Is Europe Closing In On An Antitrust Fix For Surveillance Technologists?

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Original Content podcast: Netflix's 'Velvet Buzzsaw' is lethally dull: Anthony Ha, Jonathan Shieber

Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo and writer-director Dan Gilroy — who worked together on the creepy crime thriller “Nightcrawler” — have reunited for a new Netflix Original film, “Velvet Buzzsaw.” While “Nightcrawler” wasn’t perfect, it was tense and unsettling,…

Companies raising supergiant VC aren’t getting any younger: Jason Rowley

Despite the fact that supergiant venture capital rounds have become an almost everyday occurrence, the age at which companies close their first nine-figure funding deal hasn’t really changed.

Privacy is a commons: Jon Evans

“The commons is the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society,” quoth Wikipedia, “held in common, not owned privately.” We live in an era of surveillance capitalism in a symbiotic relationship with advertising technology, quoth me.…

Is Europe closing in on an antitrust fix for surveillance technologists?: Natasha Lomas

The German Federal Cartel Office’s decision to order Facebook to change how it processes users’ personal data this week is a sign the antitrust tide could at last be turning against platform power. One European Commission source we spoke to, who was commentin…

Fitbit's newest fitness tracker is just for employees and health insurance members: Jon Russell

Fitbit has a new fitness tracker, but it’s one that you can’t buy in stores. The company quietly uncorked the Inspire on Friday, releasing its first product that is available only to corporate employees and health insurance members. The idea is to offer a ful…

What to expect from Mobile World Congress 2019: Brian Heater

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: 2019 just might be the year that smartphones get fun again. After years of similar form factors and slight upgrades, the mobile industry’s back is against the wall. For the first time ever, sales are down, owning to…

Netflix reportedly paid $10M for campaign documentary featuring Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Jon Russell

Freshman Congresswomen and meme queen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is headed to Netflix. The streaming service said this week that it has snapped up ‘Knock Down the House,’ a Sundance award-winning documentary profiling the campaigns of four female progressive ca…

Ambitious Singapore startup Delegate wants to bring its event booking platform to the US: Jon Russell

It’s not often that you hear about a startup from Singapore with ambitions to expand to the U.S, but that’s exactly the goal for event booking service Delegate. Founded in August 2015, the company aims to be a one-stop shop for booking an event, that covers c…

Startup names may have passed peak weirdness: Joanna Glasner

For years, decades even, startup names have been getting weirder. This isn’t a scientific verdict, but it is how things have seemed to someone who spends a lot of hours perusing this stuff.