Policymakers and experts: lidar maker Hesai and others listed as Chinese military entities are rebranding and using US-domiciled businesses to evade sanctions
Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal : X: @jamesofphillips , @jchengwsj , @danjames357 , and @chinabeigebook LinkedIn: Gordon Friedrich and Fred Huh Forums: r/MVIS and Slashdot X: @jamesofphillip...
Frederick P. Brooks Jr., a Turing Award recipient who co-led IBM's System/360 and wrote a book cited as gospel by computer scientists, died last week at 91
Fred P. Brooks, the founder and long-time chair of the department (and a major influence on my professional outlook) passed away a few hours ago. Steve Lohr / @stevelohr : Remembering Fred Brooks. fro...
Interviews with more than 24 people involved in the AT&T/Time Warner merger, including Jeff Bewkes and Randall Stephenson, detail how it went disastrously awry
At Time Warner, executives saw AT&T as just a “big phone company from Texas.” At AT&T, they thought Hollywood would play by their rules. Tweets: @jamesstewartnyt , @nytimes , @dandrezner , @nickconfe...
Brooklyn-based Genius, a music-annotating startup that provides context for lyrics, sells its assets for $80M, less than the total funding it raised
> @Genius — one of the most unlikable tech startups of the past decade-plus, which promised to “debunk the myth of scientific journalism” with its “homiesourcing” — just got sold for less than what in...
Investors and employees of Toptal, a freelancing platform with ~$200M revenue and originally funded by $1.5M in convertible notes, have ended up with no equity
but it never does (aka, gotta read the fine print.) https://www.theinformation.com/ ... Tom Dotan / @cityofthetown : After its seed investment 7 years ago, Toptal promised equity for investors and emp...
Taso Du Val, the CEO of Toptal, a freelancing platform with ~$200M in revenues, has retained all of Toptal's stock, as it hasn't raised since a 2012 seed round
Toptal, a service that connects companies with freelance software engineers, is a Silicon Valley success story. Tweets: @amir , @amir , @amir , @amir , @amir , @amir , @amir , and @amir Tweets: Amir E...