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Flock Freight, one of San Diego’s hottest tech startups, is moving its headquarters from Solana Beach to Encinitas, citing unbearably slow action on a permit request that would allow it to expand. The startup is quickly becoming well-known in San Diego County thanks to its recent $113 million venture cap deal led by SoftBank (which manages the largest tech fund on the planet). Flock Freight’s algorithms help companies move products more efficiently, combining small shipments into a… Source link

Mary Shen O’Carroll, a creator and leader of the legal operations team at Alphabet Inc’s Google who also served as president of the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium, said Thursday that she is leaving both roles and joining contract management platform Ironclad as its chief community officer. Mike Haven, head of legal operations and associate general counsel for Intel Corp, will succeed her as president of CLOC, an industry group that now has thousands of members. CLOC only allows… Source link

A portion of the Stafford Hill solar power project gathers energy from the sun in Rutland, Vt., on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015. With the completion of the project developed by Green Mountain Power, Vermont’s largest electric utility, the city of Rutland claimed it has more solar capacity, 7.8 megawatts, per capita than any other city in the New England region. Wilson Ring | AP LONDON — Google is backing a climate change start-up founded by an ex-DeepMind employee through its philanthropic arm,… Source link

Firework is the brainchild of co-founders Vincent Yang and Jerry Luk, that officially launched in … [+] 2017. Firework App Serial entrepreneur Vincent Yang envisioned his next project after a trip in China. An app called Douyin had exploded in the country and offered users compelling short form video. He wanted to create a similar experience for American users.  He knew that ByteDance, the parent company of Douyin, had acquired an app called Musical.ly in 2017, and had… Source link

Google’s latest investment in India is a startup that is helping businesses come online. One-year-old DotPe, a Gurgaon-based startup, said on Friday it has raised $27.5 million in its Series A financing round. The round was led by PayU, with participation from existing investor Info Edge Ventures and Google. The young startup, now valued at about $90 million, helps brick and mortar stores sell to customers online and collect payments digitally. It’s a problem that scores of startups in… Source link

The New York Times The Next Trick: Pulling Coronavirus Out of Thin Air A decade ago, when firefighter John Burke earned his master’s degree in health care emergency management, he wrote his thesis on pandemic planning. So when the coronavirus hit last spring, Burke, now the fire chief in Sandwich, Massachusetts, was ready. “I had my playbook ready to go,” Burke said. Testing for the virus was a top priority, so he connected with a private laboratory to ensure that his firefighters, who… Source link

Bloomberg Buffett’s Letter to Break Months of Silence Amid Tumult in U.S. (Bloomberg) — While 2020 raged, Warren Buffett mostly held his tongue.He stayed quiet through a heated presidential election, a racial reckoning that sparked nationwide protests and an exuberance for stocks that’s gripped millions of Americans. Not to mention a global pandemic. Now, the billionaire chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has a chance to break his silence with the release of his annual… Source link

Blockchain startup Dapper Labs turned heads when it signed a deal with the National Basketball League more than a year ago to let fans buy collectible video moments from games. Now, it’s proving to be a genius idea with more than $50 million in sales coming through its NBA Top Shot platform in just the last 30 days. As a simple explainer, the platform allows for something akin to verifiable video trading cards: The NBA selects the best moments from games and then Dapper Labs verifies how… Source link

It’s hard to imagine the internet today without Google. From search to YouTube to Android to Google Maps, billions of us rely on its products every single day. Google is reliable, simple, and most of its products don’t cost money to use. We use it without even thinking about it when we open our web browser or pick up our phone. The Silicon Valley giant is so powerful that the US government is accusing it of being a monopoly. Politicians as well as the public have begun questioning if… Source link

FILE PHOTO: A Google sign is pictured on a Google building in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., October 20, 2020. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo BENGALURU (Reuters) – Indian hyperlocal courier startup Dunzo has raised $40 million from existing investor Google and others, it said on Tuesday, after seeing a surge in usage during the COVID-19 pandemic. As many Indians stayed indoors for much of 2020 because of the health crisis, Dunzo and food-delivery apps Zomato and… Source link