Ben Fox Rubin

Ben Rubin, who founded Meerkat and Houseparty, announces Towns, a protocol and a web-based chat app, and raised a $25.5M Series A led by a16z Crypto

Google workers across the world announce Alpha Global, an international alliance of 13 unions representing workers in 10 countries

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Google workers across the world announce Alpha Global, an international union alliance comprising 13 unions representing workers in 10 countries

Alpha Global includes workers from 10 countries, including the United States and Germany  —  Google workers across the world are coming together to form a global union alliance.

Amazon announces redesigned spherical Echo devices, including $99 Echo, $60 Echo Dot with Clock, and $50 Echo Dot, with on-board speech analysis

Amazon just unveiled an all-new Echo with a revamped design.  It comes in three colors and features a spherical design.

Robinhood says it's investigating the cause of its third major outage in two weeks, which affected equities, crypto, and options trading until late in the day

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Robinhood says it's investigating the cause of its third major outage in two weeks, affecting equities, crypto, and options trading, amid COVID-19 uncertainty

Free stock trading pioneer Robinhood is experiencing another major outage, keeping clients on the sidelines of a major day for stocks.