Category: TC
Robinhood will offer “case-by-case” compensation for its outage on the day markets gained $1.1 trillion
Robinhood, the popular trading app with a purported 10-million-strong user base and a $7.6 billion valuation, said it will offer compensation for yesterday’s outage on a case-by-case basis, according to a company spokesperson. The company issued a statement early Tuesday documenting that the outage began at around 9:30 AM Eastern…
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Stack Overflow expands its Teams service with new integrations
Most developers think of Stack Overflow as a question and answer site for their programming questions. But over the last few years, the company has also built a successful business in its Stack Overflow for Teams product, which essentially offers companies a private version of its Q&A product. Indeed, the…
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FairShake automates the individual arbitration process
Years ago, Teel Lidow arrived at the airport to take a standard, eight-hour flight from Santiago, Chile to New York City. The journey ended up taking three days, and involved an emergency landing, and passengers entering two countries (Ecuador and Peru) they never planned to enter. When they finally arrived…
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Amazon makes its same-day delivery service faster in select U.S. cities
Amazon this morning announced another step it’s taken to speed up same-day deliveries. The company has installed what it’s calling “mini-fulfillment centers” closer to where customers live in select U.S. markets, including Philadelphia, Phoenix, Orlando, and Dallas. The new facilities allow Amazon to reduce same-day delivery times down to just…
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Datastax acquires The Last Pickle
Data management company Datastax, one of the largest contributors to the Apache Cassandra project, today announced that it has acquired The Last Pickle (and no, I don’t know what’s up with that name either), a New Zealand-based Cassandra consulting and services firm that’s behind a number of popular open-source tools…
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Shasta Ventures debuts ‘Ignite,’ a collection of help and services to drive its startups to $10M ARR
Shasta Ventures, a venture capital firm that has raised more than a half-dozen funds in its life, announced a new program this morning designed to help its portfolio companies scale to $10 million of annual recurring revenue (ARR) from $1 million ARR or less. The project, a collection of workshops,…
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