{"id":12135,"date":"2021-06-17T03:30:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T03:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=12135"},"modified":"2021-06-17T03:30:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T03:30:40","slug":"self-driving-tech-company-waymo-adds-us2-5-billion-to-war-chest-in-new-funding-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=12135","title":{"rendered":"Self-driving tech company Waymo adds US$2.5 billion to war chest in new funding round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostAlphabet Inc\u2019s self-driving unit Waymo said on Wednesday it raised US$2.5 billion in its first fresh funding round in a year, after a string of defections of executives rekindled concerns about the technology struggling to scale up.The announcement came a day after General Motors Co\u2019s majority-owned Cruise self-driving car subsidiary said it would gain access to a US$5-billion credit line.Self-driving start-ups are racing to build war chests to develop and commercialise technology, an expensive\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3137605\/self-driving-tech-company-waymo-adds-us25-billion-war-chest-new?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostAlphabet Inc\u2019s self-driving unit Waymo said on Wednesday it raised US$2.5 billion in its first fresh funding round in a year, after a string&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12135"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}