A profile of Chinese self-driving startup WeRide, which is set for a US IPO as soon as this week; PitchBook: WeRide has raised $1.4B and was last valued at ~$5B
Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times :
A look at South Korean conglomerate Naver's experiments with a fleet of ~100 office robots, including efforts to make employees comfortable with their presence
without making employees uncomfortable or violating their privacy. @daiwaka and I spent time at Naver's robot-friendly building to find out how the robots work. https://www.nytimes.com/... Matthew Boy...
A look at South Korean conglomerate Naver's experiments with a fleet of ~100 office robots, including efforts to make employees comfortable with their presence
Naver, a South Korean internet firm, is trying to introduce robots into the world of cubicles and conference rooms without making employees uncomfortable. Tweets: @daiwaka , @stanhoraczek , @tanzinave...
Seeking to reduce their reliance on China, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and others are increasingly producing devices elsewhere, such as India and Vietnam
New York Times : Tweets: @andreasharsono and @daiwaka Tweets: Andreas Harsono / @andreasharsono : Apple is producing iPads in Vietnam. Microsoft has shipped Xbox game consoles from Ho Chi Minh City. ...
Google I/O presented a modest vision of the future, offering subtle changes to existing products; executives said “help”, “helping”, or “helpful” over 50 times
Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times : Tweets: @stevesi , @micahzenko , @daiwaka , and @raywongy Tweets: Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi : Google Offers a More Modest Vision of Future https://www.nytimes....
Google plans to bring Privacy Sandbox to Android, preserving its Ad ID system for two years, and says it'll be less disruptive than ATT for advertisers and devs
Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times :
A profile of Seznam, a leading search engine in the Czech Republic before Android's rise that is helping to inspire laws to limit Big Tech's power
Adam Satariano / New York Times : Tweets: @nytimes , @daiwaka , @mh4oh , @davidtvrdon , and @ondrej1974 Tweets: @nytimes : Seznam, a small search engine company in the Czech Republic, has been a thor...
Court documents show Google ran a campaign from 2018 to 2020 to “convince” staff that “unions suck”; Google refuses a judge's order to produce more documents
employee resource groups and other tools deployed by corporate diversity initiatives are technologies of union-busting. https://twitter.com/... Daisuke Wakabayashi / @daiwaka : In documents that Googl...
The US ITC issues a final ruling declaring Google infringed on five Sonos audio tech patents and is banned from importing products that violate Sonos' IP
and buyers are fuming Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica : Google loses Sonos patent case, starts stripping functionality from speakers Zach Marzouk / IT PRO : Google banned from importing patent-infringing te...
Crypto and blockchain startups raised $28B+ in 2021, up 4x YoY, according to PitchBook, as large tech companies lose execs and engineers to crypto companies
Tech executives and engineers are quitting Google, Meta, Amazon and other large companies for what they say is a once-in-generation opportunity with crypto. Tweets: @cdixon , @asvanevik , @apompliano ...