Publicly traded identity management company Okta says it is acquiring Auth0, one of its biggest challengers, in an all-stock deal valued at $6.5B
that's a biggie. https://www.cnbc.com/... #oktasponsor #okta Clueless / @clueless_1337 : Turns out $OKTA bought Auth0 and solidified its lead-in IAM. Guess it's a clear monopoly ri...
How Figma, which bet on collaborative product design, and Canva, which focuses on helping non-designers excel in marketing design, are succeeding against Adobe
Kevin / kwokchain : Tweets: @gavinsbaker , @jalajboy , and @sachinrekhi Tweets: Gavin Baker / @gavinsbaker : Exceptional essay from @kevinakwok Would add that technical debt compo...
A look at challenger search engines like UK-based Mojeek, You.com, and Neeva, founded by former Google execs, all targeting Google as it fights antitrust suits
2020 has been the beginning of major streaming exclusivity plays, forcing users to pay for four or five services as big studios prioritize their own platforms
End-of-year turnover is always rough, and it's going to get worse — Two of the biggest movies people want to talk about this week … Tweets: @loudmouthjulia , @trengriffin , @frea...
Craig Federighi, Johny Srouji, and Greg Joswiak on how Apple designed M1, the importance of UMA, non-linear increase in performance at higher power levels, more
but there's a catch Jim Salter / Ars Technica : Benchmarking M1-native version of Google's Chrome browser Joe Wituschek / iMore : Apple executives talk the advent of the M1 chip an...
Microsoft is enticing Zoom users to Teams with new free 24-hour meetings, allowing up to 300 people to join calls via the web without an account
Microsoft Teams is getting a big feature before the holidays Jon Fingas / Engadget : Microsoft hopes to win over Zoom fans with free 24-hour Teams web calls Arjun Tomar / Microsoft...
Amazon launches Amazon Pharmacy, letting customers in the US order prescription medications for home delivery, including free delivery for Prime members
Google's free unlimited Photos storage offer is an object lesson in anticompetitive behavior that helped drive startups like Everpix and Loom out of the market
@WillOremus https://onezero.medium.com/... Sachin Rekhi / @sachinrekhi : Thinking today about all the photo startups that were previously crushed by Google Photos giving away unlim...
A profile of Discord, which lies at the center of the gaming world with 100M+ MAUs, as it pushes to turn into a communication tool for everyone, not just gamers
Most longtime Discord users have a similar origin story. They liked playing video games, and liked playing with their friends …Tweets:@joshelman,@adamnash,@rachaelrad,@sachinrekhi...
Q&A with Daniel Ek on his pledge to invest €1B in European moonshots, shadowing CEOs like Zuckerberg and Hastings, Spotify's impact on the world, and more
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Medium says it had 1.2B page views in Q2 and now has “several hundred thousand” paying subscribers, and will start offering custom domains again
Ev Williams / The Official Medium Blog :
In 2019, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google were collectively granted ~27,000 H-1B visas, over 30% of total visas available to private companies
built on an influx of global brainpower, vibrant university system, cities that encourage the spontaneous interaction of people and ideas—has worked so well that policy makers have...
The Wild Wild Web, a shoot-first, aim-later era of tech strategy, is coming to an end, and a less willfully naïve, self-policing ethos is taking its place
The internet is changing, and the freewheeling, anything-goes culture of social media is being replaced by something more accountable. Tweets: @nytimesbusiness , @sachinrekhi , @ra...
Apple's two year timeline for Mac's transition to Apple Silicon is a demonstration of some of the most remarkable product engineering over time in history
Apple's announcement of “Apple Silicon” is important for many reasons. Delivering on such an undertaking is the result of remarkable product engineering.
Research comparing curation by humans and algorithms on Apple News shows that human editors chose more diverse sources, more evenly, and less “soft news”
Jack Bandy / Mac O’Clock :
Report: Apple started a robotics lab in 2012 to reduce human labor needed to assemble products, but abandoned it in 2018 when the robots couldn't match humans
William Gallagher / AppleInsider : Source: The Information .
Medium launches Newsletters, to let publications start newsletters on the platform and get replies from readers directly in the publications' inboxes
excited for this feature to help people tell better and more personal stories https://blog.medium.com/... Casey Newton / @caseynewton : If you're looking for an uplifting story to ...
Robinhood raises $280M Series F led by Sequoia Capital, valuing the company at $8.3B, and says it's added 3M funded accounts since the beginning of the year
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune :
Design software startup Figma raises $50M Series D led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $2B valuation
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Legal tech startup Atrium is shutting down, laying off 100+ employees; CEO Justin Kan says Atrium failed to be more efficient than a traditional law firm
Justin Kan's hybrid legal software and law firm startup Atrium is shutting down today after failing to figure out how to deliver better efficiency than a traditional law firm.