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European startup Bolt is expanding to Nepal and launching its ride-hailing service in the country. The company’s previous market expansion was its launch in Thailand in 2020. On Wednesday, Bolt announced the pilot of its on-demand ride-hailing service in Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu. The startup has kicked off the service with more than 400 local drivers. […]

Europe’s Bolt expands to Nepal with ride-hailing service by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch

Tesla is opening up Powerwall home battery sales, nearly two years after limiting them because its supply was “too low.” Tesla announced its backup battery tech long ago, in 2015, explicitly intending for the product to work in tandem with solar panels. Yet up until 2021, the automaker also allowed folks to buy the big […]

Tesla has a home battery to sell you, with or without solar by Harri Weber originally published on TechCrunch

Social media platform Reddit is experiencing an outage that is affecting its website and app, according to the company’s status page and to whomever has tried to load the platform. Reddit has been down since at least 12:18 pm PDT. The company has identified an internal systems issue and a fix “which may take some […]

Reddit has been down for hours by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

California’s Civil Rights Department (CRD) must provide Tesla with details of the investigation it conducted prior to filing a lawsuit against the company for racial discrimination, a judge has ruled. The CRD first sued Tesla in February last year after receiving several allegations that Tesla’s Fremont factory was a racially segregated workplace where Black workers […]

California agency must provide Tesla with details of racial bias investigation by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

The Justice Department and SEC are investigating the stock sales that officers of Silicon Valley Bank made days before the bank failed, according to both the WSJ and the NYTimes. The probes are reportedly in their preliminary phase and both outlets note that it’s common to investigate prearranged stock selling plans when the sales take […]

Regulators are taking a harder look at those insider stock sales by SVB execs by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch