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Month: June 2020
So you want to talk about race in tech with Ijeoma Oluo
“A lot of people denigrate the value of talking about race and racism in technological spaces,”…
$600 unemployment benefits are ‘life-saving’ for this waiter: ‘I’m right at the edge’
Matt Marfoglia, a waiter at the Tasting Kitchen in Los Angeles, was furloughed in March. Enhanced…
Pro traders scramble for protection in ‘warp speed’ market, spur quadrupling of S&P 500 hedge cost
A trader walks by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on the first day that traders…
LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Technavio has been monitoring the IT training market and it is poised to grow by…
Robinhood traders are not behind the rally and their favorites actually underperform, Barclays says
The Robinhood application is displayed in the App Store on an Apple Inc. iPhone in an…
Imaging startup Light is exiting the smartphone business
Light’s push into smartphones was an inevitability. Sure, the startup turned heads with its pricey L16…
3 perspectives on the future of SF and NYC as startup hubs
It has been an incredibly tough period for everyone the past few months as the global…
KKR co-CEO Henry Kravis says 80% of the companies it controls have at least two directors with diverse backgrounds
Private equity firm KKR’s co-chief executive officer and co-founder, Henry Kravis, said 80% of companies that it controls…
Hashtags won’t cut it. Corporate America faces a higher bar in a reckoning on racial inequality
Demonstrators raise their fists up in a celebratory dance party of civil rights and black culture…
Stock market live Friday: Dow up 477, Stocks still lose 5% on week, volatility is back
Stocks surged at the start of Friday’s trading in a bid to recover some of Thursday’s…
Dow rises more than 400 points, but Wall Street clinches biggest weekly loss since March
Stocks rose on Friday in volatile trading as traders tried to regain some of the sharp…
‘The money is still there,’ says APX managing director Jörg Rheinboldt
APX is an early-stage accelerator in Berlin, but it’s not quite your average accelerator — it’s…
The Fed’s economic forecasts are all over the map, a sign of how uncertain these times are
A trader at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at Wall Street in New York City.…
LCS connects with Verizon in three-year partnership
The League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) has established a multi-year partnership with telecommunications company Verizon.…
BBC to broadcast UKLC and NLC
British broadcaster BBC has committed to air the UK League Championship (UKLC) and Northern League of…
BLCK VC co-founder Sydney Sykes talks specific actions firms can take to be more inclusive
BLCK VC is on a mission to double the number of Black venture capitalists out there…