Einride today announced a $500 million tranche of financing as it looks to expand its autonomous and electric trucks into new markets globally. The cash injection constitutes an equity-based $200 million Series C portion from backers including Northzone, EQT Ventures, Temasek, Swedish pension fund AMF, Polar Structure, and Norrsken VC. Additionally, the Swedish company said […]
Autonomous and electric truck company Einride raises $500M in equity and debt by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch
Uber and Motional, the Hyundai-Aptiv joint venture focused on commercializing self-driving technology, have launched a robotaxi service in Las Vegas — the first step in the companies’ 10-year plan to co-scale across major North American cities, which was announced in October. While Motional has already launched similar services in Las Vegas on both the Lyft […]
Uber and Motional launch robotaxi service in Las Vegas by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch
WhatsApp has started rolling out 3D avatars for its users around the globe that can be used as profile photos or custom stickers — months after their debut on Instagram, Facebook and Messenger. On Wednesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote on Facebook that avatars are coming to WhatsApp. The announcement follows a months-long beta testing […]
WhatsApp starts rolling out 3D avatars by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch
When a ship goes into a commercial port, there are lots of port call-related costs. These are called things like ‘disbursements’ and ‘port call expenses’. They can include, port dues, towage and pilotage fees, which, added together can represent are large swathe of operating costs, after fuel, for a ship operator. Most of the time, […]
Harbor Lab secures €6.1M to make shipping dock more easily and cheaply by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch
African fintech Chipper Cash saw its valuation slashed from $2 billion to $1.25 billion before FTX’s bankruptcy, according to documents shared by the Financial Times on Alameda’s venture capital portfolio. TechCrunch got a whiff of this information from sources familiar with the company’s financial situation, and though the African cross-border payments company didn’t confirm the […]
FTX marked down Chipper Cash’s $2B valuation to $1.25B by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch
Google is making it easier for users to search for tabs, bookmarks, and history from the address bar with new shortcuts. You can now type @tabs, @bookmarks, or @history to begin searching for websites. Tab search is probably the handiest feature out of the lot. Chrome already offers tab search, but you have to either […]
Chrome is adding shortcuts to easily search for tabs, bookmarks, and history from the address bar by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch