Urbvan raises $9 million for its private shuttle service in Mexico – TechCrunch

As cities in emerging markets grapple with increasingly traffic-clogged and dangerous streets, Urbvan, a startup providing private, high-end transportation shuttles in Mexico, has raised $9 million in a new round of financing. Co-founded by Joao Matos Albino and Renato Picard, Urbvan is taking the reins from startups like the now-defunct Chariot and tailoring the business…

Instagram may allow creators to syndicate IGTV videos to Facebook – TechCrunch

Following the departure of Instagram’s founders, Facebook is working to more closely integrate the photo-sharing app with its flagship social network. It’s already added its brand name next to Instagram’s, and is working to make both platforms’ messaging products interoperable. Now, Facebook is prototyping a means of syndicating Instagram’s IGTV video to Facebook’s video site,…

Moving from the proof of concept friend zone to deployments with benefits

Enterprise IoT adoption progressing but challenges remain SAN FRANCISCO–As enterprises of all stripes look to cut costs, automate processes, increase efficiency and agility and otherwise successfully make good use of their data, adoption of internet of things technologies has markedly accelerated in the past year, according to Lakshmi Mandyam, vice president of product management for…