Postmates is launching a new feature called Postmates Party that lets customers within the same neighborhood pool their orders. In return, these customers get the food delivered for free, eliminating a major pinch point for potential Postmates users. The feature illustrates how Postmates, one of the earlier entrants to the billion-dollar food delivery wars, is […]
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In big tech’s future expansion plans, public good should be the corporate incentive
Yung Wu Contributor Yung Wu is the CEO of MaRS Discovery District, a Toronto-based innovation hub. More posts by this contributor To actually change the world, Big Tech needs to grow up The cancellation of Amazon’s planned expansion in New York exposes the truth about its HQ2 promises. In the end, the company seemed mainly […]
View More In big tech’s future expansion plans, public good should be the corporate incentiveSingapore fintech startup Instarem closes $41M Series C for global growth
Singapore’s Instarem, a fintech startup that helps banks and consumers send money overseas at lower cost, has closed a $41 million Series C financing round to go after global expansion opportunities. The four-year-old company announced a first close of $20 million last November, and it has now doubled that tally (and a little extra) thanks […]
View More Singapore fintech startup Instarem closes $41M Series C for global growthGM Cruise snags Dropbox HR head to hire 1,000 engineers by the end of the year
GM Cruise plans to hire 1,000 more engineers over the next nine months, TechCrunch has learned. It’s an aggressive move by the autonomous vehicle technology company to double its size as it pushes to deploy a robotaxi service by the end of the year. Arden Hoffman, who helped scale Dropbox, will leave the file-sharing and […]
View More GM Cruise snags Dropbox HR head to hire 1,000 engineers by the end of the yearBottomless has a solution for lazy coffee addicts
Bottomless, one of the 200-plus startups in Y Combinator’s latest batch, uses a smart scale to automatically restock your java supply.
View More Bottomless has a solution for lazy coffee addictsPioneer Square Labs is invigorating Seattle’s startup ecosystem
How the startup studio’s “validation engine” has made it one of the best company builders in the business.
View More Pioneer Square Labs is invigorating Seattle’s startup ecosystemTaxing your privacy
Joe Apprendi Contributor Joe Apprendi is a general partner at Revel Partners. More posts by this contributor The new era in mobile Big data’s humble beginnings Data collection through mobile tracking is big business and the potential for companies helping governments monetize this data is huge. For consumers, protecting yourself against the who, what and […]
View More Taxing your privacySearch marketing company Botify raises $20M
Botify, a search engine optimization company that works with customers like Expedia and Nike, announced today that it has raised $20 million in Series B funding. Co-founder and CEO Adrien Menard said that the opportunity in SEO is “even bigger now than in the past,” and that the problem is much broader problem than many realize. […]
View More Search marketing company Botify raises $20MClutter confirms SoftBank-led $200M investment for its on-demand storage service
There’s plenty of speculation right now around apparently disgruntled investors in SoftBank’s Vision Fund, but the drum continues to beat and the checks continue to be written. The latest deal for the $100 billion mega-fund is Clutter, an on-demand storage company that pulled in $200 million in new financing for growth. Eagled-eyed viewers will recall that […]
View More Clutter confirms SoftBank-led $200M investment for its on-demand storage serviceSeattle’s gone to the dogs, literally, following record snowfall
So it snowed in Seattle. Like, a lot. And wouldn’t you know it, the city’s canine residents can’t get enough.
An unusually powerful winter storm dropped over six inches on the Pacific Northwest city Feb. 9 — a “new daily record” according to the National Weather Service, which also happens to report that more snow is on the way. That hasn’t stopped Seattle’s dogs from making the most of the surprise snow day.
And, thankfully for us, their humans decided to capture a bit of the fun for social-media posterity.
Snow dogs! This is the most snow I’ve ever seen in Seattle 🌨🐶🐶 pic.twitter.com/lwpQpgMVRD
— Joshua Wittenkeller (@TheJWittz) February 8, 2019 Read more…
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When Amazon unveiled a six-wheeled urban delivery robot called Scout a couple of weeks ago, its website was pretty definitive about who was behind it. “These devices were created by Amazon,” the page reads. “We developed Amazon Scout at our research and development lab in Seattle.” But that is only part of the story, TechCrunch […]
View More Meet the tiny startup that helped build Amazon’s Scout robotWeWork could challenge Starbucks in China with new on-demand service
The rise of Starbucks in China, like that in the west, is closely linked to its function as a “third space” for people to hang out between home and work. In recent years, a bevy of coffee entrepreneurs are trying to topple the American giant’s dominance in China and lately, an unexpected contender — WeWork […]
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