Posts Tagged ‘Tech News’
Founder Friday: The Launch of Black@
When our company first opened its doors, we primarily used LinkedIn to share our Founder Friday series. In January of 2021, we featured a startup from our hometown of Greenville, SC, Bandwagon. And while we love to celebrate what Bandwagon and their Founder & CEO, Harold Hughes, have built, Harold has a new initiative that we are excited…
Read MoreTech Goes Big On Super Bowl LVI Commercials
Tech was exceptionally well represented during Super Bowl LVI. In fact, the bulk of this year’s commercials seemed to be tied to tech platforms and services. Here is a list of the commercials tech spots that ran during the Super Bowl… Amazon gave us a glimpse into what life would be like if Alexa read minds AT&T had…
Read MoreFounder Friday: Entrata’s Founder Did What?!
A couple of weeks ago, we shared the story of Better.com’s Vishal Garg’s Zoom firing of 900 employees. It was a colossal misstep that cost Vishal his job. They say misery loves company, so today, we’re sharing a story that emerged this week of yet another founder doing the unthinkable. This time we head to Silicon Slopes.…
Read MoreMinecraft and the Uncensored Library
Minecraft is famous as a platform to expose people to the world of coding, but have you kept up with Reporters Without Borders library map project, The Uncensored Library? So what is the Uncensored Library? It is a massive Minecraft server and map used to house banned reporting from Saudi Arabia, Russia, Vietnam, Mexico, and Egypt. But, you don’t…
Read MoreWhat happened at Better.com?
Did you hear about Better.com’s CEO, Vishal Garg, firing 900 employees simultaneously on a Zoom call? It is one of the most shocking things we’ve heard of, especially as you dig into the details. We imagine it came as a shock to those 900 people. After all, Better was only founded by Garg in 2016, and in five…
Read MoreFounder Friday: Code.org’s Hadi Partovi
It’s CSEdWeek, so we thought we’d stick with that theme for today’s Founder Friday, featuring Code.org‘s Hadi Partovi. No organization has done more to help champion computer science at the K-12 level. Hadi’s story is truly an example of the American Dream realized. Hadi was born in Tehran, Iran. When he was two, his family moved to the U.S. so…
Read MoreCEOs & The Great Resignation
Two significant tech resignations have already happened this week in Jack Dorsey of Twitter and Kedar Deshpande of Zappos. Jeff Bezos resigned from Amazon earlier this year. And while we’ve written about the Great Resignation previously, we’ve never looked at it at the CEO level. Fast Company posted a story in November titled “The Great Resignation rages on: CEOS are fed up with their jobs, too.” It referred to…
Read MoreFounder Friday: Rivian’s RJ Scaringe
On Wednesday, we covered major tech news that had occurred over the past week. One of the stories we linked was on Rivian’s IPO, a price that made it the most successful US-based IPO since Facebook. But, long before Rivian became a $76.4 billion company, its founder, RJ Scaringe, launched Mainstream Motors using his father’s engineering facility in Florida. Today’s Founder Friday shares…
Read MoreWhat A Week In Tech News
Is it just us, or has this seemed to be an extra crazy week related to tech news? If you’re out of the loop, here’s what you’ve missed… Facebook is now Meta, but somewhere along the way, someone missed checking the trademark applications on the new name. Now, the company that did apply for the trademark wants…
Read MoreFacebook to Rebrand? – Famous Tech Rebrands
We missed this news until seeing it in The Verge, but Facebook will rebrand next week (Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name). It does not sound as if the beloved, and sometimes lamented, little blue square will be going anywhere. Like Google and Amazon, we’ve seen their platform offerings grow substantially.…
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