by Adre's IT | 5 March, 2020 | Adre's IT Blog, aging biology, Camille Samuels, Corvidia, Health, healthcare, longevity, TC, Tech, Unity Technology, venrock
Camille Samuels has spent the last five years as a partner with the healthcare venture firm Venrock and a dozen years before that with Versant Ventures, where she was a managing director. This self-described “grizzled veteran” of the industry has...
by Adre's IT | 5 March, 2020 | Adre's IT Blog, Anthony Levandowski, Automotive, autonomous vehicles, Google, Lawsuit, lawsuits, legal, otto, self-driving cars, Tech, Transportation, Uber
Anthony Levandowski, the engineer and autonomous vehicle startup founder who was at the center of a trade secrets lawsuit between Uber and Waymo, has been ordered to pay $179 million to end a contract dispute over his departure from Google. Reuters was the first to...
by Adre's IT | 5 March, 2020 | 2020 Election, Adre's IT Blog, censorship, democratic party, Google, Lawsuit, Policy, TC, Tech, tulsi gabbard
Last July, Hawaii representative and longshot Democratic presidential hopeful Tulsi Gabbard filed a lawsuit against Google, accusing the company of violating her First Amendment rights to free speech when it briefly suspended her campaign’s ad account. On Wednesday,...
by Adre's IT | 4 March, 2020 | Adre's IT Blog, Tech
Mavenoid, a startup founded in Stockholm that helps companies scale tech-focused product support via an AI-powered chatbot, has raised $8 million in Series A funding. The round is led by Mosaic Ventures, alongside Creandum and Point Nine Capital. The company says the...
by Adre's IT | 4 March, 2020 | Adre's IT Blog, Tech
Some big moves in the payments platform space: Ant Financial Group, the owner of China’s Alipay payment platform has announced it’s taking a minority stake in Swedish payments platform Klarna — which has a strong European presence and a flagship product that lets...
by Adre's IT | 4 March, 2020 | Adre's IT Blog, Tech
India’s Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned central bank’s two-year-old ban on cryptocurrency trading in the country in what many said was a “historic” verdict. The Reserve Bank of India had imposed a ban on cryptocurrency trading in April 2018 that barred...
