Month: January 2021
Subscription-based pricing is dead: Smart SaaS companies are shifting to usage-based models
Kyle Povar Contributor Software buying has evolved. The days of executives choosing software for their employees based on IT compatibility or KPIs are gone. Employees now tell their boss what to buy. This is why we’re seeing more and more SaaS companies — Datadog, Twilio, AWS, Snowflake and Stripe, to…
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Now could be the best time to get a new tablet or Chromebook Tablet
Last year saw the global PC market make a big comeback with device shipments reaching 143.7m units during the fourth quarter marking the third consecutive quarter of annual growth according to new data from Canalys. Throughout the whole year though, PC and tablet shipments grew by 17 percent in 2020…
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Go read this profile of the trader whose huge bet on GameStop moved the entire market
The markets are not okay. If you’ve paid any attention to internet chatter this week, you’ve probably seen the names RoaringKitty or DeepFuckingValue — the bullish trader behind the recent GameStop stock phenomenon who’s inspired millions of retail investors to get behind his bet, which has nearly bankrupted at least…
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How much GameStop will Robinhood let you buy? It keeps shrinking
Robinhood only wants users to have a limited number of GameStop shares, and that number keeps getting smaller and smaller. Yesterday, the company halted users’ ability to buy stocks that were associated with r/WallStreetBets, including GameStop, AMC, and Nokia, but the company promised that users would be able to buy…
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Liven XFM is a $199 groovebox for ’80s fetishists
Sonicware first broke on the scene with the ELZ_1 a few years back — a portable multimode synth that’s seemed to draw inspiration from Teenage Engineering’s OP-1. Then last year it announced the Liven 8-Bit Warps, a looping synth with a collection of… Source
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‘Frozen’ CG snow and crash-test cadavers offer hints for 60-year-old Russian mystery deaths
The Dyatlov Pass incident is the mother of all cold cases: nine people found dead in 1959, deep in the Ural mountains, under circumstances no one has ever been able to satisfactorily explain. But new research uses simulation techniques from multiple eras to advance what is perhaps the least implausible…
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