Month: June 2019

When Slack Technologies Inc. said it was taking the unusual route of a direct listing rather than a traditional IPO after Uber and Lyfts high-profile offerings landed with thuds earlier this year, conventional wisdom suggested it was dodging a rough year for …
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Im not going to lie to you, its a bit of a slow summer Friday out there, news-wise. Hopefully thats a leading indicator that it will be a slow summer Friday for you, work-wise. Anyway, onto The Morning Shift for Friday, June 21, 2019. 1st Gear: The Drivings …
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Flirting with danger on the open road is as old as, well, motoring itself. A free-spending heir to the Vanderbilt family fortune, William Kissam Vanderbilt II bought his first car in 1899. Many more followed, though the machines were obscenely expensive. A no…
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Youxia Motors, one of the earliest companies to arise out of Chinas 2014 electric vehicles startup boom, racked up some of the biggest venture-capital deals in the sector. Now its curiously out of sight. A little over a year ago, it closed an $800 million fu…
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Automakers including Tesla Inc. are stoking confusion among motorists by choosing names for their automated-driving systems that wrongly suggest they’re more capable than is actually the case, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Almo…
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