A history of Lambda School: burning through $120M, why its income share agreements failed, how one developer-turned-journalist revealed the fraud, and more
Two days after his company's downfall, Austen Allred wrote: … Austen co-founded Lambda School, one of the largest educational startups of all time. Mastodon: @slightlyoff@toot.cafe . X: @carnage4life ...
Tweetbot, Twitterrific, Fenix, Talon, and other third-party Twitter apps are broken; Twitter has given no explanation and developers say they haven't heard back
Last night at about 7:30pm PST, Twitterrific customers started … Chance Miller / 9to5Mac : Tweetbot and other Twitter apps still broken as Elon Musk stays silent Mitchell Clark / The Verge : Twitter a...
Major cryptocurrencies crash as the crypto market cap falls below $1T: bitcoin drops 15%+ to ~$22K, ether drops 16%+ to ~$1.2K, and Solana drops 7%+ to ~$28
(Any views expressed below are the personal views of the author … Mitchell Clark / The Verge : BlockFi and Crypto.com lay off hundreds of staff as coins slump Dylan LeClair / Bitcoin Magazine : Celsiu...
The US CFPB orders online payday lender LendUp to shutter lending operations after finding it repeatedly lied to and illegally cheated its customers
it has been a long time coming. In other news, anyone looking to buy my shares of LendUp? Rohit Chopra / @chopracfpb : We will be working to provide redress to borrowers cheated by @LendUpCredit throu...
Austria-based PSPDFkit, which provides APIs and an SDK for document processing, raises €100M, its first outside investment, from Insight Partners
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch : Tweets: @msch , @andreasklinger , @steipete , @mronge , and @sandofsky Tweets: Martin Schurrer / @msch : Excited for this next step for @pspdfkit. Thanks to everyone who ...
Facebook attacks Apple in full-page newspaper ads, claiming upcoming iOS 14 changes that limit data gathering and targeted ads are bad for small businesses
and they should have the choice to allow that or not.” https://twitter.com/... @fbnewsroom : We're standing up to Apple for small businesses everywhere. #SpeakUpForSmall https://about.fb.com/... Ralph...
Spotify says it is testing a new service that lets artists and labels promote their tracks in users' recommendations while receiving a lower royalty rate
and get paid less in exchange Josiah Motley / KnowTechie : Spotify will now promote select tracks from artists for free, but that might not be a good thing Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide : ...
Facebook slams Apple's App Store policies, launches Facebook Gaming on iOS without the app's mini games feature to pass the App Store's strict approval policies
Watch and Connect — iPhone Screenshots — Facebook Gaming welcomes you to a new world of gaming. FP Trending / Firstpost Tech : Facebook Gaming launches official app on iOS without instant gaming f...
Angry over critical coverage, tech figures discuss hitting back against journalists, on Twitter and invite-only Clubhouse, leading to harassment of NYT's Lorenz
chiefly journalism in the public interest. https://www.vice.com/... Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz : Someone leaked an hour of audio from Clubhouse last night where Balajis, Felicia Horowitz, and other...
Angry over critical coverage, tech figures discuss hitting back against journalists, on Twitter and invite-only Clubhouse, leading to harassment of NYT's Lorenz
chiefly journalism in the public interest. https://www.vice.com/... @jason : Fair warning: everything you say on #Clubhouse is being covertly recorded by journalists to weaponize against you This is t...