Uber, after years of trying, is handing off its self-driving car project

The deal amounts to a fire-sale end to a high-profile but star-crossed effort to replace Uber’s human drivers with machines that could drive on their own.

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Shadowfax rolls out Esop buyback plan, elevates Praharsh Chandra, Gaurav Jaithliya to cofounders

This is the first buyback offering by the company where eligible employees can sell up to 35% of their assigned or vested ESOP shares.

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FrontRow offers skill-based online courses by top celebrities

The platform has signed celebrities like Neha Kakkar, Suresh Raina, Biswa Kalyan Rath, Yuzvendra Chahal, and Bhuvneshwar Kumar to offer skill-enhancing modules.

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83% of data-driven businesses gained critical advantages during the pandemic: YouGov survey

The study, conducted among over 2,500 managers and IT decision-makers in India, Singapore, Australia and Japan, explored how organisations in Asia Pacific and Japan used data during Covid-19.

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Bill Gates calls India’s digital finance approach a global model

“If people are going to study one country right now, other than China, I’d say they should look at India,” Gates said at the Singapore Fintech Festival on Tuesday. “Things are really exploding there and innovation around that system is phenomenal.”

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Australia to make Facebook, Google pay news outlets for content

Under laws to be introduced to parliament on Wednesday, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said the Big Tech firms will have to negotiate how much they pay local publishers and broadcasters for content that appears on their platforms.

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IMC 2020: RIL chairman Mukesh Ambani calls for urgent steps for 5G, smartphone roll-out in India

"In order to maintain this lead, policy steps are needed to accelerate early rollout of 5G, and to make it affordable and available everywhere. I assure you that Jio will pioneer the 5G Revolution in India in the second half of 2021. It will be powered by indigenous-developed network, hardware and technology components," said Ambani said at the India Mobile Congress.

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