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Uber Plans Flying Taxis In Los Angeles By 2020

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On-demand ridesharing service Uber hopes to bring flying taxis to Los Angeles by 2020, the company said this morning, and has just signed a contract with the U.S. Uber has said it will operate the "ridesharing for the sky" service from special rooftop take-off-and-landing sites throughout Los Angeles.

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Cartwheel Collects $1M From Portillo's, Others For On-Demand Delivery

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Los Angeles-based Cartwheel, a startup that develops on-demand delivery management software, says it has raised $1M in a seed funding round, which came from TenOneTen Ventures, Act One Ventures, as well as famed hot dog restaurant chain Portillo's Hot Dogs, along with other angels.

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ChargerHelp raises $2.75M to keep EV chargers working

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an on-demand repair app for electric vehicle charging stations, has seen these issues firsthand. Demand for ChargerHelp’s service has attracted customers and investors. While ChargerHelp is couched as an on-demand repair app, it is also acts as a preventative maintenance service for its customers. Powering up.

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Canoo, the electric vehicle startup formed from Faraday Future’s ashes, seeks $200 million

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Canoo is locking in final contracts with its vendors and is going to be in production with prototypes before the end of the year. Initially, Canoo will target customers in Los Angeles and the Bay Area, with additional plans to expand to San Diego and Seattle when the company brings its commercial vehicles to market in 2021.

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Google Cloud opens its Las Vegas region

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with Las Vegas complementing Google Cloud’s existing data centers in Los Angeles, Calif.; In Vegas, though, developers won’t be able to use relatively new services like Cloud Functions and Cloud Run yet. Google Cloud today announced the official opening of its Las Vegas data center region. The Dalles, Ore.

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Founded by former SpaceX engineers, First Resonance pitches tools to make things the SpaceX way

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The software that First Resonance has developed allows manufacturers to coordinate their workflow processes. But the software — and the information it’s collecting from manufacturing — can be used to inform better design decisions and the upstream product development process, Talati said.

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How Helpr Wants To Bring On-Demand To Babysitting

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There's a large number of on-demand services which have been appearing recently, to help people deal with almost every aspect of their life. One of the latest is Los Angeles-based Helpr (www.helpr-app.com), which recently launched to help parents find babysitters for their children. What is Helpr?

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