After weeks of speculation, Uber has officially agreed to acquire Delivery Hero, a purchase that will take the transportation and delivery giant’s status to new heights and into nearly 100 markets across Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia. Germany-based Delivery Hero also reached a separate deal to sell its business in 14 markets,
Lovable, a Swedish vibration coding startup, is in talks to raise $300 million at a $13.2 billion valuation, exactly double the $6.6 billion valuation the company achieved last December, Sifted reported. According to the report, Menlo Ventures, a company that announced its latest $3 billion fund last month, is expected to lead the round. The
Neil Shubin is an advocate for connecting scientists with the general public.Credit: Christopher Michel/National Academies On July 1, Neil Shubin, a paleontologist at the University of Chicago in Illinois, began his five-year term as president of the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS), a nonprofit society of elected scholars. Shubin is best known for discovering