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Last year, I dug into why there are so few black people in venture capital. More recently, the folks over at Social Capital and The Information took a crack at providing the data around diversity among partners within venture capital. I’ve now decided to take a more comprehensive look at diversity within venture capital across all levels. Read More... →

GUEST: If you’ve been following the market for the last week, I’m sure you’ve noticed it’s been a pretty rough week for tech stocks. Two stocks, in particular, were hit unexpectedly hard this past Thursday: LinkedIn Corporation (NASDAQ: LNKD) and Tableau (NASDAQ: DATA) lost close to half their value over the span of 48 hours. Misguided […]... →

FanDuel, the embattled daily fantasy sports company, has shut a game development studio in Orlando and laid off 55 people. The layoffs come at a time when FanDuel and its rival DraftKings have been under growing legal pressure from states who say that betting on daily fantasy sports tournaments constitutes illegal gambling, and not a […]... →

Tesla Motors forecast deliveries of Model S sedans and Model X SUVs that topped analysts' estimates on Wednesday and said it expects to turn a profit in 2016, sending shares up sharply despite a wider fourth-quarter loss.... →

Zynga beat Wall Street’s estimates for bookings for its fourth quarter, and it also announced 10 games that will launch in 2016. But its stock price fell in after hours, partly because of a weak outlook for the first quarter and falling overall user numbers. As we noted in our earlier earnings story, the quarterly earnings highlight […]... →

Twitter can be an incredibly confusing service for new and existing users, and Twitter says it’s now planning to address some rules that might make it unwieldy. In the company’s letter to shareholders, the company said that changes were coming to rules like the @reply and the .@name syntax. We don’t know what that looks like just yet, but that the company plans to address… Read More... →

Following Facebook board member Marc Andreessen’s commentary on Internet.org and colonialism in India, Mark Zuckerberg has issued a statement distancing himself and Facebook from the investor. Here’s the statement, in full: I want to respond to Marc Andreessen’s comments about India yesterday. I found the comments deeply upsetting, and they do not represent the way Facebook or […]... →

After a short hiatus, Bullish has returned. The talk show is exactly how you remember it, except with a new host (that’s me, MRD!) and way better music. Sorry I’m not sorry, Alex! Anyway, this week we brought in Matthew Schwab, president of on-demand flower delivery BloomThat, to shed some light on the on-demand economy, expectations around liability and delivery logistics. Read More... →

Across most developed economies, healthcare costs are rising faster than inflation. A key cause of the rise in healthcare spending lies in the spiraling costs of treating preventable chronic diseases. These facts suggest that many of the key healthcare challenges of the twenty-first century lie in how we tackle chronic disease. This article will explore the role of mobile technologies in… Read More... →

Twitter disclosed today a decline in monthly active users. Now the company knows it’s got to do better. One way it will do that is to adjust the way that users reply to each other’s tweets. “We are going to fix the broken windows and confusing parts, like the .@name syntax and @reply rules, that […]... →

Marc Andreessen, noted Venture Capitalist and General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz is having quite a contrite Wednesday. Andreessen, who currently sits on Facebook, Inc.’s board, caused a stir last night with his online response to Indian internet regulator TRAI nixing Facebook’s plans to implement its ‘Free Basics’ program in India. He took to the Twitterverse… Read More... →

It was bad enough that Twitter’s total user count is stuck at 320 million with zero growth this quarter. But if you don’t count “SMS Fast Followers”, or people that only use Twitter via text message and don’t see ads, its monthly user count went down from 307 million to 305 million monthly active users. Considering this earnings report was all about appeasing… Read More... →

Twitter today released the results of its fourth quarter 2015 earnings. It announced that it in the three months prior ending December 31, it had revenue of $710 million and an earnings per share of $0.16. Much of its revenue came from advertising which was $641 million, an annual increase of 48 percent. As has been […]... →

We’re just about an hour away from Tesla’s quarterly earnings calls, but the news is already starting to trickle out. The biggest detail so far: you know the Model 3? Tesla’s more affordable car, meant to bring their entry-level line down to roughly $35,000? We’re finally going to see what it looks like, and hopefully a bit about just what it can do, on March 31st. News… Read More... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...... →

Zynga beat Wall Street’s estimates for bookings for its fourth quarter, and it also announced 10 games that will launch in 2016. The slate is heavy on social casino slots games, FarmVille, and CityVille titles, but it also includes the action-strategy game Dawn of Titans and the racing title CSR 2. The earnings highlight Zynga’s fundamental challenge […]... →

Число активных пользователей в четвёртом квартале 2015 года снизилось на 2 миллиона... →

As a writer at a site that covers a lot of startups, I hear the same line a few times a week: “We just wanted to make something that makes peoples lives better.” 1 Second Everyday actually has made my life better… and it’s done so without really having to do much of anything at all. Read More... →

Хостер "РосКомСвободы" получил уведомление от Роскомнадзора о том, что на основании решения Анапского городского суда Краснодарского края страница сайта "РосКомСвободы" об инструментах обхода блокировок включена в реестр запрещённых сайтов, сообщает сама "РосКомСвобода". В уведомлении сказано, что в течение суток хостер должен проинформировать нас, затем в течение суток мы должны как-то среагировать, например удалить информацию, а потом еще в течение суток, если мы не выполним условия — Роскомнадзор вносит ... →

VB EVENT: Love, money, food, and music: We entrust our most critical needs to mobile devices. Companies that can use these devices to meet and surpass our needs are disrupting their industries and winning against their competitors. VentureBeat has announced that thought leaders from four such companies will speak at the upcoming Mobile Summit on April 4-5, 2016 […]... →