bags. Inside the French Hospital Hit Hardest by Covid-19.
CHAMBÉRY, France—In a wood-paneled boardroom not far from the packed intensive-care unit, the director of France’s hardest-hit hospital this fall gathered his department heads for a Covid-19 crisis meeting. The next 48 hours figured to be…
Covid testing faces delays again as demand spikes ahead of the holidays
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Deadly Clashes Rock Uganda After Arrest of Opposition Presidential Candidate
KAMPALA, Uganda—Cities across Uganda erupted into deadly violence on Thursday, a day after the government arrested the main opposition candidate ahead of presidential elections in January. Security forces fired live rounds at tire-burning…
‘Highly uneven’ recovery needs more stimulus
Fed’s Brainard: ‘Highly uneven’ recovery needs more stimulus Search quotes, news & videos Source link
Post Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:POST) – Post Holdings: Q4 Earnings Insights
Shares of Post Holdings (NYSE:POST) rose 0.83% in after-market trading after the company reported Q4 results. Quarterly Results Earnings per share decreased 58.27% over the past year to $0.58, which missed the estimate of $0.77. Revenue…
China important for US businesses hit by the coronavirus pandemic
China important for US businesses hit by the coronavirus pandemic Search quotes, news & videos Source link
Airbnb S-1 IPO filing drops, plans to trade under ABNB symbol
Airbnb S-1 IPO filing drops, plans to trade under ABNB symbol Search quotes, news & videos Source link
For Walmart’s Post-Covid Outlook, No Plus Is a Minus
Positive vaccine developments—most recently from Moderna —are allowing investors to imagine a life after the pandemic. For big-box retailers such as Walmart , the question no longer centers around how much business they can grab but how…
Virgin Galactic planning to launch suborbital test flight this month
Virgin Galactic will reach space again just two weeks from now, if all goes according to plan. Virgin Galactic aims to launch its VSS Unity space plane on its third piloted test flight to suborbital space between Nov. 19 and Nov. 23,…
IAC Shares Rally On Vimeo Funding, Possible Spinout
IAC/InterActive Corp shares are trading higher after reporting third-quarter earnings and announcing a possible spinoff of its Vimeo business. Q3 Earnings: Third-quarter revenue was up 12% year-over-year. The company reported revenue up…
Maxar eyes September 2021 launch for WorldView Legion satellites
Maxar Technologies plans to launch its first two WorldView Legion satellites as early as September 2021 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Maxar planned to begin…
Volkswagen’s Traton Acquires Truck Company Navistar For $3.7 Billion
Traton SE has paid $3.7 billion to acquire the US truck company Navistar International Corp. What Happened: Traton SE, Volkswagen AG’s truck division, will acquire $3.7 billion worth of outstanding shares of Navistar International Corp.…
Apple, Sony both held talks about buying podcaster Wondery
Apple Inc. and Sony Music Entertainment have each held talks about potentially acquiring Wondery, the producer of “Dirty John” and “Dr. Death,” according to people familiar with the matter, setting the stage for the biggest deal yet in…
Suspended Ant IPO Shows Growing Regulatory Focus on Fintech Giant
The sudden halt to Ant Group Co.’s giant initial public offering left investors hanging, employees shellshocked and shareholders trying to come to grips with why China pulled the plug on the record-breaking deal when it was so close to…
Is Wall Street losing its tech enthusiasm? – StockSharksNewsh
This is The TechCrunch Exchange, a newsletter that goes out on Saturdays, based on the column of the same name. You can sign up for the email here. Over the past few months the IPO market made it plain that some public investors were…
Uber Eats hit with claims of ‘reverse racism’ – StockSharksNewsh
Nellie Peshkov, formerly Reddit’s VP of People and Culture, is now Chief People Officer. Her appointment to the C-suite is part of the much-needed, growing trend of tech companies elevating employees focused on diversity and inclusion to…
The 2020s promise better tech solutions to humanity’s biggest problems – StockSharksNewsh
Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. PT). Subscribe here. Let’s think beyond Monday, for a minute, to the trends playing out in technology this…
In Rural Colombia, Narcotics Gangs Step Into Power Vacuum
In Rural Colombia, Narcotics Gangs Step Into Power Vacuum Source link
Investors will regret selling U.S. stocks on Europe Covid-19 spikes
Cramer: Investors will regret selling U.S. stocks on Europe Covid-19 spikes Search quotes, news & videos Source link
Joe Rogan’s Podcast Sparks Tensions Inside Spotify
Spotify Technology SA’s $100 million bet on Joe Rogan has put the audiostreaming company in business with one of podcasting’s most popular—and polarizing—voices. Amid controversy, executives are standing by that voice. The deal to bring…