Category: United States
Uber Eats customers have given $3 million in direct contributions to restaurants
Uber Eats customers have given $3 million in direct contributions to restaurants using a new feature on the app designed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The milestone caps off a related campaign by Uber Eats to match up to $3 million in contributions made by customers. Uber Eats is…
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LabCorp’s at-home COVID-19 test kit is the first to be authorized by the FDA
LabCorp’s at-home COVID-19 test, which is called ‘Pixel,’ has received the first Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for such a test missed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The test is an at-home collection kit, which provides sample collection materials including a nasal swab to the user, who then…
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Cruise hires PG&E board chairman Jeff Bleich as chief legal officer
Cruise, the subsidiary of GM that also has backing from SoftBank Vision Fund, automaker Honda and T. Rowe Price & Associates, is turning to a heavy hitter to head up its legal team. The autonomous vehicle technology company has hired Jeff Bleich, board chairman of utility Pacific Gas & Electric,…
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‘You have to be a moron to think libertarianism is real’
Merus Capital’s Salman Ullah says COVID-19 highlights why Germany is an attractive place to invest Steve O’Hear @sohear / 7 hours Could the coronavirus crisis — and the way different countries have responded — make Silicon Valley VCs more bullish on European startups? That’s the thesis put forward by Salman…
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Microsoft built a ‘Plasma Bot’ to tell you if you can donate plasma to help fight COVID-19
Plasma taken from the blood of recovered COVID-19 patients stands a real change of being one of the more effective short-term measures feasible in the ongoing effort to control the global coronavirus pandemic. The FDA has issued a broad call for donation from eligible individuals, and now Microsoft has built…
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An IPO? In this economy?
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. Late last week a Chinese company called Kingsoft Cloud filed to go public in the United States. The cloud infrastructure business intends to list on the Nasdaq under the symbol…
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