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Is Clubhouse the Next Foursquare?
By Jessica E. Lessin · June 19, 2021 7:45 AM PDT
More than a decade ago, I was covering tech out of New York when a hot New York–based app hit the scene. It was called Foursquare, and the idea behind it was pretty radical—it allowed people to “check in” to locations from their phones to let their friends know where they were. If you had the most check-ins in one location, you could even become the “mayor” of that spot.Foursquare took the...
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Startup Fiddler AI Raises $32M for Machine Learning Efforts
By Kevin McLaughlin · June 18, 2021
U.S. Technology Companies Honor Juneteenth With No Meetings, Guest Speakers
By Aidan Ryan · June 18, 2021
Google’s Antitrust Woes Grow as EU Steps Up Ad Tech Probe
By Josh Sisco · June 18, 2021
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Clockwise from top left: Gladly CEO Joseph Ansanelli, The Archivist co-founders Ashley Granada and Joseph Einhorn, Fabric co-founder Ryan Bartley, Smartrr CEO Gabriella Yitzhaek, Shogun CEO Finbarr Taylor, Nacelle CEO Brian Anderson, Fabric CEO Faisal Masud and ReCharge co-founders Oisin O’Connor and Michael Flynn. Photos: the companies.
Startups to Watch Venture Capital Startups
Seven E-Commerce Startups to Watch
By Malique Morris
As online shopping booms, venture investment in the e-commerce sector has taken off. That has put a spotlight on the small software companies that power online shopping, from enabling product subscriptions to making merchants’ websites run faster.
Gene Farrell, Smartsheet’s chief strategy and product officer. Photo by Bloomberg
The Big Interview Enterprise Amazon
A Former AWS Executive Helps Smartsheet Grow Up
By Kevin McLaughlin
When Gene Farrell left Amazon Web Services four years ago to join a company called Smartsheet, his former employer sued Farrell for violating his noncompete agreement.
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Exclusive Venture Capital Media/Telecom
The New York Times and The Athletic End Acquisition Talks
By Sahil Patel
The New York Times and subscription sports news site The Athletic have ended their acquisition talks, according to people familiar with the matter.
Art: Mike Sullivan
Exclusive Google AI
Google’s Next AI Move: Teaching Foreign Languages
By Sarah Krouse
Google CEO Sundar Pichai last month previewed an artificial intelligence model that he said would enable people to have open-ended conversations with technology.
EzCater CEO Stefania Mallett (l), Kinside CEO Shadiah Sigala (center) and SeatGeek CEO Jack Groetzinger (right). Photos: ezCater, Kinside and SeatGeek
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Three Startups Show How the Pandemic’s Hardest Hit Are Rebounding
By Laura Mandaro
Kinside CEO Shadiah Sigala remembers the moment in November when she knew her startup, which helps parents find day care openings, wasn’t just recovering after a tough half year—it was about to take off.
Photo of Jonah Peretti by Bloomberg. Illustration by Mike Sullivan
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Inside Jonah Peretti’s Rollup Playbook
By Jessica Toonkel and Sahil Patel
In 2018, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti issued a cri de coeur to the digital media industry, telling his fellow moguls that all of them, BuzzFeed included, needed to start merging so they could more effectively stand up to Google and Facebook, the internet’s advertising powerhouses.