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T he Detroit Auto Show is in full swing this week. That means we've got all the photos you could ever want of very rich people standing confidently next to very fancy cars. Here's who is on the show floor in Detroit.

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Mark Zuckerberg isn't Charlie. How much do tech companies actually support free speech? Via Pacific Standard.

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Teacher walks away to work full time on her autism tech startup

A fter two years in testing mode, Michele McKeone launched Autism Expressed in 2013. Now, she's decided to turn her long-term side project into a full-time gig.

McKeone, 32, who spent seven years teaching self-contained autistic support at South Philadelphia High School, walked away from her classroom last week. She's now working to grow Autism Expressed, her ed-tech solution to teaching digital  ...

Fashion entrepreneur Reed Krakoff steps down as CEO

R eed Krakoff was a man with two roles at his eponymous fashion label: chief executive officer and creative director. Today, he dialed it back to just one, with the company announcing that he is stepping down from the CEO position.

The news came out this morning, when the company confirmed that Harlan Bratcher, formerly of A/X Armani Exchange, has been hired as the new CEO of the New York-based  ...

App Annie raises $55M, unveils new way to gauge mobile app usage

A pp Annie, a startup that provides analytics and market data on mobile software applications, added a new feature to its arsenal — and $55 million to its funding.

The San Francisco company led by CEO Bertrand Schmitt said that its oversubscribed Series D round was led by Institutional Venture Partners, whose general partner Eric Liaw is joining its board.

Existing investors Sequoia Capital,  ...

Instacart confirms $220 million fundraising, targets sectors outside of groceries

U p and coming grocery delivery startup Instacart has confirmed that it raised $220 million, as previously reported, and sources indicate the two-and-a-half year-old company is now valued at $2 billion.

The Series C round, disclosed partly in a year-end regulatory filing, was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, with other investors including Comcast Ventures, Dragoneer Investment Group,  ...

WATCH: How to do more with less. A lot less.

Navi Radjou, a Silicon Valley-based consultant, is an expert in “jugaad," a Hindi-Urdu expression that means an innovative fix, or a workaround. Radjou explains it as “frugal innovation". In this recently posted TED Talk from TEDGlobal in Rio de Janeiro, he shares examples of how entrepreneurs in developing markets around the world “get more value from limited resources" including a fridge  ...

Can John Galliano find redemption on runway after a 3-year hiatus?

F ashion designer John Galliano has returned to the runway, and he did so boldly in an anticipated show for Maison Martin Margiela that revealed his theatrical flair: there were beaded showgirl hot pants, leopard bodysuits, inside-out sleeves, and gowns and wool jackets affixed with found objects such as shells, birds, and dolls.

The designer has been on hiatus (or perhaps more like fashion  ...