Author: Zach_Wilson
Uber is making it easier for suburban commuters to schedule rides to the train station
Uber noticed an interesting thing lately: customers were opening the app late at night and entering a nearby train station as a destination to see if they could game out how long it would take them to get there in the morning. It sounds stressful, so the company’s product team…
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HopSkipDrive raises $22 million to focus on school transportation; 70 percent of revenue is enterprise
It’s no secret that it’s hard to make the economics work at drive-share companies. That may explain the success to date of HopSkipDrive, a six-year-old, L.A.-based company that pairs drivers with both families but also, crucially, school districts. Specifically, the now 100-plus person company has deals in place with school…
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A Russian Propagandist Ran An Ad In The Washington Post — And Then Ran Victory Laps In Russian Media
The Washington Post may have violated US government sanctions when it ran an ad online from Russian propagandist Alexander Malkevich — and handed a propaganda coup to a man who appears to have been part of Russia’s interference with the 2018 midterm elections in the United States and has been…
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Deep data running wearable NURVV closes $9M Series A led by Hiro Capital
Launched at CES 2020, NURVV, a biomechanics startup, has closed a $9m Series A round, led by Hiro Capital, the sports/Esports VC fund, along with co-investment from Ian Livingstone CBE (Games Workshop co-founder) and Cherry Freeman (co-founder of LoveCrafts). It turns out that if you can figure out how to…
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Netflix will now let you turn off its annoying auto-play videos
As much as we love Netflix around these parts, we can’t say we’re too keen on the service’s implementation of auto-play videos – whether it’s trailers that automatically play while browsing or the way that a new episode will start as soon as the previous one is over, it’s incredibly…
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Instagram’s latest feature lets you see which accounts you interact with the least
Instagram is turning 10 this year, and if you’ve been using the platform for even half that time, chances are you’re following a bunch of accounts that aren’t as relevant to you as they used to be. To help you see who they might be, the image sharing platform has…
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