Microsoft today announced a major expansion of its Azure IP Advantage program, which provides its Azure users with protection against patent trolls. This program now also provides customers who are building IoT solutions that connect to Azure with access to 10,000 patents to defend themselves against intellectual property lawsuits. What’s maybe most interesting here, though, […]
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Lyft increases IPO price
The ride-hailing giant may charge up to $10 more per share than originally planned.
View More Lyft increases IPO priceUnicorns aren’t profitable, and Wall Street doesn’t care
On Wall Street’s leniency toward unprofitable tech companies and outsized exits.
View More Unicorns aren’t profitable, and Wall Street doesn’t careLidar and perception startup Innoviz raises $132 million
Innoviz, the Israel-based startup developing solid-state lidar sensors and perception software for autonomous vehicles, has raised $132 million in a Series C funding round that includes major Chinese financial institutions. The round, which makes Innoviz one of the better capitalized lidar startups, includes China Merchants Capital (SINO-BLR Industrial Investment Fund, L.P.), Shenzhen Capital Group and […]
View More Lidar and perception startup Innoviz raises $132 millionTransportation weekly: Nuro dreams of autonomous lattes, what is a metamaterial, Volvo takes the wheel
Welcome back to Transportation Weekly; I’m your host Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch. We love the reader feedback. Keep it coming. Never heard of TechCrunch’s Transportation Weekly? Read the first edition here. As I’ve written before, consider this a soft launch. Follow me on Twitter @kirstenkorosec to ensure you see it each week. […]
View More Transportation weekly: Nuro dreams of autonomous lattes, what is a metamaterial, Volvo takes the wheelHow Nuro plans to spend Softbank’s $940 million
Autonomous delivery startup Nuro is bursting with ideas since SoftBank invested nearly $1 billion in February, new filings reveal. A recent patent application details how its R1 self-driving vehicle could carry smaller robots to cross lawns or climb stairs to drop off packages. The company has even taken the step of trademarking the name “Fido” […]
View More How Nuro plans to spend Softbank’s $940 millionStartups Weekly: A much-needed unicorn IPO update
In this week’s newsletter: Details on Pinterest, Lyft, Uber and Zoom’s upcoming IPOs, plus Glossier and Rent The Runway’s big rounds.
View More Startups Weekly: A much-needed unicorn IPO updateEquity Shot: Pinterest and Zoom file to go public
In the latest Equity Shot, Kate Clark and Alex Wilhelm take a closer look at Pinterest and Zoom’s IPO filings.
View More Equity Shot: Pinterest and Zoom file to go publicLyft’s IPO is hot, YC demo day, two new unicorns, and what’s Boy Brow?
This week on Equity: Glossier and Rent The Runway enter the unicorn club and YC debuts 200 startups.
View More Lyft’s IPO is hot, YC demo day, two new unicorns, and what’s Boy Brow?Lyft reveals its IPO price range and fundraising goals
For its Wall Street debut, the company says shares will be priced around $65. According to TechCrunch, Lyft aims to sell over 31 million shares. Lyft adds that stock sales will propel them to raise just over $2 billion. Should expectations be met, Lyf…
View More Lyft reveals its IPO price range and fundraising goalsLyft’s driver wage lawsuit in NYC continues
As Lyft gears up to list its stock on the NASDAQ, the transportation company is facing ongoing litigation regarding driver wages in New York City. Today, a judge denied Lyft’s motion for an injunction blocking the recent ruling that sets a minimum wage for drivers. Still, the judge said she’ll think it over and file […]
View More Lyft’s driver wage lawsuit in NYC continuesLyft sets $62-68 price range for its IPO to raise $2B, will trade as LYFT on Nasdaq
Ride-sharing startup Lyft this morning announced that it is kicking off the roadshow for its IPO — setting the clock ticking for its IPO likely in around two weeks. Around that, it also filled in some more details. The stock will trade as “LYFT” on Nasdaq and the IPO range is currently set for between […]
View More Lyft sets $62-68 price range for its IPO to raise $2B, will trade as LYFT on Nasdaq