With Senate Inquiry Looming, Facebook Scrambles to Look Busy
“There’s been a general feeling from the platform companies of kind of playing rope-a-dope with the Congress,” Senator Ed Markey told a small audience gathered in...
GoDaddy upgrades its website builder with customized marketing action plans
GoDaddy’s website-building product GoCentral is getting an upgrade today — and along with new features, there’s a new name: Websites+Marketing. As you can probably guess, Websites+Marketing...
Yet Another Person Has Died From Mystery Vaping Illness, Bringing Reported Death Toll to 7
As people continue to debate the causes of an acute lung illness linked to vaping—and the actions needed to stop it—victims are still dying. On Monday,...
An Update on Pure Storage From Pure Accelerate
I’m at Pure Accelerate 2019 trying to collect my thoughts and report on what I saw in the last couple of days. Some of the announcements...
Facebook’s new policy Supreme Court could override Zuckerberg
A real check to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s control is finally coming in the form of an 11 to 40-member Oversight Board that will review appeals...
DOJ Sues for All of Edward Snowden’s Book Profits
Just when he thinks he’s out, they pull him back in. On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced new legal action against exiled NSA whistleblower...
Is Tinder About to Become the Horniest Streaming Service?
Tinder is reportedly getting into the streaming game with its sights on helping pair you up with prospective dates. Read more… Source : Is Tinder About...
Twitch acquires gaming database site IGDB to improve its search and discovery features
Amazon-owned Twitch has made a small but strategic acquisition designed to improve its search capabilities and better direct viewers to exactly the right content. The company...
Colorcon, which develops colorants, coatings and films for pharmaceutical giants, has a new $50 million fund
Colorcon, a 58-year-old company that develops, supplies and supports specialty products for the pharmaceutical industry — think food colorants, nutritional coatings, the film on time-release medications...
Macron announces €5 billion late-stage investment pledge from institutional investors
President Emmanuel Macron announced in a speech ahead of France Digitale Day that the French government has convinced institutional investors to invest more heavily in late-stage...
