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Uber says drivers will remain contractors under AB5, as they aren't core to its business which serves as a platform for several types of digital marketplaces — The ride-hail company shrugs off a new bill in California, but legal challenges loom — Uber won't be reclassifying its drivers …
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California passes landmark bill that requires gig economy workers to be treated as employees, going into effect Jan 1, affecting companies like Uber and Lyft — SACRAMENTO — California legislators approved a landmark bill on Tuesday that requires companies like Uber and Lyft to treat contract workers …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Simbe Robotics, which builds autonomous inventory robots for the retail industry, raises $26M Series A led by Venrock — Robots are coming for the grocery aisle, and that's because they promise to save storeowners invaluable time by inventorying shelves of stock quickly and accurately.
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Sources: Palmer Luckey's border surveillance tech startup Anduril Industries has raised a funding round at a $1B+ valuation from Andreessen Horowitz and others — KEY POINTS — Anduril has secured a funding round with participation from Andreessen Horowitz that values the defense company at more than $1 billion.
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Sources: federal investigators, including the FBI, are probing the conduct and practices of Mithril Capital, the VC firm co-founded by Peter Thiel — Mithril Capital raised over $1 billion on the name of Thiel, one of Silicon Valley's biggest celebrities. Now federal investigators are looking under the hood.| Jared Newman / Fast Company: |
Amazon launches Alexa Answers, a crowdsourcing platform that lets any user answer questions asked by other users, in the US — The Alexa Answers crowdsourcing platform is now open to everyone in the United States. Amazon says it has measures in place to prevent misuse.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Healthy.io, which helps patients analyze urine samples with a testing kit and smartphone app, raises $60M Series C led by Corner Ventures — Roughly six years ago, former Israel chief technology officer Yonatan Adiri cofounded Healthy.io, a digital health care startup leveraging AI …
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Profile of Daniel Dines, the CEO of robotic process automation company UiPath, which has 3,000+ employees around the world and generated $155M revenue in 2018 — The man who at once epitomizes the hottest new growth area in tech and the burgeoning hopes for entrepreneurship in Eastern Europe twirls …
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| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Hands-on with the HTC Vive Cosmos VR headset, which ships on October 3 for $699 with a trial subscription to Viveport Infinity, HTC's unlimited game service — In 2016, HTC revealed the Vive VR headset to the world. In the years since, HTC has released several versions, like the Vive Pro …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Oracle says co-CEO Mark Hurd is taking a leave of absence for health reasons, releases its earnings a day early, reporting $9.2B in revenue, flat YoY — KEY POINTS — Oracle's Mark Hurd, who was hired by founder Larry Ellison in 2010, is taking a leave of absence, the company said on Wednesday.
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| Simon Carraud / Reuters: |
Google has agreed to pay a €500M fine in France to settle a fiscal fraud probe that began four years ago — PARIS (Reuters) - Google agreed to pay a 500 million euro ($548 million) fine in France to settle a fiscal fraud probe that began four years ago, the financial prosecutor's office said on Thursday.| Anthony Cuthbertson / The Independent: |
French Economy and Finance Minister says the country will block the development of Facebook's Libra in the EU as it poses a threat to “monetary sovereignty” — French Finance Minister says: ‘We cannot authorise the development of Libra on European soil’| Jonathan Vanian / Fortune: |
Trifacta, which helps clean corporate data so it can be analyzed, raises $100M from Accel Partners, Greylock Partners, Telstra Ventures, NTT Docomo, and others — Trifacta, a startup that specializes in cleaning corporate data so it can be analyzed, has raised $100 million in funding …
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