September 30, 2019
SmartNews’ head of product on how the news discovery app wants to free readers from filter bubbles
Since launching in the United States five years ago, SmartNews, the news...
September 27, 2019
Europe shows the way in online privacy
After passively watching for many years as tech giants developed dominant market...
September 26, 2019
Learn how to help build a sustainable gig economy at Disrupt SF
A handful of years ago, the on-demand or “gig” economy was seen as...
September 25, 2019
Passbase grabs $3.6M to power privacy-preserving online ID checks
Digital identity startup Passbase has closed a $3.6 million seed round, led...
August 23, 2019
Frontier technologies are moving closer to the center of venture investment
As the technologies that were once considered science fiction become the purview...
August 13, 2019
How even the best marketplace startups get paralyzed
Over the past 15 years, I’ve seen a pernicious disease infect a number of...
August 10, 2019
How a Swedish saxophonist built Kobalt, the world’s next music unicorn
You may not have heard of Kobalt before, but you probably engage with the music...
August 6, 2019
Hardware startup North’s big pivot bet on wearable computing and platform shifts
Waterloo, Canada-based hardware startup North is a rare bird when it comes to...
July 31, 2019
Jamf acquires Digita Security to gain native Mac security
Jamf has been widely known as an enterprise Mac deployment and management tool...
July 31, 2019
Inside the history of Silicon Valley labor, with Louis Hyman
As I wrote for TechCrunch recently, immigration is not an issue always...