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Microsoft and the Green Bay Packers pour $10 million into Wisconsin innovation hub
Lyft raises $1 billion led by Alphabet’s CapitalG at an $11 billion valuation
Google Play hits 8 billion new app installs per month, gets new developer features and bug bounty program
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Sweden’s Assa Abloy acquires smart lock startup August Home
YC graduate Feather raises $3.5 million for furniture rental business
Heartland startups may be growing faster than their Silicon Valley counterparts
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Woebot names AI pioneer Andrew Ng as chairman to work on mental health
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The sentient enterprise: Why Verizon, Dell & GM are paying attention
Veo Robotics raises $12 million to help machines and humans collaborate more efficiently
Mozilla to document cross-browser web dev standards with Google, Microsoft, Samsung, and W3C
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WhatsApp’s Live Location feature lets friends track each other in real time
Uber loses another senior European executive
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