Ride-sharing platform Lyft is already competing with Uber in cities around the world to provide on-demand mobility to the public. But this week, the San Francisco company has taken concrete steps toward competing in the driverless taxi space, too. In July 2017, Lyft announced the creation of its own autonomous transport division, Level 5. Fifteen…
Last year, Amazon announced a new initiative, Alexa for Business, designed to introduce its voice assistant technology and Echo devices into a corporate setting. Today, it’s giving the platform a big upgrade by opening it up to device makers who are building their own solutions that have Alexa built in. The change came about based…
LG remains confident that it can turn the corner for its serially unprofitable mobile business despite the division racking up a loss of over $400 million this year so far. The Korean company as a whole is having a good year. Following a record six months of profit and revenue in the first half of 2018, the…
Tado, the smart thermostat and AC control maker, has raised a further $50 million in funding from an array of noteworthy and strategic investors. Backing the Munich-headquartered company this time around is Amazon, E.ON, Total Energy Ventures, Energy Innovation Capital, Inven Capital, and the European Investment Bank. It brings total funding to $102 million since being…
Armed with new capital (following a recent £8 million Series C round) and now doing £1 million per month in revenue, job meta-search engine Adzuna has acquired the U.K. tech startup job board Work In Startups. Terms of deal aren’t being disclosed. However, it will see Adzuna take over operation of the Work In Startups…
The U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has confirmed that it has hit Facebook with a maximum $500,000 ($645,000) fine around the way it mishandled user data following the Cambridge Analytica scandal earlier this year. The ICO announced its intention to hand Facebook the fine back in July and it said today that it had not changed…
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Yahoo has agreed to pay $50M in damages for a huge security breach in 2013 that hit all three billion of its user accounts. If the settlement is approved by a court next month, affected U.S. users can claim a portion of the funds. The post Yahoo agrees to pay $50M damages for biggest-ever data…
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