Tech
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NextView Ventures is launching a remote accelerator for startups
Over the weekend, Silicon Valley leader Marc Andreessen broke his usual silence and gave some advice to Silicon Valley: It’s time to...
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475Can employers mandate COVID-19 testing?
COVID-19 commanded an understandably outsized presence in Jeff Bezos’s annual shareholder letter last week. The Amazon exec laid out the company’s plans...
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Facebook is pulling some protest events over stay-at-home violations
Facebook confirmed this week that it will be pulling down a number of posts promoting stay-at-home protests. CNN was the first to...
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An IPO? In this economy?
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. Late last...
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SMB mentorship platform Ureeka raises $8.6M, will facilitate grant programs for Facebook, Salesforce
The best founders seek out great mentors and guidance from folks who know best, but during the coronavirus pandemic, asking for help...
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Alibaba Cloud will invest $28 billion more into its infrastructure over the next three years
Alibaba Cloud announced today that it will invest another RMB 200 billion (or about $28 billion) into its infrastructure over the next...
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Alan raises another $54.4 million for its health insurance product
French startup Alan has raised a $54.4 million (€50 million) Series C funding round. Temasek is leading the round with existing investors...
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433Week in Review: Facebook hardware finds pandemic market fit
Hey everybody, welcome back to Week in Review. The world of COVID-19 is our new reality, so I’ll continue to include links...
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Marc Andreessen’s call to arms: build something meaningful
It’s scary, living with a killer virus that has completely upended our lives for who knows how long. It’s very easy to...
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How to make sense of the coronavirus chaos
We are beset on all sides, daily if not hourly, by COVID-19 data, hypotheses, speculation, and crackpot conspiracy theories. Even if armed...