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These ad execs have a venture fund they’d like to sell you

Mar

20

2019

Mike Duda comes from the world of advertising. In fact, he spent 13 years at the renowned ad agency Deutsch, becoming the youngest partner in the company’s history until another creative, Brent Vartan, came along and stole the title. Little wonder that in 2010, when Duda struck out on his own to create Bullish (formerly ...

Launching from YC, Eclipse Foods casts a long shadow over the $336 billion dairy industry

Mar

20

2019

Eclipse Foods may be the company that finally takes milk out of the dairy business. Ever since the acquisition of WhiteWave Foods by the French dairy giant Danone for over $10 billion investors have been thirsting for a technology that would give consumers a better tasting, more milky (for lack of a better word), milk ...

Gasly: Kvyat pass shows impact of lower tyre temperatures | RaceFans Round-up

Mar

20

2019

In the round-up: Gasly: Kvyat pass shows impact of lower tyre temperatures • Ricciardo open to Bathurst appearance • More problems for F1 TV viewers Source: F1 Fanatic

Waymo is gearing up to put a lot more self-driving cars on the road

Mar

19

2019

Waymo is opening another technical service center in the Phoenix area, an expansion that will allow the autonomous-vehicle technology startup to double its capacity in the area as it prepares to grow its commercial fleet. The new 85,000-square-foot center will be located in Mesa and is expected to open sometime in the second half of ...

Media fragmentation is annoying consumers

Mar

19

2019

Deloitte’s Technology, Media and Telecommunications division published its 13th-annual Digital Media Trends survey, focused on identifying changes in the ways US consumers engage with various types of media. Led by an independent research firm, the survey had roughly 2,000 consumer respondents across demographics – with the report categorizing respondents based on age (Gen-Z: ages 14-21, ...

Netflix is experimenting with different episode orders for ‘Love, Death & Robots’

Mar

19

2019

You probably know that Netflix is big on data and personalization — it tailors the shows and movies recommended to each user, and even tests different images to promote those titles. Now it’s extending that approach to the episode order of a new show, the animated science fiction series “Love, Death & Robots.” Lukas Thoms, ...

Salesforce finally embedding Quip into platform, starting with Sales and Service Cloud

Mar

19

2019

When Salesforce bought Quip in 2016 for $750 million, it was fair to wonder what it planned to do with it. While company founder Bret Taylor has moved up the ladder to chief product officer, Quip remained a standalone product. Today that changed when the company announced it was embedding Quip directly into its sales ...

The 9 biggest questions about Google’s Stadia game streaming service

Mar

19

2019

Google’s Stadia is an impressive piece of engineering to be sure: Delivering high definition, high framerate, low latency video to devices like tablets and phones is an accomplishment in itself. But the game streaming services faces serious challenges if it wants to compete with the likes of Xbox and PlayStation, or even plain old PCs ...

Kickstarter CEO Perry Chen steps down

Mar

19

2019

Kickstarter CEO Perry Chen issued an open letter on the site’s blog today, noting that he will be stepping down from his role. The executive served as one of three co-founders for the service, launching the site in 2009, with Yancey Strickler and Charles Adler. He served as CEO for Kickstarter’s first five years and ...

Camera maker Insta360 raises $30M as it eyes 2020 IPO

Mar

19

2019

Insta360, one of the pioneers in making 360-degree cameras, just raised $30 million in a Series C+ funding round from Chinese investors, including Everest Venture Capital, MG Holdings and Huajin Capital. The Shenzhen-based camera maker declined to disclose its latest valuation. It plans to use the fresh proceeds in research and development, marketing and after-sales services ...