all News of 08/13/20

Why Stimulus Spending Fails

Why Stimulus Spending Fails image When revenue shrinks by 1 percent of GDP and spending increases by 51 percent over 10 months, you get a $2.8 trillion deficit. That figure, according to the Congressional Budget Office, is significantly larger than the deficit Uncle Sam accumulated ...

Tune In Tomorrow And Watch Five Startups Compete At Pitchers & Pitches

Ever hear the expression, “every master was once a disaster?” Now apply that to developing a well-crafted pitch. It takes practice and honest feedback to make a masterful pitch, and that’s exactly what you’ll get when you participate in our ...

Stream, Whose APIs Help Product Teams Build Chat And Activity Feeds Fast, Just Raised A $15 Million Series A Round

Earlier this year, the founders of Stream ,  a five-year-old, 60-person startup with offices in Boulder and Amsterdam, weren’t feeling so great about their prospects. As COVID-19 began its spread in the U.S., some smaller customers of the ...

Moka, The HR Tool For Arm And Shopee In China, Closes $43m Series B

Moka, the HR tool for Arm and Shopee in China, closes $43M Series B image Investors are betting on the automation of human resources management in China. We reported last year that Moka, one of the key players in the space, secured roughly $27 million for its Series B led by Hillhouse Capital. This week, the startup ...

"For Free Speech, Today's College Students Are Tomorrow's Law Students, Lawyers, Politicians, And Judges"

In 2015 , I wrote a blog post titled, "For Free Speech, Today's College Students Are Tomorrow's Law Students, Lawyers, Politicians, and Judges." I pay very close attention to what today's college students think and do, because today's college ...

Prisoners For Peace: Trump Administration Mulls Releasing Taliban Drug Kingpin In Push For Afghan Peace Talks

In 2005, Taliban financier and Afghan drug lord Haji Bashir Noorzai flew from Dubai to New York City to strike a deal with American officials seeking peace with the Taliban. Or so he thought. It was a trap. DEA officials met him, and arrested him for ...

How China’S ACRCloud Detects Copyrighted Music In Short Videos

How China’s ACRCloud detects copyrighted music in short videos image Music is front and center in the rise of TikTok and other short-video apps. It’s not just the video platforms that are harvesting the fruit of their surging popularity. Music rights holders are also prepared to extract money from the millions of ...

Mrs. World 2018 Vs. Mrs. World Libel Lawsuit

Officially captioned  Gianetta v. Marmel  (C.D. Cal.) ; the underlying libel claim has to do with a business relationship gone bad, as so many libel claims do (here, the plaintiff is a lawyer, and apparently had various overseas business ...

ByteDance In Talks With India’S Reliance For Investment In TikTok

Chinese giant ByteDance is engaging with India’s Reliance Industries Limited, the parent firm of telecom giant Jio Platforms, for financially backing TikTok in a move to potentially save the popular video app’s fate in its biggest market ...

Minted.Com CEO Mariam Naficy Shares ‘The Biggest Surprise About Entrepreneurship’

At TechCrunch Early Stage , Minted CEO and serial founder Mariam Naficy got into the weeds with us on some of the topics founders don’t often discuss. What’s the difference between expectations and reality when it comes to ...

Daily Crunch: Uber CEO Says CA Shutdown May Be Necessary

Daily Crunch: Uber CEO says CA shutdown may be necessary image Uber’s CEO pushes back against a potential reclassification of drivers, a former COO sues Pinterest and Microsoft reveals details about the Surface Duo. This is your Daily Crunch for August 12, 2020. The big story: Uber CEO says CA ...

Maybe An Archaic Name For Hadassah?

Maybe an Archaic Name for Hadassah? image Came across this in doing research for this morning's post : My guess is that the error was the court's, not the lawyer's.

Digitizing Burning Man

Digitizing Burning Man image For decades, Burning Man has represented an escape from the current reality. An event for free-er spirits to rethink new age ideals inside a stateless entity where art, music and partying reign supreme on the desert plains. Over the years, the Bay ...

Labster Lands New Cash To Bring Its Virtual Reality Science Lab Software To Asia

Labster lands new cash to bring its virtual reality science lab software to Asia image You could Zoom call into your science class, or you could conduct a lab experiment in virtual reality. During the coronavirus pandemic, the latter has never felt more full of potential. The global need for learning solutions beyond Zoom is precisely ...

Sarah Cooper — Known For Her Impressions Of Donald Trump On TikTok — Just Landed A Netflix Deal

For writer-comedian Sarah Cooper, the pandemic hasn’t been so terrible. In fact, by making the best of a terrible situation — in this case, opening a TikTok account earlier this year, and proceeding to lip sync to the often-bizarre ...

India’S First Private Space Launch Startup Skyroot Succeeds With Upper Stage Engine Fire Test

The private space launch industry has expanded significantly since the debut of SpaceX, but some markets, like India, are just now getting the regulatory support to clear the way for private players to participate. Now that those barriers are ...

Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 Review

Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 review image Samsung makes good smartwatches. The fact tends to get lost in discussions about a category that’s traditionally been so dominated by a single player. Things have shifted a bit of late, globally. Apple’s market share has slipped somewhat and ...

Lyft Shares Get Small Bump After Reporting 61% q2 Revenue Decline

Lyft shares get small bump after reporting 61% Q2 revenue decline image Today after the bell, Lyft reported its second-quarter financial performance . The American ride-hailing company’s results helped illustrate just how much the economy has changed in the wake of COVID-19 and its resulting disruptions to life, ...

Greg Gutfeld: 'Impulse Control Or Lack Thereof Is A Huge Deal Right Now'

Greg Gutfeld: 'Impulse Control or Lack Thereof Is a Huge Deal Right Now' image For years, Greg Gutfeld has entertained and edified audiences by hosting Fox News shows such as Red Eye , The Five , and The Greg Gutfeld Show and by authoring best-sellers such as How To Be Right: The Art of Being Persuasively Correct , Not ...

Once Again, Kamala Harris' Record As A Prosecutor Was Less Than Progressive

Once Again, Kamala Harris' Record as a Prosecutor Was Less Than Progressive image Joe Biden announced Sen. Kamala Harris (D–Calif.) will be his nominee for vice president, and so it appears we are once again litigating Harris' record as a prosecutor. Harris's law enforcement career—first a line prosecutor, then San Francisco ...