“We’re operating out of everywhere,” Scott Keogh said with a laugh in his first interview as CEO Scout Motors, the American EV upstart spun out of VW Group. While most established automotive players call the shots from sprawling, corporate palaces, Scout bases much of its operations — at least for now — out of a […]
How Scout Motors plans to bring rugged, retro cred to the EV era by Tim Stevens originally published on TechCrunch
Scout Motors, the VW Group spinoff taking aim at the U.S. market with rugged all-electric vehicles, is deepening its investment with plans to build a $2 billion factory capable of producing 200,000 EVs a year in South Carolina. There are a growing number of reasons for Scout Motors to keep the brand as red, white […]
VW-backed Scout Motors to build $2B factory in South Carolina by Tim Stevens originally published on TechCrunch
Whether it’s headlines about AI startups securing massive funding rounds or Twitter threads about how you SHOULD be using ChatGPT, the AI news cycle is well and truly here.
Startup PR professionals should be jumping on the AI bandwagon by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch
Japanese marketing tech firm Geniee, part of the SoftBank Group, has paid about $70 million in cash to acquire the revenue optimization platform Zelto (formerly known as AdPushup), a person familiar with the matter said, delivering 40 times return to a number of angel investors in the startup that began its journey in India. The […]
Japan’s Geniee acquires AdPushup-operator Zelto for $70 million by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch
As a Universal Hydrogen-branded plane, equipped with the largest hydrogen fuel cell ever to power an aircraft, made its maiden test flight in eastern Washington, co-founder and CEO Paul Eremenko declared the moment the dawn of a “new golden age of aviation.” The 15-minute test flight of a modified Dash-8 aircraft was short, but it […]
Universal Hydrogen takes to the air with the largest hydrogen fuel cell ever to fly by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch
A government watchdog has found that the Secret Service and ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) unit repeatedly failed to obtain the correct legal paperwork when carrying out invasive cell phone surveillance. The findings were published last week by Homeland Security’s inspector general, tasked with oversight of the U.S. federal department and its many law enforcement […]
Secret Service and ICE conducted warrantless stingray surveillance, says watchdog by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch