Bernie Sanders introduces a bill that would tax stock options at vesting, not at exercise, for those making $130K+ and vesting $100K+ worth of stock per year
would tax options at vest, rather than at exercise. Many employees would be unable to pay — forcing them either to give up options or take out loans. https://www.wsj.com/... Liz Wessel / @lizwessel : ...
Microsoft pledges to be carbon negative by 2030, remove all carbon it has ever emitted by 2050, and launch a $1B climate innovation fund
and its $1 billion infusion of cash — could ultimately make the tech cheaper and more appealing to other companies looking for new ways to go green.” Big thanks to @justcalma for breaking the @Microso...
Thailand's central bank says it has partnered with R3 and eight other financial institutions for a proof-of-concept trial of a central bank digital currency
Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk : Tweets: @mattocko Tweets: Matthew Ocko / @mattocko : Whoah But makes sense - non-anonymous blockchain-$ is in fact more trackable than fiat, so it addresses rampant tax evasi...
Young Chinese tech entrepreneurs find Silicon Valley unimpressive on their latest annual trip, say moonshot ideas and long development times don't work in China
Li Yuan / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @ebkania , @mattocko , @codebutler , @johnrobb , and @bychunhan Tweets: Elsa Kania / @ebkania : “China runs very fast, tweaking along the way. The U.S. runs at...
Facebook launches Messenger Kids, a standalone messaging app that lets kids under 13 chat with friends and family approved by their parents, on iOS in the US
What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Brett Williams / Mashable : Facebook Messenger went down worldwide Chris Smith / BGR : The Messenger Kids app is a brilliantly devious Facebook scheme Jeffrey Esposito / ...
Facebook, blamed for unintended consequences of the service in nations like Myanmar, says “product and integrity research team” is headed to SE Asia this month
Zuckerberg needs to stop courting Beijing and start paying attention to the countries where Facebook matters. Tweets: @carnage4life , @mattocko , @_danielsinclair , @kenroth , and @foreignpolicy Tweet...
Vancouver-based Kindred, which helps train robots using AI, raises $28M Series B led by Tencent and announces pilot programs with Gap and others
Douglas Soltys / BetaKit : Tweets: @mattocko Tweets: Matthew Ocko / @mattocko : Also proud of @DCVC co @kindredai advancing the intersection of robotics & AI, fueled with another $35M http://betakit....
Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale accuses BuzzFeed of taking “select facts out of context” in effort to “hunt unicorns”, says customer traction is “astonishing”
Let's address this briefly here rather than write emails back to a lot of friends and investors … Tweets: @mikeisaac , @mattocko , @weberwest , @mattocko , @mattrosoff and @mims Tweets: @mikeisaac : d...