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Airbnb Acquires Multi-City Trip Planning Service Vamo, Will Shut Down Product
Airbnb is acquiring Vamo, a service that helps in the process of booking trips with stops in multiple cities, and shutting the product down. Airbnb might not use Vamo, but the company’s appetite for a team like Vamo CEO Ari Steinberg’s makes sense. Airbnb isn’t just about booking a residence — there’s a whole additional layer of experiences that sit on top of… Read More
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Glassbreakers Is Launching Enterprise Software For Diversity
Glassbreakers, the mentorship platform for women, is getting into the enterprise software business, after recently doing trial runs with Box and Pinterest. Next year, Glassbreakers will officially launch an enterprise solution for diversity to companies with over 10,000 employees. The Glassbreakers enterprise software will offer mentorship for women, a content channel to highlight… Read More
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Fama Helps Businesses Find Social Media “Red Flags” Before Hiring Someone
Fama Technologies aims to help companies screen potential employees by analyzing their social media posts.
You might not like the idea that something dumb you posted years ago on Twitter could affect your chances of getting a job, but Fama CEO and co-founder Ben Mones said employers are already performing this kind of social media screening — they’re just not doing it very… Read More
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Big Data Doesn’t Exist
My customers always lie to me. They don’t lie about what they can afford. They don’t lie about how much (or how little) customer service they’ll need. They don’t lie about how quickly they can pay us. They lie about how much data they have. Slack Releases Diversity Data, Reports Higher Percentage Of Black People In Engineering Than Company-Wide
Team communication startup Slack just released its diversity data, becoming the fourth Unicorn startup after Airbnb, Dropbox and Pinterest to do so.
Here are the stats around the racial and ethnic identity of Slack’s employees: 70% “Non-Hispanic Caucasian” aka white, 4% African-American, 19% Asian and 7% “Mixed-Race/Other.” Meanwhile, women make up 39% of… Read More
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Crown & Caliber Unveils A New Marketplace For Watch Lovers
For those of you who still like something ticking on your wrist Crown & Caliber has rebuilt itself from the ground up in an effort to sell some of the watches they’ve bought. Originally created as a watch sellers site – you’d tell them what you had and they’ve give you a price send a box mail it in – they have expanded further into watch sales in an effort… Read More
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Tinder’s Super Like Says More Than A Simple Right Swipe
Tinder has today unveiled a new feature called Super Like, which is just about as close to ‘love’ as you can come on the ultra-popular dating app. In essence, Super Like lets users alert a potential match of their undying affection before they swipe, displaying a little notification when the Super Liking user’s profile is served to the object of their desire. For the past… Read More
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Entrepreneur First Demo Day: Meet The Nine Startups That Presented (And Read Our Take)
Yesterday afternoon I attended London-based Entrepreneur First‘s fourth Demo Day. EF isn’t an accelerator, co-founder Matt Clifford was at pains to out. Instead, the self-described “talent first” investor sources the best technical talent from across Europe — typically straight out of university but also working at existing tech companies — before they have… Read More
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What Steam Engines, Robots And Analytics Have In Common
Are robots going to put us all out of work? That seems to be the question on every click-bait economic article’s mind. The short answer: They aren’t. The long answer: They will change the kinds of jobs we do, just like stone tools, the printing press, the first factories and computers changed how we work. Thinking about how those changes are going to happen and what organizations… Read More
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Berlin-based online fashion and lifestyle retailer Lesara wants to make it easier for consumers in Europe to buy ‘direct’ from factories in Asia, thus passing on significant discounts.