March 10, 2017
Wanted: Founders in favor of tenured voting
It’s hard to get too worked up about unequal voting rights, which are seen by public market investors as giving founders too much control, while viewed by founders…
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March 10, 2017
Houston, Kalanick and Zuck walk into a headline
And a bar called SPiN, where photos of them playing ping-pong have the tech media in a great mood this Friday morning. The reason? At the same time…
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Verizon Ventures and R/GA partner to launch a digital media ‘venture studio’
Verizon Ventures and R/GA are announcing a new program called the Verizon Media Tech Venture Studio. Stephen Plumlee, R/GA’s global COO and managing partner of R/GA Ventures, explained that…
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How The Last Mile helped Kenyatta Leal walk from prison in San Quentin to a job in tech
Prison spending is 5x more than higher education, and ~10 percent of the U.S. prison population is in California. Part of the reason why people return to prison after…
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Google partners with VCs to host its own machine learning startup competition
On the heels of acquiring data science community Kaggle, Google is launching a machine learning competition of its own for startups. Google is targeting early-stage companies taking an…
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NFL’s Drew Brees backs Waitr to make takeout easy in anytown USA
Food delivery startups abound in the U.S., but few of them deliver to customers in “second cities” and smaller towns. From early pioneers like Grubhub to newer services…
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Tesla’s Kauai solar storage facility offers a glimpse of the company’s future
Tesla’s solar installation on the Hawaiian island of Kauai is not just a product launch of the company – it’s the first real proof the company’s offering up…
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Twitch to relaunch Curse, acquired last year, as the more social Twitch Desktop App
Hot on the heels of rolling out its own version of Twitter, called Pulse, video game streaming site Twitch today announced its new desktop application, Twitch Desktop App.…
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UK broadband giant BT agrees to legal separation from pipes-controller, Openreach
Startups in the U.K. will be hoping for better performance from the local broadband market after telecoms regulator Ofcom agreed to a deal with the country’s largest broadband…
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Watch ‘High Resolution,’ a video series about design
Ever wonder how design has helped drive success for businesses like Airbnb, Facebook, Slack and IBM? How about how their teams are structured? How they operate? What their processes look…
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