Mercedes debuts the Maybach EQS SUV with more power, range, and luxury

April 17, 2023

I can’t get over the huge faux grill. Mercedes today revealed the Mercedes-Maybach EQS SUV, an electric SUV built on its excellent EQS SUV. In this edition buyers get ultra-luxury appointments including special cup holders designed to hold champagne flutes. Back to the grill. The Mercedes-Maybach EQS SUV is dripping with historic Maybach design elements: […]

Mercedes debuts the Maybach EQS SUV with more power, range, and luxury by Matt Burns originally published on TechCrunch

Germany’s XaaS platform Equipme secures $3.8M Seed led by La Famiglia VC

April 17, 2023

As the economy has gotten tougher, plenty of companies have switched to buying in assets to renting them. There’s a tortuous acronym for this which is XaaS or “Everything-as-a-Service”, also referred to as “Servitization”. An example of this would be ServiceNow which automates services for enterprise operations. A new-ish player in this space is Equipme, […]

Germany’s XaaS platform Equipme secures $3.8M Seed led by La Famiglia VC by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch

Razor Group, an e-commerce aggregator, closes Series C at $88M at $1.2B valuation, acquires Stryze to consolidate

April 17, 2023

The business of being an e-commerce aggregator may be down but it is definitely not out. Razor Group, one of the string of startups that has made a name for itself as a “roll-up” startup — raising big money to acquire and consolidate Amazon (and other marketplace) retailers — is now making a different kind […]

Razor Group, an e-commerce aggregator, closes Series C at $88M at $1.2B valuation, acquires Stryze to consolidate by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

This technology could alter the entire planet. These groups want every nation to have a say.

April 17, 2023
Picture two theoretical futures: one in which nations counteract climate change by spraying reflective particles into the stratosphere, and another where the world continues heating up. There are big differences between the two, but a lot of smaller, more subtle changes too.  Take malaria, for example—the sixth-largest killer in low-income countries.   By 2070, the overall…

iOS 17 will reportedly set the stage for sideloading apps on iPhone

April 17, 2023

Apple has kept the iPhone app distribution system closed, allowing users to download the apps only from the App Store. But the company might be adding some gates to this walled garden to let people sideload apps on iPhones soon. A Bloomberg report noted that the Cupertino-based company will build the groundwork for such functionality […]

iOS 17 will reportedly set the stage for sideloading apps on iPhone by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

The EPA goes after tailpipe emissions, Elon gets an ultimatum and Careem lands $400M for its super app

April 17, 2023

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The EPA goes after tailpipe emissions, Elon gets an ultimatum and Careem lands $400M for its super app by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch