Facebook Messenger’s PM director Martinazzi leaves after launching Day

 Completing almost 8 years at Facebook, Director of Product Management Peter Martinazzi has left the company. His last product, Messenger Day, shipped on Thursday. A Facebook “OG”, Martinazzi was well-liked and respected at the company. He worked with the growth team in some of Facebook’s breakout years before the IPO, and ran all of Messenger product during its modernizing… Read More from Social – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2mcHjZc Facebook Messenger’s PM director Martinazzi leaves after launching Day Josh Constine http://ift.tt/2naMmyd via...

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Facebook Messenger’s PM director Martinazzi leaves after launching Day

{rss:content:encoded} Facebook Messenger’s PM director Martinazzi leaves after launching Day http://ift.tt/2naMmyd http://ift.tt/2mcHjZc March 11, 2017 at 07:01PM  After almost 8 years at Facebook, Director of Product Management Peter Martinazzi has left the company. His last product, Messenger Day, shipped on Thursday. A Facebook “OG”, Martinazzi was well-liked and respected at the company. He worked with the growth team in some of Facebook’s breakout years before the IPO, and ran all of Messenger product during its modernizing 3.0… Read...

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Wanted: Founders in favor of tenured voting

 It’s hard to get too worked up about unequal voting rights, which are seen by public market investors as giving founders too much control, while viewed by founders as necessary to protect their companies from short-term shareholders. The reality is that only a minority of companies can command these terms, most famously Google, Facebook, Zynga, Groupon and now Snap. The majority of… Read More http://ift.tt/2nosdk8 Wanted: Founders in favor of tenured voting http://ift.tt/2noqu...

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How The Last Mile helped Kenyatta Leal walk from prison in San Quentin to a job in tech

 Prison spending is 5x more than higher education, and ~10 percent of the U.S. prison population is in California. Part of the reason why people return to prison after they are released is because they have no access to education while they’re incarcerated. On today’s Breaking Into Startups episode, we talk about an educational program that is paving the road to success,… Read More http://ift.tt/2mQU93x How The Last Mile helped Kenyatta Leal walk from prison in San Quentin to a job in tech http://ift.tt/2nnY1...

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Houston, Kalanick and Zuck walk into a headline

 And a bar called SPiN, where photos of them playing ping-pong have the tech media in a great mood this Friday morning. The reason? At the same time as Houston’s ping-pong birthday fun, SPiN was also holding a (wait for it… it’s totally worth it:) “Babes & Balls” party with “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” as the theme. Read More http://ift.tt/2no69Gz Houston, Kalanick and Zuck walk into a headline http://ift.tt/2mv2d...

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Verizon Ventures and R/GA partner to launch a digital media “venture studio”

 Verizon Ventures and R/GA are announcing a new program called the Verizon Media Tech Venture Studio. Stephen Plumlee, R/GA’s global COO and managing partner of R/GA Ventures, explained that the interactive agency’s “venture studios” started out similar to other startup accelerator programs, but they’ve expanded to provide access to “financial capital… Read More http://ift.tt/1t48dFU Verizon Ventures and R/GA partner to launch a digital media “venture studio” http://ift.tt/2no0x...

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Google partners with VCs to host its own machine learning startup competition

 On the heels of acquiring data science community Kaggle, Google is launching a machine learning competition of its own for startups. Google is targeting early stage companies taking an innovative approach to machine learning. The competition is being run in partnership with seven venture capital firms that include Sequoia, KPCB, GV, Data Collective, Emergence Capital, Andreessen Horowitz… Read More http://ift.tt/2mseDgo Google partners with VCs to host its own machine learning startup competition http://ift.tt/2n88N...

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That time Facebook went too far

 Facebook’s attempts to clone Snapchat know no limit. The social networking giant is in the enviable position of owning a number of the world’s most used internet services and applications. Facebook the social network is closing in on two billion registered users — a level of global reach that is unprecedented in history — while its Messenger app counts one billion… Read More from Social – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2ddeIEE That time Facebook went too far Jon Russell http://ift.tt/2mQgBtJ via IFT...

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NFL’s Drew Brees backs Waitr to make takeout easy in anytown USA

{rss:content:encoded} NFL’s Drew Brees backs Waitr to make takeout easy in anytown USA http://ift.tt/2mJyOZm http://ift.tt/2mJIkeV March 10, 2017 at 06:38PM  Food delivery startups abound in the U.S., but few of them deliver to customers in second cities and smaller towns. From early pioneers like Grubhub to newer services like DoorDash, food delivery businesses have tended to focus on urban areas with a high concentration of restaurants and people who frequently order takeout. Now, New Orleans Saints Quarterback, philanthropist...

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NFL’s Drew Brees backs Waitr to make takeout easy in anytown USA

 Food delivery startups abound in the U.S., but few of them deliver to customers in second cities and smaller towns. From early pioneers like Grubhub to newer services like DoorDash, food delivery businesses have tended to focus on urban areas with a high concentration of restaurants and people who frequently order takeout. Now, New Orleans Saints Quarterback, philanthropist and angel… Read More http://ift.tt/2mJIkeV NFL’s Drew Brees backs Waitr to make takeout easy in anytown USA http://ift.tt/2mJyO...

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Twitch to relaunch Curse, acquired last year, as the more social Twitch Desktop App

 Hot on the heels of rolling out its own version of Twitter, called Pulse, video game streaming site Twitch today announced its new desktop application, Twitch Desktop App. This is actually a rebranding of Curse App – an application Twitch acquired from the video game community and software maker Curse last year. Twitch says the now “enhanced” app will include community… Read More from Social – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2nnc0M8 Twitch to relaunch Curse, acquired last year, as the more social Twitch Desktop App Sarah Perez http://ift.tt/2lLf9sD via...

