Hundreds of executives and companies, including Alphabet, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon, sign a statement opposing “any discriminatory legislation” around voting
100s of companies and exec sign this letter opposing “any discriminatory legislation.” Ad appeared in the NYT and @washingtonpost today. w / @andrewrsorkin https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter....
WeWork files to raise $1B in an IPO, reports a $904M net loss on around $1.5B in revenue for first half of 2019
WeWork parent The We Company is about to achieve … Stephen Gandel / CBS News : WeWork IPO filing shows it's losing nearly $5,200 per customer Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat : WeWork IPO filing hypes tran...
Charity: water now accepts stock donations from shareholders of private startups like Uber to share some IPO proceeds as bonuses with the non-profit's staff
David Gelles / New York Times : Tweets: @nytimesbusiness , @nickkristof , @jonstahl , @fundraisingau , @juliacsocial , @anandwrites , and @ryangraves Tweets: @nytimesbusiness : Never mind that the po...
Q&A with Hadi Partovi on starting Code.org, working on IE at Microsoft, what he is looking for in startup founders, and teaching computer science in schools
David Gelles / New York Times : Tweets: @levesquepat , @dkhos , and @hadip Tweets: Patricia Levesque / @levesquepat : All students should learn #computerscience. “...computer science is as important ...
Google says it will make arbitration optional for individual sexual harassment claims, provide more info about investigations, expand training, and more
Amazon Wants to Get America Scanning for the Holidays James Farrell / SiliconANGLE : After global walkout, Google rewrites policy on sexual misconduct cases Brian Heater / TechCrunch : Google CEO high...
Inside Etsy's transformation as it sheds its B Corp status, freewheeling culture, and idealistic business approach to appease shareholders
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Verizon's goal with Yahoo and AOL: compete with Google and Facebook in digital advertising by sharing data on its wireless customers with advertisers
David Gelles / New York Times : Tweets: @adamsingolda , @learmonth , @pt , @nytimes and @nytimesbits . See also Mediagazer Tweets: Adam Singolda / @adamsingolda : “People act like Google and Facebook...