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...
I Disagree with Fred; Marketing is for Companies that Have Great Products
One of the people I admire and respect most in the technology, startup world is Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson. A little more than a year ago, I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Fred...
Disqus - After 5 Days on Disqus, I'm Turning Back to Wordpress Comments
I'm an avid reader of Fred Wilson's blog and was tempted to test-drive Disqus when Fred first integrated it onto his site. I finally decided to install it on my blog (which is powered by Wordpress) a...
Is Facebook Advertising Effective?
Fred Wilson has been updating the world about his venture in Facebook advertising over the past week. Today, Fred posted and updated screenshot of his ad campaign's performance and it doesn't appear ...
CalacanisCast 26 beta
Special guest: Digg's Jay Adelson and Electronic Frontier Foundation's Fred von Lohmann — Hello everyone, Tyler here - back with a podcast for your listening pleasure (read: no video) — In this ep...