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A look at Option Impact, a salary database accessible to VCs and their startups, based on anonymized salary info from about 2,600 companies — WHEN STEVE, A thirtysomething engineer, launched a software company in San Francisco a few years ago, he and his cofounder faced the daunting task of hiring a team …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Dell may soon announce it will become public company again by combining its shares with DVMT, a security created in 2016 to track EMC's stake in VMware — Share-swap deal would result in public listing for the PC and data-storage company — Dell Inc. is nearing a deal …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: alongside GV, Alphabet will invest directly in Lime, as part of the $300M round the on-demand scooter startup is raising at $1.1B post-money valuation — Alphabet is joining a $300m funding round for electric scooter start-up Lime, adding to an increasingly complex web of deals in transport and …
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| Andrew Liptak / The Verge: |
500px stops allowing licensing of photos under Creative Commons, closes 500px Marketplace in favor of licensed pics from Getty and its owner Visual China Group — The photo-sharing site is also closing down 500px Marketplace, its stock photo platform — Photography platform 500px … | Steven Sinofsky / Learning By Shipping: |
The moment when Intel lost mobile happened around 2008, when it gave up on producing low-power chipset for phones and refocused on Atom SoC and netbooks — Disruption is simple to say but there many factors at play. Disruption is never one feature, but a full set of assumptions that go into a business.
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| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
How a growing political awakening among some tech employees has driven the recent wave of protests at tech companies against controversial government contracts — SILICON VALLEY HAS a long and secretive history of building hardware and software for the military and law enforcement.| TechCrunch: |
Sources: Airbnb aims for IPO between July 2019 and late 2020, as it tweaks staff compensation and adds a cash bonus program — Airbnb, the accommodation rental business, has been building up a larger profile as a travel services powerhouse to fill out its $31 billion valuation …
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| Bruce Haring / BlockTribune: |
TaTaTu has raised $575M in an ICO via a private sale to further develop its blockchain-based social entertainment platform and finance the production of movies — TaTaTu, a blockchain tokenized entertainment platform, has raised $575 million USD from private backers, an amount … | Rick Merritt / EE Times: |
DARPA to invest $100M over the next four years to create the equivalent of a silicon compiler aimed at significantly lowering the barriers to design chips — Two programs aim to craft ‘silicon compiler’ — SAN JOSE, Calif. — The U.S. will pour $100 million into two research programs …
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
Tech giants see partnerships with community colleges via apprenticeships, certifications, and degrees as a way to attract a skilled and more diverse workforce — As student debt mounts and a shortage of skilled workers persists, students find their local two-year institution could be a lower-cost shortcut to a good job.
Tweets: @valaafshar, @marcorubio, and @profgalloway
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Xiaomi scuttled plans to sell Shanghai CDRs alongside Hong Kong IPO and halved the amount raised due to more stringent demands from regulators in China — - Regulators in China said to insist on meeting local rules — Authorities want tech giants to list on domestic exchanges
Tweets: @business
| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Shiva Ayyadurai, who claims to have invented email, has appealed a federal judge's decision that dismissed his libel suit against Techdirt in 2017 — Tech news site says Shiva Ayyadurai is a “fake,” he says it “disregarded” the truth. — Lawyers representing the Massachusetts man …
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