Category: Mobility Companies

Using automated data augmentation to advance our Waymo Driver

To help safely navigate the complexities of the road, our self-driving technology needs to see and identify what’s around it. To perceive its surroundings, the Waymo Driver relies on our powerful custom sensor suite of lidar, cameras, and radars, while neural nets empower the “brain” of our self-driving system to understand the sensor data and… Continue reading Using automated data augmentation to advance our Waymo Driver

Grab Hires Peter Oey as Chief Financial Officer

Grab, Southeast’s Asia’s leading super app, announced today that it has strengthened its finance division by hiring corporate finance veteran, Peter Oey, as Chief Financial Officer.  SINGAPORE – April 1, 2020 – Grab Holdings Inc. (“Grab”), Southeast’s Asia’s leading super app, announced today that it has strengthened its finance division by hiring corporate finance veteran, Peter… Continue reading Grab Hires Peter Oey as Chief Financial Officer

Lyft: Update from our Co-Founders

First, we know no words will do justice to everyone’s individual experience over the last couple weeks. All of us at Lyft feel the weight of our responsibility to the community, particularly right now. Today we wanted to share some of our initial efforts to help. Connecting drivers with additional sources of income While ride… Continue reading Lyft: Update from our Co-Founders

Lyft: A Note for the Lyft Driver Community

Yesterday, federal legislation was signed into law that intends to slow the spread of COVID-19 and provide assistance to millions of working families across the country who are impacted by the coronavirus.  We support this new law, which contains emergency measures and funding that directly impacts the Lyft community – our riders, our drivers, our… Continue reading Lyft: A Note for the Lyft Driver Community

Announcing Waymo’s Open Dataset Virtual Challenges

Last August, we invited the research community to join us in accelerating self-driving technology with the release of one of the largest multi-sensor self-driving datasets available today. Even as COVID-19 continues to develop, we are committed to fostering an environment of innovation and learning – one that can continue to grow and thrive in our… Continue reading Announcing Waymo’s Open Dataset Virtual Challenges

Uber: Uber Announces Analyst Call

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Uber Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: UBER) will host a conference call with analysts on Thursday, March 19, 2020 at 5:30 a.m. Pacific Time (8:30 a.m. Eastern Time) to discuss the state of the business in light of COVID-19, and what the company is doing to respond. A live webcast of the conference call can… Continue reading Uber: Uber Announces Analyst Call

Grab Collaborates with IMDA to pilot Grab Ventures Ignite in Singapore

Singapore, 17 March 2020 — Grab, Southeast Asia’s leading super app, and the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) today announced a partnership to pilot Grab Ventures Ignite (GVI), a 14-week accelerator programme, for Singapore-based startups with interest to venture overseas. The Singapore pilot of GVI will focus on high potential startups with an aspiration to… Continue reading Grab Collaborates with IMDA to pilot Grab Ventures Ignite in Singapore