Photo by Andrew Hawkins / The Verge Just a few months after announcing a “radical” split structure placing its electric vehicle future in a new segment called Model E, Ford is discussing more details about sourcing battery production capacity and the basic raw materials to power all of those EVs. Its run rate by late…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
A company’s knowledge of IP trends and its own internal IP strategy is crucial to a wide range of issues the company may face—including litigation, business expansion, and retaining its talent. Being prepared for IP issues your company may face externally, as well as developing a strategic plan internally for your company’s IP portfolio, will…
RPA, and companies like UiPath, swooped into on the world of work a few years ago as a catchy way for organizations to help teams automate and speed up repetitive business activities such as processing information on forms. Today, a company called TextExpander — which has has identified and built a way to fix a…
Just Eat Takeaway is cutting 390 jobs from its workforce in France, constituting part of a broader global restructuring effort as the food delivery giant looks to reverse its recent downturn. Just Eat Takeaway is the result of a $7.6 billion merger between the U.K.’s Just East and Dutch rival Takeaway.com back in 2020. Shortly…
Meati Foods, which is developing the Eat Meati brand of proteins made from mushroom root, is poised to begin shipping its plant-based meat product later this year after closing on $150 million in new Series C funding. The round, which gives the company $278.6 million in total funding, according to Crunchbase data, was led by…
In the software industry, observability tools provide businesses insights on the health of their production apps. At best, observability tools can flag when apps are performing under par and help identify the root causes of issues. But rarely is it this simple. According to a recent survey conducted by Splunk, 86% of developers see difficulties…
15Five — an early mover in the world of building technology to help motivate teams, and to improve performance management for execs overseeing those teams — has raised $52 million in a round of growth funding that it will be using to expand its own performance. Now in use at some 3,400 companies — customers…
Rights groups are calling on Meta to halt attempts to silence Daniel Motaung, a South African content moderator and whistleblower that is suing it alongside Sama, its main subcontractor for content moderation in Africa, in Kenya over claims of union busting and exploitation. In a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, the group of over 80 organizations…
Intel’s first Arc Alchemist desktop graphics card was launched last month – but as you may recall, it’s still only on sale in China – and numerous reviews of the low-end model from manufacturer Gunnir are now cropping up, complete with disappointing conclusions on performance. However, one review gives us a possible explanation for what might…
Microsoft has unveiled Cloud for Sovereignty, a new offering designed to help the public sector comply with regulators’ increasingly strict requirements to keep data within a certain geographical area. The move comes as many of the big cloud hosting providers are rolling out similar services to help firms support digital sovereignty; Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)…