Atomico is among the most widely respected venture firms in Europe, ranking right up there with friendly rivals like Accel London and Index Ventures.

After a three-day trial, Elon Musk was found not liable for defamation in a federal court today in Los Angeles, where Musk reportedly owns a cluster of six homes as well as oversees the operations of both SpaceX and Tesla.

Unlike many derived SaaS metrics, the 4x2 chart is based on very simple numbers, thus “the figures don’t lie.

Boeing and launch partner United Launch Alliance (ULA) completed a key step today in pursuit of launching U.

Bird has laid off less than two dozen employees, The San Francisco Chronicle first reported.

Sara Mauskopf Contributor Share on Twitter Sara Mauskopf is the CEO and co-founder of Winnie, a marketplace for daycare and preschool helping over 4 million parents across the U.

With less than two months left in the decade, advertising is again entering a new phase of rapid expansion with customer experience front and center.

“Despite the fact that I went to MIT, despite the fact that I managed a billion-dollar product at JPMorgan Chase and even built a huge digital product, I was still a Silicon Valley outsider.

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There have been holiday gift guides for VR for the past five years or so and for most of that time, buying a VR headset was generally a bad call.

Magic Leap just announced that they’re in the midst of closing a Series E round of funding, but it sounds like they’re going to have to clinch that investment with some pretty troubling sales numbers for their only device on the market.

Meatable, the Dutch startup developing cruelty-free technologies for manufacturing cultured meat, is pivoting to pork production as a swine flu epidemic ravages one quarter of the world’s pork supply — and has raised $10 million in financing to support its new direction.

While file sharing, time tracking, email integration, Gantt Charts, and budget management are usually some of the most requested features in the average project management platform, we still have a proliferation of tools taking a multiplicity of approaches to the problem of just managing something.

There could be as many as 1 billion remote workers by 2035, but the world isn't ready for the digital nomad movement.

Canva, the design company with nearly $250 million in funding, has today announced a variety of new features, including a video editing tool.

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Streaming aggregator Reelgood capitalized on the overabundance of streaming services available today by offering consumers a universal dashboard where you can track what you’re watching and discover your next binge.

Lego already debuted its own take on the divisive Tesla Cybertruck design, but theirs was purely for the lols.

Rocket Lab launched its 10th Electron spacecraft on Friday morning, successfully delivering payloads for clients Spaceflight and Alba Orbital.

Style Theory, a platform for renting designer apparel in Indonesia and Singapore, announced today it has raised $15 million in Series B funding.

There have been a lot of bumps in the road for startups building used-car marketplaces, but now one of the longer-standing of them has closed a major round of funding: a clear sign of the mileage left in this category.

Netflix may still not have a million subscribers in India, but it continues to invest big bucks in the nation, where Disney’s Hotstar currently dominates the video streaming market.

European Union finance ministers have agreed a defacto ban on the launch in the region of so-called global ‘stablecoins’ such as Facebook’s planned Libra digital currency until the bloc has a common approach to regulation that can mitigate the risks posed by the technology.

Uber's U. S.. Safety Report sets forth in some detail the number of fatal accidents, and the good news is that the overall rate per mile is about half the national average.

Uber just released its first-ever safety report that covers sexual assault.

Earlier this week, AWS launched DeepComposer, a set of web-based tools for learning about AI to make music and a $99 MIDI keyboard for inputting melodies.

A run-of-the-mill money-making operation used tawdry, hateful clickbait and evaded Facebook's apparently negligible protections.

The McLaren Senna GTR shouldn’t exist. This feat of engineering and design isn’t allowed on public roads.

A key ask from gig workers this year has been the right to unionize.

We’ve known for a while that Pokémon GO creator Niantic feels a bit limited in what it can do with augmented reality today.

Today at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell joined AWS CEO Andy Jassy on stage to announce a new partnership to use machine learning to help reduce head injuries in professional football.

Spotify reportedly spent nearly $500 million on podcasts in 2019.

"The S-1 is going to be MOST disrupted FASTEST in the next 3 YEARS? Caps for effect.

Google’s A. I.. powered voice recorder app introduced at Google’s October hardware event was one of the company’s more impressive demos.

