USV closes on $450M for new funds, adds two partners
Union Square Ventures, a venture capital firm known for early bets in Twitter, Etsy and Tumblr, has $450 million in capital commitments to plow into the...
Crash Test Dummy Failures Send Them Flying Off Roller Coaster Into Nearby Hotel
Stories about amusement parks are typically dominated by two topics: either the opening of a new attraction or the catastrophic failure of an old one. This...
Services really are becoming a bigger part of Apple’s business
We’ve known for a while now that Apple was going to be putting more of an emphasis on services. As the technical leaps from one iPhone/iPad/Mac...
Instagram is testing several new anti-bullying features
Instagram is fighting back against online bullying, one comment at a time. At its annual F8 developer conference on Tuesday, Instagram head Adam Mosseri discussed how...
‘Game of Thrones’ cinematographer says the show being too dark is your own damn fault
Game of Thrones‘ “The Longest Night” is still buzzing days after its premiere — not only due to its questionable battle strategies and one shocking death,...
The curious case of Slack’s missing $162 million
Slack has filed its S-1 registration statement with the SEC in preparation for its direct listing. One interesting data set that usually comes out of these...
Unprotected server exposed data on 80 million U.S. households
A cloud server operated by Microsoft has been leaking the personal data of 80 million U.S. households including people’s full names, physical addresses, and dates of...
Spot.IM raises $25M to help publishers engage with readers
Spot.IM announced today that it has raised $25 million in Series D funding. We’ve written about the company’s commenting platform before, but CEO Nadav Shoval said...
Mark Zuckerberg’s cringey laugh was a slap in the face of Facebook’s victims
Most awkward Zuck moments revolve around the CEO’s inability to exhibit human emotion. This one comes with a serving of insult, added to injury. Mark Zuckerberg...
How to Properly Clean Your Ear Piercings
If only getting your ears pierced was as easy as shoving a needle through your skin and leaving it alone. Unfortunately, that just isn’t the case....
