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By 2023, Uber Eats may own 25% of the global food delivery industry worth $191B, but both DoorDash and GrubHub make more sales, and DoorDash is growing fastest — Investor sentiment in Uber is rapidly sinking. Since last week's initial public offering, the company's stock has nosedived … | CNBC: |
Google has a “Purchases” page that shows your purchases based on receipts you have in your Gmail inbox; Google says only you can view your purchases — KEY POINTS — Google saves years of information on purchases you've made, even outside Google, and pulls this information from Gmail.
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| Brian Merchant / Gizmodo: |
Profile of ObEN, which creates “personal artificial intelligences”, life-size holographic AI avatars, by modeling people's appearance and adapting their voice — In January 2019, when China Central Television, the largest broadcast network in the most populous nation in the world …
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Experts are skeptical about Huawei's claim it can ensure a steady components supply without the US, say it would struggle to replace chips, lasers, other parts — SAN FRANCISCO/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chip experts are calling out Huawei for its claims that it could ensure …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Snapchat's popular new gender-changing filter provokes mixed reactions in the LGBTQ community, with some lauding the ability to safely explore themselves — A Snapchat photo filter that lets people see themselves in highly feminized or masculine form has proven wildly popular.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Physical storage startup Clutter, valued at $600M in its last raise, acquired the storage business of rival Omni, which is pivoting to rentals of personal items — On the heels of Clutter announcing a large growth round of $200 million earlier this year, the storage startup is cleaning up the competitive field.
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| Beth Kowitt / Fortune: |
32 current and former employees on the cultural shift inside Google and the decline in trust and communication between the rank and file and the management — Some employees say Google is losing touch with its “Don't be evil” motto. What happens when an empowered tech workforce rebels?
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| Sean Captain / Fast Company: |
Profile of Tall Poppy, which has raised $1M+ seed round to help companies protect employees against online threats from trolls and hackers — Anyone who's spent some time on Twitter knows that vilification and personal attacks-as extreme as threats of rape and murder-are a standard feature of some people's online lives.
Tweets: @lizthegrey
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Salesforce says faulty script deployment gave users access to all of their company's Salesforce data, forcing it to shut down much of its infrastructure Friday — Faulty production script gave users access to all their company's Salesforce data. — Salesforce is going through …
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Vox: |
A look at various tools such as drones, sensors, and AI being deployed at the US-Mexico border, as a proposed “smart wall” garners bipartisan political support — Here's what a so-called “smart wall” of technology at the US-Mexico border looks like. — Graphics by Javier Zarracina/Vox| Esha Vaish / Reuters: |
Swedish startup Einride's driverless truck T-pod gets a permit to make short trips on a public road in an industrial area in central Sweden at up to 5 km/hr — JONKOPING, Sweden (Reuters) - Resembling the helmet of a Star Wars stormtrooper, a driverless electric truck began daily freight deliveries … | Eric Feng: |
VC-backed consumer startups are outperforming enterprise startups at IPOs in this decade, going public more often at higher valuations, compared to the 2000s — On May 10th, ride hailing juggernaut Uber Technologies went public raising $8.1 billion at an initial valuation just over $75 billion.
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