Shares of transit software company Via closed at $49.51 in their NYSE debut, above the $46 IPO price, giving Via a market cap of ~$3.9B, after raising $492.9M
Investors took a cautious approach to transit software startup Via's IPO on Friday, with shares opening below the company's IPO price …
In his first public appearance since returning to OpenAI, Sam Altman says AI is “going to lift the world up” and companies cannot build AI “safely in a vacuum”
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg : X: @saritharai X: Saritha Rai / @saritharai : Everything is fine again? Days after the tumult at OpenAI and his return to the helm, Sam Altman is back touting the virtues of...
NYC-based Via plans to acquire London-based Citymapper, which has ~50M users and raised ~$60M; sources say investors are mostly not making their money back
Last month, when transportation startup Via raised $110 million at a $3.5 billion valuation, CEO Daniel Ramot said it planned …
A profile of Via, a New York ride-hailing company that pays drivers more than Uber and Lyft, aims to be eco-friendly, and tries to “strengthen public transit”
Via pays its drivers more than any other company, focuses on environmentally friendly practices, and wants to decrease traffic congestion. Tweets: @anrao and @viavan_lon Tweets: Ankita Rao / @anrao : ...
LA partners with on-demand shuttle-based service Via for a pilot program that provides rides to and from three busy public transit stations
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Arlington, TX ditches charter buses as public transportation for a ridesharing service called Via, which will offer $3 rides and have 10 commuter vans on call
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Carpooling service Via raises funding round, source says of $250M, led by Daimler, for European expansion; Mercedes Benz investing $50M in a JV with Via
As outsized ridesharing companies like Uber and Lyft continue to build out their taxi-style marketplaces largely based around connecting …
Carpooling startup Via raises $70M, with $30M more expected in the next few weeks
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“We cannot trust” Intel and Via's chip-based crypto, FreeBSD developers say
Developers of the FreeBSD operating system will no longer allow users to trust processors manufactured by Intel and Via Technologies as the sole source of random numbers needed to generate cryptograph...
Wibrain's B1 UMPC: hideous, yet strangely appealing
Ok, it's ugly as sin (and pretty thick, to boot), but we have to give props to Wibrain's new B1 UMPC. Besides coming equipped with a Via C7m CPU up to 1.6GHz, 802.11b/g, Bluetooth 2.1, a VGA camera, ...