The FT is buying another media startup: Deal Street Asia
Fresh from picking up a majority stake in Europe-based The Next Web, the Financial Times is buying another new media startup. The newspaper, which was founded...
Office Depot Agrees to Pay $25 Million to FTC Over Scam Involving Computer Repair Service
The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday said Office Depot and a tech support firm will cough up a collective $35 million to settle with the agency...
Investment platform Ellevest raises $33M Melinda Gates’ Pivotal Ventures, Valerie Jarrett & PayPal
Ellevest, a digital investment platform specifically focused on helping women meet their financial goals, has raised an additional $33 million in a new round led by...
GoFundMe Joins the Baffling San Francisco Homeless Shelter War of 2019
There’s a fight unfolding in one of the richest neighborhoods in San Francisco, that northern-most outpost of Silicon Valley and the most expensive city in America....
Pop Culture Icons Like Thanos, Godzilla and The Matrix Leap Out of This Artist’s Imagination and Into Old Paintings
Artist Dave Pollot does something we all want to do, but only someone like Banksy actually does. He finds kind of lame paintings and then enhances...
Facebook’s handling of Alex Jones is a microcosm of its content policy problem
A revealing cluster of emails reviewed by Business Insider and Channel 4 News offers a glimpse at the fairly chaotic process of how Facebook decides what...
WeWork backs New York tech clubhouse Betaworks Studios
Betaworks Studios, the brainchild of New York City seed-stage venture capital fund Betaworks, has amassed the support of WeWork, or The We Company, as they now...
Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all active ads
Now you can search Facebook for how much Trump has spent on ads in the past year, which Pages’ ads reference immigration or what a Page’s...
Rocket Lab’s first launch of 2019 lifts a DARPA experiment into orbit
Update: Mission Success! Mission success! Great kick stage burn and final orbit. Perfect flight! — Peter Beck (@Peter_J_Beck) March 29, 2019 Lift-off! The Electron #R3D2 mission,...
Lightning Motorcycles unveils Strike e-moto, with up to 200-mile range
Lightning Motorcycles finally unveiled the electric vehicle it had been teasing for months. With a $12,000 to $19,000 price range, the Strike electric motorcycle has options...
