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Juul has long argued that it’s trying to save lives; meanwhile, its own existence seems precarious at times. Right now is one of those times. As reported earlier today by numerous outlets, the once high-flying e-cigarette company just agreed to a $438.5 million settlement with 33 states that

There's no denying it — when it comes to e-commerce, Marc Lore delivers. The serial entrepreneur sold Quidsi, the parent company of Diapers.com, Soap.com and others, to Amazon in 2011 for $550 million. He launched Jet.com in 2015 and sold it to Walmart in 2016 for a tidy $3 billion. Now, Lore

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week's startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. YC had its biggest news in years this week: Garry Tan will be the new president and CEO of the organization, starting January 2023. Tan co-founded and helped s

Truth Social isn’t allowed in Google’s app store yet, but another ostensibly anything-goes social network in the same orbit just made a comeback there. Parler, a social app designed to appeal to pro-Trump social media users turned off of mainstream platforms, has returned to the Google

We might be rolling toward the start of autumn, but we're rolling back prices to the summer early-bird level. Yup, in honor of the long Labor Day weekend, we're holding a flash sale on passes to technewss Disrupt, which takes place on October 18–20 in San Francisco, with an online day Oc

The U.K. could be gearing up to hit a handful of tech firms with enforcement orders (and potentially fines) related to a children’s online privacy and safety Code which has been in force for a year. “The ICO are currently looking into how over 50 different online services are conforming wit

Finding product market fit (PMF), a crucial yet elusive startup milestone, can be one of the biggest challenges for early-stage founders. Crucial because it shows you, and potential investors, that people want your product. Elusive because, for starters, everyone defines it differently. If customer

Clearco, a Toronto-based fintech capital provider for online companies, is walking back the international expansion it once touted as the future of the company. One month after cutting 25% of its total staff, Clearco is conducting another round of layoffs as it retracts its international presence i

Hiring the best talent has never been easy for startups. Things got even harder when the pandemic shrank the available talent pool and 2021 set a record for venture capital fundraising, meaning more companies with more cash in the market. The result? A major talent shortage and a hyper-competitive

Summer's nearly over here in the States, and we're heading toward Labor Day, the last long holiday weekend of the season. Try as we might, we can't roll back time. We can, however, uncage the early bird and roll back prices to technewss Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco, with

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week's startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. The bets are no longer just on Wall Street — they're in your group chats, book clubs and that awkward shuffle that happens when everyone's trying to

Life is too short to listen to a three-hour conversation between successful normal human Mark Zuckerberg and the farcically neutral Joe Rogan, so I’m taking a different tack: scrolling very fast through an extremely long transcript and picking nuggets more or less at random. Here’s what

It's been a tumultuous year for OnlyFans, the popular subscription-based social media platform best known for hosting explicit content and offering an online safe haven to the sex workers who create it. In August 2021, the company launched OFTV, a streaming platform featuring safe-for-work cont

Digital mortgage lender Better.com is conducting its fourth round of layoffs since December 1, 2021, multiple sources tell technewss. The latest cuts reportedly affect all departments. Better.com is not exactly known for its tactful approach to letting employees go. And this week,