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SAN FRANCISCO –– DoorDash is offering special bonuses for its DashPass membership program. Starting July 21, DoorDash is kicking off its third annual and largest ever Summer of DashPass – five jam-packed weeks with more than 25,000 incredible member-only offers, worth over $40 million in savings, from nationwide favorites and local businesses. During Summer of DashPass, DashPass members will be able to […]
The Department of Justice filed in court a multi-million-dollar settlement agreement with Uber Technologies Inc. (Uber) to resolve a lawsuit alleging that Uber violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Under the agreement, Uber will offer several million dollars in compensation to more than 65,000 Uber users who were charged discriminatory fees due to disability. In […]
Fifty years ago this month in 1972, Honda introduced to the world the Honda Civic. A half century later, with sales approaching 30 million globally and now in its 11th generation, Civic is the longest-running automotive nameplate in Honda history and the best-selling Honda automobile of all-time. Since going on sale in America in early […]
Apple Music is premiering Apple Music Sessions, exclusive live releases featuring some of the world’s most prolific artists and emerging artists, all in Spatial Audio. Recorded out of Apple Music’s studios around the world, Apple Music Sessions gives artists the opportunity to reimagine and recreate hits from their catalog, and creative covers of beloved classics. […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Arkive has launched out of stealth to create a community of everyday people who want to curate, own and create culture by opening access to the most exclusive asset class ever created: museums. The company has raised $9.7 million in funding led by Offline and TCG Crypto with participation from NFX, Freestyle […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Fold Health, the first interoperable digital health tech stack for primary care, has launched with a funding round of $6 million from former Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush, SkyFlow CEO Anshu Sharma, Saama Technologies CEO Vivek Sharma along with Anand Chandrasekharan from General Catalyst, Mohanjit Jolly from Iron Pillar, Gokul Rajaram from Firebolt […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Coalition, the world’s first Active Insurance company designed to prevent digital risk before it strikes, has raised an additional $250 million to accelerate its rapid growth, power international expansion, and broaden the services Coalition offers to help organizations manage digital risk. This funding round closed in June with participation from Allianz X, […]
SAN FRANCISCO — SingleStore, a cloud-native database built for speed and scale to power data-intensive applications, has raised $116 million in financing led by the growth equity business within Goldman Sachs Asset Management (Goldman Sachs) with new participation from Sanabil Investments. Current investors Dell Technologies Capital, GV, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), IBM ventures and Insight […]
Apple and Major League Baseball (MLB) announced the August 2022 “Friday Night Baseball” schedule. Scheduled games continue to be available to watch for free, only on Apple TV+. Game assignments for “Friday Night Baseball” broadcasters will be announced on a weekly basis. “Friday Night Baseball” live pre and postgame coverage will continue to be hosted […]
CULVER CITY — For the second consecutive year, Apple TV+ broke records with 52 Emmy Award nominations across 13 titles, including Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special, Lead Actress in a Drama Series, Lead Actor in a Drama Series, and Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. Apple TV+ boosted its […]
SAN JOSE – Adobe recently unveiled major updates to Creative Cloud applications Photoshop, Lightroom and Lightroom Classic, delivering significant new features, benefits and value to customers. The updates deliver new editing and usability enhancements to Photoshop on the web (beta), leverage Adobe Sensei AI and machine learning to help simplify complex workflows for creatives and […]
The average price paid for a new vehicle in the U.S. in June was the highest on record and marked the first time the average transaction price (ATP) surpassed the $48,000 mark and over $66,000 for luxury vehicles, according to new data released by Kelley Blue Book. The new-vehicle ATP increased to $48,043 in June 2022, according to Kelley Blue […]