2020

The coronavirus outbreak, elections and Zoom meetings were on the minds of U.S. consumers this year, according to Google’s list of the U.S. top trending searches in 2020, released this…

Coronavirus, election results, Kobe Bryant and Zoom among Google’s top 2020 search trends in US and world

You’d be excused for feeling that mid-2019 was in a different decade as far as venture-backed IPOs go. Last year saw a number of successful flotations of venture-backed technology and…

As Uber and Lyft continue to melt, the 2019 unicorn class loses its shine

It is too early to say that Airbnb will not float in 2020, but it’s not too early to say that a public listing in the first half of the…

With the travel market in tatters, when can Airbnb go public in 2020?

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. Today, something short. Continuing our loose collection of looks back…

Public investors loved SaaS stocks in 2019, and startups should be thankful