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Most of the time when we hear about cybersecurity crimes, we hear from …
January 2021
The latest in the WeWork saga involves a SPAC
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Of course it did.
Just about every single late-stage company in private …
Robinhood pauses the buying of GameStop shares
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Only in 2021.
In recent days, Reddit users have driven up shares …
In Jack Ma vs. the Chinese government, China wins
Ant Financial was set to be the biggest IPO in history last year, before founder Jack Ma’s criticism of the Chinese government in October angered the administration and derailed the offering altogether.
Since then, Ma has been scrabbling together his …
Why smart-city tech has lost its buzz
Just a few years ago, smart cities, a catch-all phrase for connecting urban infrastructure like parking meters and stoplights online, had major buzz. The idea was to use machine learning to crunch data collected across cities to, for example, minimize …
Clubhouse reaches a $1 billion after taking off some nine months ago
It’s hard to understate the buzz around Clubhouse, the social media startup that reached a reported $100 million valuation when it had just 1,500 users.
Now some nine months after its launch, the company revealed over the weekend that it …
The founder who decided to to stop fundraising and instead hold onto her equity
This is an installment of Startup Year One, a special series of interviews with founders about the major lessons they have learned in the immediate aftermath of their businesses’ first year of operation.
Many founders fall into the trap …
How I tripled my money in bitcoin—then lost almost half of it
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Fortune’s quarterly investment package came out this week and it’s filled with stories …
A Loon comes down to earth
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It was an admittedly loony project in the first place: Loon, a …
How will the pandemic reshape corporate travel?
The valuation of Airbnb soared to new heights in its debut in public markets, even while the pandemic kept revenues depressed.
Now another unicorn startup focused on the travel space is also getting an upround: TripActions, a maker of …