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24-hour flash sale: Get 2-for-1 Innovator passes to Disrupt Berlin 2018
1:07 am PST • November 5, 2018
If you haven’t purchased your pass to Disrupt Berlin 2018 yet, this is your lucky day. How so? We’re holding a 24-hour flash sale, which means starting at midnight tonight,…
Media & Entertainment
Atomico promotes Sophia Bendz to Partner where she’ll focus on Nordic investments
1:00 am PST • November 5, 2018
“I was hired when I was 8 months pregnant, so kudos to Niklas for betting on someone who was pregnant,” Sophia Bendz tells me. “That meant I was working a…
Lime is putting $3 million toward electric scooter and bike safety
1:00 am PST • November 5, 2018
On the heels of Lime notifying the public about needing to recall some of its scooters due to fire concerns, Lime is putting $3 million toward a new safety initiative…
Startups
SoftBank to wait on Khashoggi murder investigation before deciding on second Vision Fund
12:46 am PST • November 5, 2018
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son says the company won’t walk away from its existing commitment with the Saudi Arabian royal family — the largest LP in its $100 billion Vision Fund…
Startups
Credit Karma acquires Noddle from TransUnion and expands to the UK
11:10 pm PST • November 4, 2018
Credit Karma, the US startup with 85 million users that offers credit reports and a platform to browse and buy other financial services, has made an acquisition to help it…
Startups
Korean AI startup Skelter Labs lands strategic investment to expand to Southeast Asia
7:50 pm PST • November 4, 2018
Korean AI startup Skelter Labs is expanding to Southeast Asia after it pulled in undisclosed funding from Singapore-based VC firm Golden Gate Ventures. Skelter Labs was founded in 2015 by founded…
Make people valuable again
3:30 pm PST • November 4, 2018
There is a disconnection between the pace and progress of the technical achievements made by innovators and entrepreneurs and the ways in which those technologies have added to human happiness.…
Venture
Female founders have brought in just 2.2% of US VC this year (yes, again)
2:21 pm PST • November 4, 2018
All-female founding teams have raised 2.2% of U.S. VC so far this year; mixed-gender teams have raised about 13%.
Media & Entertainment
James Patterson released a work of interactive fiction on Facebook Messenger
11:15 am PST • November 4, 2018
The book’s characters have Instagram accounts, too.
What does SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son plan to say or do about its ties to Saudi Arabia? We’re about to find out
10:04 am PST • November 4, 2018
Throughout October, it seemed that among others in tech, SoftBank might be forced to rethink its cozy relationship with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, or MBS, who has…
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Human action requires motivation, but what exactly are those motivations? Donating money to a charity might be motivated by altruism, and yet, only 1% of donations are anonymous. Donors don’t…
Boring Tunnel is on track for an “opening party” next month
7:51 am PST • November 4, 2018
Last night, super entrepreneur and Twitter addict Elon Musk posted some mesmerizing footage of the tunnel that his nearly two-year-old infrastructure company, Boring Company, is creating in Los Angeles right…
What if Google unionized?
6:00 am PST • November 4, 2018
Last week more than 20,000 Google employees walked out of their workplace to protest, and demand major changes in, how the company handles harassment and discrimination. Mass employee organization, demands…
Moment Anamorphic Lens Review
7:46 PM PDT • November 3, 2018
Recorded on November 2, 2018. This little lens brings big screen cinemascope perspective to mobile phones via a phone case for either the iPhone, Google…
Space
A blockchain firm bought asteroid mining company Planetary Resources
12:26 pm PDT • November 3, 2018
Here’s a match made in…I don’t know, somewhere on the blockchain, I guess. Pioneering space startup Planetary Resources was acquired by, of all things, a blockchain firm this week. ConsenSys,…
Facebook is again looking to whip Oculus into shape for its 10-year journey towards making virtual reality mainstream. According to two sources, Facebook reorganized its AR and VR team this…
In a court filing, Edward Snowden says a report critical to an NSA lawsuit is authentic
9:56 am PDT • November 3, 2018
An unexpected declaration by whistleblower Edward Snowden filed in court this week adds a new twist in a long-running lawsuit against the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs. The case, filed…
Media & Entertainment
Amazon reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to open HQ2 in Virginia
9:36 am PDT • November 3, 2018
These sorts of major decision no doubt take some time. And, of course, Amazon is clearly milking the decision making process for all it’s worth as cities across the States…
The first 5G phones are set to start arriving next year. Motorola plans to bring next-gen connectivity via a Mod for the Z3, and companies like LG and OnePlus have…
A long and winding road to new copyright legislation
7:30 am PDT • November 3, 2018
Back in May, as part of a settlement, Spotify agreed to pay more than $112 million to clean up some copyright problems. Even for a service with millions of users, that had…
