Roku unveils Roku TV Wireless Speakers that use company's Roku Connect platform to link-up with Roku-powered smart TVs over WiFi, coming in October for ~$200
The first speakers to use the new Roku Connect platform are also Roku's first foray into the speaker market
Uber rolls out a Spotlight button that gives riders a colored screen, pre-written messages, and guaranteed pickup windows to users in US and Canada today
Uber is aiming to perfect the art of the pick-up with three features it says minimize cancellations.
Facebook's diversity efforts fall short as just six African-American and ten Hispanic women serve as senior managers in the US, out of 769 such jobs
The global director of diversity at Facebook, Maxine Williams, says the company needs to invest in local communities in order to become more diverse.
An attempt to describe Web3 stack, the many component parts of crypto ecosystem being built by hundreds of teams all over the world
I have yet to see an actual illustration of the Web3 stack. So this is an attempt. Given how expansive the Web3 ecosystem is, this diagram …
SoftBank's stake in Alibaba is worth $132B or about 40% more than SoftBank's market cap; Tiger Global takes $1B stake in SoftBank
For most of its existence, SoftBank was known as a Japanese phone company that made some lucky bets. But in the future, being an investor in the company … Tweets: @nytimesbusiness Tweets: @nytimesbus...
Lancaster University's Litcraft uses Minecraft to create accurate scale models of places from books like Treasure Island to promote reading among school kids
Ever wanted to explore Treasure Island or pretend to be Robinson Crusoe? Minecraft is now being used to create an 'immersive experience …
Co-founder of Twitch and Justin.tv explains why he is not building another B2C firm and went the B2B route for his next startup, Atrium
The biggest technology companies in the world are typically consumer internet companies, like Amazon, Google, Apple, and Facebook, so it's easy for new entrepreneurs to be attracted to B2C. Tweets: @h...
Some of the biggest meme accounts on Instagram have gone private in recent months as their owners say it's a new way to gain followers on a crowded platform
Over the past six months, some of Instagram's biggest meme pages—like Shithead Steve, with more than 2.5 million followers … Tweets: @thekarachikid Tweets: Khaver Siddiqi / @thekarachikid : “People go...
Salesforce to acquire Datorama, an Israeli cloud-based AI marketing platform; Israeli media says the deal was worth more than $800M
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. sales and marketing software company Salesforce (CRM.N) said on Monday it signed an agreement to acquire Datorama …
Profile of UK Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham, who gave Facebook a £500K fine over Cambridge Analytica and is investigating data misuse during Brexit
With the publication of an interim report on her investigation into the Brexit referendum, the information commissioner … Tweets: @ryan_trollip , @kylegriffin1 , @carolecadwalla , and @chrisinsilico S...
Online game creation platform Roblox, which is reportedly raising at a $2.4B valuation, says it's on track to more than double developer payouts to $70M in 2018
- Roblox, the video-game app that's wildly popular with younger players, is on track to pay out $70 million to its developers this year.
Sources describe a dysfunctional culture at Meitu, a Chinese selfie app maker with 400M+ MAUs, with public shamings of staff, seemingly arbitrary firings, more
- Meitu is a hot Chinese selfie app maker with hundreds of millions of users — but some believe its global expansion has been plagued by dysfunction. Tweets: @tprophet Tweets: @tprophet : One of my st...
Headout, a mobile travel app for booking last-minute tours, activities, and tickets to local events, raises $10M Series A to grow from 21 to 100 cities globally
Imagine being in a new city with a few hours to kill, but no idea what to do. Headout is a travel app that enables tourists …
Smule rebrands its Sing! Karaoke app, which lets users record music videos solo or as duets with other users or artists, to Smule, says the app has 50M MAUs
Smule wants everyone to know its name. — The company, a San Francisco-based startup named from a portmanteau of “sonic” and “mule,” runs a collection of music-related apps. Thanks: @rogerwcheng
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