Pinterest shares drop as company misses on user growth … again
Pinterest’s shares had popped last week when Snap posted its best quarter in four years, as investors were betting Pinterest’s image-based social app would also see...
Robinhood’s stock drops 8% in its first day’s trading
Robinhood priced its public offering at $38 per share last night, the low end of its IPO range. The company was worth around $32 billion at...
Horizon Blockchain Games raises $4.5M for its NFT trading card game and wallet
Horizon Blockchain Games is — as the name implies — a company building games on the blockchain, along with tools to help others do the same....
Biofourmis receives FDA breakthrough device designation for heart failure “digital therapy”
Kuldeep Singh Rajput, the founder of Boston-based Biofourmis, is imagining a future where heart failure patients go home with a prescription, a wearable sensor and an...
Zūm wins $150M from San Francisco schools to modernize and electrify student transport
The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) has awarded Zūm, a startup that wants to upgrade student transportation, a five-year $150 million contract to modernize its...
Microsoft in talks to back India’s Oyo
Indian budget hotel chain Oyo may have lost a significant portion of its business to the pandemic, but it is inching closer to finding a new investor:...
Livestream e-commerce: Why companies and brands need to tune in
Alanna Gregory Contributor Share on Twitter Alanna Gregory is a marketing executive and is currently senior global director at Afterpay. Previously, she was VP at Hairstory,...
Scarlett Johansson files suit over Disney+ ‘Black Widow’ release
Update: Disney issued the following response to the suit, There is no merit whatsoever to this filing. The lawsuit is especially sad and distressing in its...
Panic sells 20,000+ Playdate handhelds in under 20 minutes
As we’ve known for about a week, today was the day Panic’s charming/whacky/curious/all-of-the-above Playdate gaming device (and its crank!) went up for pre-order. The buzz around...
Fortnite’s mystery ‘superstar’ virtual music tour kicks off next week
Epic Games is teasing the biggest in-game event since Travis Scott psychedelically stomped through Fortnite’s virtual meadows. The mysterious new event, which Fortnite-maker Epic is calling...
