Fastly acquires Glitch, the web coding service formerly called Fog Creek Software; Glitch CEO Anil Dash will join Fastly as its VP of developer experience
it's a super tough business to be in with plenty of dead startups, but they built something special so I hope they can continue to exist! https://twitter.com/... Mike Masnick / @mmasnick : Interesting...
A look at OKash, a popular microcredit app in Kenya that threatens users to notify everyone on their contact list when they fall behind on loan payments
Okash, a popular fintech app in Kenya and Nigeria, threatens users to notify everyone on their contact list when you fall behind on your loan payments. Tweets: @ahmed , @lalehkhalili , @ftrain , @anup...
Zoom is being banned over security concerns by some US school districts, including NYC, which is directing teachers to switch to Microsoft Teams
Zoom's popularity has taken off … Tweets: Brad Lander / @bradlander : This is a terrible decision @NYCSchools @DOEChancellor. Our teachers, students, and families have put in massive amounts of work t...
Sen. Warren proposes tech regulation, including breaking up big tech and rolling back acquisitions at Amazon, Google, and Facebook, as part of her 2020 bid
Silicon Valley is unimpressed VentureBeat : Elizabeth Warren vows to break up Amazon, Facebook, and Google John Koetsier / Forbes : Why Apple Got Spared As Elizabeth Warren Targets Amazon, Facebook, G...
Bitcoin and ICOs are in 1999-like bubble; they'll crash but will produce the next Google and Facebook and all the great and scary things the internet gave us
The true believers won't stop until they've remade the world. Some of it will be thrilling. Some of it will keep us up at night. Tweets: @waldojaquith , @ahmed , @ameliasbrain , @riskreversal , @fin...
Sunlight Foundation exploring merger or alliances with other organizations, will discontinue tool building and database maintenance
The board of directors of the Sunlight Foundation has reached some important conclusions about our future. We want to share them with our friends, funders … Tweets: @timobrien , @waxpancake , @pahlka...
A first-person narrative on the allure and anxiety of working at a Silicon Valley startup
Uncanny Valley — I would say more, but I signed an NDA. — MORALE IS DOWN. We are making plenty of money, but the office is teeming with salespeople: well-groomed social animals with good posture ...
Evan Williams: Medium's key advertising sales metric is not page views, but time spent on page
Evan Williams: On billionaire-backed journalism, Shanley Kane, and the problem with vanity ad metrics — Many people use the newish blogging site Medium each day, but almost as many of them are confu...