The way Incooling CEO Helena Samodurova sees it, the IT world is experiencing two major crises: an energy crisis and a supply chain crisis. For IT teams, satisfying new climate-friendly energy budgets is presenting a challenge, particularly when dealing with older computer hardware. At the same time, acquiring improved, less power-sucking machines is becoming tougher…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
RJ Scaringe, founder and CEO of electric vehicle maker Rivian, says the company’s future goes beyond electric trucks and vans. Onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt on Wednesday, the executive said out of Rivian’s 13,000 employees, about half are focused on what’s next for the company. “So that’s updated compute, updated drive unites and really important updated…
News that activist investor Starboard Value has its eyes on Salesforce landed with a bang this week. But the well-known investing group, fresh off of a bruising fight with Box, has a few other tech companies in its sights. Starboard is taking to task three tech shops for what it considers to be underperformance: The…
Lionel Messi (pictured, right), the Argentine professional soccer/football player who is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, is to make a push into technology investing via a new vehicle that will be shepherded by two Silicon Valley veterans. Play Time is the name given to a new partnership between the…
Kevin Hart appeared on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2022 this year, talking to TC’s Natasha Mascarenhas about how he got into investing to begin with, and the misconceptions he had to overcome to do so. Also, he talks about HartBeat Ventures, which got its first check for its first fund from J.P. Morgan. Check out…
Version 106 of Mozilla Firefox has been released, featuring a lot more functionality for the web browser‘s build-in PDF viewer. In a blog post on the Mozilla website, Firefox developers announced vital features for any PDF viewer, such as text annotations, drawings and signatures, can all now be added to PDF files being displayed directly…
Electric scooter company Bird continues to downsize as it has announced its machines will be exiting several regions in an effort to stay afloat. The company states it’s going to “fully exit” Germany, Sweden, and Norway as well as several “small to mid-sized markets” across the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, although…
President Joe Biden speaks at the Arnaud C. Marts Center on the campus of Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on August 30, 2022. AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File President Joe Biden will release 15 million more barrels of oil from the country’s reserves to lower gas prices. The Biden administration has already released around 165 million…
President Joe Biden speaks during a Fourth of July celebration for military families on the South Lawn of the White House on July 4, 2022. Evan Vucci/AP A Wisconsin conservative group is asking SCOTUS to block Biden’s student-debt relief. This comes after a federal judge already struck down the case, saying the group does not…
Insider Molly George, left, and her business partner Kristina Kennedy. courtesy of George Molly George and Kristina Kennedy cofounded a communications business that has 50 employees. The duo continually update their company’s benefits based on employees’ needs, they said. Today the startup offers family-planning grants and monthly wellness stipends. This article is part of Talent…