Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Uber tests showing ads for other companies in push notifications for its iOS app — Uber recently launched its new advertising division and in-app ads. Apparently, those ads aren’t staying within the app. — Instead, ads from other companies are being sent out as push notifications, much to the chagrin of some Uber users.
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Uber reaches a $10M settlement with the City of Chicago for listing restaurants in Uber Eats and Postmates without consent and charging excess commissions — Uber has agreed to a $10 million settlement with the City of Chicago for listing local restaurants in the Uber Eats …
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
CEO Kyle Vogt says that Cruise will launch commercial robotaxi services in Austin and Phoenix “in the next 90 days and before the end of 2022” — GM’s self-driving technology unit Cruise will launch commercial robotaxi services in Austin, Texas and Phoenix …
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
New Zealand-based Partly, which maintains a database used by marketplaces like eBay of 50M+ car parts from 20K+ suppliers and OEMs, raised a $21M Series A — Car parts buyers require specific parts to fit specific vehicles, making for a supply-constrained environment.
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
TuSimple confirms plans to lay off 25% of its workforce, or an estimated 350 workers, following a rough year for the self-driving trucking company — Update: CEO Cheng Lu said laid off workers will remain on the payroll for two months and will receive severance. — Well, we knew it was coming.
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Parallel Domain, which is building a data-generation platform for autonomy companies, has raised a $30M Series B led by March Capital — Achieving autonomous driving safely requires near endless hours of training software on every situation that could possibly arise before putting a vehicle on the road.
Dave Lee / Financial Times:
Uber launches a global ad unit targeting gross ad bookings of $1B per year by 2024, including by displaying ads within its apps and on top of cars — Rideshare company looks to accelerate revenue growth with new business division — Uber has launched its global advertising unit with the goal …
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