Federal prosecutors plan to have witnesses tell jurors in the upcoming fraud trial of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes that in company meetings she uttered profane chants about a competing business and a Wall Street Journal reporter, her lawyers noted in a court filing. That kind of behavior is “normal,” her legal team argued. Holmes, who […]
Bay Area startup wants to make it easier for H-1B holders, recent immigrants to open a checking account
When Rohit Mittal first came to the U.S. a decade ago, he didn’t even have a checking account to his name — at least, not an American one. As a student from India, he had to pay everything with cash and traveler’s checks for at least a week while he got the paperwork he needed from […]
This Bay Area startup wants to turn your windows into solar panels
By Rishi Iyengar | CNN Business What if every window in your house could generate electricity? One Redwood City, California-based startup thinks its technology can achieve that by transforming the way solar power is collected and harnessed. Ubiquitous Energy has developed transparent solar cells to create its ClearView Power windows, a kind of “solar glass” […]
Northern California startup could revolutionize how we find parking
For entrepreneurs Mathew Magno and Charles Chen their Friday consisted of talking with a mail carrier about packages that were too heavy to be delivered through the mailbox, putting trash toters on the street outside their home in Woodland’s southeast area. But in the coming months, the UC Davis graduates could be negotiating contracts with […]
Why tech has been slow to fight California wildfires, extreme weather
By RACHEL LERMAN | The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — For two years running , California’s wildfires have sent plumes of smoke across Silicon Valley. So far, that hasn’t spurred much tech innovation aimed at addressing extreme-weather disasters associated with climate change. It’s true that tech companies from enterprise software-maker Salesforce to financial-technology firm Stripe […]
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes slams prosecutors’ delay
A plea by federal prosecutors for more time to produce court-ordered evidence in the criminal case against Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes was slammed Monday by Holmes’ legal team as an “unworkable” delay that would harm her defense. At issue are documents and other materials from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that Holmes, through her […]
Electric moped rentals now available in Oakland
OAKLAND — The latest tech firm to offer smartphone-backed transportation in Oakland made its debut Friday, as the moped rental startup Revel began depositing a fleet of Vespa-style electric motorcycles on the city’s streets. The company plans to roll out 1,000 of its black and baby blue mopeds — which have a top speed of […]
Scooter not enough for you? You could rent an electric moped in Oakland ‘very soon’
OAKLAND — If you love zipping around Oakland on an electric scooter, but want something with a little more power, keep your eye out for sleek black and baby blue mopeds that could soon show up on the city’s streets. Revel, a New York-based tech startup that rents Vespa-like electric motorcycles to riders through a […]
The plan to turn your car into a virtual ATM
By Alastair Marsh | Bloomberg Chris Ballinger came away from a year of crunching numbers at Toyota Motor Corp.’s Silicon Valley skunkworks convinced that his dream of automotive automation was no more fanciful than his bosses’ ambition to make a vehicle that can drive itself. So the former derivatives trader who spent 14 months as […]
Blood-from-the-young startup is back to juicing up the old despite FDA warning
Despite a Food and Drug Administration public warning that draining blood from young folk and infusing it into older people might be harmful, startup Ambrosia says it has resumed doing just that. The enterprise earlier this year stopped selling young blood by the liter to old people and filling them up with it, immediately after […]
