Shortly after the Amazon/iRobot news was announced on Friday morning, a colleague asked me if I was surprised. The short answer is yes and no. Yes, in the sense that the news dropped suddenly on what should have been a quiet Friday morning in August. No, in the sense that, of course Amazon is buying…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
The Federal Trade Commission is warming up for a major ruling on data privacy and digital surveillance, a domain it has long enforced case by case but which has reached a stage of crisis it believes must be addressed more comprehensively. The announcement today is only the very earliest step in what could be a…
LinkedIn announced today that it’s rolling out new features for creators that are designed to make it easier to share visual content on the social network. The launch marks LinkedIn’s latest effort toward building out a platform for creating content and courting creators. In the coming weeks, creators on LinkedIn will be able to add…
Amanda Barbour Contributor Share on Twitter Amanda Barbour is the CFO of Boston Dynamics, which makes highly mobile robots capable of tackling the toughest robotics challenges. Across the globe, financial transactions have trended upward. In 2021, international merger and acquisition (M&A) activity increased significantly, eclipsing $5 trillion in deal volume for the first time in…
Image Credits: TechCrunch It seems like there are always people butting heads in the crypto world, and this week was no different. Cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash was hit with sanctions by the U.S. and Binance and WazirX disagree over whether or not the Indian exchange was acquired (two years after the deal allegedly closed). A…
If you’ve ever Googled something only to be met with a little info box highlighting the top answer, you’ve encountered one of Google’s “featured snippets.” Featured snippets are the little bite-sized Google results the search engine packages up and delivers to the top of the page for many searches. The problem with featured snippets is…
Anyone who likes to maintain a clean Gmail inbox should sit down before reading this. The Federal Election Commission (FEC) approved a proposal by Google on Thursday to put in place a new program that would prohibit political fundraising emails from automatically being marked as spam, per The Verge. Any campaign that applies for and…
Former US President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Hilton Anatole on August 06, 2022 in Dallas, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Investigators were reportedly worried about Trump storing very sensitive documents at Mar-a-Lago. According to The New York Times, these fears predated the FBI’s decision to raid Trump’s property. It’s…
Ryann McEnany in late 2020 watching her sister, Kayleigh, speak as then-White House press secretary under Trump. MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany’s sister is promoting right-wing dating app “The Right Stuff.” In a new video, Ryann McEnany announces a September debut, “no…
A survey showed that nearly one in five teens reported using YouTube “almost constantly.” RUBEN BONILLA GONZALO YouTube, not TikTok, is the most popular social media platform among teens, new data by Pew Research says. Nearly one in five teens say they use YouTube “almost constantly,” more than TikTok, Instagram, or Snapchat. The survey challenges…