Spendesk raises $9.9 million to build your next corporate card

French startup Spendesk just raised $9.9 million (€8 million) from Index Ventures with Michael Benabou, Laurent Asscher and Showpad cofounders Louis Jonckheere and Pieterjan Bouten also participating. Spendesk is a service that combines prepaid cards with an expense report solution. After signing up, each employee […]

Health Experts Ask Facebook to Shut Down Messenger Kids

A coalition of 97 child health advocates sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday asking him to discontinue Messenger Kids, a new advertising-free Facebook app targeted at 6-to-12-year olds. Advocates say the app likely will undermine healthy childhood development for preschool and elementary-school-aged kids […]

Waymo orders thousands of Pacificas for 2018 self-driving fleet rollout

Waymo has ordered thousands of new Chrysler Pacifica minivans from FCA to help populate its autonomous ride-hailing fleet, which it will open to the public in 2018, the company says. The public launch of its Pacifica-based self-driving ride hailing service is set to occur sometime […]

Steve Wozniak says he doesn’t trust Elon Musk or Tesla anymore

Tesla's self-driving technology has been particularly disappointing, he said, noting that Musk predicted a Tesla would drive itself cross-country for the first time by 2017…then early 2018…or perhaps later. Automakers such as Audi and BMW have surpassed Tesla's self-driving technology, Wozniak said, … social experiment by […]