Forget those Tesla crashes: GM says you can trust its autonomous vehicles

General Motors is racing to electrify its vast lineup of vehicles in a concerted bid to outpace Tesla as the No. 1 seller of EVs in the world. But it’s also competing with Tesla on a whole other front: autonomous vehicles. On this front, GM feels like it has an edge. It’s hands-free advanced driver-assist… Continue reading Forget those Tesla crashes: GM says you can trust its autonomous vehicles

Lyft assured no layoffs were coming — now employees are scrambling for their next gig

The day before Lyft shut down its in-house rental service and laid off close to 60 employees, the team in charge of the program was consumed by what they thought was a much bigger problem. Throughout June, the rentals team had attempted to get the service up and running in New York without success. The… Continue reading Lyft assured no layoffs were coming — now employees are scrambling for their next gig

This startup just raised $320M to make long-term care inside hospitals obsolete

Cera, a U.K. provider of healthcare inside people’s homes augmented by a platform that allows carers to monitor a patient’s health and potentially flag problems, has raised $320 million (£260 million) in an equity and debt financing round, split roughly 50/50. The equity side of the funding round was led by Cera’s existing investor Kairos… Continue reading This startup just raised $320M to make long-term care inside hospitals obsolete

Daily Crunch: Unknown hacker drains millions of dollars from thousands of Solana hot wallets

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Christine is back from a week of making the world a better place, and now she’s here to help make this a better newsletter as well. Huzzah! — Christine and Haje The… Continue reading Daily Crunch: Unknown hacker drains millions of dollars from thousands of Solana hot wallets

BlueGrace Logistics’ Azad Ratzki Named CIO of the Year Honoree Highlighting Tampa IT Leaders, Top Market for Tech Migration

Prestigious distinction symbolizes the best innovative IT practices to enable company growth TAMPA, Fla., Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — BlueGrace Logistics’ Chief Technology Officer, Azad Ratzki, has been named a 2022 CIO of the Year Honoree awarded to outstanding information technology executives and leaders in Tampa Bay who have excelled at enabling business optimization processes… Continue reading BlueGrace Logistics’ Azad Ratzki Named CIO of the Year Honoree Highlighting Tampa IT Leaders, Top Market for Tech Migration

Uber tie-up with Omio adds train & coach booking to app — starting with UK

Uber is testing adding train and coach travel to its app in the UK so customers can book longer distance ground travel via a fully integrated tie-up with Berlin-based multimodal travel platform, Omio. The latter has built up its own consumer facing apps for booking intercity and international travel, across a wide variety of supported… Continue reading Uber tie-up with Omio adds train & coach booking to app — starting with UK

Uber’s ride with Indian food delivery firm Zomato comes to an end

Uber’s ride with Zomato has concluded. The ride-hailing firm sold its 7.8% stake in the lossmaking food delivery firm on Wednesday for over $390 million, a person familiar with the matter said, becoming the latest large institutional investor to exit the Indian firm. The U.S. firm, which reported a net loss of $2.6 billion for… Continue reading Uber’s ride with Indian food delivery firm Zomato comes to an end

Vietnam’s EWA provider Nano Technologies raises $6.4m led by Openspace

Vietnam’s earned wage access (EWA) provider Nano Technologies has raised $6.4 million in an oversubscribed pre-Series A round led by Singapore-based venture capital firm Openspace, according to an announcement.  Partech Partners, Tekton Ventures, KVision, IT Farma and Sketchnote Partners were the new investors in the round alongside existing backers Golden Gate Ventures, FEBE Ventures, FJLabs,… Continue reading Vietnam’s EWA provider Nano Technologies raises $6.4m led by Openspace

Wikipedia Articles Sway Some Legal Judgments

In 2005, the Irish Supreme Court ruled in favor of a woman who sued a landowner for compensation in 1997 after she lost her footing while watching the sunset and tumbled over a cliff edge, breaking numerous bones in the process. The ruling, which has since been cited in numerous other legal decisions in Ireland,… Continue reading Wikipedia Articles Sway Some Legal Judgments

Uber likely seller of 7.8% stake in India’s Zomato

Uber Technologies is the likely seller of a 7.8% stake in Indian food delivery firm Zomato being disposed of via a $373 million block deal on Wednesday, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter. The offer size of 612 million shares worth $373 million is based on the lower end of a… Continue reading Uber likely seller of 7.8% stake in India’s Zomato