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| Katie Abel / Footwear News: |
Zappos co-founder Tony Hsieh, who stepped down as CEO earlier this year, has died at age 46, reportedly from injuries sustained in a house fire in Connecticut — Tony Hsieh, the brilliant and big-hearted Zappos.com luminary who revolutionized the shoe business and built one of the most innovative companies in modern history, has died.
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| Om Malik / On my Om: |
A tribute to Tony Hsieh, a notable figure on the startup scene since 1996, and whose life recalls a friendlier and less polarized Internet era — Tony Hsieh, an Internet entrepreneur and former CEO of Zappos, an Amazon company, died from injuries incurred during a house fire when visiting family in Connecticut on November 27, 2020.
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Interviews with tech leaders on Tony Hsieh's legacy, his student life at Harvard, his unconventional business approach, and the culture he built at Zappos — Tony Hsieh, bestselling author and longtime former CEO of ecommerce pioneer Zappos.com, died at age 46 on Friday.
Tweets: @alexrkonrad, @zserafin, @asanwal, @lisahopeking, @forbes, @alexrkonrad, @nrmehta, @alexrkonrad, @cyantist, @sacca, and @om
| Peter Steinberger / steipete's blog: |
Most developer tools aren't ready yet for M1 Macs, but next gen Mx Macs should be fully capable main development machines when Apple launches them next year — The excitement around Apple's new M1 chip is everywhere. I bought a MacBook Air 16GB M1 to see how viable it is as main development machine … | @erratarob: |
[Thread] A look at the “black magic” that lets Apple's M1 chip achieve extraordinary performance and efficiency gains — 1/ In case you were wondering: Apple's replacement for Intel processors turns out to work really, really well. Some otherwise skeptical techies are calling it “black magic”. It runs Intel code extraordinarily well.
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| Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: |
HMBradley, a Santa Monica-based banking startup which offers up to 3% interest on savings accounts, raises $18.25M Series A led by Acrew Capital — As consumers look for ways to make their money earn more money, digital banking platform HMBradley is developing programs to reward savers.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India issues new rules for ride-hailing companies, capping commissions at 20%, surge pricing at 1.5x the base fare, and limiting drivers to 12 work hours/day — Ride-hailing firms such as Ola and Uber can only draw a fee of up to 20% on ride fares in India, New Delhi said in guidelines on Friday …
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| Benedict Carey / New York Times: |
How Reach Vet, an AI-based system used in clinical practice by the US Department of Veterans Affairs, helps identify veterans at high risk of suicide — The Department of Veterans Affairs has turned to machine-learning to help identify vets at risk of taking their own lives.
Tweets: @nytimestech
| Foreign Affairs: |
Big Tech threatens democracy and one solution may be to take away their role as gatekeepers of content and let users choose the information presented to them — Among the many transformations taking place in the U.S. economy, none is more salient than the growth of gigantic Internet platforms.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Adobe: US consumers spent $9B online on Black Friday, up 21.6% YoY, with 40% of sales coming via smartphones — Black Friday — the day that launched 1,000 other shopping holidays — may have lost its place as the “start” of the Christmas shopping season by now (it gets bigger and earlier with each passing year).
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| Arijit Ghosh / Bloomberg: |
FC Kohli, the founding CEO of IT services giant Tata Consultancy Services and who is referred to as the “father of India's IT industry”, died at 96 on Thursday — - 'Father of India's IT industry,' Kohli led TCS for 3 decades — Kohli was the first CEO at Asia's biggest IT services firm
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| Mallory Hackett / MobiHealthNews: |
Well Health, which lets health care organizations connect with patients over SMS, email, phone or live chat, raises $45M Series C, bringing total raised to $75M — With these funds, Well Health has now raised $75 million since its founding in 2015. — This week, the patient communication hub …
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