Month: April 2020
6 Best Board Games You Can Play With Friends Over Zoom (Video Chat)
Don’t let the Covid-19 quarantine turn you into a hermit. Video chat with some friends and play a game together. Source
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Gears Tactics and Game Pass show Microsoft is serious about PC gaming
While Microsoft provides the operating system used by the vast majority of PC gamers, it’s fair to say that its attempts to build gaming services atop Windows have often fallen flat. Initiatives like Games for Windows Live failed to take off, and for a while, Microsoft’s overt presence in the…
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Why Facebook redesigned Facebook.com
If you haven't got it already, you soon will.Twelve months ago, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a major redesign of the company's behemoth social network. Dubbed 'The New Facebook,' or FB5, it was a visual marker for the company's pivot toward… Source
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Latin America’s startup ecosystem is not immune to COVID-19
Brian Walsh Contributor Brian Walsh is the head of WIND Ventures, the venture capital arm of COPEC, a leading energy company in Central and South America and the U.S. WIND Ventures provides mobility, energy and retail startups and scaleups with access to Latin America. Over the last number of years,…
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Google is shutting down Shoelace, the social app you’ve probably never heard of
You know that old saying, “you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone?” Sometimes that’s quite literally true. Take Shoelace, a social app introduced by Google’s Area 120 incubator last summer. There are a number of reasons you likely haven’t heard of the thing. For starters, it was considered…
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As Uber reportedly contemplates layoffs, a look back at its post-IPO financial performance
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. Yesterday news broke that Uber’s CTO Thuan Pham would leave the company (confirmed), and that the American technology giant is contemplating a huge staffing cut to reduce its cost structure.…
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