Report: Valencia-based Jeff, which provides a frontend app and other tools to manage businesses, filed for bankruptcy after failing to close a €90M Series C
Dan Taylor / Tech.eu : Tweets: @jesusmargon , @robinwauters , and @sensorpunk Tweets: Jesús Martínez / @jesusmargon : Thank you very much, @sensorpunk, for highlighting our scoop on Jeff's bankruptcy...
Tech companies increasingly hire in South and Central America because remote workers there often accept lower pay than in the US but have the same time zones
Pandemic-era labor shortages made it hard for Austin-based Fetch Package Inc. to fill positions in the US. Tweets: @bouazizalex and @sdonnan . Thanks: @colegarry2 Tweets: Alex Bouaziz / @bouazizalex :...
A profile of inDriver, a ride-hailing app developed in Siberia in 2012, which lets riders and drivers haggle over prices and is now available in 42 countries
InDriver's unique haggling feature has seen it expand from its roots in Yakutia to markets around the world. — • YAKUTSK, RUSSIA Tweets: @restofworld , @leomschwartz , @restofworld , @indriver , @vi...
Companies like IBM and ADP are developing tools to automate decision making, reduce risks and frictions of bringing employees back to the office
Chip Cutter / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @mattk , @wsj , @wsj , and @renan Tweets: Matt / @mattk : Adding another layer of abstraction to enable HR decisions without human blame. Very Brazil https...
At least half a dozen startup founders from non-Western markets say YC's fully remote S20 Demo Day put them on a more equal footing with their US counterparts
Due the merchant connected nature of their business the founders didn't bother applying to YC having to operate on a different timezone than their customer. Virtual YC baited them. They applied. Got i...
Profile of David Malan, a computer science professor who has embraced high production e-learning techniques on Harvard and MIT's online-learning platform, edX
Gabriel Guimaraes grew up in Vitória, Brazil, in a yellow house surrounded by star-fruit trees and chicken coops. Tweets: @nachiketmor and @_pablotrinidad_ Tweets: Nachiket Mor / @nachiketmor : If gov...
Udacity says it will lay off 125 employees over the course of 2019 as part of a global restructuring plan and will close its Brazil office, losing 70 staff
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Facebook disbands its widely publicized “War Room”, says it wasn't a permanent solution, touts Strategic Response Team as its way to handle future crises
Mark Zuckerberg is in a crisis of leadership. Fortune : Data Sheet—Bitcoin Bites It Casey Newton / The Verge : The UK's inquiry into fake news is focused on a long-dead bikini-finding app Mike Godwin ...