Monthly Archives: August 2022

Choose your angel: Learn how they invest and what motivates them

Mack Kolarich Contributor Share on Twitter Mack Kolarich is the VP of analytics at Assure and has extensive expertise in private capital and startup investing. Not all angel investors, and not all angel groups, are created equal. Some have built reputations for adding phenomenal value, being staunch allies of founders as startups scale and helping…

Venue raises $4M from Accel and the CEOs of Slack, Remote, and SquareSpace to give team-wide video meetings a new breath of life

Zoom has in many ways “won” the mindshare game when it comes to video conferencing: whether you’re actually using Zoom, or another service that’s wrapped into another platform like Google or Microsoft, and whether it’s for work or fun, the standalone Zoom is the one that people reference, the one that has claimed anthimeric status….

Timbaland and Swizz Beatz sue TikTok competitor Triller for $28M over nonpayment

Last year, Triller triumphantly announced that it would pay out a total of $14 million in cash and equity to Black creators in 2022. It seemed like a smart move, helping the lesser-known short-form video app to compete with TikTok by uplifting underrepresented talent. But The Washington Post recently reported that most of these creators…

Open source bug leaves hundreds of thousands of sites open to attack

Hundreds of thousands of websites, including thousands using the .gov domain, are at risk of data loss, experts have warned. Cybersecurity researchers from Defense.com have discovered a vulnerability in the open source development tool Git which, if not addressed, allows threat actors the keys to the kingdom. Apparently, there is a number of .git folders…

Indicted former Democratic congressman TJ Cox takes a page out of Trump’s playbook, blaming ‘politics’ for 28 federal charges

Democratic congressional candidate TJ Cox (CA-21) speaks at a 2018 mid-term elections rally on October 4, 2018 in Fullerton, California. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images Former Democratic Congressman TJ Cox was indicted on 28 federal charges.  The charges include 15 counts of wire fraud and 11 counts of money laundering. Echoing Trump’s playbook, Cox blamed…

Some electric car drivers are struggling to find working charging stations — and it highlights a key Tesla advantage

01 July 2022, Lower Saxony, Hanover: An Enercity employee stands with a charging cable for a Renault Zoe electric car at a fast-charging point in a new charging park. Julian Stratenschulte/picture alliance via Getty Images A new survey found that 20% of EV drivers visited a charging station without charging their car, due to issues…