TikTok users and K-pop fan accounts claim they registered thousands of tickets for Trump's Tulsa rally as a prank, resulting in lower than expected attendance
Did a successful prank inflate attendance expectations for President Trump's rally in Tulsa, Okla.?
What to expect from WWDC 2020: transition to ARM Macs, iOS 14 with Car Key and a Google Translate-like feature, third-party music services on HomePod, and more
- Company to announce move to Macs running its own processors — Developers complaining about longtime App Store rules, fees
HEY's Jason Fried responds to Apple, says the dispute is not about the money, but about how Apple forcibly inserts itself between developers and their customers
So far, much of the recent discussion around Apple, HEY, In App Purchase (IAP), Subscriptions, the App Store, and the iOS developer community has been about money.
VF Corp's The North Face, REI, and Upwork say they are committing to an ad boycott of Facebook in light of its handling of misinformation and hate speech
(CNN Business)Outdoor apparel brand The North Face has become the best-known company yet to commit to an advertising boycott of Facebook …
Apple is temporarily closing 11 stores across Florida, Arizona, North Carolina, and South Carolina amid COVID-19 spikes
Apple Inc. is temporarily shutting some of its U.S. retail stores again after cases of Covid-19 spiked in some areas across the country, Bloomberg News reports.
Nextdoor discontinues a feature that let users forward posts directly to police departments, but retains other ways, like DMs, to contact police via its app
“Forward to Police,” one of several Nextdoor programs to strengthen law enforcement relations, has been criticized for elevating racial profiling.
Being on the shelf in Apple's App Store means you operate on the terms of shelf owner and $500B+ of ecosystem activity proves the availability of alternatives
In March 2016 Ben Bajarin and I put on an event called SUBSCRIBE where we asked, among other things, — How will the online services business models evolve?
An in-depth look at how Figma, a browser-based collaborative design tool, has found success, as it seeks to become a platform by building out a plugin ecosystem
Companies are a sequencing of loops. While it's possible to stumble into an initial core loop that works … Tweets: @dickc , @kevinakwok , @joulee , @seldo , @brettbivens , @noelsequeira , @vcshekhar ...
A look at Toronto's growth as a tech hub, selling itself as a gentler, kinder version of Silicon Valley
The Canadian tech hub is selling itself as an antidote to the tech industry's worst impulses. But what does that entail? — It is a frigid February day when I visit Communitech …
Amazon secures its first permit to deliver alcohol in India, in the country's fourth most populous state West Bengal with a population of 90M+
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) has secured clearance to deliver alcohol in India's eastern state of West Bengal …
Urbint, which uses AI to predict and prevent threats to energy infrastructure and worker safety, raises $20M Series B
Urbint, an artificial intelligence company for infrastructure and utility safety, secured $20 million in a Series B funding round co-led by Energy Impact Partners and Piva, the company said Thursday.
Social media execs owe it to staff, users, and society to examine structural forces empowering racists online and how their platforms undermine social justice
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Robinhood says it's changing its options offerings after a young customer committed suicide when his account temporarily showed a negative balance of over $700K
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Big Health, which offers fully automated cognitive and behavioral mental health programs, raises $39M Series B, bringing its total raised to $54.3M
Startup Big Health believes individuals can improve their mental health through its technology that focuses on cognitive behavioral therapy versus medication …
Pandora will offer more stats to podcast hosts like where listeners live, how long they tune in to each episode, and the number of thumbs up/down they receive
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Proposals by Sen. Hawley and the DOJ to amend Section 230 protections would violate the First Amendment and bury tech platforms in legal cost and liability risk
and for the rest of us. https://www.eff.org/... @eff : If these proposals succeed, basic activities like offering encryption, or editing, removing, or otherwise moderating users' content could lead to...
Sources: ARM ousted ARM China CEO Allen Wu after discovering that he had set up a competing investment fund; Wu maintains he is still in charge of ARM China
Bloomberg : Thanks: @pelstrom
A look at the top 100 companies according to market cap added YTD amid the pandemic, with Big Tech leading: Amazon gained ~$401B, Microsoft ~$270B, Apple ~$219B
Financial Times : Tweets: @daveleeft , @francesca_bria , and @financialtimes Tweets: Dave Lee / @daveleeft : No prizes for guessing number one, but there are some surprises here. Here are the compani...
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.