Uber to expand in Italy through taxi partnership

Uber to expand in Italy through taxi partnership 0
- Business
- May 24, 2022
For years, Uber has faced opposition from taxi drivers in Italy. Now, the company is signing a partnership with the country’s largest taxi dispatch service. Alvaro Padilla | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Uber has signed a partnership with IT Taxi, the largest taxi dispatch service in Italy, in a tie-up aimed at boosting the
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SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell defends Elon Musk over sex misconduct allegations 0
- Business
- May 23, 2022
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk participates in a postlaunch news conference inside the Press Site auditorium at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 30, 2020, following the launch of the agency’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station. NASA/Kim Shiflett SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell defended Elon Musk in an email to
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Hyundai plans $5 billion investment in U.S. on mobility technology 0
- Business
- May 22, 2022
Drew Angerer | Getty Images News | Getty Images Hyundai Motor said on Sunday it plans to invest $5 billion in the U.S. by 2025 to further develop mobility technologies in areas like autonomous driving, robotics, and A.I. The investment comes alongside the automaker’s recent announcement of a plan to spend $5.54 billion to build its first
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX looks to raise $1.7 billion in new funding 0

May 22, 2022

A Falcon 9 rocket launches a batch of Starlink satellites to orbit on April 29, 2022. SpaceX SpaceX is raising a massive round of fresh funding, CNBC has learned, sending the private company’s valuation to about $127 billion. The space venture is looking to bring in up to $1.725 billion in new capital, at a

U.S. roadway deaths rise, even as cars get safer 0

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May 22, 2022

Cars and trucks are wedged together after a deadly multi-vehicle pileup on the ice covered I-35 in a still image from video in Fort Worth, Texas, February 11, 2021. NBC5 | via Reuters New vehicles on sale in the U.S. today are the safest and most advanced ever made, yet roadway fatalities last year reached

Where the billions spent on driverless cars by US and China is heading 0

Business

May 21, 2022

An Apollo Robotaxi runs at Shougang Park as Baidu launches China’s first driverless taxi service in the city on May 2, 2021 in Beijing, China. He Luqi | Qianlong.com | Visual China Group | Getty Images For years, Alphabet‘s Waymo and others leaders have promised autonomous vehicles are just around the bend. But that future

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