NVIDIA to buy supercomputer chipmaker Mellanox for $6.9B, beating Intel in a bidding war

After several days of speculation, today NVIDIA confirmed that it would acquire chipmaker Mellanox for $6.9…

Tesla u-turns on store strategy, will keep half of showrooms open… and hike prices by 3%

It wouldn’t be Tesla if it didn’t keep us guessing a little… Electric car company Tesla…

Josh Brown, hair colorist to the stars, gets $6.5M led by Index in its latest D2C bet

In the age of Amazon, where up to 90 percent of all consumers use it to…

Lyft lays off up to 50 in bikes and scooters as it gears up for another wave of launches

As Lyft continues to prepare for its IPO, the on-demand transportation startup is trimming staff to…

SoftBank launches the Innovation Fund, committing $2B to invest in Latin America

While SoftBank continues to make big bets on startups out of its $100-billion Vision Fund, it…

Taxify rebrands as Bolt to expand its transport options beyond private cars

Taxify, the ride-hailing company from Estonia backed by Didi and Daimler and now active in 30…

Brodmann17 nabs $11M for its automotive computer vision tech that runs on any CPU

Efficient computer vision systems are a critical component of autonomous and assisted driving vehicles, and now…

Matterport raises $48M to ramp up its 3D imaging platform

The growth of augmented and virtual reality applications and hardware is ushering in a new age…

Fictiv raises $33M to be the ‘AWS of hardware manufacturing’

Hardware, as the saying goes, is hard, but today a startup has raised some money for…

FlixBus, the German Uber-like bus service, is buying rival Eurolines from Transdev

While all eyes are on what Uber Lyft and Didi will do this year as private…