Protesters in San Francisco have blocked streets with electric scooters and let off smoke bombs, in a demonstration aimed at the city’s handling of its large tech companies compared with the poor.…
Uber’s Self-Driving Fatality Must Precipitate Regulatory Crackdown
Yesterday an Uber self-driving car hit and killed 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg in Tempe, Arizona. First, a rant to the media: it doesn’t matter whether Ms Herzberg was homeless or not, or whether…
High-Speed AR Firm Edgybees Completes $5.5m Seed Round
Edgybees, a Californian startup offering augmented reality solutions for “high speed” platforms like drones and cars, has won a $5.5 million Seed funding round. The investment was raised from Motorola Solutions Venture…
IdentityMind Global Wins $10m Series C Round
IdentityMind Global, a Palo Alto, CA-based software firm that managed digital identities, has won a $10 million funding round, which it will use to tap into global markets. The company, founded in…
The Biggest Tech Court Battles of 2017
Last Wednesday it was announced that Mozilla and Oath would be fighting it out in court, following Mozilla’s decision to switch from Yahoo! to Google for searches. What seems like small fry…
Apple AI Chief Unveils Self-Drive Tech Progress
Apple has shown a little more of what it’s getting done in the self-driving tech world. This week Ruslan Salakhutidinov, the company’s director of artificial intelligence (AI), made a presentation in California…
Red Herring Crowns Top 100 Global Winners in California
The Red Herring Top 100 Global event concluded last week with the crowning of a hundred of tech’s brightest startups. The two-day conference, which took place in Los Angeles, welcomed hundreds of…
Alex Vieux: Despite a Positive 2017, A Tech Bubble “Is Not Coming Yet”
Red Herring chairman has warned that a tech bubble “is not coming yet,” at a state-of-the-industry address to delegates in California this week. Vieux, who was hosting hundreds of industry CEOs, insiders…
Steve Wozniak Launches New Education Startup, Woz U
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is back on the startup scene – this time with his new education app, Woz U. The platform, which promises to “get people into the workforce quickly and…
Impossible Made Possible: California Foodtech Startup Wins $75m Round
Impossible Foods, the plant-based burger company, has secured a $75 million funding round from some of the world’s richest people–as it locks into a battle with competitor Beyond Meat. The Redwood City,…