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Monthly Archives: August 2022
Free games are the perfect pairing for this digital-exclusive console. | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge If you were looking for something to occupy your time this weekend, the team at The Verge Deals has got you covered. Right now, you can score a free digital game when you buy an Xbox Series…
Enlarge / A photo taken onsite at Apple Park in Cupertino, California—an office complex Apple built with onsite work culture in mind. Apple has asked its employees to spend more time in the office as pandemic restrictions continue to loosen, but it has again been met with organized resistance and an internal petition advocating for…
Enlarge / A hunger stone in the Elbe River in Děčín, Czech Republic. The oldest readable carving is from 1616, with older carvings (1417 and 1473) having been wiped out by anchoring ships over the years. (credit: Dr. Bernd Gross/CC BY-SA 3.0) Stories have been circling around the Internet this past week about the re-emergence…
Twitter still believes Spaces could be a thing, and hopes podcasts will get it there. Twitter Twitter has pushed its Spaces feature for a couple years now. Billed as an audio-focused group chat feature, Spaces basically amounts to a Clubhouse clone similar to other platform offerings like Facebook Messenger Rooms. The company hasn’t given up…
Darpan Munjal Contributor Share on Twitter Darpan Munjal is the founder and CEO of Squadhelp. I was ready to put my entrepreneurial hat to rest. I had spent years building what I thought was shaping up to be a fashion e-commerce giant for the Indian marketplace. We’d raised pre-Series A funding of $4 million, led…
Google-owned Waze is shutting Waze Carpool, its service designed to connect drivers and commuters, starting next month. The six-year old service is shutting down due to shifting commuting patterns as a result of the pandemic, the company says. The service first launched in San Francisco in 2016 and since expanded to the rest of the…
Weeks after laying off workers, supply chain startup FourKites has raised $30 million as part of an ongoing financing round, according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The filing indicates that FourKites hopes to close the round with $80 million in capital, a substantially smaller amount than the company’s previous round,…
Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), a state-run firm with a monopoly on online booking of train tickets, has scraped its plan to monetize customer data after its tender drew concerns from many. The Indian firm informed the local stock exchange Friday that it was scraping its proposal because the Indian government had withdrawn…
Panasonic is eyeing Oklahoma as the home for its next lithium-ion battery plant, according to a report Friday by the Wall Street Journal. The proposed venture, which is expected to supply Tesla with a high-capacity, range-boosting battery, is part of a movement to bring auto manufacturing onshore as car companies and suppliers try to mitigate…