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Opendoor CEO Eric Wu. Photo: Bloomberg
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Opendoor Rides SPAC Deal to Lofty $18 Billion Valuation at Market Debut

By Cory Weinberg · Dec. 21, 2020 6:00 AM PST · 2 comments
Venture-backed real estate startup Opendoor will start trading as a public company today, after its merger with a special purpose acquisition company closed Friday. Even before trading begins, the deal has inspired the kind of investor frenzy that surrounds the hottest IPOs. By Friday afternoon, investors had bid up the stock price of the SPAC... Venture-backed real estate startup Opendoor will start trading as a public company today, after...
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Kalanick’s CloudKitchens, Ideal Bet for Pandemic, Hits Snags

By Amir Efrati · April 20, 2020 7:02 AM PDT · 4 comments
This should be Travis Kalanick’s moment.The Uber co-founder not only sold out of Uber ahead of the pandemic that has cratered that company’s ride-hailing business, but switched his money and energy to a real estate startup that leases space to restaurants for meal preparation. The firm, CloudKitchens, is well positioned to benefit... This should be Travis Kalanick’s moment.The Uber co-founder not only sold out of Uber ahead...
Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz. Photo by Bloomberg.
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The Reality Behind Magic Leap

By Reed Albergotti · Dec. 8, 2016 2:46 PM PST · 10 comments
Plantation, Florida—In a massive, nondescript office complex far from the hustle of Silicon Valley, Magic Leap has become one of the hottest companies in the world of “mixed reality,” creating a headset that shows people images overlaid against the real world—like a cartoon-like firefly that controls a real-life lamp by... Plantation, Florida—In a massive, nondescript office complex far from the hustle of Silicon...
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Apple Devising Software to Help Anyone Build AR Apps, to Drive Headset Sales

By Wayne Ma · Jan. 27, 2023 7:27 AM PST · 1 comment
Apple is developing software to make it easy for users of its upcoming mixed-reality headset to build their own augmented reality apps, according to four people who have worked on the headset. With the software tools, Apple hopes that even people who don’t know computer code could tell the headset, via the Siri voice assistant, to build an... Apple is developing software to make it easy for users of its upcoming mixed-reality headset to...
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In Praise of Real (Not Tweetable) Conversations

By Jon Steinberg · Dec. 31, 2022 7:00 AM PST
Hi, welcome to the last Weekend of 2022!Because everyone’s feeling nostalgic for auld lang syne (rough translation: before everything sucked), we wanted to reflect on some lessons from the recent past. So this week, the team asked some of the smartest people in tech about the conversations that stuck with them the most from 2022. My... Hi, welcome to the last Weekend of 2022!Because everyone’s feeling nostalgic for auld lang syne...
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos at a Kansas City Chiefs game in September. Photo by Getty Images
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Bezos Could Be the Real Winner from Amazon’s Sports Deals

By Nick Wingfield · Dec. 28, 2022 5:14 PM PST
Last week, Martin Peers questioned in this space whether tech companies were making a wise move when they began showering billions of dollars on sports leagues for streaming rights to their games. But even if those deals turn out to be duds for the likes of Amazon, Alphabet’s YouTube and others, tech billionaires may have found another way to... Last week, Martin Peers questioned in this space whether tech companies were making a wise move...
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ChatGPT Is on Fire, and a Cottage Industry of Bot Builders Is Exploding Alongside It
By Chris Stokel-Walker · Dec. 16, 2022 10:00 AM PST · 3 comments
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ChatGPT Is on Fire, and a Cottage Industry of Bot Builders Is Exploding Alongside It

By Chris Stokel-Walker · Dec. 16, 2022 10:00 AM PST · 3 comments
Joshua Browder wakes up most mornings wanting to empower the little guy. The entrepreneur, who has been deemed the “Robin Hood of the internet,” has helped people annul marriages, get out of parking tickets and file lawsuits against failed crypto platforms through DoNotPay, his robo lawyer startup. DoNotPay works by automating the... Joshua Browder wakes up most mornings wanting to empower the little guy. The entrepreneur, who...
Abraham Shafi, CEO of IRL (left), and Masayoshi Son, CEO of Softbank.
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SEC Probes Whether SoftBank-Backed Messaging App Misled Investors

By Mark Matousek and Amir Efrati · Dec. 7, 2022 12:59 PM PST · 2 comments
The Securities and Exchange Commission has been investigating whether SoftBank-backed messaging app IRL violated securities laws, including in the way the startup described its business performance during talks with investors, according to people with knowledge of the situation. The SEC investigation began after The Information reported in May... The Securities and Exchange Commission has been investigating whether SoftBank-backed messaging...
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The Founder Who Turned His Love of Tinkering Into a Data-Processing Gold Mine

By Arielle Pardes · Nov. 26, 2022 6:00 AM PST · 6 comments
When Alexander Gallego started his first company in 2014, he approached it with the same determination he’d used to learn English as a teenager, or to navigate the admissions process as a first-generation college student: “I just had to figure it out,” he said. “I had no backup plan.” Gallego, who was born in... When Alexander Gallego started his first company in 2014, he approached it with the same...