Because many Latin American gig economy workers don't have access to basic financial services like bank accounts, personal loans and insurance, fintechs are springing up to serve them.

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Rocket Lab is getting ready to fly its tenth mission, delayed from its first launch window last week and now making its second attempt.

At its Snapdragon Boondoggle Summit in sunny Maui, Hawaii, Qualcomm today announced the launch of its XR2 platform, which it describes as the “world’s first 5G-supported extended reality (XR) platform.

Autonomous robotic road-riding cargo pod startup Einride has signed a new partner for a commercial pilot on Sweden’s roads, which should be a great test of the company’s electric driverless transportation pods.

One month after Airbnb confirmed plans to verify all of its listings, the home-sharing giant has announced additional efforts to protect its hosts and guests.

Here’s a little early Christmas present for you. Apple analyst extraordinaire Ming-Chi Kuo is out with his latest Apple opus.

Chirp, a Twitter client preferred by hundreds of thousands of Apple Watch users, is getting its biggest upgrade since its arrival last year.

The Crew Interactive Mobile Companion (or CIMON for short) recorded a number of firsts on its initial mission to the International Space Station, which took place last November, including becoming the first ever autonomous free-floating robot to operate aboard the station, and the first ever smart astronaut assistant.

Long before Instagram toyed with removing “likes,” VSCO, an Oakland-based photo-sharing and editing app, built a community devoid of likes, comments and follower counts.

Homeland Security has confirmed it will not expand face recognition scans to U.

Hailing one of Waymo’s self-driving minivans is about to get a little easier.

SpaceX has launched its nineteenth resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on behalf of NASA.

This week, security reporter Brian Krebs asked why the newest iPhone 11 Pro appeared to be sending out a user’s location even when the user disabled Location Services in their phone’s settings, in conflict with Apple’s privacy policy and the express wishes of the user.

Uniform Teeth, the teeth straightening startup that helped me figure out I needed a root canal, has just raised a $10 million round of funding led by Canaan Ventures.

Figma, the design tool maker that has raised nearly $83 million from investors such as Index Ventures, Sequoia, Greylock and Kleiner Perkins, has today announced a new feature called Auto Layout that takes some of the tedious reformatting out of the design process.

Spotify’s annual “Wrapped” feature, which allows listeners to look back on their favorite music from the year, is expanding in 2019 to include a whole decade’s worth of favorite tunes, the company announced today.

With the shift in the way designers fit into organizations and the way design fits into business overall, the design ecosystem is following the same path blazed by enterprise SaaS companies in recent years.

U. S.. prosecutors have brought computer hacking and fraud charges against a Russian citizen, Maksim Yakubets, who is accused of developing and distributing Dridex, a notorious banking malware used to allegedly steal more than $100 million from hundreds of banks over a multi-year operation.

Volvo is making an investment in Palo Alto-based Apex. AI, a startup working on developing a robotic operating system qualified for use in production automobiles.

Ben Holber and Ryan Hambley grew up together. Hambley, the son of a dermatologist, always had clear skin.

10 years after debut, 300 million monthly user Imgur is one of the last massively popular yet unpersonalized home pages on the internet.

GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra said Thursday morning that the automaker is forming a joint venture with LG Chem to mass produce battery cells for its electric vehicles.

Plexo Capital, the fund founded by former GV Partner Lo Toney, has closed its first fund of $42.

SpaceX is keeping relatively close to schedule on one of the bold timelines pronounced by its CEO Elon Musk – an unusual but welcome twist from the company’s track record of sticking to its predicted timelines.

It’s take two for SpaceX’s CRS-19 mission, the 19th Commercial Resupply Mission (see how that works?) it’s flying under contract with NASA.

Only 5% of the largest voting counties in the U. S.. are protected against email impersonation and phishing attacks, seen as a key attack method by hackers who officials say want to disrupt the upcoming presidential election.

We’ve got a packed house for the TC Hackathon that kicks off at Disrupt Berlin 2019 in just six days.

Walmart’s Flipkart has backed Shadowfax in a new $60 million financing round as the retail giant works to strengthen its logistics network in the nation.

Huawei said today it is suing the Federal Communications Commission, asking to overturn a ban on carriers from using money from the Universal Service Fund (USF) to buy equipment from Huawei and ZTE.

