Category: TC
Rippling starts billboard battle with Gusto
Remember when Zenefits imploded, and kicked out CEO Parker Conrad. Well, Conrad launched a new employee onboarding startup called Rippling, and now he’s going after another HR company called Gusto with a new billboard, “Outgrowing Gusto? Presto change-o.” The problem is, Gusto got it taken down by issuing a cease…
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How TikTok decides who to make famous
Hannah Donovan Contributor Hannah Donovan is the founder and CEO of TRASH. Geneviève Patterson Contributor Dr. Geneviève Patterson is co-founder and CSTO of TRASH. Part 2: The TikTok System Read part one of this post, “Leveraging TikTok for growth,” on TechCrunch. So what do we mean when we say “then,…
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Max Q: Spacex gets ready for first human flight
Max Q is a new weekly newsletter all about space. Sign up here to receive it weekly on Sundays in your inbox. This week turned out to be a surprisingly busy one in space news – kicked off by the Trump administration’s FY 2021 budget proposal, which was generous to…
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Beijing Auto Show postponed due to coronavirus
China’s annual auto show in Beijing has been postponed because of novel coronavirus, as the number of cases of people infected surpass 71,000. The Beijing International Automotive Exhibition, which was scheduled to begin April 21, is the latest high-profile event that has been either cancelled or postponed over concerns of…
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Jeff Bezos announced a $10 billion fund to fight climate change on Instagram
Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, announced on one of the world’s largest social media platforms that he’s creating a $10 billion fund to combat climate change. In an Instagram post on Monday morning Bezos announced that the Bezos Earth Fund will finance “scientists, activists, NGOs — any effort that…
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Boston’s year jump starts as two local startups raise $520M in two rounds
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. Late last week two Boston-based companies raised big rounds. The size of the two investments — each over the $100 million mark — and their rapid succession made them stand…
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