Vianai emerges with $50M seed and a mission to simplify machine learning tech You don’t see a startup get a $50 million seed round all that often, but such was the case with Vianai, an early stage startup launched by Vishal Sikka, former Infosys managing director and SAP executive. The company launched recently with a […]
Alchemist Accelerator is launching a European program
Alchemist Accelerator is launching a European program Enterprise-focused startup accelerator Alchemist is expanding its footprint this morning with the launch of an initiative focused on European startups. While Alchemist was happy to accept European companies into their US program before — they tell me they’ve had about 25 European startups go through Alchemist already — […]
Clutter acquires The Storage Fox for $152M to add self-storage to its on-demand platform
Clutter acquires The Storage Fox for $152M to add self-storage to its on-demand platform The world of on-demand storage has seen some ups and downs, with some of the biggest hopefuls pivoting into new areas, some as unrelated as cryptocurrency, in the search for better product-market fit. One that found its groove early on, however, is […]
Twitter discloses another 10,000 accounts suspended for fomenting political discord globally
Twitter discloses another 10,000 accounts suspended for fomenting political discord globally Twitter’s ongoing, and possibly Sisyphean, effort of policing and removing nefarious content disseminated on its platform is taking another step forward today. The company’s safety team has disclosed the removal of another 10,112 accounts across six countries that were found to be actively spreading […]
“I know it’s bad – but everyone’s doing it”
“I know it’s bad – but everyone’s doing it” The optimists who got excited about the ‘everyone has a microphone’ promise of the Net 20 years ago overlooked two flaws in human nature: First, given sufficient reward (money, attention, fame, notoriety) some people will show up and say and do things that they know are […]
Journaling For Mental Health
Journaling For Mental Health Introduction: Journaling For Mental Health This last week has been something of a struggle. I had big ideas on how I was going to get from Journaling Tips to To-Do lists. I landed up pre-occupied with journaling for mental health instead I had a framework in my head about how I […]
Tristan Harris — Fighting Skynet and Firewalling Attention (#387)
Tristan Harris — Fighting Skynet and Firewalling Attention (#387) “Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed. He’s making sure your imagination withers. Until it’s as […]
An explosive breach of contract lawsuit against former Sequoia Capital partner Michael Goguen has been dropped
An explosive breach of contract lawsuit against former Sequoia Capital partner Michael Goguen has been dropped Three-and-a-half years ago, a lawsuit hit the San Mateo, Ca. county courthouse that briefly attracted the attention of the worldwide venture capital community given its salacious nature. The defendant: longtime VC Michael Goguen, who’d spent 20 years with Sequoia […]
Facebook employee dies after apparent suicide at company’s Menlo Park headquarters
Facebook employee dies after apparent suicide at company’s Menlo Park headquarters An employee of Facebook died by apparent suicide Thursday morning, Menlo Park police reported and the company confirmed. “We were saddened to learn that one of our employees passed away at our Menlo Park headquarters earlier today,” a Facebook spokesperson told TechCrunch in an […]
Subscription email app Tempo hits the right minimalist notes
Subscription email app Tempo hits the right minimalist notes Email will likely never die, but if new apps can change how we think about using it, maybe it will feel like the worst parts have croaked. In the wake of popular apps like Inbox and Mailbox being sunsetted, like many I’ve been left rudderless trying […]
What You Need, When You Need It: Vital Digital Marketing and Sales Training
What You Need, When You Need It: Vital Digital Marketing and Sales Training Copyblogger has always been a place that encourages creativity. We want to help people have creative careers and do meaningful work every day. It’s perfectly reasonable to want to have a job where you get to be creative. But in order to […]
Twitter launches its controversial ‘Hide Replies’ feature in the US and Japan
Twitter launches its controversial ‘Hide Replies’ feature in the US and Japan Twitter’s controversial “Hide Replies” feature, aimed at civilizing conversations on its platform, is launching today in the U.S. and Japan after earlier tests in Canada. The addition is one of the more radical changes to Twitter to date. It puts people back in […]
The emergence of super apps in Latin America
The emergence of super apps in Latin America Thiago Paiva Contributor Thiago Paiva is a fintech entrepreneur, writer and investor. He is the co-founder of Liquia Digital Assets, an investment platform for international investments using blockchain technology. The super apps WeChat and Alipay became an integral part of the Chinese mobile ecosystem, growing to more […]
Lime is shutting down car rental service, LimePod
Lime is shutting down car rental service, LimePod Transportation startup Lime is shutting down LimePod, its car-sharing service that it launched last November in Seattle. Lime plans to start removing its vehicles from the streets of Seattle next month and will completely shut down the service by the end of the year. The news was […]
Finding sustainable success with Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman
Finding sustainable success with Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman Diving into ‘What it Takes: Lesson in the Pursuit of Excellence’ by Stephen Schwarzman Gregg Schoenberg 7 hours “We were so low that people would take advantage of us. People we knew well would just lie to us. One of my favorites was a company we did […]
Inside Apple’s reimagined Fifth Ave. store
Inside Apple’s reimagined Fifth Ave. store After two years of work, the wrapper comes off the giant glass cube this week, as Apple’s Fifth Avenue flagship opens to the public this Friday. The big reveal coincides with the company’s latest releases, including new iPhones and an Apple Watch — an appropriately grandiose homecoming for new […]
The Only Relationship Help You Need to Save Your Relationship
The Only Relationship Help You Need to Save Your Relationship Everyone seems to be searching for one–The One. There are enough dating sites out there to indicate that people, young and old alike, want to be in a relationship, or at least save the one they have. People want to share their lives with another […]
Stripe is raising another $250M at a $35B pre-money valuation
Stripe is raising another $250M at a $35B pre-money valuation After a week of launching new services to bring payments giant Stripe into the areas of lending and credit, the company is announcing another big step forward to fuel its growth: it’s raising another $250 million in funding at a pre-money valuation of $35 billion, […]
Daily Crunch: Automattic raises $300M
Daily Crunch: Automattic raises $300M The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Automattic raises $300 million at $3 billion valuation from Salesforce Ventures Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, […]
Amazon orders 100K electric delivery trucks from Rivian as part of going carbon neutral by 2040
Amazon orders 100K electric delivery trucks from Rivian as part of going carbon neutral by 2040 Amazon will be stepping up its efforts to reduce its climate impact, CEO Jeff Bezos announced on Thursday. The company will be ordering 100,000 electric delivery trucks from Michigan’s Rivian as part of this commitment, Bezos said. The commerce […]