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Back when Stairwell emerged from stealth in 2020, the startup was shrouded in secrecy. Now with $20 million in Series A funding, its founder and CEO Mike Wiacek — who previously served as chief security officer at Chronicle, Google’s moonshot cybersecurity company — is ready to talk. As well as raising $20M, an investment round […]

We’ve entered the throes of hardware season, with big events from all of the industry’s big names. Amazon has already announced a number of new Fire TVs, with plans for a big (likely Echo-focused) event a week from today. In the meantime, the retail giant just dropped a sizable surprise on our heads in the […]

Yesterday, the Gig Workers Collective — representing a body of about 13,000 Instacart shoppers — launched a #DeleteInstacart campaign, urging customers to delete the Instacart app as a show of solidarity with workers advocating for better treatment. The collective of shoppers asked that customers refrain from reinstalling the app until five demands are met. They […]

September 21, 2021 BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s cabinet approved on Tuesday a further 27 billion baht ($807.17 million) in COVID-19 relief measures and extended a scheme to boost local travel, officials said, to try to spur domestic activity in a struggling economy. A fierce outbreak since April and stricter containment measures have hit consumption while […]

September 21, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) – Ryanair on Tuesday warned that Boeing risked forgoing the main driver of growth in Europe, low-cost airlines, to rival Airbus unless it reversed a recent price increase. Europe’s largest low cost carrier earlier this month abruptly ended talks with the U.S. planemaker over a new order of the larger […]

September 21, 2021 By Anushka Trivedi (Reuters) -Bank of America cut its China growth forecast on Tuesday in response to intensifying troubles at property giant Evergrande, a fresh COVID outbreak and a widespread regulatory squeeze, going beyond warnings issued by other investment banks. While BofA trimmed its real gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast for […]

September 21, 2021 By Hilary Russ NEW YORK (Reuters) – Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc said on Tuesday it is adding smoked brisket to its menu in the United States and Canada after testing it last year. The new menu item, which costs $10.25 on average as an entree in Chipotle restaurants, comes as beef prices […]

September 21, 2021 (Reuters) – AutoNation Inc said on Tuesday former Fiat Chrysler chief Mike Manley would head the automotive retailer as its chief executive officer, effective Nov 1. (Reporting by Shreyasee Raj; Editing by Shailesh Kuber) Source Link AutoNation names former Fiat Chrysler chief Manley as CEO David Barret

September 21, 2021 TOULOUSE, France (Reuters) – The head of budget airline easyJet has told the boss of Ryanair to focus on running his own airline after questions were raised over the British carrier’s independence. Ryanair group chief executive Michael O’Leary was quoted as telling the Financial Times last week that rivals easyJet and Wiz […]

September 21, 2021 By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -European Union foreign ministers expressed support and solidarity with France on Monday during a meeting in New York to discuss Australia’s scrapping of a $40 billion submarine order with Paris in favor of a U.S. and British deal. Speaking after the closed-door meeting on the sidelines […]

September 21, 2021 By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) – France shouldn’t have been surprised that Australia cancelled a submarine contract, as major concerns about delays, cost overruns and suitability had been aired officially and publicly for years, Australian politicians said. Paris has recalled its ambassadors from Canberra and Washington, saying it was blindsided by Canberra’s […]

September 21, 2021 BERLIN (Reuters) – Armin Laschet has been betting that his credentials as a tried-and-tested manager will make up for what critics call a lack of charisma in the contest to become Germany’s chancellor. Yet days before a national election in which Laschet is the conservatives’ candidate, his Social Democrat rival, Olaf Scholz, […]

September 21, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) – British police on Tuesday said a third Russian man was involved in the nerve agent attack on double agent Sergei Skripal in southern England three years ago. Police said there was evidence to charge the man, Denis Sergeev, who went by the alias Sergei Fedotov, with plotting to kill […]

September 21, 2021 By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Most European Union countries broke at least one air pollution limit last year, even as COVID-19 lockdowns improved air quality in many regions, according to provisional European Environment Agency (EEA) data published on Tuesday. Excessive air pollution has landed around 10 EU countries in court in […]

September 21, 2021 PRAGUE (Reuters) – A Slovak bishop of the Greek-Catholic Church, who met Pope Francis when the pontiff visited the central European country last week, tested positive for COVID-19 and is in self-quarantine, the church said. Pope Francis visited Hungary and Slovakia between Sept. 12-15, which was his first trip since having surgery […]

September 21, 2021 (Reuters) – The Taliban administration in Afghanistan is working towards reopening high school education for girls, who were left out of a recent return to school for boys and younger girls, although a Taliban spokesman speaking on Tuesday gave no time frame for action. The Taliban say they have changed since their […]

September 21, 2021 MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Russian city of Perm on Tuesday mourned the six people killed by a teenage gunman at a university in an incident that sent shockwaves through the community. The gunman, identified by local media as an 18-year-old student, opened fire on campus at Perm State University on Monday, prompting […]

Slack has been talking about expanding beyond text-based messaging for some time. Today at Dreamforce, the Salesforce customer conference taking place this week, it announced Clips, a way to leave short video messages that people can watch at their leisure. Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield sees Clips as a way to communicate with colleagues when a […]

PayPal has been talking about its “super app” plans for some time, having recently told investors its upcoming digital wallet and payments app had been given a go for launch. Today, the first version of that app is officially being introduced, offering a combination of financial tools including direct deposit, bill pay, a digital wallet, […]

Farming sustainably and efficiently has gone from a big tractor problem to a big data problem over the last few decades, and startup EarthOptics believes the next frontier of precision agriculture lies deep in the soil. Using high-tech imaging techniques, the company claims to map the physical and chemical composition of fields faster, better, and […]