Uber has announced it’s launching a free insurance package for independent couriers delivering food for its Uber Eats business in nine European markets.
It says all couriers with an active account in the covered markets will be able to take up the product free of charge. Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Attorneys general in five states say they’ll sue to overturn the FCC’s decision to repeal its net neutrality rules. Officials in Washington and California propose their own net neutrality rules.
Source: Wired
Augmented-reality dancing hotdogs are only a few clicks away.
Source: CNET
Britain’s most senior military officer says defence of the cables must be prioritised.
Source: CNET
Airwallex, an Australia-based fintech startup that helps banks and businesses handle cross-border transactions at scale, has closed a $6 million investment ahead of a planned Series B next year.
The new funding comes from Square Peg — a VC firm located in Melbourne, the same city as Airwallex HQ — which joins Tencent, MasterCard, Gobi Ventures and Sequoia China as backers of… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
“There are two types of competition for us at Loot: the banks and the money management apps,” Loot founder Ollie Purdue tells me. The U.K. startup, founded in 2014 while now 24 year old Purdue was finishing up university, offers a digital-only current account aimed at students and millennials. Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Google is preparing to use light beams to bring rural areas of the planet online after it announced to a planned rollout in India.
The firm is working with a telecom operator in Indian state Andhra Pradesh, home to over 50 million people, to use Free Space Optical Communications (FSOC), a technology that uses beams of light to deliver high-speed, high-capacity connectivity over long… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Go-Jek, the company leading Uber and Grab in Southeast Asia’s largest market, has bagged a hattrick of deals to advance its mobile payment strategy. Indonesia-based Go-Jek revealed it has acquired offline payment firm Kartuku, payment gateway Midtrans and payment and lending network Mapan for undisclosed sums. The company started out in 2015 offering a ride-hailing service for… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
After 25 years, comedy writer and producer Judd Apatow heads back to the stage in a new special.
Source: CNET
Shervin Pishevar is leaving Sherpa Capital to focus on legal action directed at what he calls a “smear campaign” against him.
Source: CNET