Top Stories of the Day // May 28, 2019

Tuesday, May 28, 2019 Posted by bloggerdaddy
Move over Ready Player One — the future of AR might be in furniture | IBM-Maersk blockchain shipping consortium expands to include other major shipping companies | MacKenzie Bezos pledges to give away more than half her $37B fortune to charity and philanthropy | Glovo faces safety protests after delivery rider killed on the job | Huawei reassesses FedEx relationship over 'misrouted' packages | Q&A with J Crowley, Head of Product at Airbnb Lux, on what makes a great PM | Paladin Drones picks up $1.3M to give first responders a live feed of emergencies |
THE DAILY CRUNCH
TUESDAY, MAY 28 2019 TODAY'S TOP STORIES:
TOP HEADLINE | Mike Butcher

Move over Ready Player One — the future of AR might be in furniture

Last week Modsy, a San Francisco-based startup raised a large amount of funding - $37 million in C-round funding to be precise. And that followed a $23 million series B... Read More…
Ron Miller

IBM-Maersk blockchain shipping consortium expands to include other major shipping companies

Last year IBM and Danish shipping conglomerate Maersk announced the limited availability of a blockchain-based shipping tool called TradeLens. Today, the two partners announced that a couple of other major... Read More…
Sarah Perez

MacKenzie Bezos pledges to give away more than half her $37B fortune to charity and philanthropy

MacKenzie Bezos, the world's third-richest woman following her divorce from Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, has signed the Giving Pledge -- a commitment that will see her giving away... Read More…
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Natasha Lomas

Glovo faces safety protests after delivery rider killed on the job

Spanish on-demand delivery startup Glovo is facing angry protests from couriers on its platform following the death of a 22-year-old rider on Saturday in Barcelona where the business is headquartered.... Read More…
Brian Heater

Huawei reassesses FedEx relationship over 'misrouted' packages

Huawei is understandably reexamining a number of relationships in the wake of a recent U.S. trade ban. While various component and software providers including Google and ARM have suspended dealings... Read More…
Jordan Crook

Q&A with J Crowley, Head of Product at Airbnb Lux, on what makes a great PM

The role of Product Manager can mean very different things at various companies. Should a product manager be technical? Scientific? Opinionated? J Crowley has run product at three big-name companies.... Read More…
Jordan Crook

Paladin Drones picks up $1.3M to give first responders a live feed of emergencies

In emergency situations, minutes can mean the difference between life and death. Paladin Drones, a company launching out of Y Combinator, wants to use technology to minimize the amount of... Read More…
Mike Butcher

Out of stealth, Stratio emerges with predictive AI to stop your bus from breaking down

Remember that future we were promised where our vehicle magically tells us that we're about to break down? Or actually never does? Or that the pickup truck arrives before the... Read More…
Brian Heater

DJI launches a new onboard drone computer for enterprise users

DJI this morning announced the latest version of its Manifold on-board drone computer. The second-generation device can be programmed for myriad different enterprise purposes, from research to routine inspections. The... Read More…
Sarah Perez

Google makes mobile-first indexing the default for all new domains

At the end of 2018, Google said mobile-first indexing -- that is, using a website's mobile version to index its pages -- was being used for over half the web... Read More…
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