• In hot market for secondary shares, one player, Equidate, just locked down $50 million in new funding

    Equidate, a 4.5-year-old, San Francisco-based marketplace that makes privately held shares available to accredited investors wanting to buy them, is announcing a whopper of a round this morning: $50 million in Series B funding from Financial Technology Partners, Panorama Point Partners and Operative Capital. The company had earlier raised only very small seed and Series …

    July 25, 2018 | by Raheel

  • Facebook's top lawyer is leaving the company

    Facebook's week has taken another turn for the worse. The social network's general counsel Colin Stretch (above) has announced he's leaving the company by year's end, according to The Wall Street Journal. Stretch testified during the hearings in Wash… Source: Engadget | Facebook's top lawyer is leaving the company

    July 25, 2018 | by Raheel

  • Critics might be panning Sean Spicer's book, but it gets nothing but cheers at a Washington party

    Critics might be panning Sean Spicer’s book, but it gets nothing but cheers at a Washington party  Washington Post BBC Anchor Blasts Sean Spicer: ‘You Have Corrupted Discourse for the Entire World’  TheWrap A BJ’s Wholesale Club store backed out of book signing for Sean Spicer’s ‘The Briefing’  Washington Times Full coverage Source: Google News | Critics might …

    July 25, 2018 | by Raheel

  • Peloton CEO John Foley will join us at Disrupt SF

    Half a decade after its founding, Peloton became a unicorn. During its short existence, the company has found tremendous success riding the wave of successful spin classes that includes the likes of SoulCycle and Flywheel. Peloton offered a unique take on the space, harnessing technology to provide a state of the art version of the …

    July 25, 2018 | by Raheel

  • The race to build the best blockchain

    Billions of dollars are being spent, right now, to solve a problem we didn’t know existed a few years ago.  The problem boils down to creating a decentralized app platform that’s secure, scalable and governed in a fair, transparent way. And the solution might change the world in a similar way the internet did a …

    July 25, 2018 | by Raheel

  • Seattle Food Tech looks to replace the chicken nugget with a plant-based copycat

    Christie Lagally spent half of a decade working on planes as an aerospace engineer — but now she’s trying to attack the food industry head-on with a hopeful attempt to change the way we eat chicken. That’s the aim of Seattle Food Tech, which looks to create what effectively looks and feels like a chicken …

    July 25, 2018 | by Raheel

  • The rise, fall and return of the smartphone megapixel race

    Sony recently unveiled a smartphone camera sensor with the highest resolution yet, a jaw-dropping 48 megapixels. That's more than the resolution of its $3,000, 42.4-megapixel A7R III mirrorless camera, which has a sensor eight times larger. It sounds… Source: Engadget | The rise, fall and return of the smartphone megapixel race

    July 25, 2018 | by Raheel

  • Simon Pegg tests his 'Mission Impossible' spy knowledge

    Know Your Role is a card game for only the most dedicated actors.  We quizzed Simon Pegg, aka Benji – the technician turned field agent – in the ‘Mission Impossible’ series, to see if he knows as much about the spy world as his character.  Robot spy doves? Headbands that read thoughts? Jeremy Renner’s maglev …

    July 25, 2018 | by Raheel

  • Melania spokeswoman: She can watch 'any channel she wants'

    Melania spokeswoman: She can watch ‘any channel she wants’  The Hill Melania Trump Watches ‘Any Channel She Wants’ on TV, First Lady’s Spokeswoman Says, Refuses to Discuss Cohen …  Newsweek Donald And Melania Trump Can’t Stop Fighting About What To Watch On TV, And Decider Is Here To Help  Decider Full coverage Source: Google News | Melania spokeswoman: …

    July 25, 2018 | by Raheel

  • Hero ruins Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame star with a pickaxe

    Between diaper baby blimps and Trump impersonators holding live rats, it’s a golden age for spectacularly dumb, exceptionally good anti-Trump art. I’m a particular fan of the latest Dadaist masterpiece on display at the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los AngelesOn Wednesday morning, an unknown man went to Trump’s star and proceeded to destroy it …

    July 25, 2018 | by Raheel