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Meet Shuttle, the company that’s building a booking agent for spaceflight
Avery Haskell says he first knew he wanted to be an astronaut ever since he was a boy growing up…
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Twilio launches a new SIM card and narrowband dev kit for IoT developers
Twilio is hosting its Signal developer conference in San Francisco this week. Yesterday was all about bots and taking payments…
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Uber and Lyft are responsible for about half of SF’s rise in traffic since 2010, SFCTA says
Uber and Lyft are often times the ones to blame for the rise in traffic and congestion in cities. In…
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With $50M in fresh funding, Allbirds will open new stores in the US, UK and Asia
The quintessential venture capitalist’s uniform consists of a pair of designer jeans, a Patagonia fleece vest and $95 wool sneakers.…
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Deliverr raises $7M to help e-commerce businesses compete with Amazon Prime
When Amazon rolled out its membership-based two-day shipping service in 2005, e-commerce and customer expectations around fulfillment speed changed forever.…
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Social intelligence platforms Brandwatch and Crimson Hexagon to merge
Brandwatch — the UK-HQ’d social intelligence company that raised $65 million from European VCs Nauta Capital, Highland Europe and Partech…
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Finance
Africa Roundup: Paga goes global and 4 startups raise $99M in VC
Jake Bright Contributor More posts by this contributor Polestar unveils first production EV with aim to overtake Tesla Liquid Telecom…
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5 takeaways on the state of AI from Disrupt SF
The promise of artificial intelligence is immense, but the roadmap to achieving those goals still remains unclear. Onstage at TechCrunch…
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