According to a new report in the WSJ, WeWork, the co-working juggernaut that saw its attempt at a public offering blow up in spectacular fashion in the fall of 2019, might become a publicly traded company by merging with a blank-check company.…
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Brian Walsh is the head of WIND Ventures, the venture capital arm of COPEC, a leading energy company in Central and South America and the U.S. WIND Ventures provides mobility, energy and retail startups and scaleups with…
You’d be forgiven for being skeptical about the iPhone 12’s stellar performance this past quarter. It’s been a rough couple of years for smartphones — a phenomenon from which not even Apple was immune.
Frankly, after staring down these macro trends over…
New numbers from Canalys show a slowing in the major smartphone decline we saw for 2020. The past year was, of course, a major blow to an industry already suffering a slide. Hope that the arrival of 5G would right the ship…
Facebook’s self-regulatory ‘Oversight Board’ (FOB) has delivered its first batch of decisions on contested content moderation decisions almost two months after picking its first cases.
A long time in the making, the FOB is part of Facebook’s crisis PR push to distance…
Workday started the work day with some big news today. It’s acquiring employee feedback platform Peakon for $700 million in cash.
One thing we have learned during the pandemic is that organizations need to find new ways to build stronger connections with…
The venture potential of a startup that caters to individual students — instead of a slow-moving, small-pocketed institution — has a bullish aura that attracts investors.
Add in a pandemic that forced many to embrace remote learning overnight, and it…
Apple finished 2020 with a bang, logging its most profitable quarter ever despite disruptions created by the pandemic.
For the three months ending in December, the iPhone maker pulled in a record $111.4 billion in sales, the company said. It’s the first…
You’d be forgiven for being underwhelmed by the output from SoftBank Robotics thus far. The firm’s best-known product to date is almost certainly Pepper, a humanoid robot designed for greeting and signage that grew out of it 2015 acquisition of French robotics…
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D. Hara Perkins is a partner at Goulston & Storrs, PC in New York City, where she focuses her practice on affordable housing and economic development.
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Alexander Shermansong is CEO of Civic…