InstaCarro raises $22 million to tackle Brazil’s $50 billion used-car market

InstaCarro, a Brazilian-based marketplace for buying and selling used cars, has raised a whopping $22 million in its first institutional round of venture financing. One of the largest early-stage investments for a Brazilian startup, the new financing will be used for product development and international […]

‘Baguettes at dawn’ as traditional French bakers fight chains for right to shut shop once a week

Daggers are drawn in France over a century-old law obliging the country's bakers to shut shop once a week after bakery chains called for the rule to be … "We are seeing bread dispensing machines arriving in rural areas where you sometimes need to travel […]

Analyst says Apple could have sold 6 million iPhone X units during Black Friday weekend

Apple hasn’t shared any exact number, but Rosenblatt Securities analyst Jun Zhang calculated that Apple may have sold as many as 6 million iPhone X units this weekend alone, StreetInsider reported. With such a big number, it’s hard to grasp Apple’s success with the iPhone […]

Wash your clothes in half the time, thanks to Samsung’s QuickDrive™ tech

Our lives are getting busier, which means any spare minute we have needs to be cherished and not spent doing the laundry. Samsung knows this and has made it its business to redefine the washing experience, thanks to its groundbreaking WW8800 washing machine with QuickDrive™ […]

How Bots Broke the FCC’s Public Comment System During the Net Neutrality Debate

On a single day in late May, hundreds of thousands of public comments poured into the Federal Communications Commission regarding its plans to roll back net neutrality protections. A week and a half later, on June 3, hundreds of thousands more followed. The spikes weren’t […]

Judge grants Waymo trial delay because Uber withheld evidence

The lawsuit revolves around Anthony Levandowski, who is a former Google employee. He left the company to form Otto, a self-driving truck startup. Uber later acquired Otto, and with it (according to Alphabet), proprietary files from Waymo about the self-driving unit’s tech that Levandowski downloaded […]