Less than a decade after Amazon broke into the logistics industry, it has become its own biggest shipper.
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Tomasz Tunguz, the metric-mad-scientist of the venture world, recently released his template for key metrics in a SaaS business.
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U.S. consumers spend nearly $10 billion on spray cleaners each year, but report close to zero brand identification or preference.
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Shopify is hands-down the biggest sleeping giant in tech, and this week they made some big waves.
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Slack, the quirky workplace chat app, had a smooth opening day on the market yesterday for its direct listing. This was especially newsworthy for two reasons:
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Facebook has secured the backing of over a dozen companies for its upcoming Libra cryptocurrency set to be announced next week, The Wall Street Journal reports. These companies include major financial organizations like Visa and Mastercard, and internet darlings like PayPal, Uber, Stripe, and Booking.com. Each will invest around $10 million to fund development of the currency, and will become part of the Libra Association, an independent consortium that will govern the digital coin independently of Facebook.
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Gain a new respect for UI designers in a single picture.
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Chewy, which was bought by retailer PetSmart in 2017 for nearly $3.4 billion in 2017, priced its initial public offering Thursday at $22 a share.
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It used to be that ERP systems ruled the data landscape in the business world. But as SaaS tools that specialize in key functions of a business improve, businesses of all sizes are adopting an increasingly higher number of productivity tools.
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Independent Facebook investors voted overwhelmingly in support of proposals last week to fire Mark Zuckerberg as chairman and scrap the firm's share structure.
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In 2018 the number of people older than 64 years old surpassed the number of children under 5 years old. This was the first time in history this was the case. We can see this transition clearly when we look at the population by age bracket in the chart below – this is shown from 1950 onwards, with UN projections to 2100.
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After 18 years, Apple is killing iTunes — well, sort of. The media management software for most Mac users (and many Windows users) is being broken into separate pieces for separate uses: Music, podcasts and television will soon have their own apps on the new Catalina Mac operating system.
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Chances are you've had a handful of conversations with friends where someone has a "new app idea" and chances are it was the one Spotify is about to release: Social Listening.
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Foursquare, that app that helped you proudly become the "mayor" of your local Wendy's, just made its first acquisition.
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Cameo is a Chicago-based startup that lets fans pay for personalized videos from celebrities, and they just raised a Series B investment at around a $300 million valuation.
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This year I happily strapped my saddle to the Carolina Hurricanes bandwagon, and what a ride it was.
Shoutout to those deprived sports fans in Boston for sweeping this series. Really needed a win for that city.
In this week's Really Good Analytics post our resident analyst Michael dives into "Why Moneyball hasn't made it's way to Hockey."
Elon Musk's SpaceX delayed their Starlink mission last night, which didn't make many headlines in the land of click-baiting tech writers making a mountain out of the mole hill that is Uber's public market performance...
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If you've ever played a video game in your life, chances are you also have a strong opinion about Microsoft's Xbox vs sony's Playstation.
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