Lyft Gets $1B in Financing Round Led by Alphabet’s CapitalG
Alphabet’s growth investment fund, CapitalG, is leading a $1 billion financing round in ride-share operator Lyft, a key rival to…
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General Motors’ Cruise Automation Gets Self-driving Tech Boost with Strobe Acquisition
General Motors (GM) has just completed the acquisition of Strobe, a company focused on self-driving car technology, for an undisclosed…
New CEO Shaking Things Up at Ford Motor Co., What’s Going On?
Ford Motor Company yesterday had a “strategic update” for its investors. It was a master plan to shake up the…
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Plans 5000 Job Cuts, Is Your Tech Job Safe?
Technology was once one of the safest industries to be in. Decades ago, technology wasn’t prone to frequent disruption and…
The Self-driving Car Technology Race: Who’s Taking the Number One Spot?
In the race to be the first to develop a fully autonomous vehicle, there are plenty of entrants. But this…
Samsung Commits to Self-Driving Tech, Gets California DMV Permit for Tests
Earlier in May, it was reported that Samsung got a license for self-driving cars in its home country, South Korea….
Lilium of Flying Taxi Fame Raises $90 Million in Series B Funding
Lilium, the technology company we covered a while ago that’s creating its own flying taxi, has now completed its Series…
India Says NO to Self-driving Cars, Cites Potential Job Losses
If India doesn’t get self-driving cars in the next few years, it isn’t for want of trying. Earlier this week…
Autonomous Vehicle Technology This Week: July 23 Edition
Autonomous vehicle technology is speeding up towards its final on-road debut around the world. Keep track of Big Tech and…
Uber Lawyers May Depose Alphabet CEO Larry Page and CLO David Drummond
n its upIn the case of Waymo vs Uber, a U.S. magistrate judge has recently ruled (PDF) that two of Alphabet’s…
“Let’s Mass-Produce Some Cool Electric Cars!”: A Movement by Musk
When Tesla Motors rolled out its very first production Model 3 to an elated owner – CEO Elon Musk –…
Waymo Softening Up Against Uber, Drops 3 Patent Violation Claims
Google’s self-driving car technology spin-off, Waymo, threw a curve ball earlier when it included several patent violations in the allegations…
Apple’s Autonomous Vehicle Ambitions Finally Out of the Closet, Tim Cook Validates
After years of media speculation, leaks and rumors about Apple’s moves in the self-driving car space, Apple CEO Tim Cook…
Waymo Lyft Partnership Potentially Worth 12 Percent of Alphabet’s Valuation: Morgan Stanley
Analysts from Morgan Stanley have calculated that Waymo’s partnership with Lyft on self-driving technology could put the Alphabet spun-off company’s…
Microsoft Betting on Something Much Bigger than Cloud Computing, Google Still Client-Hunting
It has been barely four years since Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced the company’s Mobile First, Cloud First strategy. Instead…
