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HuffPost is reportedly on the auction block
Late last night the Financial Times reported that HuffPost, arguably one of the crown jewels of Verizon Media Group’s remaining network of media properties (which includes TechCrunch), is up for
Apple’s China stance makes for strange political alliances, as AOC and Ted Cruz slam the company
In a rare instance of bipartisanship overcoming the rancorous discord that’s been the hallmark of the U.S. Congress, senators and sepresentatives issued a scathing rebuke to Apple for its decisi
Where are US fintech’s next billion-dollar startups?
As fintech investments soar to new heights, investors are looking at the bottom and top levels of the services stack to find the next billion-dollar startups. That’s the word from seasoned inves
ArsenalBio emerges from stealth with $85 million and a dream team to fight cancer
The story behind ArsenalBio begins with Sean Parker’s Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy. Founded in 2016, the Institute has been instrumental in providing a space for the top researchers into c
Galileo Financial raises $77 million for its fintech services that were 19 years in the making
Clay Wilkes had already been retired for six years when he launched Galileo Financial Services in 2000. The serial entrepreneur, who had been an early pioneer in telecommunications technologies (like
Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global is buying a startup that uses neuroscience to boost app usage
When Arianna Huffington stepped down from her role at the Huffington Post to start Thrive Global, she said the goal of her new business was to help a generation “avoid the burnout that all too o
Brazilian unicorn Ebanx will hit $2 billion in payments processed by the end of the year
Ebanx, the newly minted Brazilian financial services unicorn, expects to process $2 billion in payments by the end of the year and is looking to expand its offerings into domestic payments as it grows
Flowhub raises $23 million for its retail management software for cannabis dispensaries
As cannabis dispensaries flourish across the country alongside the push to legalize medicinal and recreational marijuana use, demand for tools to manage the specificities of the weed retail business c
Pelion Venture Partners adds Jeff Kearl as a managing director, opens Southern California presence
Salt Lake City-based Pelion Venture Partners is opening an outpost in Southern California and has added Jeff Kearl as a managing director to head up operations in the region. Kearl was the chief execu
SoftBank reportedly preps a package to take control of WeWork parent company
SoftBank Group, the multibillion-dollar Japanese technology conglomerate and investment firm, has put together a bid that would save WeWork parent company The We Company, just weeks before the co-wo
Amid security concerns, the European Union puts 5G — and Huawei — under the microscope
The European Union is putting under the microscope the rollout of new, high-speed mobile networking technologies known as 5G in a move that could affect the technology’s dominant company —
Cryptocurrency’s bad day continues as the SEC blocks Telegram’s $1.7 billion planned token sale
Cryptocurrency’s bad news day continues to get worse as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has said it has filed an emergency action and received a restraining order for the $1.7 billio
Udacity will offer 100,000 free programming classes as part of the ‘Pledge to America’s Workers’
Udacity, the online education company founded by Sebastian Thrun, is launching a new scholarship initiative as part of the Pledge to America’s Workers job training initiative undertaken by the admin
Verily, Alphabet’s other money-making, non-Google business, partners with Color on genetic analysis
Color, the genetics testing company, is partnering with Alphabet’s health technology-focused subsidiary, Verily Life Sciences, to provide to the company’s Baseline Health Study participant
Lab-grown meat could be on store shelves by 2022, thanks to Future Meat Technologies
Are consumers ready for meat grown in a lab? Companies like Memphis Meats, Aleph Farms, Higher Steaks, Mosa Meat and Meatable are all trying to bring to supermarkets around the world meat made from cu
Looking for a job selling weed? EpicHint pitches training for cannabis dispensary ‘budtenders’
Adriana Herrera first came up with the idea for EpicHint, a training and staffing service for cannabis dispensaries, while she was surfing off the coast of Oaxaca, Mexico. Decompressing after the diss
Mars Curiosity Rover finds evidence of an ancient oasis on Mars
On its latest trek through the Gale Crater on Mars, the Curiosity Rover has discovered evidence that’s leading scientists to believe there was an oasis at the base of that 150-kilometer-wide cra
PayPal is the first company to drop out of the Facebook-led Libra Association
PayPal has become the first company to walk away officially from Facebook’s Libra, a cryptocurrency and related association that it announced earlier this year with a chain of nearly 30 big nam
Amid mounting concerns around vaping cannabis, entrepreneurs say regulators need to step up
As concerns over the safety of vaping products for cannabis sweeps across the country, executives in the industry are passing the buck to regulators to come up with a solution. The need for national r
Startups ‘are staying private way too long’ says Salesforce founder Marc Benioff
“What public markets do is indeed the great reckoning. But it cleanses [a] company of all of the bad stuff that they have.” That’s Salesforce founder and chief executive officer Marc