The airline ground agent who stole a plane, took off from Sea-Tac Airport and crashed into a small island in the Puget Sound was not a licensed pilot, officials said Saturday. The man, identified as Richard Russell, was a 3.5-year Horizon Airlines employee and had clearance to be among aircraft.
BI Prime: Apple is trying to change the business model of the App Store from in-app purchases and paid apps to software-as-a-service. To help kickstart this, in 2017 it held a secret conference and encouraged developers to experiment with raising the prices of their software.
In New York State, progressive insurgents are challenging eight Democratic incumbents who spent years voting with Republicans in the state Senate — and the group could reset the state's politics.
BI PRIME: One market measure is forecast to break the $1 trillion threshold this year, and it calls attention to one debate that's crucially important to the future health of stocks.
Former White House aide and reality television participant Omarosa Manigault Newman played a recording in a TV interview on Sunday of her dismissal, and indicated she had other recordings from her time in the Trump administration.
Caddies can sometimes make large amounts of money, but they have no built-in retirement plan or healthcare coverage. And the golfer that they work for can fire them at any time.
Snapchat has carved a name for itself as an augmented reality pioneer. Meet the executive leading product strategy and monetization efforts on that front.
The man who authorities said stole a plane from Sea-Tac Airport in Washington state on Friday has been reportedly identified as 29-year-old Richard Russell, a Horizon Air employee who worked on the tow team. Authorities said he was suicidal.
An Oracle insider explains how some salespeople gamed the system to sell more cloud
I've been an avid user of Airbnb for nearly a decade. In recent years, I've noticed a shift on the platform to a more professionalized service with hosts that operate multiple locations. That shift has had one unintended side effect, from my perspective: bad pillows.
Antoinette Siu Contributor Share on Twitter Antoinette Siu is a reporter for CALmatters. California is moving toward becoming the first state to require companies to have women on their boards –assuming the idea could survive a likely court challenge. Sparked by debates around fair pay, sexua…
I was wrong. Several years ago I reviewed the first Garmin Fenix 3 smartwatch. This was before the release of the Apple Watch. That’s key to this story. I declared Garmin would have a hard time selling the Fenix 3. The Apple Watch would be better in every way, I pointed out. Therefore, there would …
Despite regulatory hurdles on a city-by-city basis, electric scooter companies and their respective services are continuing to make their way to markets all over the world. Earlier this week, for example, Lime announced its entrance into Madrid, launching hundreds of electric scooters in the Spanis…
If you want to test out a feature on a large, well-known, global, platform, there’s a very simple solution: Test it in Australia. At a population of 24 million and with a predominantly Western culture, it’s a large enough test bed and small enough market, so ideal for testing new features before (m…
The clock is ticking: only 24 hours left to submit your application to compete in the first TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Latin America on November 8, 2018, in São Paulo, Brazil. Is your startup one of Latin America’s best? If so, don’t waste another minute. Apply right here, right now befor…
Let’s get the fish in the barrel out of the way. Voatz are a tech startup whose bright idea was to disrupt democracy by having people vote on their phone, and store the votes on, you guessed it, a blockchain. Does this sound like a bad idea? Welp. It turned out that they seemed awfully [&hell…
There is a secret behind every open office in Silicon Valley — and it isn’t the drain on productivity. Tech companies have been the vanguards for pushing corporate culture forward toward “radical transparency.” Mark Zuckerberg works in a fully transparent four-walled glass office surrounded b…
As tech’s social giants wrestle with antisocial demons that appear to be both an emergent property of their platform power, and a consequence of specific leadership and values failures (evident as they publicly fail to enforce even the standards they claim to have), there are still people dre…
In the venture capital market, big is in. Firms are raising significant sums to finance a growing number of large startup funding rounds.
Hi, I wrote a 3K word review of the new Samsung Galaxy Note 9. But you’re busy and it’s the weekend. I get it. For the sake of saving time, here’s a distilled version, narrated by the magic of the company’s deeply troubling AR Emoji version of me. Design Battery Camera Audio…
