Tech

Trans­port for Lon­don and Lon­don Coun­cils have announced Dott, Lime and Tier Mobil­i­ty as the win­ners of its prized e‑scooter pilot, con­firm­ing last month’s sus­pi­cions based on job post­ings by the com­pa­nies.  Last year, the gov­ern­ment legal­ized e‑scooter rental tri­als by local author­i­ties, although pri­vate e‑scooter rid­ing is still ille­gal. This leg­is­la­tion spurred the launch of

Canoo, the Los Ange­les-based elec­tric vehi­cle start­up that debuted on the Nas­daq pub­lic exchange ear­li­er this year, is being inves­ti­gat­ed by the U.S. Secu­ri­ties and Exchange Com­mis­sion, just months after its merg­er with spe­cial pur­pose acqui­si­tion com­pa­ny Hen­nessy Cap­i­tal Acqui­si­tion Corp. The inves­ti­ga­tion is broad, cov­er­ing the Hennessy’s ini­tial pub­lic offer­ing and merg­er with Canoo,

Per a recent report by Bain & Co., e‑commerce is expect­ed to grow to $28.5 bil­lion in MENA by 2022 from a 2019 val­ue of $8.3 bil­lion. Egypt, one of the most active e‑commerce coun­tries in the region, is antic­i­pat­ed to grow 33% annu­al­ly to reach $3 bil­lion by 2022. But for any e‑commerce business

Turnkey solu­tions might be tempt­ing to health­care star­tups look­ing to take advan­tage of the cur­rent mar­ket tail­winds, but star­tups still have to decide what to out­source and what to build.

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Years of data from hun­dreds of suc­cess­ful star­tups show the impact of rel­e­vant exec­u­tive exper­tise is even greater than antic­i­pat­ed — it dou­bles the rate of return on a ven­ture investment.

Move over, Xbox and PlaySta­tion. A new foe has appeared in the world of online mul­ti­play­er gam­ing! It’s the… uh, Game Boy. As in that unbreak­able, gray, 4.19Mhz tank from 1989. While the Game Boy has had a hand­ful of local­ly mul­ti­play­er games since the begin­ning, using it meant phys­i­cal­ly con­nect­ing your Game Boy to