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NoBroker, the India-based property startup that wants to make property agents obsolete, has landed $7 million in fresh funding to expand its service. Read More - Here’s our first look at Waymo’s new self-driving Chrysler Pacifica minivans
Waymo, the newly-minted Alphabet company that was previously Google’s self-driving car project, has a new addition to its vehicle fleet: 100 Chrysler Pacifica hybrid minivans, which were produced by Fiat Chrysler specifically for the purpose of making them fully autonomous using Waymo’s tech, onboa... - WTF is Brexit?
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Uber is the scourge of taxi drivers worldwide, but sometimes the two can pull in the same direction. Like in Indonesia today, for example, where Uber inked a partnership with the country’s second largest taxi cab provider, Express Group, to allow its drivers to use the on-demand service to boost th... - Kik adds group video chat to its messaging app
Kik, the chat app that’s hugely popular with teens and young people in North America, is finally adding video chat to its service. Video with a twist, that is. Read More - BlackBerry opens a research center for self-driving tech in Canada
- Xura buys Mitel Mobility for $385M and Ranzure to double down on 5G
- AR display maker Lumus grabs $30M in new funding from HTC, Quanta
- OneWeb raises $1.2B to offer satellite-based internet services as soon as 2019
- OS builder Thundersoft buys UI maker Rightware for $68M to expand in automotive
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- Amigo helps you stop texting and start hanging with your friends
Social planning is a tough nut to crack, but a new app called Amigo is looking to make a difference when it comes to how we hang out with our friends. The premise behind Amigo is that we spend too much time in back-and-forth communication with our friends about what we want to do, where we want to ... - Twitter will live stream the Golden Globes’ red carpet pre-show
The Golden Globes’ red carpet is coming to Twitter. That’s right: not the award show itself, but rather the pre-show event where the celebs walk the red carpet and are interviewed by Hollywood press with questions about what they’re wearing, and who they want to win, among other things. Now, Twitte... - EU asks whether the financial sector’s use of big data needs new rules
- Watch the first official trailer for Blade Runner 2049
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- Momento’s new app turns your own photos into GIFs you can decorate and share
- Starry Internet’s broadband beaming technology raises another $30 million
- Amazon Fire tablets updated with kids’ reading app, Amazon Rapids, and a more powerful Alexa
- Here’s how Montréal is turning to Bluetooth to address traffic congestion
- Hyundai’s self-driving system aims at affordability
Automaker Hyundai wants you to know that it’s also embracing the race to autonomous driving — but it’s also hoping to do so in a way that differs from the approaches of most automakers, in striving for tech that will both be available in vehicles owned by individuals, and that will actually be affo... - A strange tale of Central European startups, angry investors, and secret NDAs
Last month a strange story appeared in the Polish press. It was about an American consultant living in Denver who had been “preying” on Polish startups, promising them investor contacts and customers in America. The story started breathlessly enough. Here it is in translation: The “American Dream” ... - 79 percent of Americans now shop online, but it’s cost more than convenience that sways them
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- NASA tech could track firefighters where GPS can’t reach
In the chaotic environment of a fire or disaster area, knowing where your fellow firefighters and first responders are is of the utmost importance, but GPS and other positional tracking systems aren’t always reliable. A project from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory aims to solve this with a tracker... - Tim Cook explains to Apple employees why he met with President-elect Trump
In a series of answers to questions posted on Apple’s internal employee info service Apple Web today, CEO Tim Cook commented to employees on some hot-button topics. One of those was why he met with President-elect Trump. Read More - Hyundai’s future mobility plans include wearable robotic assistants
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- Putting data back into the hands of owners
- HandUp just expanded its gift card program for homeless people in SF
- Samsung’s slim Notebook 9 line gets a boost
- Nintendo learns a multi-billion dollar lesson that Mario is no guarantee for success
- Expanding fitness wearables in Africa, Garmin launches a watch line in Ghana with MTN
Garmin has partnered with mobile telecom giant MTN to launch a line of fitness watches in Ghana. The GPS navigation and sports tech company will offer its vivoFit3, vivoMove, vivoActive, Fenix3, and vivoSmart activity trackers through select MTN Ghana distribution outlets. Read More - Uber’s self-driving cars put cyclists at risk, warns bike advocate group
Uber, the transportation-on-demand behemoth, courted controversy this past week when it started to test its self-driving cars on public roads in San Francisco without the state’s permission. Today, Uber drew even more heat, as bike advocates warned that the test vehicles have a so-called “right hook... - Price f(x) raises €4M Series A for pricing optimization SaaS
- eSUB Construction Software raises $5 million to help subcontractors track jobs and get paid
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- iPrice raises $4M for its e-commerce aggregator service in Southeast Asia
- New York City brings smartphone payments to metered parking
- Apple’s Tim Cook assures employees that it is committed to the Mac and that ‘great desktops’ are coming
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