May 14, 2020 | Business, Work
As remote work has become the new reality for millions of people around the world, a growing number of companies are looking for ways to track employee efficiency. Recent shelter-in-place orders have allowed workers in nearly every industry to do things at home they...
May 14, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Business, Investment, Mobility
Even before the extra $750 million, Waymo’s funding round was among the largest, if not the largest, in multibillion-dollar investments around self-driving cars. General Motors’ Cruise unit raised $1.15 billion in May 2019, while Uber closed $1 billion from...
May 6, 2020 | Business, Mobility
Intel may be a major player in the chip sector, but it could be a bigger player in the smart mobility sector soon taking on the likes of Uber and Lyft, as the company has just acquired Israel-based urban transit data startup Moovit for $900 million, the...
May 6, 2020 | 5G, Business, Featured
Mobile carriers, network suppliers, and analysts are warning that the rollout of 5G networks could be delayed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The warnings came as businesses reported their quarterly earnings, in which they outlined what effect the ongoing crisis...
Apr 23, 2020 | Blockchain, Business, Justice
At a sewing workshop in the South Indian town of Chittapur, a seamstress named Halima has spent much of her day cutting a new blouse pattern out of dyed cotton fabrics, embroidering the sleeves by hand, and then stitching the seams together before shipping the entire...
Apr 23, 2020 | Business, Car Sharing
Another business is being impacted by COVID-19. General Motor’s Maven car-sharing service is being shuttered. This follows the for-now, temporary suspension of autonomous vehicle trials around the country. The app-based Maven service, started in early 2016 as a ZipCar...
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