Cairo and Dubai-based ride sharing startup Swvl plans to cut 32% of its workforce, or 400 people, after going public via a SPAC merger in March 2022 (Bloomberg)
Cairo and Dubai-based ride sharing startup Swvl plans to cut 32% of its workforce, or 400 people, after going public via a SPAC merger in March 2022 — Sign up…
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NYU Study: From August 2020 to January 2021, publishers known to spread misinformation got six times more engagement than reputable news sources like the WHO (Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post)
NYU study: From August 2020 to January 2021, publishers known to spread misinformation got six times more engagement than reputable news sources like the WHO– Right-tilted pages also produce more…
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Behind the rise of Kuaishou’s short-form video app Kwai in Brazil, where it has amassed 45M+ monthly active users by appealing to people with blue collar jobs (Rest of World)
Behind the rise of Kuaishou’s short-form video app Kwai in Brazil, where it has amassed 45M+ monthly active users by appealing to people with blue collar jobs— Kuaishou is chasing…
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Ottawa-based Assent Compliance, a SaaS provider that helps businesses comply with product, trade compliance and ESG compliance, raises $ 350 million for a valuation of over $ 1 billion (Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch )
Ottawa-based Assent Compliance, a SaaS provider that helps businesses comply with product, trade compliance and ESG compliance, raises $ 350 million for valuation of over $ 1 billion– Never before…
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Q&A with Logitech CEO Bracken Darrell on pandemic demand response, relationship with Apple and Amazon, removal of the Harmony remote line, USB-C, and more. (Nilay Patel / The Verge)
Q&A with Logitech CEO Bracken Darrell on pandemic demand response, relationship with Apple and Amazon, removal of the Harmony remote line, USB-C, and more.– Logitech is one of those ubiquitous…
Read more » Q&A with Ukraine Deputy Minister for Information Transformation Oleksandr Bornyakov on Ukraine’s ‘IT Army’, cybersecurity, and betting on crypto donations (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
Q&A with Ukraine Deputy Minister for Information Transformation Oleksandr Bornyakov on Ukraine’s ‘IT Army’, cybersecurity, and betting on crypto donations— An interview with the country’s deputy minister for Information Transformation…
Read more » At least 14 senior Meta executives, including from its Workplace and Novi divisions, have left in 2021 or have announced plans to leave in the coming months (Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC)
At least 14 senior Meta executives, including its Workplace and Novi divisions, have left in 2021 or have announced plans to leave in the coming months– – Many Facebook executives…
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How Ryan’s World, launched in 2015 with then-three-year-old Ryan Kaji, grew into a content giant with 10 YouTube channels and deals with Amazon and others (Jay Caspian Kang / New York Times)
How Ryan’s World, launched in 2015 with then-three-year-old Ryan Kaji, grew into a content giant with 10 YouTube channels and deals with Amazon and others– Ryan Kaji, 10, and his…
Read more » Toronto-based Rose Rocket, who develops cloud-based transportation management software, raises $ 25 million Series A led by Addition Capital and Shine Capital (Grace Sharkey / FreightWaves)
Toronto-Based Rose Rocket Building Cloud-Based Transportation Management Software Raises $ 25 Million Series A Led by Addition Capital and Shine Capital– “Over the past decade, we’ve seen the industry move…
Read more » Q&A with EIC Nilay Patel on The Verge’s 10th Anniversary, the advancement of tech media since the first breathtaking gadget reviews, the relationship between subjects and sources, and more (Delia Cai / Vanity Fair )
Q&A with EIC Nilay Patel on The Verge’s 10th Anniversary, the advancement of tech media since the first breathtaking gadget reviews, the relationship between subjects and sources, and more.– After…
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