Foursquare has come to an end at the hands of private equity. It was a fun service that led to really great real-world experiences - but what happens to those check-ins now?
Dealroom.co | Infillion buys Foursquare, adding location data to its ad platform
What's the deal? Infillion is acquiring location data company Fo…
What Happened to Google+? Why the Social Network Shut Down | EM360Tech
This article explores what happened to Google+, explaining why Google's infamous social Circles never took off in the golden age of online social media.
The Money Still Has No Address, But Now It Has a History
Day four of a saga I keep saying I'll stop covering. Quick recap for anyone joining late: Macklemore said "Free Palestine" at two MetLife shows, got dropped...
The end of IPFS at Shipyard
We have some difficult news to share with the IPFS and wider peer-to-peer community. Our IPFS funding was cancelled
Facebook and the Cost of Monopoly
Facebook gave one of the worst keynotes in a long time: there was no vision, just the adoption of Snap’s. It’s the inevitable outcome of a monopoly.
Back To Square One - Fast Company
Jack Dorsey’s dazzling startup promised to transform the credit and finance industry with a sweeping, digitized vision of the future. After losing $100 million, has his company lost its edge?
Exclusive | Blackstone to Grant Equity to Most Employees in Future U.S. Buyouts
The private-equity firm’s plan is part of a broader movement in the buyout industry to expand ownership beyond management ranks.
Private Equity Is Starting to Share With Workers, Without Taking a Financial Hit (Published 2024)
The buyout giant KKR pioneered a model of granting ownership stakes to employees at portfolio companies. Now it wants the approach to spread.
Goodbye, Ivory Tower. Hello, Silicon Valley Candy Store. (Published 2016)
The promise of big data and big paychecks is drawing some of academia’s top economists to study consumer behavior for tech companies like Airbnb, Amazon and Uber.
A decentralized web would give power back to the people online | TechCrunch
Recently, Google launched a video calling tool (yes, another one). Google Hangouts has been sidelined to Enterprise, and Google Duo is supposed to be the
Trump crypto venture linked to firm tied to sanctioned figures
World Liberty Financial says checks were carried out before its ‘partnership’ with AB DAO, whose ‘flagship project’ had recently involved sanctioned men
On Independence
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The Unsolvable Dilemma: Open Networks vs. Economic Sustainability - Nightflight
A conversation with a Fediverse core developer revealed the structural problem: donation models fail, and even specialized contributors can't make a living.…
The Cyber Resilience Act: A Five Alarm Fire
On October 21, 2016, CNN’s website was knocked offline. So was the BBC and Guardian’s. Amazon, Etsy and Shopify too, along with Quora, Reddit, and Twitter – among others. Huge swaths of the internet were taken down by a series of attacks on the DNS provider Dyn. These Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks were
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