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WHILL, the startup known for creating sleek, high-tech personal mobility devices, announced today that it has closed a $45 million Series C. The funding will be used for expanding into new international markets, as well as developing new products for large venues, including airports and &last-mile& sidewalk transportation. The

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Late last week, Congress moved one step closer to passing theAmerican Innovation Act of 2018, a bill that would make accounting and tax changes thatwouldlikely increase thevaluationofstartupsin anacquisition.

The House Ways and Meanscommitteeapproved a bill containing text that would

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A fascinating project called Amadeus Code promises to out-Tay-Tay Tay Tay and out-Bon Bon Iver. The AI-based system uses data from previous musical hits to create entirely new compositions on the fly — and darn if these crazy robot-songs aren&t pretty good.

The app, which is available from the iTunes Store but doesn&t seem to be

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Stripe is expanding beyond online payments with the launch of a new product for in-person payments at brick-and-mortar stores, called Terminal.

The company said Terminal has three main components — therehardware, namely card readers built by Stripe partners BBPOS and Verifone, but also SDKs and APIs for customizing checkout

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&Therenothing like it out there,& says Commander Bill &Doc& Shoemaker (Ret.), chief test pilot for Boom Supersonic, the startup aiming to make a passenger airliner for transoceanic flights at speeds (as you might guess from the name) faster than sound. Shoemaker, a former Navy aviator, fighter pilot and aeronautics

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Saudi Arabiasovereign wealth fund is investing $1 billion into Lucid Motors, capital that will finance the commercial launch of the startupfirst electric vehicle.

The agreement comes just six weeks after Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted that he was considering taking Tesla private at $420 a share and had secured the proper funding to

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