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Dick Costolo Talks Airtable Investment, Twitter, Donald Trump, and Silicon Valley

Dick Costolo has kept busy since stepping down as Twitter’s CEO in 2015 amid investor complaints that the social media company wasn’t growing quickly enough. He had a brief stint as co-founder of fitness app Chorus, which he quickly shutt...

Facebook Accepts Crypto Ads Again, But Ban On ICOs Remains

Social media giant Facebook has finally softened its stand on crypto ads. In an announcement by the company’s product management director, Rob Leathern, Facebook said it had been reviewing the policy to find the best way to refine it. Facebook will n...

Honda reportedly retires the iconic Asimo

Honda is ceasing development of Asimo, the humanoid robot that has delighted audiences at trade shows for years but never really matured into anything more than that, the Nikkei reports. But while the venerable bot itself won’t be taking any ne...

BYT Technologies Launches Shariah-Compliant Token ICO behind “Good for Goodness” Vision

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How Spam became one of the most iconic American brands of all time

While you might think of Spam as a basic canned meat, it’s actually one of the greatest business success stories of all time: Since Hormel Foods Corporation launched the affordable, canned pork product in 1937, it’s sold over eight billion cans in 44...

Japan had a war for talent a century ago. Silicon Valley can learn from it

The scramble to hire the best and brightest is transforming business, and particularly tech companies, around the globe. It’s pushing companies to offer previously unheard-of benefits, rethink their corporate identities, and raise pay to the po...

Unicorn Farts Artist Says Elon Musk Stinks

Unicorn farts don’t power Tesla cars, but they have led to a dispute in which an artist claims Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his firm have used a rendition of his artwork without permission--or compensation. Artist Tom Edwards claims Musk and Tesla h...

Silicon Valley Community Foundation Chief Ousted Over Harassment Allegations

The CEO of Silicon Valley Community Foundation, the world’s largest community foundation, has been pushed out following investigations into allegations of bullying and harassment in the workplace. CEO Emmett Carson has been removed from his rol...

BitPico attack on Bitcoin Cash (BCH) could have the opposite effect and push BCH to the moon

Bitcoin cash (BCH) is in the spotlight after a group of bitcoin miners and whales declared that they would be doing a 51% attack on bitcoin cash. The group sent…View Post

BitPico: BCash Defense Against an Attack is to “Censor, Manipulate, Blame and Cry”

& BitPico, the anonymous group of developers known in the crypto sphere for the tests they conducted on the integrity of several blockchains, has announced that they are preparing an attack on the Bitcoin Cash network to evaluate how well it can...

Puerto Rico just asked for enough batteries to supply 5% of its peak electricity demand

On June 22, Puerto Rico quietly asked the world (pdf) to deliver one of the biggest battery systems ever built. Posted on a government website, the proposal calls for the island to add at least 200 megawatt hours (MWh) of batteries as it rebuilds in...

Mexico vs Sweden live stream: how to watch today's World Cup football online

It's like the knock-out rounds have come early as the decisive final group games of the World Cup continue apace, and you're in the right place if you're after a live stream of Mexico vs Sweden to see who will progress from Group F at...

Silicon Valley executives are meeting to tackle privacy problems they helped create

Executives from large tech companies will meet in San Francisco today (June 27) to discuss how to better protect consumer privacy. The meeting, first reported by Axios, was organized by the Information Technology Industry Council, a trade group whose...

India’s newest unicorn is disrupting a 200-year-old industry

How do you build a billion-dollar company selling insurance policies in a country like India? A 10-year-old Gurugram-based online insurance aggregator cracked the code, and has joined the growing list of Indian unicorns (private companies valued at o...

Brainstorm Health: AARP Alzheimer’s Venture, AbbVie Calico Deal, Right to Try Controversy

Good afternoon, readers! This is Sy. On Monday, the AARP, joined by a coalition of powerhouse partners like UnitedHealth Group (the country’s largest insurer) and Quest Diagnostics (the clinical diagnostics and lab testing giant), announced a c...

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