Facebook showcases wrist-worn AR interface concept
Facebook's hardware strategy often looks pretty opaque from the outside. The company has done fairly well with Oculus sales amid pandemic demand. Even its Echo Show competitor Portal has seen a bump as people have been forced to socially distance. The company's smartphone partnership with H
Sidekick Browser wants to be a productivity-honed ‘work OS’ on Chromium
The paradox of connected computing is how much information is made available to us in just a few clicks or taps — but also how this ocean of available data can overwhelm and lap over a particular bit of intel the moment we need to lay our fingers back on it.
Fire up a web browser and it’
The lightning-fast Series A (that was 3 years in the making)
Christine Tao runs Sounding Board, a business founded in 2016 that offers executive coaching services to leaders at major companies like Kraft and Heinz. But not long ago, she was the one in need of a coach.
But prior to that, Tao found herself in a new high-powered position at the mobile advertisi
Superpedestrian positions itself as the go-to partner for cities with new e-scooter safety upgrades
Superpedestrian, the startup that makes e-scooters equipped with self-diagnostic software, is upgrading its product as it prepares for a major expansion into 10 new cities within the next two weeks.
Superpedestrian is considered an up-and-coming player in the micromobility world because of how it h
5 trends in the boardrooms of high-growth private companies
“Your board will never be the same.”
With that prediction, Nigel Travis, board director and former CEO of Dunkin' and Papa John's, kicked off a recent discussion about the future of corporate governance with chief executives and current and aspiring board members.
Just a
Instagram and WhatsApp hit by outage
Instagram and WhatsApp experienced an apparent outage on Friday. It began around 1:40 p.m. ET and lasted for more than half an hour.
WhatsApp was unable to connect to the server, and messages were not being delivered. It’s not clear if the issue also affected Facebook Messenger, which last ye
Social+ payments: Why fintechs need social features
Social+ companies are upping the stakes for everyone by giving consumers multiple benefits at once: products that serve a purpose but also meet our need for belonging to a community.
But what exactly is a social+ company? One for which social engagement is an inextricable component of the product.
Uber under pressure over facial recognition checks for drivers
Uber’s use of facial recognition technology for a driver identity system is being challenged in the U.K., where the App Drivers & Couriers Union (ADCU) and Worker Info Exchange (WIE) have called for Microsoft to suspend the ride-hailing giant’s use of B2B facial recognition after fi
Cloud infrastructure spending passed on-prem data centers in 2020
There is a prevailing notion that while the cloud infrastructure market is growing fast, the vast majority of workloads remain on premises. While that could be true, new research from Synergy Research Group found that cloud infrastructure spending surpassed on-prem spending for the first time in 20
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Fetcher raises $6.5M to automate parts of the recruiting process
Fetcher, a startup that promises to make the recruiting process easier while also diversifying the candidate pool, is announcing that it has raised $6.5 million in Series A funding.
Originally known as Scout, the New York startup was founded by CEO Andres Blank, CPO Chris Calmeyn and engineering di
Brian Brackeen returns as an advisor to facial recognition startup Kairos following his ouster as CEO
Brian Brackeen, the founder and former CEO of facial recognition startup Kairos, has made his way back to the company following his ouster in 2018. Brackeen is now chairing the company’s scientific advisory board, where he’ll help to address and eliminate issues of racial bias from the
Timing your bootstrap with Calendly's Tope Awotona and OpenView's Blake Bartlett at TC Early Stage
Once the path less traveled, bootstrapping today has become a much more viable and common approach to building a startup. By not taking venture capital dollars early, bootstrapping can force founders to remain disciplined in serving their paying customers well. It's also a pretty compelling way
New markets emerge for carbon accounting businesses as cities like LA push proposals
Earlier this month, Los Angeles became the latest city to task its various departments with prepping a feasibility study for deploying new software and monitoring technologies to better account for its carbon footprint.
LA’s city council initiative, led by council member Paul Koretz, follows