Category: TC
Los Angeles gets a new consumer fund as founders of Sprinkles seek $25 million for CN2 Ventures
Charles and Candace Nelson traded their investment banking careers in Silicon Valley for the sweet sweet life as captains of the cupcake and confectionery chain, Sprinkles. Now they’re putting both their consumer and brand development skills and former investment banking chops to work at CN2 Ventures, a new firm they’re…
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How Stack Overflow’s new CEO plans to kickstart enterprise growth
Stack Overflow has long been the Q&A site of choice for developers. But while that’s what most people know the company for, it has also built out a jobs site and Teams, its private Q&A service for enterprise clients, over the years. Now, it’s looking to capitalize on that and…
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Facebook fact-check feud erupts over Trump virus “hoax”
Who fact-checks the fact-checkers? Did Trump call coronavirus the Democrat’s “new hoax”? Those the big questions emerging from a controversial “false” label applied to Politico and NBC News stories by right-wing publisher The Daily Caller. Its Check Your Fact division is a Facebook fact-checking partner, giving it the power to…
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NASA moves forward with 17 companies as part of bid to transform urban aerial transportation
NASA and a clutch of startup and established companies are moving forward with plans to transform mobility in urban environments through the Urban Air Mobility Grand Challenge. If it’s fully implemented, the new Urban Air Mobility system could enable air transit for things like package delivery, taxi services, expanded air…
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Stocks fall despite Fed intervention, dragging tech shares down once again
On a day that saw the U.S. Federal Reserve try to flip the only switch it can to light up investor confidence, investors remained unconvinced of the short-term financial prospects of the U.S. and global economies. All three major indices saw red on Tuesday after a sharp Monday rally partially…
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Google cancels its 2020 I/O developer conference
After Facebook canceled its F8 developer conference and Google itself moved its Cloud Next event in April to a digital-only conference, it doesn’t come as a huge surprise that Google is canceling its I/O developer conference in Mountain View for 2020 as well. The company has sent an email to…
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