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Flying taxi startup Blade is helping Silicon Valley CEOs bypass traffic

TechCrunch LA

One year after a $38 million Series B valued on-demand aviation startup Blade at $140 million, the company has begun taxiing the Bay Area’s elite. — Tyler Babin (@Tyler_Babin) March 11, 2019. Uber too has lofty plans to develop a consumer aerial ridesharing business , as do several other privately-funded startups.

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Transportation Weekly: Uber’s spending habits, Tesla Model Y, scooters and AVs in Austin

TechCrunch LA

Welcome back to Transportation Weekly; I’m your host Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch. This is where investigative reporting, enterprise pieces and analysis on transportation lives. This investment would give Uber ATG a valuation of between $5 billion and $10 billion, WSJ reported.

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GM exits car-sharing business and shuts down Maven

TechCrunch LA

The Verge was the first to report the story. A wave of other initiative and investments were announced in 2016 that showed GM’s shift in interest toward unconventional transportation businesses that were adjacent to its core business of producing, selling and financing cars, trucks and SUVs to consumers.

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10 Realities Today Cause Startups To Bypass An IPO

Startup Professionals Musings

According to a recent Ernst & Young global report , the first half 2019 global IPO activity slowdown continued, following an unusually quiet Q1 2019 as ongoing geopolitical tensions and trade issues dampened IPO sentiment. Public companies of any size must comply immediately with the full reporting requirements of the SEC.

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Gimlet Media and Anchor: What Spotify’s Acquisitions Mean for Podcasts

Tech.Co

The company has stated that it plans to spend a total of $500 million on podcasting investments, meaning it still has a few hundred million to burn. Whether Spotify doubles down on its walled garden of audio or opts to invest in podcast ads, they’ll snag a big piece of a growing industry. No one’s saying that now.

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The Five Major Tech Trends of 2016

Xconomy

Back in 2013, Google reported that 90 percent of multiple device owners switch between screens to complete tasks, using an average of three different combinations every day. Customer expectations now demand seamless and satisfying user experiences. Here are the top five ways technology has impacted us this year.

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The New Style of Startup Vision: Smaller But Sharper?

Tech.Co

” Sharper Startup Focuses Warrant Investment. “RFP and response management software combined with PreSales is a strategic area for investment at the moment for a lot of VC’s and PE companies, so it feels like Avnio is in the right place at the right time.”. However, investors have seen fit to pump $31.2

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