An Update from Essential: "we have made the difficult decision to cease operations and shutdown Essential"
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How are there so many small search engines?
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Will Spotify ruin podcasting?
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Cards Against Humanity has purchased ClickHole, the satire site created by The Onion
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YouTube moderators are being required to sign a statement acknowledging the job could give them PTSD
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How IoT betrays us: Today, Sonos speakers. Tomorrow, Alexa and electric cars?
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DigitalOcean is laying off staff, sources say thirty to fifty affected
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Which tech company is really the most evil?
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Mozilla lays off seventy as it waits for new products to generate revenue
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Release of over 100,000 leaked documents from Cambridge Analytica has started, showing the company's work in sixty-eight countries
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8tracks, a site for sharing music playlists, is shutting down on Dec. 31 - The story of their 11-year journey from launch to shutdown
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LogMeIn (owner of LastPass, GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, OpenVoice and join.me) is being acquired by private equity firms for $4.3 billion
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Showdown in Wisconn Valley: Why won’t Foxconn tell Wisconsin what it’s building?
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Telenor has picked Sweden's Ericsson as the key technology provider for its 5G telecoms network in Norway
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Military grade encryption won’t save you, or your business
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Coolest Cooler, which raised $13M on Kickstarter in 2014, announces they are shutting down with about 20,000 (1/3) of their backers not having their $200 pledge fulfilled
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How big and diversified is the Samsung group of companies?
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Google Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin stepping down at Alphabet. Google's CEO Sundar Pichai will become CEO of Alphabet
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Why I voted to sell .ORG
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Oil is the new data
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Ethos Capital has acquired the Public Interest Registry, manager of the .org top-level domain
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SoftBank-controlled Yahoo Japan agrees to merge with Line Corp., creating a combined company worth about $30 billion
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1Password has raised $200 million from Accel
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Subscription affliction - Everything is $10/month
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DEV (dev.to) raises an $11.5 million Series A
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Airbnb to verify all listings, CEO Brian Chesky says
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Airbnb pledges to improve platform safety, including verifying 100% of hosts and listings by the end of next year
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Nokia's collapse turned a sleepy town in Finland into an internet wonderland
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The cybersecurity firm Tiversa dominated an emerging online market—before it was accused of fraud, extortion, and manipulating the federal government
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Google owner Alphabet has made an offer to acquire wearable device maker Fitbit
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When AWS, Azure, or GCP becomes the competition
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Pando sold to BuySellAds - Sarah Lacy reflects on 8 years building the company, and 20 years in tech journalism in Silicon Valley
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Kik Messenger acquired by MediaLab, announces plan to introduce ads
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New Vector raises $8.5M to accelerate Matrix/Riot/Modular
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Four years in startups - Life in Silicon Valley during the dawn of the unicorns
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Sentry raises $40 million Series C from Accel and New Enterprise Associates
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Is the era of the $100+ graphing calculator coming to an end?
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the company would invest an additional 600 million euros into its Hamina data center next year
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Jack Conte, Patreon, and the plight of the creative class
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Google's Wing will test deliveries using drones from FedEx Express, Walgreens, and Sugar Magnolia in Christianburg, Virginia
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Automattic (owner of Wordpress) raises $300 million at $3 billion valuation from Salesforce Ventures
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Raising prices is hard
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GitLab announces $268 million in Series E funding, at a valuation of $2.75 billion
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Amazon changed its search system to boost more-profitable listings, including its own brands
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Kickstarter’s year of turmoil - Multiple employees involved with a "Kickstarter United" effort to unionize have been fired over the past week
13 votes -
The iPhone and Apple’s services strategy
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Coalition of fifty US attorneys general launch antitrust investigation into Google
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The people who built Etsy dreamed of remaking commerce with their bare hands. Fifteen years later, its sellers are being asked to compete with Amazon.
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Facebook is under investigation for antitrust violations by a coalition of the attorneys general of 8 states and DC, led by New York Attorney General Letitia James
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US Senator says Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg should face ‘possibility of a prison term’
14 votes