Online lending startups looking to raise money now have to answer one important question that didn’t get asked much in the past: how do avoid the fate of early pioneers like Lending Club or On Deck, which have lost nearly 80 percent of their value since going public in 2014. At least that’s what Bluevine […]
Read moreFormer General Electric chairman Jeff Immelt has become the frontrunner candidate to become CEO of Uber, according to numerous sources with knowledge of the situation. While the tension on the board of the car-hailing company remains high — due of late to an ugly lawsuit that one of its major investors, Benchmark, is waging against […]
Read moreDecades after Volkswagen captured the spirit of the late ’60s and early ’70s with the iconic Microbus, the German automaker is hoping an updated, all-electric van will do the same thing. VW has announced it will build and sell the I.D. Buzz with the new electric van scheduled to hit showrooms in 2022. The announcement […]
Read moreThere’s no better place to watch Monday’s eclipse than the great outdoors. Literally. Families all over the country have been rushing to secure a viewing spot along the eclipse’s path of totality, where the full eclipse can be seen. But for those who didn’t plan far enough in advance, Airbnbs, hotels and public campgrounds are […]
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First, every Mazda press car I get comes with the ability to relay my text messages to me. The way it works, from my experience, is that I get a text from my mom. The Mazda, entirely on its own, then picks a random contact and tells me I have a text from them. When […]
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The bitcoin offshoot surged Saturday to a record high in high trade volume, helped by strong demand from South Korea and digital currency “miners” who found the offshoot more profitable to mine. Bitcoin cash, an alternative version of bitcoin launched by a minority of developers on Aug. 1, climbed 44 percent to $996.92, according to […]
Read moreBoxed CEO Chieh Huang says the company’s biggest challenge in its early days was not having enough manpower. “When we used to have those deluge of orders, we used to empty the entire corporate office, get a bus, and bring them here to the fulfillment center,” Huang says. Boxed packages and ships bulky items to […]
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Finnish police say arrested four other Moroccan men over links to stabbings
Finnish police said they has arrested four other Moroccan men over their possible links to the man suspected of killing two and wounding eight in Friday’s knife attacks. The police added in a news conference that the attacker, who had arrived in Finland last year, seemed to have chosen women as his targets. Finnish broadcaster […]
Read moreSpanish police were on Saturday searching for the driver of a van that ploughed into a crowd in Barcelona, killing 13 people, in one of two deadly attacks in Catalonia carried out by a network of suspected Islamist militants. The van driver has yet to be identified, police in the northeastern Spanish region said late […]
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