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This week, Roku played hardball with its customers, requiring them to consent to new dispute resolution terms.
And Elon Musk, the CEO of X, sued OpenAI over allegedly “betraying” its nonprofit mission.
NewsEpic takedown: Apple has terminated Epic Games’ App Store developer account, reportedly calling it a “threat” to the iOS ecosystem.
Musk money: Four former Twitter executives, including ex-CEO Parag Agrawal, sued Musk on Monday, alleging that they’re owed over $128 million in severance payments.
For a country with some very sunny regions, Mexico has strikingly little solar power.
In Mexico, the solar market is still nascent, which means customers are not very familiar with the technology and the market remains highly fragmented.
Then they went to South Korea to revamp CloudKitchens’ operations there before moving to Mexico for another CloudKitchens project.
Sales cycles in solar tend to be long in Mexico, Dellepaine said.
To find customers, Niko is courting large corporations to offer their service as an employee benefit, and banks that might want to improve the environmental sustainability of their mortgage portfolios.
After working together at Xerox Corp.’s corporate venture capital firm Xerox Ventures, Chris Fisher, Tim Chiang and Dean Mai form Myriad Venture Partners.
They secured $100 million in capital commitments for their first fund, which targets $200 million in total, Fisher told TechCrunch.
Fisher is the former senior vice president and chief strategy officer of Xerox and former founder and managing partner of Xerox Ventures, a firm started in 2021.
This is something he is already seeing happening at companies through R&D, expansion and spending across AI software, including ChatGPT.
“With Xerox Ventures as an internal firm, the ability to scale wasn’t there.
The former Twitter employees suing the company allege that they were owed reimbursements for legal fees, but never received them. The case has yet to be resolved, and could have…
The Justice Department and SEC are investigating whether officers of Silicon Valley Bank used their positions to artificially inflate the stock prices shortly before the institution failed. If proven, this…
The NLRB found that Apple violated national labor law when high-level executives interfered with labor organizing at retail stores in New York City and Atlanta. The agency also found that…
