Month: January 2021
Break out the pucks: Disney’s Mighty Ducks TV series gets a quacking first trailer The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers
If you’re a ’90s kid, you probably have fond memories of The Mighty Ducks movie franchise, which saw a team of adolescent underdogs led to ice hockey glory by Gordon Bombay (Emilio Estevez), a former player who’s forced to coach the kids as part of his community service following a…
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Hong Kong startup ICW eyes supply chain diversification demand amid trade war
For American importers, finding suppliers these days can be challenging not only due to COVID-19 travel restrictions. The U.S. government’s entity list designations, human rights-related sanctions, among other trade blacklists targeting Chinese firms have also rattled U.S. supply chains. One young company called International Compliance Workshop, or ICW, is determined…
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Robinhood denies claims that it sold GameStop shares out from under its traders
No, Robinhood tells The Verge, it didn’t sell off full shares of GameStop, AMC, and other buzzy stocks without permission from its traders. That contradicts the stories of twelve people who spoke with The Verge, saying that the app unexpectedly sold off their holdings in some of these companies. Quite…
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University will stop using controversial remote-testing software following student outcry
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign announced that it will discontinue its use of remote-proctoring software Proctorio after its summer 2021 term. The decision follows almost a year of outcry over the service, both on UIUC’s campus and around the US, citing concerns with privacy, discrimination, and accessibility. Proctorio is one…
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Google salvaged Robinhood’s one-star rating by deleting nearly 100,000 negative reviews
Google is actively removing negative reviews of the Robinhood app from the Google Play Store, the company confirmed to The Verge. After some disgruntled Robinhood users organized campaigns to give the app a one-star review on Google’s Play Store and Apple’s App Store — and succeeded in review-bombing it all…
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Why calendar invites are worth $3B
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Natasha and Danny and Alex and Grace hopped online for our weekly show, sans Gamestop news (which you can find here) to talk about all the other busy news happening in startup world right now. Here’s a taste of…
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