August 10, 2017
Snap founders won’t sell shares despite plummeting price
Snap has an awful Q2 earnings report… but at least its dancing AR hot dog was viewed 1.5 billion times. To prove their confidence, co-founders Evan Spiegel and…
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August 10, 2017
Blue Apron is having a really bad day
Things are not going so well for Blue Apron this morning after reporting its second-quarter earnings (its first earnings report ever), and the stock is crashing as a…
Read articleAugust 7, 2017
Lambda School aims to cash in by upskilling untapped talent
As the saying goes, the future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed. Also not evenly distributed: Access to the expensive education typically needed to…
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Honeydue is a money management app for couples
Honeydue is a mobile app that aims to reduce money-related arguments between couples by offering tools to share information on respective account balances and spending. Read More Powered…
Read articleAugust 5, 2017
Snap’s earnings this week will once again test its place in the advertising universe
Snap will report its second earnings report this week, which will once again look to answer the question: is there room on the advertising spectrum for Snap? The…
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How Apple could become a $1 trillion company
Apple reported its earnings this week, and with a surprisingly positive report the shares spiked again as Apple signaled a potential huge iPhone release. With that jump, Apple’s…
Read articleAugust 4, 2017
Longtime enterprise exec Quentin Clark joins Dropbox as SVP of Engineering, Product and Design
As Dropbox slowly gears up toward its initial public offering, it’s bringing on a longtime enterprise executive — Quentin Clark, a former VP of Microsoft as well as…
Read articleAugust 3, 2017
Yelp is selling Eat24 to GrubHub for $287.5M and the stock is skyrocketing
Two huge pieces of news today from Yelp, the company that shows up first in your Google search for a restaurant: first, GrubHub is acquiring food delivery service…
Read articleAugust 3, 2017
Small business loan platform Kabbage nabs $250M from Softbank
Kabbage, a company with some 115,000 customers and $3.5 billion in loans that has built an automated platform for lending money to small businesses and individuals using a…
Read articleAugust 2, 2017
You can now use PayPal through Skype’s mobile app
The PayPal partnerships keep coming. The still growing payments giant today announced a new deal with Skype that will allow users in 22 countries worldwide to send money…
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