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The air taxi market prepares to take flight

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million, though, of course, neither company has brought a product to market yet. Mobility companies, including those working on electrified transport, are often pre-revenue and have capitally intensive business models — a combination that can make it difficult to find buyers in a traditional IPO. million and Archer’s was $24.8

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Boundary Layer wants to steal air freight’s lunch and transport it by water instead

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Boundary Layer is working on a series of electrically propulsed hydrofoiling vessels and wants to rewrite the book of transportation-focused verse, one stanza at a time, with nimble, fast-to-load, container-ship standard high-speed shipping vessels, with the goal of halving the cost of traditional air freight, at comparable speeds.

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Tortoise co-founder Dmitry Shevelenko: ‘You can’t do too many things at the same time’

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Now, Tortoise has moved from a hardware-as-a-service model to a take-rate scheme that gives it 10% of any sales made from its card payment-enabled bots, whether it’s a box of pastries from a bakery or brand new headphones from an electronics store. But the demand for transportation is constant.

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From edge to cloud: The critical role of hardware in AI applications

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It is becoming increasingly important in various industries, including healthcare, finance, and transportation. All this has a tremendous impact on the digital value chain and the semiconductor hardware market that cannot be overlooked. Hardware innovations become imperative to sustain this revolution.

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3 views on CES 2022

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For fifty-four years, big and small hardware manufacturers that hoped to reach their target audiences rolled out new products at the Consumer Electronics Show. Brian Heater: Hardware startups should reconsider their media strategies. “The weeks following CES have traditionally been a desert for hardware news.

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Tive nabs $12M Series A to track shipment conditions in real time

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Tive , a Boston-based startup, is building a hardware and software platform to help track the conditions of a shipment like say food or medicine to make sure it is stored under the proper conditions as it moves from farm or factory to market. Tive hardware tracker and data tracking software. Image Credit: Tive.

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Flytrex raises $40M to build its drone-based delivery service across suburbs in the U.S.

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In a list mostly filled with financial backers, there is one interesting strategic name: Gadowski is the founder and chairman of Delivery Hero, a big player in online food delivery around the world using land-based transportation. The opportunity is a huge one in a market like the U.S.,