by Adre's IT | 31 July, 2021 | Adre's IT Blog, Apps, career advice, computing, contacts tracing, Crypto Startup School, Cryptocurrency, decentralization, driver, Earnings, Facebook, fenwick & west, hearts, helpling, Jennifer Holmgren, Judge, Katie Haun, popsql, sololearn, spamming, Startups
I learned about Yat in April, when a friend sent our group chat a link to a story about how the key emoji sold as an “internet identity” for $425,000. “I hate the universe,” she texted. Sure, the universe would be better if people with a spare...
by Adre's IT | 30 July, 2021 | Adre's IT Blog, Amazon, Apple, computing, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Elizabeth Denham, Europe, European Research Council, Facebook, groups, health systems, information, news media, Policy, Security, Startups Weekly, TC
Luxembourg’s National Commission for Data Protection (CNPD) has hit Amazon with a record-breaking €746 million ($887 million) GDPR fine over the way it uses customer data for targeted advertising purposes. Amazon disclosed the ruling in an SEC filing on Friday in...
by Adre's IT | 29 July, 2021 | Adre's IT Blog, deep learning, Facebook, Kevin Systrom
The world first learned of Sophie Zhang in September 2020, when BuzzFeed News obtained and published highlights from an abridged version of her nearly 8,000-word exit memo from Facebook. Before she was fired, Zhang was officially employed as a low-level data scientist...
by Adre's IT | 29 July, 2021 | Adre's IT Blog, Amazon, Apps, coronavirus, COVID-19, Facebook, Health, Science and Technology
Earlier today, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced that the company will require employees to be vaccinated before returning to work on-site. It was part of a larger letter sent to Google/Alphabet staff that also noted the company will be extending its work-from-home...
by Adre's IT | 29 July, 2021 | Accel Partners, Adre's IT Blog, AT&T, capitalism, computing, euronext, Facebook, gig workers, Kickstarter, Messenger, operating systems, social software, Sports, TC, United States, xcloud
Facebook posted its second quarter earnings Wednesday, beating expectations with $29 billion in revenue. The world’s biggest social media company was expected to report $27.8 billion in revenue for the quarter, a 50 percent increase from the same period in 2020....
by Adre's IT | 28 July, 2021 | Adre's IT Blog, app developers, central europe, Denmark, Digital Startup Alley Package, EC East Asia, Equity Management, Facebook, fenwick & west, fitbit, food, food delivery apps, Startup Alley, TC, tripactions, Uber
Yes Virginia, there are advantages to exhibiting in (the sold-out) Startup Alley at TC Disrupt 2021. Out of all the early-stage startups ready to exhibit on September 21-23, Team TechCrunch hand-picked 50 to form the Startup Alley+ cohort. Startup Alley+ is a VIP...
