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Sources: Better.com is preparing for layoffs that could affect as much as 40% to 50% of staff, as more senior executives depart including its finance VP (Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch)
Sources: Better.com is preparing for layoffs that could affect as much as 40% to 50% of staff, as more senior…
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Behind the success of Tencent’s Honour of Kings, a League of Legends-like mobile title launched in 2015, which became the first game in history to hit 100M DAUs (Josh Ye / South China Morning Post)
Behind the success of Tencent’s Honour of Kings, a League of Legends-like mobile title launched in 2015, which became the…
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Triller didn’t deny the claim from a source that it inflates MAUs to the public and says there’s “no legal definition of MAU/DAU”, ahead of expected SPAC merger (Micah Singleton / Billboard)
Triller didn’t deny the claim from a source that it inflates MAUs to the public and says there’s “no legal…
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Interview with Jameel Jaffer of the Knight First Amendment Institute on how Congress can regulate social media platforms while abiding by the First Amendment (Nilay Patel / The Verge)
Interview with Jameel Jaffer of the Knight First Amendment Institute on how Congress can regulate social media platforms while abiding…
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Apptopia: apps including Pinterest, YouTube, and Snapchat have seen sustained growth during the pandemic, while Zoom’s DAUs hit a peak in US around Sept. 2020 (Brody Ford / Bloomberg)
Apptopia: apps including Pinterest, YouTube, and Snapchat have seen sustained growth during the pandemic, while Zoom’s DAUs hit a peak…
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Uber plans to pilot driverless food-delivery in Santa Monica next year with partner Motional, a Hyundai and Aptiv joint venture that also has a Lyft deal (Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg)
Uber plans to pilot driverless food-delivery in Santa Monica next year with partner Motional, a Hyundai and Aptiv joint venture…
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Anthony Levandowski closed his AI-focused church, Way of The Future, in 2020 and donated the church’s ~$175K funds to the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch)
Anthony Levandowski closed his AI-focused church, Way of The Future, in 2020 and donated the church’s ~$175K funds to the…
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A recap of Elon Musk’s Clubhouse appearance, which broke the 5,000 participant limit, pushing some to YouTube, and included an interview with Robinhood’s CEO (Mike Butcher / TechCrunch)
A recap of Elon Musk’s Clubhouse appearance, which broke the 5,000 participant limit, pushing some to YouTube, and included an…
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Tire maker Bridgestone acquires Azuga, a San Jose-based company that offers vehicle fleet tracking, including GPS and dual-facing dashcam setups, for $391M (Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat)
Tire maker Bridgestone acquires Azuga, a San Jose-based company that offers vehicle fleet tracking, including GPS and dual-facing dashcam setups,…
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Interview with Semil Shah, founding GP of Haystack, on getting rejected from jobs at VC firms, innovation in the VC industry, Miami as a “tech hub”, and more (Sarthak Haribhakti / SarHaribhakti’s Newsletter)
Interview with Semil Shah, founding GP of Haystack, on getting rejected from jobs at VC firms, innovation in the VC…
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