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Revel turns to software to keep its e-moped fleet powered without straining NYC’s grid

5 years 2 months ago
Revel is turning to an app that gamifies energy use to keep its fleet of more than 3,000 electric mopeds charged without putting a strain on New York City’s power grid. Electricity is the key ingredient for the Brooklyn-based startup, which has more recently expanded beyond shared electric mopeds and into e-bike subscriptions, fast-charging infrastructure […]
Rebecca Bellan

Apple is reportedly working on a pay later feature for Apple Pay

5 years 2 months ago
If you’ve done any online shopping in the last little while, there’s a good chance you’ve run into services like Affirm and PayPal’s Pay in 4. They allow you to purchase something and pay for it later by splitting up the total cost of the item into several installments.
Henry Pickavet

Gogo in-flight internet has been renamed Intelsat

5 years 2 months ago
The next time you're on a plane, searching for a Wi-Fi connection while soaring thousands of feet above the ground, don't look for the Gogo name. The longstanding standard of in-flight internet, Gogo Commercial Aviation, has been rebranded to Intelsat.
Henry Pickavet

Masten Space Systems to develop a GPS-like network for the moon

5 years 2 months ago
Masten Space Systems, a startup that’s aiming to send a lander to the moon in 2023, will develop a lunar navigation and positioning system not unlike GPS here on Earth. Masten’s prototype is being developed as part of a contract awarded through the Air Force Research Laboratory’s AFWERX program. Once deployed, it’ll be a first-of-its-kind […]
Aria Alamalhodaei

Heart Aerospace raises $35M Series A, lands order with United and Mesa Airlines for 200 aircraft

5 years 2 months ago
Swedish electric aviation startup Heart Aerospace has received its biggest order to date: 200 of its inaugural ES-19 electric aircraft from aviation giant United Airlines and its regional airline partner Mesa Air Group. The deal, which includes an option of purchasing up to 100 additional aircraft, was announced together with a $35 million Series A […]
Aria Alamalhodaei

Twitter now lets you limit who can reply to a tweet after the fact

5 years 2 months ago
If you’re tired of sending brilliant takes into the Twitterverse only to be met with wave after wave of reply guys, a new Twitter feature could give you some relief. Starting today, anyone on Twitter will be able to adjust who can reply to individual tweets after they’ve been sent. Previously, you could limit who […]
Taylor Hatmaker

Why did file sharing drive so much startup innovation?

5 years 2 months ago
One of the great things about editing all of our deep-dive EC-1 startup profiles is that you start to notice patterns across successful companies. While origin stories and trajectories can vary widely, the best companies seem to come from similar places and are conceived around very peculiar themes. To wit, one common theme that came […]
Danny Crichton

Zomato raises $562 million from anchor investors ahead of IPO

5 years 2 months ago
Indian food-delivery startup Zomato said on Tuesday evening that it has raised $562.3 million from its anchor investors ahead of its IPO opening on Wednesday. Zomato has already secured nearly 45% of the $1.3 billion it plans to raise through the IPO, the 12-year-old Gurgaon-headquartered startup revealed in a filing to local stock exchanges. The […]
Manish Singh

Where is suptech heading?

5 years 2 months ago
With the finance world now leveraging tech to conduct business, financial services regulators are also developing new tech to monitor markets, supervise institutions and for administration.
Ram Iyer

Discord buys Sentropy, which makes AI software that fights online harassment

5 years 2 months ago
The online chat platform Discord is buying Sentropy, a company that makes AI-powered software to detect and remove online harassment and hate. Discord currently uses a “multilevel” approach to moderation, relying on an in-house human moderation team as well as volunteer mods and admins to create ground rules for individual servers. A Trust and Safety […]
Taylor Hatmaker

Panda Express is piloting Beyond Meat orange chicken in select locations

5 years 2 months ago
Just under a week after Beyond Meat announced that it will be releasing a reworked version of its plant-based Chicken Tenders at restaurants in the U.S., the faux meat company has returned with a potentially sizable restaurant partnership. Starting July 26, select Panda Express restaurants in Southern California and New York City will offer an […]
Brian Heater

Nas Academy raises $11 million to help creators build their own MasterClass-like courses

5 years 2 months ago
Investors are buying into a creator-led future, and Nas Academy wants to turn that creator influence into a broad network of “virtual universities.” The Singapore startup is building out a platform for creators to monetize their knowledge, giving them the tools to create their own classes and academies that fans can attend online. The platform […]
Lucas Matney

Zero’s FXE offers electric motorcycle fun in a slightly new package

5 years 2 months ago
Zero Motorcycles has been around for over a decade and in that time it’s consistently improved its fleet of electric bikes. With the new FXE, the northern California company has taken the thoroughly enjoyable FXS supermoto and transformed it into something a bit more futuristic looking with a new easier-to-parse display.
Roberto Baldwin

Apple introduces a $99 MagSafe Battery Pack for the iPhone 12

5 years 2 months ago
The addition of MagSafe to the iPhone 12 line introduced all manner of fun avenues for accessory makers, but there’s a strong case (so to speak) to be made that a snap-on battery pack might be the most useful of all. A number of third-parties (notably Anker and Mophie) have introduced their own versions, and […]
Brian Heater
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