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July 8, 2020
The Colombian trucking and logistics services startup Liftit has raised $22.5 million in a new round of funding to capitalize on its newfound traction in markets across Latin…
Read articleJuly 8, 2020
Karma Automotive has raised a $100 million lifeline from outside investors, as reported by Bloomberg, with the struggling electric vehicle maker’s fortunes likely buoyed by the current market…
Read articleJune 30, 2020
In light of COVID-19 and social distancing regulations, the U.K. has been working on making it easier for people to get from point A to B in cities…
Read articleJune 29, 2020
Crowdsourced navigation platform Waze, which is owned by Google and yet remains a separate, but intertwined product relative to Google Maps, just got one of its biggest UI…
Read articleJune 23, 2020
Teleoperators who remotely monitor and control autonomous vehicles rely on high-performance connectivity to transfer 4K video, multiple audio streams and other data. Even a skosh of latency, jitter…
Read articleJune 18, 2020
Roger Duncan Contributor Roger Duncan is a former Research Fellow at the Energy Institute at the University of Texas at Austin and the former General Manager of Austin…
Read articleJune 17, 2020
Sidewalk congestion is a major pain point for cities, and fully charged scooters for riders are no guarantee. Those are the two main selling points of micromobility docking…
Read articleJune 8, 2020
While most air travel continues to be ground to a halt, a German startup working on what it hopes will be a major breakthrough in flying has raised…
Read articleJune 4, 2020
The world feels as fragile as ever, and those with any options at all are looking to get away this summer. For many, planes and hotel rooms won’t…
Read articleMay 26, 2020
Long-distance ridesharing startup BlaBlaCar announced that it is expanding to scooter sharing. But the company isn’t going to operate its own fleet of scooters. Instead, BlaBlaCar is partnering…
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