Archive for January, 2014
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Posted by: amygdala on January 6, 2014
- Todoist developer unveils Twist, a Slack competitor which focuses on asynchronous communication by organizing all team conversations into threads (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)
- Vice Media raises $450M from TPG at a $5.7B valuation, will use some of the funds to create a new mobile subscription service (Wall Street Journal)
- How some popular Spotify playlists in its Browse section are controlled by a small group of firms, some owned by big labels, making or breaking upcoming artists (Liz Pelly/CASH Music)
- Altice USA ends the week up 14%+ from Thursday's IPO price of $30 after raising $1.9B in the largest US telecom initial public offering since the 2000 (Mike Farrell/Multichannel News)
- Home design firm Houzz closes $400M round from Sequoia, GGV Capital, Iconiq Capital, and others; sources say at $4B valuation (Olivia Zaleski/Bloomberg)
- Facebook Is Launching A Standalone App Exclusively For Video Creators (Geoff Weiss/Tubefilter)
- Heaps of Windows 10 internal builds, private source code leak online (Chris Williams/The Register)
- The tech industry should treat sexual harrassment of founders by VCs much like HR departments treat workplace abuses (Reid Hoffman/LinkedIn)
- Facebook removed 30+ pages run from Macedonia, many of them popular from pro-Trump "news" during election; publishers assumed they were safe after buying ads (Craig Silverman/BuzzFeed)
- After reports of sexual harassment, Justin Caldbeck takes indefinite leave of absence from Binary Capital, apologizes for behavior, says he'll seek counseling (Dan Primack/Axios)
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