Airbnb to purchase HotelTonight, a hotel-booking app last valued at $463 million.
View More Airbnb agrees to acquire last-minute hotel-booking app HotelTonightCategory: Uber
Cabify returns to Barcelona with a workaround for ride-hailing wait limits
Well that didn’t take long. Despite warning loudly and publicly that incoming changes to private hire vehicle rules in Catalonia would drive it out of Barcelona for good, and force it to fire thousands of drivers, Spanish ride-hailing firm Cabify has announced it’s back operating in the city from today — a month after it […]
View More Cabify returns to Barcelona with a workaround for ride-hailing wait limitsWaymo to start selling standalone LiDAR sensors
Waymo, the Google self-driving project that spun out to become a business under Alphabet, will start selling its custom LiDAR sensors — the technology that was at the heart of a trade secrets lawsuit last year against Uber . The company announced Wednesday in a blog post that it will sell is light detection and […]
View More Waymo to start selling standalone LiDAR sensorsDragonfly, ethics, and infrastructure spending
Yesterday’s analysis of the ethical tradeoffs faced by engineers working in the Valley certainly lit up my inbox with responses. The general thesis of that piece is that startups and tech companies face more — and worse — tradeoffs as they have migrated from the “purity” of the early internet into more socially and ethically […]
View More Dragonfly, ethics, and infrastructure spendingTaxing 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 privacyFood delivered to the doorstep is not so cheap in China anymore
A big selling point of ordering food to the doorstep in China is price, which, in the early years, could be much cheaper than eating in-house. That’s arguably indulged a demographic of lazy, indoorsy eaters, but that may not last for much longer. Over the past few months, users in China have noticed incremental price […]
View More Food delivered to the doorstep is not so cheap in China anymoreProsecutors find Uber not criminally liable in 2018 Arizona self-driving crash that killed a pedestrian
Yavapai County prosecutors said today that Uber is not criminally liable in a crash last year when one of its self-driving cars fatally struck a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona. The autonomous SUV, which had a backup driver behind the wheel, collided with Elaine Herzberg while she was walking across the street. She later died as […]
View More Prosecutors find Uber not criminally liable in 2018 Arizona self-driving crash that killed a pedestrianThe Silicon Valley exodus continues
Y Combinator, a longtime resident of Silicon Valley, is planning to move its HQ to San Francisco.
View More The Silicon Valley exodus continuesFailed meal-kit service Munchery owes $6M to gift card holders, vendors
Several weeks after a sudden shutdown that left vendors and customers in the lurch, Munchery has filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection.
View More Failed meal-kit service Munchery owes $6M to gift card holders, vendorsAnthony Levandowski will be speaking at TC Sessions: Robotics + AI April 18 at UC Berkeley
Late last week, we announced the schedule for April 18’s TC Sessions: Robotics + AI event at U.C. Berkeley, including some heavy hitters like Marc Raibert, Melonee Wise and Ken Goldberg. At the time, we noted that still had some big names left to reveal — and we weren’t joking. Today we’re excited to announce […]
View More Anthony Levandowski will be speaking at TC Sessions: Robotics + AI April 18 at UC BerkeleyUber Rewards is now available to all riders in the U.S.
Uber Rewards is officially available to all riders in the U.S. This comes after Uber began rolling out Rewards late January. Uber’s loyalty program incentivizes you to be, well, loyal to Uber and not to its competitors. For example, every dollar you spend on UberPool, Express Pool and Uber Eats gets you one point. Once […]
View More Uber Rewards is now available to all riders in the U.S.Go-Jek pulls in $100M more for its massive Series F round
U.S. ride-hailing giants Lyft and Uber are going public in the U.S. imminently, but over in Southeast Asia, the two largest on-demand companies are still madly fueling up on investment capital. The latest update to that story today saw Go-Jek, the Indonesian ride-hailing firm aiming to go regional in Southeast Asia, announced that it has […]
View More Go-Jek pulls in $100M more for its massive Series F round