Riot Games agrees to pay $100M to settle a 2018 class-action gender discrimination lawsuit with current and former women employees and California state agencies
“League of Legends” publisher Riot Games announced Monday that it is settling a 2018 gender-based discrimination class-action suit …
Amazon says it has updated Alexa after the assistant “challenged” a girl to touch a coin to the prongs of a half-inserted plug
Amazon has updated its Alexa voice assistant after it “challenged” a 10-year-old girl to touch a coin to the prongs of a half-inserted plug.
Ex-Tumblr iOS engineer details the company's difficulties with App Store adult content policies, as communication among reviewers, devs, and Apple is discordant
Old posts in the archive — alright let's talk about Apple and Tumblr's current predicament.
Xiaomi announces 6.28-inch 12 and 6.73-inch 12 Pro with Snapdragon 8, 50MP camera sensor, and up to 12GB RAM and 256GB SSD, coming in January starting at ~$580
After months of leaks and rumors, Xiaomi's 12 series is now official with two entries - Xiaomi 12 and Xiaomi 12 Pro.
A TikTok moderator sues the company for an unsafe workplace that gave her PTSD; her lawyer says TikTok stopped her from working a day after the suit was filed
- A TikTok content moderator is suing the company, alleging it did not provide a safe workplace.
Exploring the concept of mirrortables, where a company's cap table is mirrored on-chain with Ethereum and ENS or other Web3 tools, to streamline angel investing
Here is what angel investing should be: … If you understand all the concepts in this statement, consider working on this problem or joining a team in the space! Tweets: @balajis , @brian_armstrong , @...
The App Store's most popular iOS app on Christmas was Oculus, a promising sign for Meta, which does not disclose how many VR headsets it sells
- Meta, Facebook's parent company, had the most popular app in Apple's App Store on Christmas: the Oculus VR app.
A look at OneTrust, BigID, TrustArc, and other startups helping companies navigate the internet's increasingly fragmented rules and privacy regulations
Companies have sprouted up to help others navigate the varied laws around the world governing websites.
Overview of El Salvador's official yet controversial adoption of bitcoin in 2021, as many citizens have reportedly seen bitcoin vanish from their Chivo wallets
At this year's Bitcoin Conference in Miami in June, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele announced his country would soon accept Bitcoin as legal tender.
Democrats, eager to rein in social media and other internet platforms, urge Biden to focus on tech regulation, before Republicans can retake the House or Senate
White House ‘not a really active presence’ amid legislative efforts to rein in social media and other internet platforms Tweets: @tyler , @adamkovac , @wexler , @amyklobuchar , @alexeheath , @wsj , an...
Analysis: Tiger Global, SoftBank, and Insight Partners led or co-led rounds totaling $73B in 2021, representing 12% of all venture and PE invested in startups
Tiger Global Management, SoftBank Vision Fund and Insight Partners aren't traditional venture capital investors … Tweets: @hkanji and @robjebert Tweets: Hussein Kanji / @hkanji : For every week in 202...
Paradox, which makes Olivia, a conversational AI assistant for recruiting tasks like candidate screening, raises a $200M Series C at a $1.5B valuation
Andy Blye / Phoenix Business Journal :
129 VC-backed cybersecurity companies were acquired in 2021, shattering 2020's record of 79 deals, while $20B+ funding poured into cybersecurity startups
Even in a year where few cybersecurity startups had problems raising money, a record number of venture-backed companies also saw exits through acquisition in 2021. Tweets: @tofdaj Tweets: @tofdaj : 2x...
Indian neobank Jupiter raises an $86M Series C at a $711M valuation, up from ~$300M in August, as it prepares to launch lending and wealth management services
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Bitcoin in 2021: a mainstream breakout, crossing $67,000 in November, large price fluctuations, over 75% of its supply held by illiquid addresses, and more
Cryptocurrency trader Stephane Ouellette has a special alarm that sounds whenever digital-asset prices post sudden outsize declines. Tweets: @crypto , @crypto , and @kgreifeld Tweets: Bloomberg Crypto...
Ant Group will close Xianghubao, a crowdfunding service for medical bills, on January 28, as China cracks down on fintech businesses
Bloomberg :
Profile of Gloo, which has ~245M profiles on Americans and is used by 30K+ churches, or 10% of US churches, to target ad campaigns at people facing a crisis
Khadeeja Safdar / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @amywebb , @anthony , @hypervisible , @benjaminpdixon , @brianstelter , @uhactually , @evilgalprods , @zoebritton , @tonyajoriley , @bethblackshire , @...
OpenDAO airdrops SOS token for users of OpenSea's NFT marketplace; the token, unaffiliated with OpenSea, is up ~10x in two days as watchers debate its prospects
A look at the growing competition in the call center tools market between Genesys, AWS, Salesforce, Microsoft, and others, often focused on AI-driven automation
and why the opportunity ahead is all in customer experience: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
A critique of much-hyped crypto-based virtual real estate projects, such as Decentraland, which are often buggy, empty, and lack moderation tools
one of the higher profile “metaverse” platforms—by @LordRavenscraft in @WIRED https://www.wired.com/... Matthew S. Smith / @matt_on_tech : It really can't be overstated how virtual real estate shows a...
PitchBook: nearly 340 startups have privately raised money at $1B+ valuations in 2021, more than triple the total from 2020
or about one each day—have privately raised money at valuations north of $1 billion this year, more than triple the total from last year These will help feed the 571 SPACs searching for a deal https:/...
Gibraltar mulls letting blockchain firm Valereum acquire its stock exchange to add cryptocurrency trading, risking reputational damage and diplomatic sanctions
Kalyeena Makortoff / The Guardian :
Most VC-backed startups that went public via a SPAC in 2021 have seen their stock drop; Metromile, View, Owlet, and Clover Health are among the worst performers
Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News : Tweets: @carnage4life , @bigblackjacobin , and @martinsfp Tweets: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : SPACs were clearly bad investments (companies going public but avo...
Meta acquired synthetic data startup AI.Reverie in August, consolidating it into Reality Labs and terminating its US Air Force contract worth up to $950M
While unable to meet analog chip demand, Texas Instruments hesitates to expand production capacity because of the industry's history of boom and bust cycles
China imposes new restrictions on offshore IPOs that use variable interest entities (VIEs), aiming to close a loophole used by tech and other industries
Sources: Didi bans current and former employees from selling shares indefinitely; Didi has lost ~60% of its market value, or ~$38B, since its NYSE IPO in June
Inside China's Logink, an expansive digital network for tracking global sea cargo that experts fear could give Beijing a commercial or strategic advantage
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.
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.