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New York’s Taxi and Limousine Commission approves minimum wage rules for app-based drivers

New York’s Taxi and Limousine Commission approves minimum wage rules for app-based drivers

The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission has approved new rules that set a minimum hourly wage of $17.22 (after expenses) for drivers who w ...
NEA spinout NewView Capital raises $1.35B for its debut growth fund

NEA spinout NewView Capital raises $1.35B for its debut growth fund

Companies are staying private longer and longer and New Enterprise Associates (NEA) has a new plan to combat the negative implications of the tre ...
AWS wants to rule the world

AWS wants to rule the world

AWS, once a nice little side hustle for Amazon’s eCommerce business, has grown over the years into a behemoth that’s on a $27 billion run rate, on ...
Niantic confirms that Pokémon GO is getting PvP battles ‘soon’

Niantic confirms that Pokémon GO is getting PvP battles ‘soon’

Two and a half years after the launch of Pokémon GO, it’s still missing one major staple of the main series games: player versus player battling. ...
E Ink debuts a new electronic drawing technology

E Ink debuts a new electronic drawing technology

E Ink — a name synonymous with e-reader screens — just debuted a new writing display technology called JustWrite. The tech offers the company’s fa ...
DeepMind hands off role as health app provider to parent Google

DeepMind hands off role as health app provider to parent Google

DeepMind’s recent foray into providing software as a service to UK hospitals has reached the end of its run. The Google -owned AI division has ju ...
Flipkart CEO Binny Bansal resigns over allegations of ‘serious personal misconduct’

Flipkart CEO Binny Bansal resigns over allegations of ‘serious personal misconduct’

Flipkart, the India-based e-commerce firm owned by Walmart, has lost its Group CEO Binny Bansal after he resigned from the company following an in ...
Tesla, GM and Nissan are all part of a new coalition aiming to extend the EV tax credit

Tesla, GM and Nissan are all part of a new coalition aiming to extend the EV tax credit

Tesla, GM and Nissan are among a group of 15 companies that launched a new coalition aimed at reforming the electric vehicle tax credit. The gro ...
Google looks to AI interactions and cats to power its latest AR feature

Google looks to AI interactions and cats to power its latest AR feature

Of all the features and hardware that dropped at Google’s event earlier this month, one that felt particularly glossed over was Playground, ...
The Zortrax Apoller safely smooths 3D prints

The Zortrax Apoller safely smooths 3D prints

Zortrax Apoller, a Smart Vapor Smoothing device that uses solvents to smooth the surface of 3D-printed objects. The resulting products look ...