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There are very real differences in how women and men (and VCs) view entrepreneurship, underscores a new survey
Aug 01, 11:09PM
In the increasingly crowded world of venture capital, a growing number of firms is producing research as a way to differentiate themselves from the pack. Earlier this year, for example, Wing, a venture firm that focuses primarily on enterprise startups, published a state of the industrial IoT market. The consumer-tech investment firm Goodwater Capital is becoming known for […]
Facebook loses its chief security officer Alex Stamos
Aug 01, 10:21PM
Alex Stamos, Facebook's chief security officer since 2015, is leaving the company to take a position at Stanford University. The company has been shedding leadership over the last half a year largely owing to fallout from its response, or lack thereof, to the ongoing troubles relating to user data security and election interference on the social network.
Original Content podcast: Hulu's 'Castle Rock' is full of mysteries
Aug 01, 10:20PM
Hulu’s taking an interesting approach to adaptation with Castle Rock — instead of basing the series on a specific book by Stephen King, it’s telling a new story about (you guessed it) Castle Rock, the fictional town in Maine where many of King’s stories are set. The series stars André Holland as Henry Deaver, a lawyer […]
PSA: Automatic cross-posting of tweets to Facebook no longer works as of today
Aug 01, 10:11PM
You can no longer automatically cross-post your tweets to Facebook. Twitter announced today that functionality is now coming to an end, and users will instead have to copy a tweet's URL if they want to share a tweet to Facebook going forward.
Altru raises $1.3M to improve recruiting with employee videos
Aug 01, 9:43PM
Marketers are increasingly looking for social media celebrities and influencers who can promote their products with more authenticity (or at least, the appearance of authenticity) than a traditional ad. So Altru CEO Alykhan Rehmatullah wondered: Why can’t businesses do something similar with recruiting? And that’s what Altru is trying to accomplish, powering a page on […]
Activists push back on Facebook's decision to remove a DC protest event
Aug 01, 9:40PM
A number of activists and organizers in the Washington, DC area are disputing Facebook’s decision to remove a counter-protest event for a rally organized by Jason Kessler, the white nationalist figure who planned the deadly 2017 rally in Charlottesville, Va. Facebook removed the event, “No Unite the Right 2-DC,” after discovering that one account connected to […]
Grocer Kroger launches new delivery service
Aug 01, 9:28PM
The Kroger Co. announced today the launch of its new e-commerce grocery delivery service, Kroger Ship, which will allow customers to shop online for their favorite Kroger brands and get deliveries as quick as the next day in certain areas. Not to be confused with the grocer’s Kroger Delivery service, which partners with Instacart to […]
Tesla losses wider than expected, but sticks to profitability targets
Aug 01, 9:05PM
Tesla reported wider-than-expected losses in the second quarter, but is sticking to a profitable and cash flow positive forecast for the second half of the year. Tesla reported a quarterly loss of $717.5 million, compared with a $336.4 million loss in the same period last year. Tesla has had just two profitable quarters in its history, […]
Siemens acquires low-code platform Mendix for $700M
Aug 01, 8:51PM
Siemens, the giant German technology company, today announced that it has acquired Mendix, the popular low-code application development platform, for €0.6 billion (or about $700 million). Mendix, which was founded in the Netherlands but now has its headquarters in Boston, will continue to operate as usual and keep its name, but Siemens notes that it […]
Square's crazy run this year dodges any major snags with a decent Q2
Aug 01, 8:37PM
While we’re talking about companies like Apple getting alarmingly close to a $1 trillion market cap, both of Jack Dorsey’s companies — Twitter (at least before its earnings last week) and Square — have been on considerable runs, and it looks like the latter won’t be coming to a major halt after today’s quarterly report. […]
Fitbit stock jumps as smartwatches fuel growth
Aug 01, 8:29PM
Fitbit’s stock price jumped in after-hours trading and is currently trading around $6.00 a share, off its 52-week intraday high of $7.79. The company today announced its latest quarterly numbers, which saw the average selling price of its wearables increase 6 percent year-over-year to $106 a device. New devices introduced within the last year represented […]
Techmeme introduces contextual ads tied to news topics
Aug 01, 8:18PM
Tech news aggregator Techmeme is trying out a new way to make money — ad units that are directly tied to the stories on the front page. The idea is that advertisers can specify company names or news categories that they want to target, then Techmeme will automatically include their message below relevant news stories. […]
Fashionably AI
Aug 01, 8:00PM
This summer’s wedding season required me to buy a new suit. I vowed to be adventurous and buy a color I normally never would have considered. Alas, I opted for a little more movie-theater usher and a little less Jidenna. Had I known about it at the time, I probably would have used Eison Triple […]
Sexual harassment suit filed against Pilot AI co-founders and investor NEA
Aug 01, 7:55PM
Rachel Moore, the former director of Product at computer vision startup Pilot AI, is suing its co-founders CTO Robert Elliot English and CEO Jonathan Su for sexual harassment, discrimination, retaliation and wrongful discharge. Pilot AI’s human resources provider TriNet and its Series A investor NEA are also named in the suit filed in San Francisco […]
Rideshare companies offered New York $100M to drop proposed regulations
Aug 01, 7:33PM
Lyft, Uber and Via yesterday made an offer to succor New York City's beleaguered taxi medallion owners: a $100M relief fund paid over five years to cover the plight of these poor souls. But the city, in its arrogance, refused this generosity! How could they? Perhaps because it was because the money was contingent on New York dropping its proposed regulations of the ride-sharing industry. In this light it's hard to perceive it as much more than city officials rejecting a bribe.
Atari games are coming to Teslas via software update
Aug 01, 7:24PM
Here's some unexpected fun, courtesy of the man himself. Elon Musk announced via Twitter today that Teslas will be getting a handful of classic Atari titles in the next four weeks, courtesy of a software update. Along with already announced self-driving features, Version 9.0 of the electric vehicles' software update will include "some of the […]
JBL's $250 Google Assistant smart display is now available for pre-order
Aug 01, 6:42PM
It’s been a week since Lenovo’s Google Assistant-powered smart display went on sale. Slowly but surely, its competitors are launching their versions, too. Today, JBL announced that its $249.95 JBL Link View is now available for pre-order, with an expected ship date of September 3, 2018. JBL went for a slightly different design than Lenovo […]
LittleBits enlists the Avengers for its latest kit
Aug 01, 6:40PM
Being a part of the Disney Accelerator is the gift that keeps on giving, apparently. After introducing R2-D2-hacking Droid Inventor Kit last year, LittleBits is back with a new kit featuring The Earth's Mightiest Heroes. Iron Man is the real star of this one, with kids building a wearable "gauntlet" featuring an LED matrix panel […]
Reddit breach exposes non-critical user data
Aug 01, 6:35PM
Reddit announced today that it suffered a security breach in June that exposed some of its internal systems to the attackers, although what was accessed was not particularly sensitive. Notably the hack was accomplished by circumventing the two-factor authentication Reddit had in place via SMS interception — which should be a wake-up call to any who haven't moved on from that method.
Boeing's new R&D center focuses on autonomous flight
Aug 01, 6:20PM
Flying cars are BS. But there is actually a chance that we’re on the cusp of a revolution in general aviation as startups and major players like Airbus are looking to modern technology to allow more people to take flight without having to first learn how to steer a Cessna 152 down a short runway […]
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