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Agility Robotics’ new CEO is ‘focused on the here and now’

There was nothing else like Digit on the ProMat floor last year. The manufacturing supply chain event has gradually morphed into a tech show in recent years. Many of the biggest names in the space were present, showcasing autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), bin picking arms and automated storage and retrieval…

Agility Robotics’ new CEO is ‘focused on the here and now’
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Magic Leap has a new CEO

Five weeks ago, Magic Leap CEO Peggy Johnson joined me onstage at Disrupt. Much of the conversation focused on the augmented reality hardware company’s full pivot into enterprise applications with…

Magic Leap has a new CEO

In late 2020, Peggy Johnson took the reins as CEO and led Magic Leap’s pivot away from a consumer audience — those less able to swing $2,300 for a mixed-reality…

Magic Leap’s CEO will discuss the future of AR at Disrupt’s Hardware Stage

Hello readers, and welcome back to Week in Review! Last week, I talked about the future of this newsletter and what’s coming next. The short of which is that in…

Augmented reality’s half-decade of stagnation

Magic Leap has had one hell of a journey, and to their credit, it seems investors are still addicted to giving them money. The augmented reality startup announced today that…

Seven years after raising $542M at a $2B valuation, Magic Leap raises $500M at a $2B valuation

Peggy Johnson, the former executive vice president of business development at Microsoft, has been named as the new chief executive of Magic Leap, the company said in a statement. Johnson,…

Magic Leap has a new chief executive and it’s former Microsoft exec Peggy Johnson

Microsoft has made a strategic investment in ride-hailing and on-demand services company Grab as part of a deal that includes collaborating on big data and AI projects. Under the agreement,…

Microsoft invests in Grab to bring AI and big data to on-demand services

This week saw headlines about the iPad Pro becoming available for pre-order, the New York strikedown of fantasy sports sites like FanDuel and DraftKings and a new Facebook app that…

15 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week

If you had a few dozen billion dollars, an appetite to cut deals and a desire to change your image a few states away, how would you go about it?…

Peggy Johnson, Microsoft’s Deal Boss, On Reaching Silicon Valley