Interview with Zoom founder and CEO Eric Yuan on blockbuster year - Business Insider
Zoom founder and CEO Eric Yuan on rising to the challenge of the pandemic to become the best-known video conferencing platform in the world.
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Dec 03, 2020
Dec 03, 2020
All Warner Bros. movies in 2021 will go on HBO Max, theaters same day - Business Insider
Warner Bros. announced an unprecedented distribution plan for its 2021 theatrical slate on Thursday.
Dec 03, 2020
Germany is buying more electric cars than California. That's good news for Tesla. - Business Insider
Tesla's chasing the market — but electric-vehicle adoption in the US has a few tailwinds that could prove just as beneficial for Elon Musk.
Dec 03, 2020
21 female tech leaders ideal for corporate boards - Business Insider
As Nasdaq forces corporate America to add women to their boards or risk delisting, Business Insider easily identified 21 qualified tech leaders.
Dec 04, 2020
'People are seriously pissed': Inside Google firing a top AI ethicist - Business Insider
On Wednesday, one of Google's top AI ethics leaders announced she had been fired. Inside the company, tensions had been mounting for days.
Dec 03, 2020
Aboard the first Boeing 737 Max passenger flight since the grounding - Business Insider
The 737 Max has been grounded since March 2019, after two fatal crashes. I flew on the jet plane for the first time — and had my own set of worries.
Dec 03, 2020
Stimulus compromise backed by top Democrats lacks new $1,200 stimulus payments - Business Insider
A group of 127 economists warned in a late-November letter that the absence of new payments can prolong the coronavirus recession.
Dec 03, 2020
Pressure builds to get Congress to agree on a coronavirus relief deal ahead of the holidays - Business Insider
More senators are voicing support for a $908 billion bipartisan stimulus that would end the gridlock plaguing Capitol Hill.
Dec 03, 2020
Photos show the Arecibo telescope before and after collapse - Business Insider
Compare images of the iconic Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico before and after its platform fell 450 feet and crashed into the disk below.
Dec 03, 2020
Inside S&P Global's $44 billion deal to merge with IHS Markit - Business Insider
Meeting in person was unusual as the coronavirus pandemic has pushed much of M&A dealmaking to the netherworlds of Microsoft Teams and Webex.
Dec 04, 2020
YC-backed LemonBox raises $2.5M bringing vitamins to Chinese millennials
Like many overseas Chinese, Derek Weng gets shopping requests from his family and friends whenever he returns to China. Some of the most wanted imported products are maternity items, cosmetics, and vitamin supplements. Many in China still uphold the belief that “imported products are better.&…
Dec 04, 2020
Health tech venture firm OTV closes new $170 million fund and expands into Asia
OTV (formerly known as Olive Tree Ventures), an Israeli venture capital firm that focuses on digital health tech, announced it has closed a new fund totaling $170 million. The firm also launched a new office in Shanghai, China to spearhead its growth in the Asia Pacific region. OTV currently has a …
Dec 04, 2020
WH's AI EO is BS
An Executive Order was just issued from the White House regarding “the Use of Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in Government.” Leaving aside the meritless presumption of the government’s own trustworthiness and that it is the software that has trust issues, the order is almost …
Dec 04, 2020
Joe White MBE appointed new UK Consul-General in SF, with new Technology Envoy role
Joe White MBE — a General Partner of Entrepreneur First, a Greylock backed early-stage deep tech fund — is leaving after being appointed as Her Majesty’s Consul-General, San Francisco, and Technology Envoy to the United States in a new, combined and powerful, role for the UK government. One of the …
Dec 03, 2020
Daily Crunch: Google fires co-lead of its Ethical AI team
Google fires a leading researcher, Stripe launches a new banking service and WarnerMedia shakes up the theatrical business model. This is your Daily Crunch for December 3, 2020. The big story: Google fires co-lead of its Ethical AI team Timnit Gebru, a leading researcher in the field of ethics and …
Dec 03, 2020
Gift Guide: Games on every platform to get you through the long, COVID winter
It's a great time to be a gamer — I mean, what else is there to do? And with the prospect of a long winter and lonely holiday season ahead of us, here's a list of games on all the major platforms that you can really sink your teeth — and a few dozen hours — into.
Dec 03, 2020
What about $30 billion under 30
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast (now on Twitter!), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. We’re back with not an Equity Shot or Dive of Monday, this is just the regular show! So, we got back to our roots by looking at a huge number of …
Dec 03, 2020
Henry picks up cash to be a Lambda School for Latin America
Latin America’s startup scene has attracted troves of venture investment, lifting highly-valued companies such as Rappi and NuBank into behemoth businesses. Now that the spotlight has arrived, those same startups need more talent than ever before to meet demand. That’s where one seed-stage Buenos-A…
Dec 03, 2020
Fantasy startup Esports One raises $4M more
Esports One, a startup bringing the fantasy approach to esports, is announcing that it has raised an additional $4 million in funding. When I first wrote about Esports One in April, co-founder and COO Sharon Winter described it as the first “all-in-one fantasy platform” in the esports w…
Dec 03, 2020
This is a good time to start a proptech company
I believe building a successful proptech company is less about anticipating economic upswings and markets and more about timing and taking advantage of the right technological trends.
Dec 04, 2020
By betting big on HBO Max, Warner Bros. has hastened the future of the movie business
By betting big on HBO Max, Warner Bros. has accelerated the changing nature of the movie business and streaming.
Dec 03, 2020
The 10 best (and 5 worst) movies of 2020
The 10 best (and 5 worst) movies of 2020
Dec 04, 2020
<em>Grey's Anatomy</em> just delivered another shocking return
See what the returning actor had to say about his appearance.
Dec 03, 2020
What to Watch on Thursday: Another big(?) character return on <em>Grey's Anatomy</em>
What to Watch on Thursday: Another big(?) character return on 'Grey's Anatomy.'
Dec 03, 2020
<em>House of the Dragon</em> reveals concept art of new dragon
Concept art from the 'Game of Thrones' prequel 'House of the Dragon' teases the HBO series' new dragons.
Dec 03, 2020
Funko Pop’s Selena figurine sold out on Amazon in 40 minutes — here’s how you can still buy it
The late singer’s sister says she’s “humbled” by the collaboration.
Dec 04, 2020
Noah Cyrus apologizes for using racially offensive term while defending Harry Styles against Candace Owens
"I am mortified that I used a term without knowing the context and history, but I know now and I am horrified and truly sorry," the singer wrote on Instagram Thursday.
