The other day at my mother-in-law’s house, I roasted a chicken in her 20-year-old oven and, at one point, turned on the oven light with the flick of an analog switch. There were no beeps, no series of buttons to press, no app to fire […]
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Plan group trips in Skype with help from TripAdvisor and StubHub
Bringing TripAdvisor into a group chat is pretty easy — just tap the Add to Chat button and select TripAdvisor from the list of available plug-ins. You can choose a destination, then search for restaurants, hotels and activities in the area. Sharing interesting things from […]
New story in Business from Time: Facebook Just Lost More Than Tesla’s Entire Market Cap in 2 Days
Facebook Inc.’s privacy crisis has turned into a shareholder crisis. The social media giant has lost over $60 billion in market value over the past two days, following revelations that personal data of millions of users was obtained by a data analytics firm. That’s more […]
Amazon just passed Alphabet to become the world’s second most valuable company
Amazon has passed Alphabet and now trails just Apple among the list of the world's most valuable companies. The e-commerce giant rose 2.7 percent on Tuesday lifting its stock market value to $768 billion. Alphabet, the parent of Google, fell 0.4 percent and is now […]
At Y Combinator’s Demo Day, Companies Are No Longer The Next Airbnb, Uber or WhatsApp
You return home to your penthouse apartment after a long day at work auctioning Cryptokitties and other cryptogoods on a peer-to-peer marketplace. You grab a bottle of tangerine-flavored weed soda from the fridge and sink into your couch. With a flick of your hand, the […]
Amazon surpasses Alphabet in market value
Amazon is currently the second biggest company in the world when it comes to market capitalization. The company is currently worth $763.27 billion (NASDAQ:AMZN) while Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) is “only” worth $762.98 billion. Amazon has had an incredible quarter. Stock is up nearly 29 percent since […]
YC alum Dahmakan, a Kuala Lumpur-based food delivery startup, acquires Polpa to expand into Thailand
Dahmakan, a vertically-integrated Malaysian meal delivery startup, announced today that it has acquired Polpa to enter Bangkok. Dahmakan was the first Malaysian startup to participate in Y Combinator and recently received a $2.6 million round of funding earmarked for its expansion into new markets. The […]
The Noisy Fallacies of Psychographic Targeting
At this point in the deafening media cycle around the story, it’s probably unnecessary to summarize the going Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal, but briefly and just in case: Facebook recently announced the suspension of a marketing data company called Cambridge Analytica from its platform after a […]
“A cross between a bawdy Disneyland, the Fourth of July, and the end of the world.”
Of course, this is Spain we're talking about, so there's much more to see at the festival than a few burning satirical effigies. Other events taking place around the city include bullfights, parades, food events and more. Get inspired to travel to Spain by checking […]
UPDATE: Tesla shares slide 1.8% premarket after Goldman reiterates sell rating in bearish note
Tesla Inc. shares TSLA, -2.13% slid 1.8% in premarket trade Monday, after Goldman Sachs reiterated its sell rating on the stock and said quarter-to-date datapoints suggest the company's first-quarter deliveries will be disappointing. "We believe the company is tracking below its 2018 Model S/X … social […]