An actor giving a keynote at a tech show is like Slayer playing the county fair. No one knows how they got the gig and it's hard to tell if anyone there wants to hear it.But at CTIA 2013, Ashton Kutcher proved to be an entertaining and thoughtful speaker. While the casually dressed Hollywood star looked out of place speaking ...

Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz just announced that it lead $60 million investment round in a startup called Lyft. Lyft is a car-sharing/semi-pro taxi service. How it works: You open an app on your smartphone to summon a driver to take you somewhere. A car with a big, fuzzy pink mustache affixed to its front arrives to pick ...

It was almost one year ago (to the day!) that we first wrote about Lyft and how the company was going to offer some lower-priced competition to on-demand ride leader Uber in San Francisco. Now, 366 days later, Lyft is celebrating the anniversary of that launch with some huge news: It's raised a $60 million round of financing led by ...

Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz just announced that it lead $60 million investment round in a startup called Zimride. Zimride makes a car-sharing/semi-pro taxi service called Lyft. How it works: You open an app on your smartphone to summon a driver to take you somewhere. A car with a big, fuzzy pink mustache affixed to its front arrives ...

Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz just announced that it invested $60 million in a startup called Zimride. Zimride makes a car-sharing/semi-pro taxi service called Lyft. How it works: You open an app on your smartphone to summon a driver to take you somewhere. A car with a big, fuzzy pink mustache affixed to its front arrives to pick ...