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“”Why not” is a slogan for an interesting life.” - Mason Cooley

Flying taxi startup Blade is helping Silicon Valley CEOs bypass traffic One year after a $38 million Series B valued on-demand aviation startup Blade at $140 million, the company has begun taxiing the Bay Area’s elite. As part of a new pilot program, Blade has given 200 people exclusive access...

Lynch Charges U.S. prosecutors have filed new charges against Mike Lynch, the British entrepreneur who sold his data firm Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard. The 17-count indictment now includes new charges of securities fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy. HP says Lynch and former Autonomy CFO Sushovan...

“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” - Rick Steves

"There are no foreign lands, it's only the traveler who is foreign." - Robert Louis Stevenson

The world’s greatest adventurer:This profile issogood, but it will give you an urgent sense to grab your passport & get on a plane. Although travel guru Rick Steves has spent nearly half his life traveling, he insists that he would never live anywhere but the United States. He built his business...

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“Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.” - William Shakespeare

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“Some people care too much. I think it’s called love.” - A.A. Milne

Tech poachers. In other EV news, Tesla has sued one of its former employees for allegedly taking trade secrets to his new employer, Chinese electric vehicle maker Xpeng Motors. Eight months ago a different Xpeng hire was indicted by the U.S. government for stealing secrets from Apple. Xpeng's...

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eBay is adding support for Google Pay EBay is adding Google Pay as a payment option to its Android app, mobile web, and desktop site. The feature will begin rolling out in early April. In an announcement, eBay cites Millennials and Generation Z shoppers who increasingly make purchases from...

eBay is adding support for Google Pay EBay is adding Google Pay as a payment option to its Android app, mobile web, and desktop site. The feature will begin rolling out in early April. In an announcement, eBay cites Millennials and Generation Z shoppers who increasingly make purchases from...

“Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.” - Lord Byron

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To fund Y Combinator’s top startups, VCs scoop them before Demo Day Hundreds gathered this week at San Francisco’s Pier 48 to see the more than 200 companies in Y Combinator’s Winter 2019 cohort present their two-minute pitches. The audience of venture capitalists, who collectively manage...

Boeing Orders In the first concrete commercial consequence of the recent 737 Max crashes and groundings, an airline—Indonesia's Garuda—has cancelled an order for the Boeing planes. The flag carrier had ordered 50 737 Max 8s at a cost of $4.9 billion, and has already received one, but now says...

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