Earlier this week, GGV Capital’s Jeff Richards and Hans Tung joined TechCrunch for an Extra Crunch Live session. During our hour-long chat, we touched on startup profitability, the global venture capital scene, why GGV doesn’t have an office in Europe, how the venture industry is responding to its stark lack of diversity and other issues. […]
Monthly Archives: July 2020
Usyk busca realizar boxeo en Kiev el 1 de Agosto
Por. Gabriel F. Cordero Existe la posibilidad que la compañía de promoción del Ucraniano ex campeón mundial del CMB, Alexander Usyk realize una noche de boxeo en Kiev el 1… Read More » The post Usyk busca realizar boxeo en Kiev el 1 de Agosto appeared first on fightnews.com.
Ellen DeGeneres: Are She & Her Show About to Get Canceled?
Ellen DeGeneres may soon get canceled, according to a stunning new report. We don’t mean this in the broad, social media sense, either. We don’t mean this in the sense that Ellen DeGeneres is being criticized by an online mob and users are saying she should be ostracized from the general conversation and/or the public stage. We mean this literally. […]
‘Hamilton’ Review: You Say You Want a Revolution
The filmed version of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s founding-father Broadway musical arrives just in time — vital and more challenging than ever.
Fortnite to host We The People program focused on conversations about race in America
Epic Games/Fortnite Fortnite’s Party Royale will air an in-game showing of We The People on Saturday, part of a series of conversations around race in America, the company announced Friday. The program, hosted by Van Jones of CNN, will include journalists Elaine Welteroth and Jemele Hill, and musicians Killer Mike and Lil Baby. The group will hold a discussi […]
Geofencing Data: Less-Than-Truckload Boost Carries Into June
Less-than-truckload (LTL) volumes continued to improve throughout May and into the first week of June, said Deutsche Bank (NYSE: DB) analyst Amit Mehrotra in a note to clients. read more
Researchers trained a quadruped robot to cross a balance beam
While four-legged robots can achieve impressive feats, like pulling an airplane or climbing a fence, they still have a few limitations. In most cases, they need a fairly large surface to walk on. A team of Italian robotics researchers is looking to c…
UK government takes $500 million stake in space exploration firm OneWeb
Image: OneWeb As part of a consortium that includes Indian telecom Bharti Global, the UK government will invest $500 million and take a “significant equity share” in space exploration firm OneWeb, it announced Friday. OneWeb, which has its headquarters in the UK, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US in March, after it was unable to secure fin […]
Khashoggi murder trial begins in Turkey, without the accused
Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post contributing columnist, was killed in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in 2018 by Saudi government agents sent from Riyadh. Saudi Arabia has refused to extradite the suspects.
Netflix’s The Old Guard Often Feels Brand-New
Among other successes, Gina Prince-Bythewood’s action film, starring Charlize Theron, features a revolutionary gay plot line.
Germany finalizing plan to phase out coal energy
The vote provides a roadmap that envisions the phase-out of coal between now and 2038
World’s Largest Pension Fund Loses $165 Billion in Worst Quarter
(Bloomberg) — The world’s biggest pension fund posted a record loss in the first three months of 2020 after the coronavirus pandemic sparked a global market rout in the period.Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund lost 11%, or 17.7 trillion yen ($164.7 billion), in the three months ended March, it said in Tokyo on Friday. The decline in value was the s […]
Treasury, SBA appear to miss deadline to disclose small business loan data
The missed target date is a setback in the administration’s promises to be transparent about one of the largest economic stimulus packages ever created by the federal government.
Julie Chen-Moonves on horrible reviews ‘Big Brother’ got Season 1: ‘Like I got like punched in the gut’
Julie Chen-Moonves opens up about the rocky start “Big Brother” got off to 20 years ago this July, and discusses everything from the critics being “mean” to the surprising thing that hasn’t changed since day one.
Duffy Writes Open Letter to Netflix to Remove 365 Days
Earlier this year, British singer Duffy reemerged after a lengthy, mysterious absence. We found out in a lengthy essay that the singer had been kidnapped and raped, but now, she’s using her platform to help victims. In an open letter, Duffy is asking Netflix CEO Reed Hastings to remove the Polish film 365 Days, a…