As music streaming apps struggle to differentiate, Apple is making concert video a more central part of its strategy with tonight’s big Billie Eilish show at its HQ’s Steve Jobs Theater.

When AWS announced Outposts, a private cloud hardware stack they install in your data center, last year, there were a lot of unanswered questions.

It didn’t take much for the founders of Cora, Brazil’s newest startup to tackle some aspect of the broken financial services industry in the country, to raise their first $10 million.

Qualcomm’s holding its big annual get-together this week in Hawaii, portioning off Snapdragon news, piece by piece.

You may be able to exclude up to 100% of your federal capital gains taxes from selling the stake in a venture-backed tech startup.

URBAN-X,  the accelerator program focused on companies developing technologies to increase the sustainability, resiliency, and efficiency of cities, has selected seven companies for its latest cohort.

A contractor working for cell giant Sprint stored on an unprotected cloud server hundreds of thousands of cell phone bills of AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile subscribers.

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same tools we've used for the past 20+ years — Excel and recent college grads searching Google.

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Fancy websites and services come and go, but Craigslist endures. And now one of its main shortcomings is fixed: there's an official app.

Nintendo today noted that the Switch just had its best-ever week of sales week in the States.

YouTube is warning creators they may see their subscriber numbers decline this week as the result of a purge that will remove closed accounts from YouTube metrics.

Data breaches that could cause millions of dollars in potential damages have been the bane of the life of many a company.

Korean e-commerce giant Coupang has a new chief financial officer.

Instagram is done playing dumb about users’ ages. After 9 years, Instagram is finally embracing more responsibility to protect underage kids from the problems with social media.

In a year-end retrospective released this morning, Reddit says its user base grew 30% this year to reach 430 million monthly active users, as of the end of October.

Enterprise AI company Dataiku has announced some changes in its capitalization table.

Enterprise AI company Dataiku has announced some changes in its capitalization table.

May Mobility, a Michigan-based startup that is operating autonomous shuttle services in three U.

Kustomer, a CRM startup that’s taking on the likes of Zendesk, Salesforce, and many other bigger and older providers, has closed yet another round of funding — no less than its third fundraise of the year — as it continues to double down on its new approach to managing customers in today’s digital world.

A lot of companies talk about the value of your data, and about helping you get more control over the information you share, but Toronto-based Delphia is unique in aiming to build a viable, sustainable and scalable way to take a person’s data and turn that into real monetary gain.

Plex today is launching its own ad-supported streaming service, a rival to The Roku Channel, Tubi, Crackle, Vudu’s Movies on Us, and others that offer a way to stream movies and TV for free without a subscription.

Pandora’s redesigned mobile app experience is today available to all users, following a limited rollout that began in October.

Flow, a startup that helps brands and retailers build a cross-border e-commerce business, has raised $37 million in Series B funding.

Google is expanding its suite of “Digital Wellbeing” tools for Android devices with a new feature, Focus Mode, launching today.

SpaceX is set to launch its 19th Commercial Resupply Mission (CRS) for the International Space Station today, with a liftoff time scheduled for 12:51 PM EST (9:51 AM EST).

Over the least decade, Africa has been in the midst of a startup boom accompanied by big growth in VC and improvements in internet and mobile penetration.

Synchronize your watches, dust off your passports and pack your bags, startuppers.

Prolific, a U. K.. -based startup that wants to make it easier to conduct online research, has raised $1.

Otta, one of the latest startups aiming to fix what it sees as a broken job search and recruitment market, has picked up £850,000 in seed funding.

Learn from top European and U. S.. venture capitalists at Disrupt Berlin next week.

After launching nearly a dozen Echo speaker models in India in two years, Amazon said on Wednesday it is adding one more to the mix that addresses one of the most requested features from customers in the nation: Portability.

Carbon dioxide emissions, one of the main contributors to the climate changes bringing extreme weather, rising oceans, and more frequent fires that have killed hundreds of Americans and cost the U.

AWS today quietly brought spot capacity to Fargate, its serverless compute engine for containers that supports both the company’s Elastic Container Service and, now, its Elastic Kubernetes service.

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our counterparts in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job.

Figuring out just what an AI is good at is one of the hardest thing about understanding them.