В интернете

The conservative social media platform Parler has raised $20 million in funding, according to an SEC filing that was signed and submitted on January 6, the anniversary of last year’s domestic attack on the Capitol. The app, which claims to have 16 million-plus registered users, describes its mission as one focusing on protecting “against the authoritarian […]... →

This is a fantastic time to launch a startup, but if you're trying to grow one — well, winter is coming.... →

Regulating crypto could be the key to the emergence of the first American super apps and an opportunity to build a new digital-first financial ecosystem... →

India’s antitrust watchdog has ordered an investigation into Google following complaints from news publishers who allege that the search giant is “abusing” its dominance in news aggregation to impose unfair conditions on the outlets. The Competition Commission of India said Friday that Google dominates certain online services and its initial view is that Google has broken […]... →

Favoring a short-term plan to get a faster go-to-market option is not always bad, provided the business has a backup plan to deliver well-designed code that would simplify future iterations.... →

Let’s make 2022 not only a year when we measure diversity outcomes — let’s actually advance them.... →

Even though we didn’t make it to CES 2022 in person this year, we certainly heard about the “eMobility Experience,” a test track for demo rides of all the e-scooters, e-bikes and whatever other micromobility vehicles came to play in Las Vegas.  A lot of products were shown, many of which weren’t actually new, like […]... →

Apple Fitness+ is introducing a new “Collections” feature along with a new “Time to Run” series starting on January 10th. Collections are a curated series of workouts and meditations from the Fitness+ library organized to help users reach a goal. The feature draws on nearly 2,000 workouts to give users a new way to get […]... →

This morning private-market powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz announced that it has closed $9 billion in new capital for its venture capital, growth-stage, and biotech-focused vehicles. The firm, better known by the moniker a16z, also raised a $2.2 billion crypto-focused fund last year. The collection of fundraises by the firm highlight the rising size of private-market investing […]... →

As 2021 wound down, The Exchange wanted to dig into what might happen if the startup music stopped playing. So we got veteran venture capitalist Matt Murphy on the phone to talk it over.... →

Founder Alán Jaime Misrahi grew up devoted to soccer, eventually playing in Mexico’s third division. While he didn’t necessarily make it to the “big leagues” playing the sport, his new company Draftea aims to win over the 350 million sports fans in Latin America, Misrahi told TechCrunch in an interview. Draftea, which calls itself the […]... →

Twitter has been working on Spaces Recordings, a feature that will let hosts share tweets with audio recordings of past Spaces. Now, when hosts share the recordings, they’re able to see how many listeners joined live, as well as how many people replayed the recording after the fact. we’ve been working on Spaces Recordings and […]... →

Gnawing, burrowing, infecting: The damages caused to agriculture by insect pests like the Japanese beetle (pictured above) exceed $100 billion every year, according to the Agricultural Research Service of the USDA. And along with plant diseases, which the exoskeleton buggers can also transmit, arthropods account for the annual 40% loss of agricultural production worldwide. Enter […]... →

The relationship between economic news and the value of technology stocks has been a fun puzzle in recent months. You might think that strong jobs reports, for example, would lead to general economic optimism and, therefore, upward movements for technology stocks. And you might also expect that poor economic data would lead to general economic […]... →

Pendulum helps companies, governments and other organizations track harmful narratives on social media platforms and elsewhere on the web. The company today announced that it has raised a $5.9 million seed round led by Madrona Venture Group, with participation from Cercano Management and others. The service was incubated inside Madrona Venture Labs. “Pendulum’s platform applies […]... →

Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. We’re getting back up to full speed this week, so Mary Ann and Alex along with Grace behind the scenes took on our Friday show. Next week Natasha and Chris are back, and […]... →

Finalsite, an internet software house that provides school districts with website design, hosting, and content management solutions, has been hit by a ransomware attack. Earlier this week, school districts whose websites are hosted by Finalsite discovered that they were no longer accessible or displayed errors. While at the time Finalsite blamed the issues on “performance difficulties” […]... →

Peter Reinhardt spent the last decade as CEO at Segment helping to build the customer data platform, selling it to Twilio for $3.2 billion along the way. Today, Reinhardt announced he was leaving Twilio to be full-time CEO at Charm Industrial, a carbon mitigation startup he co-founded in 2018. Reinhardt expressed mixed emotions about leaving, […]... →

В книге «Думай как Amazon. 50 и 1/2 идей для бизнеса» рассказано о принципах, которыми руководствовался Джефф Безос в развитии крупнйшей eCommerce-компании. Автор книги — Джон Россман, бизнес-консультант и бывший топ-менеджер Amazon.  Публикуем отрывок о том, чем различаются «прямые» и «косвенные» сотрудники Amazon и как это применить в вашей компании.... →

Чтобы открыть компанию, нужно подготовиться: составить устав, провести собрание участников и оформить протокол, заполнить бланк Р11001 на 20 листов и не только. Некоторые предприниматели-новички, чтобы не вникать в детали, обращаются к юристам и тратят на них 5 тыс. или 15 тыс., а то и больше. А можно не обращаться и сэкономить.  Есть сервисы, которые бесплатно помогут подготовить комплект документов и подать их в налоговую. Юрист по регистрации бизнеса Дмитрий Лешкин рассказывает, как ими воспользоваться.... →