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Hyundai taps EV startup Canoo to develop electric vehicles

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Hyundai Motor Group said it will jointly develop an electric vehicle platform with Los Angeles-based startup Canoo, the latest startup tapped by the automaker as part of an $87 billion push to invest in electrification and other future technologies. Canoo said it will provide engineering services to develop the electric platform.

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Reflections On 2019: Mike Jones, Science Inc.

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I fell in love again with the process of working with founders, designing systems, executing business ideas and driving to mass scale and audience. I find that when founders or investors, including myself, focus exclusively on the outcome, they lose the wonder, enjoyment, and love that is found within the process.

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Fiction Riot Plans Short Form Video App

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According to Fiction Riot, its new app, Ficto , will offer up subscription access to series from professional producers, writers, actors and artists, designed specifically for mobile usage. The first content on the platform is targeted for early 2019. The new startup is led by CEO and co-founder Mike Esola.

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Snap’s Yellow accelerator debuts its third batch of investments

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The 10 startups in Yellow’s third batch include: Brightly : a media platform and community that promotes ethical and sustainable brands. Stipop : a rich cross-platform chat sticker API. Wabisabi Design : an augmented reality game studio focused on bit-sized titles. Snap investment Hardworkers.

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GM exits car-sharing business and shuts down Maven

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” Maven was designed to bring and expand several of GM’s existing test programs under one brand. Maven then launched a service in summer 2018 in Chicago, Detroit and Ann Arbor that let owners rent out their personal GM-branded vehicles through its Maven car-sharing platform.

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Startups Weekly: VCs are drunk on beverage startups

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Haus, like any good consumer startup in 2019, is shipped directly to your door. — Kate Clark (@KateClarkTweets) May 21, 2019. Founder Alix Peabody designed a line of female-focused canned rosé. Shopify quietly acquires Handshake, an e-commerce platform for B2B wholesale purchasing . pic.twitter.com/DMEg88t4iO.

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Putting the band back together, ExactTarget execs reunite to launch MetaCX

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The first offerings will be launching in the beginning of 2019, but the company has dozens of customers already using its pilot, McCorkle said. Our founding team includes world-class engineers, designers and architects who have been building billion-dollar SaaS products for two decades,” said McCorkle, in a statement. “We