Earlier this year a Wall Street Journal report contained claims from anonymous sources that Google was working on a native ad-blocker for its Chrome web browser. And now, the company has confirmed the news, announcing that a built-in ...
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Campbell Soup has invested $10m in Chef'd, the US online meal-kit business, to expand its e-commerce capabilities. The investment which is part of a Series B funding round makes the New Jersey-based canned soup producer the largest ...
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Qualcomm Technologies, in partnership with Renault and Vedecom, has demonstrated dynamic wireless electric vehicle charging (DEVC) system, based on its Halo wireless electric vehicle charging technology (WEVC). The system allows vehicles ...
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The new funding is of vital importance in translating the Initiative from blueprint to concrete projects and tangible benefits to the peoples of various countries, an anonymous source at the Ministry of Commerce said. President Xi ...
We regularly scour Kickstarter, Indiegogo and more to find the best (and worst) crowdfunding projects around, so you know which ones to consider backing – and which to avoid. Our latest pick is SwitchCharge, a battery pack ...
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Italian intellectual property firm Bio-on has developed bioplastic material aimed at creating new sustainable and biodegradable food packaging materials in the future. Developed with a budget of €4m, the bioplastic will be featuring ...
Due to funding assistance from PowerAmerica – a private-public partnership between the US Department of Energy, industry and academia – Transphorm Inc of Goleta, near Santa Barbara, CA, USA, which designs and manufactures what ...
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Driverless cars are set to hit UK roads in 2019 after a consortium of British companies unveiled plans to test the vehicles between London and Oxford. Driven, led by driverless software group Oxbotica, received a £8.6 million grant ...
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Independent III-V optoelectronic foundry Compound Semiconductor Technologies Global Ltd (CST Global) of Hamilton (near Glasgow), Scotland, UK is taking the commercial lead on the 14-month research project ‘Quantum Cooling using Mode ...
GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada – a fabless developer of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion and control applications – says that its funding partners have been recognized ...
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US ride-hailing firm Lyft has raised $600m in new round of financing at a $7.5bn valuation. The investors in the funding round include KKR, Baillie Gifford, Alliance Bernstein, Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP) ...
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Ride-hailing company Lyft has reportedly raised $500m in a new round of funding that valued the company at about $7.5bn. Uber's rival has been trying to raise investment for some time to enter new markets. In the first quarter of this ...
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Carbonics Inc of Marina Del Rey, CA, USA has launched its ZEBRA carbon-on-silicon technology for radio frequency (RF) components and devices in wireless, communications, defense and aerospace markets. Carbonics was spun out from ...
The UK Government has launched the first competition to access funding from its £100 investment program supporting the creation of test facilities for connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV). According to the Business, Energy and ...
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Toyota Motor Europe has announced a planned investment of £240m in its UK manufacturing facility at Burnaston in Derbyshire. The factory will be upgraded to allow the production of vehicles on the Toyota New Global Architecture ...
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