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Facebook scores a deal to live stream Major League Soccer matches

 As competition in the live streaming space heats up, Facebook has scored a significant deal that will allow it to stream at least 22 live Major League Soccer matches on its social network. Through a collaborations with both MLS and Univision Deportes, Facebook gained the rights to stream the 2017 MLS regular season matches in English, as well as enhance the video content with various… Read More from Social – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2mrxcBw Facebook scores a deal to live stream Major League Soccer matches Sarah Perez http://ift.tt/2nncTEe via...

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PassivDom is an Zombie-proof “autonomous 3D-printed mobile house”

 It’s rare that I quote a company’s marketing tagline outright but PassivDom, makers of an “autonomous 3D-printed mobile house” sounds pretty darn rad. The Ukrainian company wants to create mobile homes that can be made anywhere and are completely self-powered. Max Gerbut, a Ph.D. Solid State Physics, built the houses in the Ukraine and is working on spreading the word.… Read More http://ift.tt/2mPON8J PassivDom is an Zombie-proof “autonomous 3D-printed mobile house” http://ift.tt/2mtFq...

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The New York Micro-Meetup is Monday

 In preparation for Disrupt New York in May I’m going to hold a few pitching workshops in New York for you all. We’ll listen to and critique ten pitches on March 13th at 7pm at the Knotel space at 22 West 38th Street, 4th Floor. This is an informal pitch-off but the two best teams will get two tickets to Disrupt New York and the undying admiration of millions of people (actually… Read More from Social – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2hmkUK3 The New York Micro-Meetup is Monday John Biggs http://ift.tt/2m7VQVI via IFT...

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The New York Micro-Meetup is Monday

 In preparation for Disrupt New York in May I’m going to hold a few pitching workshops in New York for you all. We’ll listen to and critique ten pitches on March 13th at 7pm at the Knotel space at 22 West 38th Street, 4th Floor. This is an informal pitch-off but the two best teams will get two tickets to Disrupt New York and the undying admiration of millions of people (actually… Read More http://ift.tt/2hmkUK3 The New York Micro-Meetup is Monday http://ift.tt/2m7VQ...

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Bolt Threads debuts its first product, a $314 tie made from spiderwebs

 It may not look like a bunch of cobwebs but the tie you see above was spun from the same material spiders spin out from their behind. The difference is this thread was mass produced from fermented microbial poop instead and it’s the first product out from materials science startup Bolt Threads. Intrigued? We first wrote about Bolt’s zany ambitions to build a spider silk factory… Read More http://ift.tt/2ndyRdG Bolt Threads debuts its first product, a $314 tie made from spiderwebs http://ift.tt/2mr3b...

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JobToday inks $35M media-for-equity deal with European broadcasters

 Job finder app, JobToday, has inked a new media for equity deal worth $35 million. Read More http://ift.tt/2mP7QQp JobToday inks $35M media-for-equity deal with European broadcasters http://ift.tt/2lKNm...

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UK broadband giant BT agrees legal separation from pipes-controller, Openreach

{rss:content:encoded} UK broadband giant BT agrees legal separation from pipes-controller, Openreach http://ift.tt/2mquqMS http://ift.tt/1eIIxYS March 10, 2017 at 11:48AM  Startups in the UK will be hoping for better performance from the local broadband market after telecoms regulator Ofcom agreed a deal with the country’s largest broadband provider, BT, to legally separate Openreach: aka the division of BT that builds and maintains the broadband infrastructure. Read More ...

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Chowbotics raises $5 million for salad-making robots named Sally, of course

 Chowbotics Inc. has landed $5 million in a Series A round of venture funding to develop what it’s calling food service robots. These are machines designed to prepare food in restaurants, cafeterias, hotels, or food courts in airports, malls and hospitals. The company’s flagship product, Sally, is a salad-making robot that uses 20 different food canisters to prepare and… Read More http://ift.tt/2mrvdyH Chowbotics raises $5 million for salad-making robots named Sally, of course http://ift.tt/2n5pg...

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Watch ‘High Resolution,’ a video series about design

 Ever wonder how design has helped drive success for businesses like Airbnb, Facebook, Slack and IBM? How about how their teams are structured? How they operate? What their processes look like? High Resolution is bringing clarity to these questions, and we’re doing it 25 times. We’re sitting down with 25 masters of the digital design industry to learn how they approach,… Read More http://ift.tt/2moT0gT Watch ‘High Resolution,’ a video series about design http://ift.tt/2mrf2...

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Astro raises an $8 million Series A for its AI-powered email solution for teams

 On the surface, Astro, launching its public beta today, is a nifty but not completely necessary email client that combines machine intelligence and a bot interface to improve workflows and increase the signal to noise ratio of mail for power users. But the real story is that the startup, backed with a new $8 million Series A led by Redpoint, is gearing up to pitch enterprises on… Read More http://ift.tt/2nbjxyr Astro raises an $8 million Series A for its AI-powered email solution for teams http://ift.tt/2moju...

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The Kairos Society, an organization for young entrepreneurs, has raised its own venture fund

 The Kairos Society isn’t just trying to bring the next generation of entrepreneurs together — it’s investing in their companies, too. The organization today announced a seed fund called Kairos Society Ventures, and the portfolio already includes Abaris (which offers a private-sector alternative to social security), Brazilian education startup Me Salva, Colombian… Read More http://ift.tt/2mMqBUN The Kairos Society, an organization for young entrepreneurs, has raised its own venture fund http://ift.tt/2m529...

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