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Uber and Avride have announced an autonomous delivery and mobility partnership that will bring robot deliveries to Dallas later in 2024, followed by a robotaxi service in 2025. [Photo: Business Wire]
Uber and Avride Partner To Offer Robotaxis and Robot Meal Deliveries in Dallas
by David Seeley | Oct 3, 2024
With Cruise robotaxis already being tested in Dallas, more autonomous innovation is on the way to the city in 2024 and 2025 via a partnership between Uber and Austin-based Avride. Uber and Uber Eats customers may have the option to select a robotaxi for their next ride across town or a sidewalk robot to roll their favorite restaurant order home.
by Lance Murray |
Sep 16, 2024
Match Group said that together, the partners have created a new guide in consultation with campus safety experts that highlights ways to date smarter and safer, both on and off campus.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 29, 2024
Veteran executives Laura Jones and Spencer Rascoff have been appointed to the Match Group’s board of directors, effective immediately.
Match Group Chairman Tom McInerney expressed enthusiasm about the new board members, highlighting the unique contributions they’re poised to bring....
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by David Seeley |
May 18, 2023
Parents who have to rise at 5:45 a.m. to drive their 15-year-old to cross-town band practice just breathed a sigh of relief. Under a new Uber policy, teens will be able to use the rideshare service all by themselves in more than a dozen metro areas—including Dallas, Houston, New York City, and Atlanta.
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[Illustration: Svetlana Brovkova via iStock]
Follow the Money: ParkHub Acquires Parking Software Startup, UpSmith Raises $3.3M, Maverick Bancshares Seeks $17M for new Fort Worth Bank, and More
by Kevin Cummings | Oct 28, 2022
In this week’s North Texas deal flow, you’ll also find news about Taysha Gene Therapies landing a $50M investment; music tech startup MAX’s Series B raise; Dallas Venture Capital’s latest investment; Tyler Technologies’ $68M acquisition of Rapid Financial Solutions; NaturalShrimp hitting the Nasdaq Capital Market; and more.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Aug 11, 2022
Levy has been writing about technology for more than 30 years. A founding writer at Wired, he's widely considered to be the premier tech journalist in the U.S. He’s covered the digital revolution since the early 1980s, reporting every major trend and profiling its key figures.
Today, as a keynote speaker on the closing day of Dallas Startup Week, he took stock of how we got here—and what's next.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Mar 25, 2022
Entrepreneur Jasmin Brand will take on the newly created role. The goal? To make Frisco a “major national hub” for venture capital and innovation.
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by David Seeley |
Mar 23, 2022
Aurora capped off a six-month pilot test of its autonomous Toyota S-AM minivans in Dallas-Fort Worth by giving Toyota North America CEO Ted Ogawa and other execs a ride toward DFW Airport yesterday.
Aurora will continue to test and develop its ride-hailing and autonomous trucking tech from Dallas, including a new trucking route from Dallas to El Paso. It expects to launch its ride-hailing product, Aurora Connect, in late 2024.
Aurora will continue to test and develop its ride-hailing and autonomous trucking tech from Dallas, including a new trucking route from Dallas to El Paso. It expects to launch its ride-hailing product, Aurora Connect, in late 2024.
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Frisco-Based Transplace Acquired by Uber Freight in $2.25B Deal
by Alex Edwards | Jul 22, 2021
With the deal, San Francisco-based Uber Freight aims to create "one of the leading logistics technology platforms." The combined services—Uber Freight’s network of carriers and Transplace’s shipper technology and operational solutions—make for a fully scaled logistics platform.
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by Michaela Markels |
May 17, 2021
22-year-old Dallas native Kush Singh launched Hitch at UT Austin to provide an affordable rideshare in the 50-350 mile range. Now, Hitch looks to expand beyond Texas and become a national household name post-pandemic.
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by Alex Edwards |
Oct 1, 2020
Tracey Breeden joins Match Group after serving as the head of women's safety and gender-based violence operations at Uber. She brings a breadth of knowledge to the new role—Breeden has worked with more than 200 women's safety groups and advocacy organizations.
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by Lauren Hawkins |
May 28, 2020
As transit agencies are turning to rideshare services to fill transportation gaps during the pandemic, DART is continuing its partnership with Uber through their latest contract.
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Dara Khosrowshahi is the CEO of Uber. [Photo: Courtesy Uber]
Uber Groundbreaking: Five Local Nonprofits Were Chosen for Uber’s New Community Impact Initiative
by Alex Edwards | Nov 1, 2019
At Uber's planned hub at The Epic in Deep Ellum, the rideshare company announced its 12-city Community Impact initiative. With the launch, grants will be given to the Human Rights initiative of North Texas, the Jubilee Park & Community Center, Empowering the Masses, Paul Quinn College, and The Family Place.
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by Lauren Hawkins |
Oct 9, 2019
Uber's Advanced Technologies Group CEO spoke at a town hall event to give a glimpse of what self-driving tech in Dallas might look like. Hint: The vehicles will be better, safer, cheaper, and the key to unlocking all kinds of new things.
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by Lance Murray |
Oct 8, 2019
Deep Ellum’s ‘gritty, authentic feel’ lures everyone from small retailers to giant tech firms like Uber.
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by Lance Murray |
Aug 20, 2019
Dallas was the first city in Texas where the Uber app was available in 2012. Now, the city will host the second largest Uber hub outside of its headquarters in San Francisco.
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