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Report: Uber operations manager sent 890-word email to execs with serious concerns about autonomous program just days before an Uber vehicle killed a pedestrian (Jon Porter/The Verge)
on December 11, 2018 at 17:25
Jon Porter / The Verge:Report: Uber operations manager sent 890-word email to execs with serious concerns about autonomous program just days before an Uber vehicle killed a pedestrian — Solutions that could have prevented collision were proposed — An 890-word email was sent to Uber's executives […]
Design collaboration startup InVision raises $115M Series F at a $1.9B valuation, led by Spark Capital, bringing total funding to $350M (Jordan Crook/TechCrunch)
on December 11, 2018 at 17:10
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:Design collaboration startup InVision raises $115M Series F at a $1.9B valuation, led by Spark Capital, bringing total funding to $350M — The design collaboration startup now sees $100 million in annual recurring revenue... “The screen is becoming the most important place in the world,” says InVision CEO and founder Clark Valberg. […]
AppOnboard, which offers a tool for app developers to let users try their app before they buy, raises $15M Series B led by Breakaway Growth (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
on December 11, 2018 at 17:01
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:AppOnboard, which offers a tool for app developers to let users try their app before they buy, raises $15M Series B led by Breakaway Growth — AppOnboard scored a big deal with Google earlier this year when the partners announced AppOnboard's tech would be used to bring playable demos directly […]
Dell votes to buy back VMware tracking stock and go public again, to trade on NYSE beginning December 28 under the symbol DELL (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)
on December 11, 2018 at 16:50
Ron Miller / TechCrunch:Dell votes to buy back VMware tracking stock and go public again, to trade on NYSE beginning December 28 under the symbol DELL — Dell just announced that it has agreed to buy back the VMware tracking stock from the EMC acquisition. The company confirmed the buy-back price of $120 per share for a total of $23.9 billion. […]
Evelyn Berezin, who designed and built the first true word processors around 1970 as the founder and president of Redactron, has died at 93 (Robert D. McFadden/New York Times)
on December 11, 2018 at 16:10
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:Evelyn Berezin, who designed and built the first true word processors around 1970 as the founder and president of Redactron, has died at 93 — Evelyn Berezin, a computer pioneer who emancipated many a frazzled secretary from the shackles of the typewriter nearly a half-century ago by building […]