The tech community doesn't get as excited about tech as we used to, as enthusiasm about startups and embracing new things has been replaced by cynicism
WHO WOULD'VE THOUGHT GOOGLE WAVE WOULD BECOME THE GOOD OL' DAYS? — Today marks 10 years since Google stoked great excitement … Tweets: @carnage4life , @cate_lawrence , @robinwauters , @dan_rowinski ...
Freelance services marketplace Fiverr files for a US IPO, says it had losses of $36M in 2018, up from $19M in 2017 and a revenue of $75.5M in 2018, up 44.9% YoY
Becky Peterson / Business Insider : Tweets: @martinsfp and @brianmcc Tweets: Martin Bryant / @martinsfp : Their shares better open at $5. https://twitter.com/... Brian McCullough / @brianmcc : How mu...
SEC approves the creation of the Long-Term Stock Exchange, or LTSE, a Silicon Valley-based national securities exchange proposed by Eric Ries
if they don't kill each other first Tweets: Alexis Ohanian Sr / @alexisohanian : This is great news: @WSJ reports that @ltse cleared to become 14th U.S. Stock Exchange. Very happy to have @ericries an...
How Bird is trying to make its unit economics work, experimenting with its business model, developing own scooters better suited for sharing, and more
Zuckerberg Needs a Slap, Google I/O vs. Microsoft Build, Bird Rides the Strugglebus socalTECH.com : Report: Bird Facing Major Issues With Keeping Scooters Alive Tweets: Mike Dudas / @mdudas : This is ...
Despite publicly pausing verification, Twitter has verified 10,000+ accounts in recent months but withheld the privilege from anyone without backchannel access
letting people voluntarily tie their profiles to a verified identity could enable more trust and healthier conversations, two of the company's stated priorities @byardduncan : This is a very good scoo...
Mark Zuckerberg calls for global regulations in four areas: policing harmful content, election integrity, a GDPR-like privacy framework, and data portability
but some experts are questioning his motives Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run : Mark Zuckerberg: ‘I Believe We Need a More Active Role for Governments and Regulators’ David McCabe / Axios : Zuckerberg start...
How Foursquare, which tracks the location of millions via their smartphones and has 100K+ clients including Snapchat and Uber, makes sure its data isn't misused
exactly what most tech companies don't do.” http://www.engadget.com/... Martin Bryant / @martinsfp : For whatever reason, I've always had the gut sense that Foursquare is a responsible data custodian....
Reddit is testing tipping users starting with a single user, shittymorph; the user, Reddit, and card processor Stripe receive 78.5%, 18.5%, and 3%, respectively
to one guy in one subreddit Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : Reddit's Testing a Tipping Option to Pay Creators on the Platform James Loke Hale / Tubefilter : Reddit Is Testing Out Tipping With...
Driverless cars won't become widespread until automakers and police determine how to pull over autonomous cars, how to program the AI to recognize authorities
with a big asterisk Tweets: Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal : This should be the easiest thing to solve. Just have the police car beam a command to stop to the car. http://twitter.com/... Martin Bryant / @m...
After shutting down in September, the Newton Mail email service is available again for $49.99/year; CloudMagic, its maker, was acquired by Essential in December
This time we are aiming for the next orbit Jared Newman / Fast Company : Andy Rubin's company gave my favorite email app a scary privacy policy Rajesh Pandey / iPhone Hacks : Essential Brings Back New...