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Apple has talked a big game about its future plans to break into the automotive market. But a report from Bloomberg says that Apple has had to scale back its plans. Last year, reports indicated that Apple would debut a fully self-driving car in 2025, but now, the vehicle is delayed until 2026 and will […]

Apple’s first car effort might not be self driving after all by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch

If you’re looking for a data-driven way to build confidence in your modeling with your executive team and board, this is it.

Use customer health data to grow and forecast NRR by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch

Cloud computing giant Rackspace has confirmed that it has been hit by ransomware attack that has left a number of its customers without access to email. Rackspace’s hosted Microsoft Exchange service started experiencing problems on Friday last week. At the time, Rackspace posted a notice on its status page saying that due to a “security incident,” […]

Rackspace blames ransomware attack for ongoing Exchange outage by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch

Major privacy complaints targeting the legality of Meta’s core advertising business model in Europe have finally been settled via a dispute resolution mechanism baked into the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The complaints, which date back to May 2018, take aim at the tech giant’s so-called “forced consent” to continue tracking and targeting users […]

Meta’s behavioral ads will finally face GDPR privacy reckoning in January by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

Autonomous trucking technology company Kodiak Robotics won a $49.9 million contract from the the U.S. Department of Defense to help the Army automate future ground vehicles to conduct high-risk missions like reconnaissance and surveillance. The two year contract, which was awarded by the DoD’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) on behalf of the Army’s Robotic Combat […]

Kodiak Robotics wins $50M to help US Army build AVs for recon, surveillance by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

Online grocery delivery, a booming business at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, has definitely come down to earth with the other shifts we’ve seen in the economy, public health and technology investing. Oda, one of the bigger players in online grocery delivery in Europe with operations in its home market of Norway as well […]

Oda, the Norwegian grocery delivery startup, raises a fresh $151M, but at a lowered valuation of $353M by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Uber’s facial recognition is locking Indian drivers out of their accounts One evening in February last year, a 23-year-old Uber driver named Niradi Srikanth was getting ready to start another shift, ferrying passengers…

With the right tools, there’s every opportunity for SaaS businesses to continue growing — even in today’s economy.

3 ways SaaS businesses can boost revenue in a recession by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch