Technology/Science
Hippo, Seller of Online Homeowners Insurance, Attracts $70M in New Financing
Hippo, a provider of super-quick homeowners insurance, said it has pulled in a new $70 million financing round designed to fuel an ongoing expansion of its customer-focused online products and ...
The Latest Launches From CoreLogic and Ping An Property & Casualty Insurance
CoreLogic said it is bringing to Canada its Flood Risk Score and Weather Verification Service. Ping An Property & Casualty Insurance Co. in China entered into a cooperation agreement that will ...
Cathay Pacific Airways Faces Hong Kong Probe Over Massive Data Breach
Hong Kong's privacy commissioner will launch a compliance investigation into Cathay Pacific Airways over a data breach involving 9.4 million passengers, saying the carrier may have violated privacy ...
Cyber Risk Management Firm Zeguro Secures $5M Financing From Munich Re, QBE, Others
Cyber Risk management firm Zeguro closed a $5 million seed financing round, attracting insurance industry investors including Munich Re and QBE. Both insurers made the capital contributions through ...
Congress Running Out of Time to Pass Self-Driving Vehicle Legislation
A push on Capitol Hill to speed development of self-driving vehicles may not cross the finish line in time for this Congress -- casting doubt on the future of unusually bipartisan legislation in ...
Waymo First to Get Calif. OK for Driverless Testing Without Backup Driver
Alphabet Inc.'s Waymo unit on Tuesday became the first company to receive a permit from the state of California to test driverless vehicles without a backup driver in the front seat, the state's ...
GM Hits Speed Bumps on $5B Road to Driverless Cars by 2019: Reuters
It's one of the biggest bets going in the world of cars. Since May, General Motors Co. and its Cruise self-driving car unit have landed $5 billion in investment commitments from Japan's SoftBank ...
More Tornadoes Spinning Eastward to Populated Areas, Worrying Scientists
Over the past few decades tornadoes have been shifting—decreasing in Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas but spinning up more in states along the Mississippi River and farther east, a new study shows. ...