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Uber CEO stokes #boycottuber fire with 'mistakes happen' comment
Nov 11, 11:11PM
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi’s comments during an interview with Axios — and his subsequent apology — have done more than hand the company’s critics more ammunition in the renewed #boycottUber campaign. (Although, mission accomplished on that front.) They also expose a weakness that if left uncorrected threatens to bring back the toxic culture Khosrowshahi promised […]
Adidas backpedals on robotic shoe production with Speedfactory closures
Nov 11, 10:38PM
An expensive experiment in global distribution has been abandoned by Adidas, which has announced that will close its robotic "Speedfactories" in Atlanta and Ansbach, Germany, within 6 months. The company sugar-coated the news with a promise to repurpose the technology used at its existing human-powered factories in Asia.
D2C companies deliver customer delight and simplicity
Nov 11, 9:53PM
D2C brands personalize the buying experience, optimize customer delight, educate users at the right cadence and ultimately, help consumers successfully harvest the emotions they were seeking.
'Death Stranding' brings back appointment gaming
Nov 11, 9:42PM
Game launches these days are frequently the very worst time to play them. Plagued by bugs, server issues, balance problems, and a lack of content, many "games as a service" titles are best consumed after a month or two. Not so with Hideo Kojima's long-awaited Death Stranding, which if you're going to play at all... you should probably play now.
Facebook machine learning aims to modify faces, hands and… outfits
Nov 11, 8:53PM
The latest research out of Facebook sets machine learning models to tasks that, to us, seem rather ordinary — but for a computer are still monstrously difficult. These projects aim to anonymize faces, improvise hand movements and — perhaps hardest of all — give credible fashion advice. The research here was presented recently at the […]
Facebook finally lets you banish nav bar tabs & red dots
Nov 11, 7:43PM
Are those red notification dots on your Facebook home screen driving you crazy? Sick of Facebook Marketplace wasting your screen space? Now you can control what appears in the Facebook app’s navigation bar thanks to a new option called Shortcut Bar Settings. Over the weekend TechCrunch spotted the option to remove certain tabs like Marketplace, […]
Google Chrome to identify and label slow websites
Nov 11, 7:29PM
Is it the web page that’s slow or is it your network connection? In the future, Google’s Chrome web browser may have an answer for you. Google announced today a plan to identify and label websites that typically load slowly by way of clear badging. The company says it may later choose to identify sites […]
Amazon to open its first non-Whole Foods grocery store in 2020
Nov 11, 5:32PM
Amazon is opening its first non-Whole Foods grocery store in the LA neighborhood of Woodland Hills, the retailer today confirmed. The news of the new store was first reported by CNET, which spotted several job postings referencing the location, including those for a zone leader, grocery associates and a food service associate. Unlike Amazon’s growing […]
Salesforce Ventures invested $300M in Automattic while Salesforce was building a CMS
Nov 11, 5:27PM
In September, Salesforce Ventures, the venture of arm of Salesforce, announced a hefty $300 million investment in Automattic, the company behind WordPress, the ubiquitous content management system (CMS). At the same time, the company was putting the finishing touches on Salesforce CMS, an in-house project it released last week. The question is, why did it […]
ViacomCBS shakes up its content leadership teams following merger
Nov 11, 4:32PM
Following the merger of CBS and Viacom announced earlier this year, the combined company today confirmed its plans to restructure its content and digital leadership teams in order to streamline operations. Among the changes, which were first reported by The Wall Street Journal on Sunday, are the departures of Comedy Central head Kent Alterman and […]
Stingray-inspired spacecraft could eventually probe the atmosphere of Venus
Nov 11, 4:19PM
NASA’s next Venus probe could be an atmosphere-skimming robotic stingray designed by the University of Buffalo. UB’s CRASH Lab, which is the institution’s Crashworthinesss for Aerospace Structures and Hybrids laboratory, has been selected by NASA to get early-stage funding as part of a program the agency devised to come up with new and innovative concept […]
Alibaba's Singles' Day sales top $38 billion
Nov 11, 4:13PM
After 24 hours of frenzied buying and selling, and weeks of aggressive advertising and promotions before it, the Alibaba Group said today its sales hit another record high on Singles’ Day, the biggest shopping day on the planet. The Chinese e-commerce giant said its platforms sold goods worth 268 billion yuan, or $38.4 billion today, […]
Twitter drafts a deepfake policy that would label and warn, but not always remove, manipulated media
Nov 11, 3:11PM
Twitter last month said it was introducing a new policy to help fight deepfakes and other “manipulated media” that involve photos, videos or audio that’s been significantly altered to change its original meaning or purpose, or those that make it seem like something happened that actually did not. Today, Twitter is sharing a draft of […]
SpaceX launches re-flown fairing for the first time and breaks a Falcon 9 booster re-use record
Nov 11, 3:06PM
SpaceX successfully launched its first batch of production Starlink satellites today, sending 60 of the small satellites to their target orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. These 60 satellites follow 60 launched in May, but whereas those, and two launched last year, were for testing purposes, this new batch is the first in a series […]
OpenText buys data security firm Carbonite for $1.42B
Nov 11, 2:06PM
Carbonite has agreed to a $1.42 billion purchase by OpenText, an enterprise information management giant, ending weeks of speculation about the anticipated buyout. The deal marks a 78% premium on Carbonite’s share price on September 5, when it was first rumored the company was preparing to buy the backup and data recovery company. Carbonite said […]
Watch live as SpaceX launches 60 Starlink satellites with a thrice-flown Falcon 9 rocket
Nov 11, 12:35PM
SpaceX has a big launch coming up this morning from Cape Canaveral in Florida — a Falcon 9 will carry a payload of 60 of its Starlink orbital communications satellites to space at 9:56 AM ET (6:56 AM PT). The Starlink satellites are the first non-test group of SpaceX’s new constellation heading up en masse, […]
OLX Group invests up to $400M in used car marketplace Frontier Car Group at $700M valuation
Nov 11, 12:10PM
Frontier Car Group, the Berlin-based startup building used car marketplaces targeting high-growth, emerging markets, has picked up another significant round of funding from a strategic backer also focusing on the same geographical opportunity. Today, OLX, the online classifieds division Prosus (the digital division of Naspers that listed earlier this year in Europe) announced that it […]
Prosus makes $6.3B hostile bid for Just Eat; Just Eat rejects deal in favor of Takeaway merger
Nov 11, 11:12AM
As Amazon-backed Deliveroo expands into click-and-collect and procurement services to grow its footprint with restaurants in Europe, a food fight among three other takeout and delivery players continues apace in an ongoing consolidation march to compete better against the likes not just of Deliveroo but also Uber Eats and more. Today, Prosus — the recently-listed […]
Deliveroo launches food orders for pickup
Nov 11, 11:02AM
Don’t Deliveroo . The U.K.-based on-demand food delivery service has expanded into not actually delivering orders by offering users a pickup option, called “Pickup,” as an alternative to paying a delivery fee and waiting for lunch to arrive. The new “click & collection” service is live for 700+ eateries in 13 U.K. cities at launch: […]
Join Jeremy Johnson from Andela at Disrupt Berlin
Nov 11, 9:00AM
Over the past few years, Andela has built a simple yet powerful answer to the talent shortage in Silicon Valley and other overheating tech ecosystems. The company helps you hire some of the most talented software developers in a handful of African cities. That's why I'm excited to announce that Andela co-founder and CEO Jeremy […]
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