How I Accidentally Gatecrashed A Startup'S Morning Meeting
IPO mistakes, fintech results, and the Zenefits 'mafia': Alex Wilhelm
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Moft is back with a clever laptop sleeve that converts into a stand: Brian Heater
Moft is a clever company that makes clever products. For a while there, I was sporting their laptop stand. It was a head-turner when I used to unfold it during meetings — back when we used to do those in-person. The truth is, I ended up having to tear it off …
Startups Weekly: What countries want your startup?: Eric Eldon
They say business needs certainty to succeed, but new tech startups are still getting funded aggressively despite the pandemic, recession, trade wars and various large disasters....
Share Ventures, an LA-based studio for company creation, is MoviePass co-founder Hamet Watt's next act: Jonathan Shieber
Nearly eight years ago, Hamet Watt and Stacy Spikes launched MoviePass, the subscription-based movie ticketing service that captured the minds and dollars of investors and brought thousands of cinephiles a too-good-to-be-true deal for all-you-can watch movie …
How I accidentally gatecrashed a startup's morning meeting: Zack Whittaker
No hacking needed.
Daily Crunch: Trump bans transactions with ByteDance and Tencent: Anthony Ha
Trump escalates his campaign against Chinese tech companies, Facebook extends work from home until the middle of 2021 and Netflix adds support for Hindi. Here’s your Daily Crunch for August 7, 2020. The big story: Trump signs orders banning US business with T…
Samsung Galaxy Tab S7+ hands-on: Brian Heater
During an Unpacked event that featured the announcement of five key new devices, the Galaxy Tab S7 didn’t get a ton of love. Understandable, perhaps. It doesn’t quite have the star power of the Note line, nor does it have the novelty of a new foldable or Blue…
Human Capital: Uber and Lyft’s ongoing battle with the law and a brief history of diversity at Snap: Megan Rose Dickey
Welcome back to Human Capital (formerly known as Tech at Work) that looks at all-things labor in tech. This week presented Uber and Lyft with a fresh labor lawsuit as a judge heard arguments from Uber, Lyft and lawyers on behalf of the people of California in…
R&D Roundup: Supercomputer COVID-19 insights, ionic spiderwebs, the whiteness of AI: Devin Coldewey
I see far more research articles than I could possibly write up. This column collects the most interesting of those papers and advances, along with notes on why they may prove important in the world of tech and startups. This week: supercomputers take on COVI…
Federal judge approves ending consent decrees that prevented movie studios from owning theaters: Anthony Ha
A federal judge has approved the Department of Justice’s efforts to end the Paramount Consent Decrees — 70-year-old court orders that prevented movie studios from engaging in a variety of anticompetitive behaviors, including ownership of movie theaters. U.S. …
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