Meaning they will relax the guidelines and more Retail Stores and shop Small Businesses will be open for Curbside Pickup. Now a solano and sonoma counties are already there. In the east bay we have Alameda County a Contra Costa County both still in phase, one however Health Officials say they will. Make a decision on face to perhaps as early as today. Santa clara county, however, which has been the hardest hit here locally. Currently remains in phase one with no indication on when they might interface to seems like people are antsy to get out and thats what we saw already over the weekend in San Francisco an hour out there live this morning with Sarah Stinson hi sarah. Ive area retailers can open for Curbside Pickup starting at 10 oclock this morning. So its still early but were seeing what were seeing behind me the store still boarded up completely doesnt look like the stores are opening up any time soon thats what were live out here to see if the stores are going to take the boards o
Good morning and thanks for joining us. Im darya folsom and breaking news, the wall street journal reports over. Is closing one of its downtown San Francisco offices and laying off about 500 people who work there. The journal reports uber ceo made the announcement in an email. This morning, 2 employees uber says its in response to the coronavirus pandemic in all 3,000 people are being laid off in this latest round in the company is going to shut down 45 offices, worldwide. Experts say that uber is cutting about a quarter of its workforce. This month. So now we know how the bay area will be affected. Other news this morning, San Francisco, san mateo and marin counties are entering phase 2 reopening their businesses today that means Retail Stores and Small Businesses doing business with Curbside Pickup napa solano and sonoma counties are already in phase 2. In the east bay alameda and Contra Costa County they are still in large part lockdown but Health Officials say theyre going to make
Angel funding. Those are the earliest and smallest rounds. You have series a, later funding of series b, and so on. Generally speaking, series a is still a small round, meant to fund a company for a year, possibly two. Ill give you some context. Zoom, a company we have had on the show, is worth 21 billion now. But its series a, the first round of venture funding, was 6 million. Six. Some kind of Silicon Valley record leading a series a round to a Company Called one pass for 200 million likely the biggest series a in history, the biggest investment the firm has made. One password seems like a promising country. It deals with password management and security. But 200 million . On the first round of Venture Capital . Arun joins the reporters this week. John schwartz of dow jones and katie roof who covers venture journal. One more bit of c this is seriet was 285 million. That was a series c. What are you doing investing 200 million, and you did it with some other investors as well, in a se
Well, welcome, everyone. And good morning. We expect a few other members to arrive momentarily, but while were waiting, i think well begin with our Opening Statements. And id like to note that our committee is charged with overseeing the administration of federal elections. And todays hearing will help us fufill the responsibility by providing an opportunity to hear from the vendors of most of our countrys Voting Systems. This is the first time the ceos of the three major vendors have appeared together in a congressional hearing. The companies they represent provide at least 80 of the estimated 350,000 Voting Machines in use today reaching over 100 million registered voters. However, despite their outsized role and the mechanics of our democracy, some have accused these companies of obfuscating and others suggest theres an insufficient regulatory structure for the sector. In the committees may 2019 hearing on Election Security, Lawrence Norden wrote in his testimony, i quote, there are
Well, welcome, everyone. And good morning. We expect a few other members to arrive momentarily, but while were waiting, i think well begin with our Opening Statements. And id like to note that our committee is charged with overseeing the administration of federal elections. And todays hearing will help us fufill the responsibility by providing an opportunity to hear from the vendors of most of our countrys Voting Systems. This is the first time the ceos of the three major vendors have appeared together in a congressional hearing. The companies they represent provide at least 80 of the estimated 350,000 Voting Machines in use today reaching over 100 million registered voters. However, despite their outsized role and the mechanics of our democracy, some have accused these companies of obfuscating and others suggest theres an insufficient regulatory structure for the sector. In the committees may 2019 hearing on Election Security, Lawrence Norden wrote in his testimony, i quote, there are