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| Rachel Nuwer / Wired: |
A look at Option Impact, a salary database accessible to VCs and their startups, based on anonymized salary info from about 2,600 companies — WHEN STEVE, A thirtysomething engineer, launched a software company in San Francisco a few years ago, he and his cofounder faced the daunting task of hiring a team …
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| Andrew Liptak / The Verge: |
500px stops allowing licensing of photos under Creative Commons, closes 500px Marketplace in favor of licensed pics from Getty and its owner Visual China Group — The photo-sharing site is also closing down 500px Marketplace, its stock photo platform — Photography platform 500px …
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| Steven Sinofsky / Learning By Shipping: |
The moment when Intel lost mobile happened around 2008, when it gave up on producing low-power chipset for phones and refocused on Atom SoC and netbooks — Disruption is simple to say but there many factors at play. Disruption is never one feature, but a full set of assumptions that go into a business.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: alongside GV, Alphabet will invest directly in Lime, as part of the $300M round the on-demand scooter startup is raising at $1.1B post-money valuation — Alphabet is joining a $300m funding round for electric scooter start-up Lime, adding to an increasingly complex web of deals in transport and …
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Facebook is buying London-based NLP startup Bloomsbury AI whose team and tech it plans to deploy to combat fake news and other content issues — Perhaps rightly, there has long been a perception that Google-owned Deepmind has been the most aggressive in hoovering up a lot …
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Second Life creator's blockchain-powered social VR platform High Fidelity raises $35M Series D led by Galaxy Digital Ventures, bringing total funding to $70M+ — Philip Rosedale, the CEO of virtual reality maker High Fidelity, believes blockchain—a new tamper-proof ledger technology …
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| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
How a growing political awakening among some tech employees has driven the recent wave of protests at tech companies against controversial government contracts — SILICON VALLEY HAS a long and secretive history of building hardware and software for the military and law enforcement.| Reuters: |
HTC plans to cut around a quarter of its global workforce, or 1,500 jobs, at its manufacturing unit in Taiwan; layoffs will be completed by the end of September — TAIPEI (Reuters) - Smartphone maker HTC plans to slash around a quarter of its global workforce through job cuts at its manufacturing unit … | TechCrunch: |
Sources: Airbnb aims for IPO between July 2019 and late 2020, as it tweaks staff compensation and adds a cash bonus program — Airbnb, the accommodation rental business, has been building up a larger profile as a travel services powerhouse to fill out its $31 billion valuation …
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| Bruce Haring / BlockTribune: |
TaTaTu has raised $575M in an ICO via a private sale to further develop its blockchain-based social entertainment platform and finance the production of movies — TaTaTu, a blockchain tokenized entertainment platform, has raised $575 million USD from private backers, an amount … | Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
Dell announces it will become a public company again by subsuming its tracking stock DVMT in a cash and share-swap deal worth $21.7B — - Dell to offer DVMT shareholders Dell stock or cash buyout — Total deal size comes to $21.7 billion, Dell to list on NYSE| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
Tech giants see partnerships with community colleges via apprenticeships, certifications, and degrees as a way to attract a skilled and more diverse workforce — As student debt mounts and a shortage of skilled workers persists, students find their local two-year institution could be a lower-cost shortcut to a good job.
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