A look at Travis Kalanick's risk taking, from his early startups to Uber, which once led Tim Cook to threaten Kalanick with app removal for breaking store rules
Travis Kalanick's drive to win in life has led to a pattern of risk-taking that has put his ride-hailing company on the brink of implosion.
Unroll.me CEO says it's “heartbreaking” that users are upset Unroll.me sold their anonymized email data to Uber
Sorry not sorry. — That's the tone of the apology posted by Unroll.me, an email decluttering service which takes a look at the subscriptions clogging up your inbox …
LinkedIn says it now has 500M members in 200 countries, up from 467M in October 2016; it has 9M+ companies and 10M+ jobs listed
Now that LinkedIn is a part of Microsoft (after closing its $26.2 billion acquisition in December), the social networking site for the working world no longer reports earnings …
Twitch launching an invite-only affiliate program allowing non-partnered channels to earn revenue, starting with chat-based “Cheering with Bits” tipping feature
On the heels of yesterday's news about expanded subscription options for partners, video streaming site Twitch today …
Netflix to raise $1B through debt offering to fund new content and other “strategic transactions”
Netflix has announced that it intends to raise €1 billion — a smidgen more than $1 billion (USD) when converted at today's rate — via a senior note debt offering for …
Sources: Amazon has created a team for self-driving tech, which focuses not on building vehicles, but on how to leverage them
Group could help retailer deliver packages quickly as it builds out its supply chain and logistics network — Amazon.com Inc. AMZN -.39% has created a team focused …
Russian hacker Roman Seleznev sentenced to 27 years for theft, sale of 2M+ CC numbers resulting in $170M+ in losses, the longest hacking-related sentence in US
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Inside the demise of Tilt, which raised a total of $67M+, was valued at $375M in 2015, but was recently bought by Airbnb, reportedly for $12M
In 2015, social payments company Tilt was worth $375 million. Less than two years later, it had lost over 95% of its value and was sold for a pittance.
Revised NPD report for 2016 shows digital revenue accounted for 74% of US game spending, reaching $18.13B versus $6.37B from physical sales
NPD “restatement” shows consistent spending growth as digital sales dominate. — Last year, the Entertainment Software Association's annual … Tweets: @paulbz Tweets: Paul Murphy / @paulbz : game indu...
How Russian hacking evolved: simple credit card schemes in the '90s, takeover by organized crime in the '00s, and now joint criminal and government hacker teams
SAN FRANCISCO — Just past 8 a.m. on March 14, police trod quietly through the snow to the double-fronted doors of Karim Baratov's lavish home in Ancaster, Ontario. Tweets: @miriamelder , @sheeraf , @s...
Amazon building new business pillars in AI, next-gen logistics, and enterprise cloud, a deep dive into firms's M&A, investment, jobs, patent, other data shows
Seattle-based Amazon is doubling down on AWS and its AI assistant, Alexa. It's seeking to become the central provider for AI-as-a-service.
How Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu fight for dominance in China while trying to expand abroad
Tencent is leading the acquisition spree, with Alibaba a close second — THERE was a time, not that long ago, when China's big internet companies were dismissed by investors in Silicon Valley …
Profile of PayPal subsidiary Venmo, which has grown to an estimated 7M MAUs and processed $18B in payments in 2016 after struggling early with compliance, fraud
Under parent company PayPal, the millennial-focused payments app is finally ready to make some money. — [Illustrations: Danilo Agutoli]
Inside Google's ads quality rater program, where contractors rush to flag and label inappropriate YouTube content for $15 per hour, while training Google's AI
Every day across the nation, people doing work for Google log in to their computers and start watching YouTube. They look for violence in videos. Tweets: @ndiblasio , @kimmaicutler , and @dinoj1 . Th...
CyberGRX, a startup that vets third-party suppliers on their cybersecurity practices, raises $20M Series B led by Bessemer
in fact, it's viral,"-BVPs @davidcowan on @CyberGRX1 investment. http://fortune.com/... #BVPfunded #cyber
As MakeSpace announces $30M Series C, a look at the logistics tech underlying the on-demand storage service
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How the H-1B visa program has become a gateway for companies to replace US tech staff with foreign workers earning less and receiving fewer benefits
The Verge : Tweets: @benpopper and @benpopper Tweets: Ben Popper / @benpopper : H-1B is not a creation of liberals or conservatives. It was passed by both parties and pushed by corporations. Signed i...
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2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
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