Happy Birthday Google: The search engine celebrates its 21st birth anniversary
Prerna Mahtani,
6 years ago
2 min read
Google celebrated its 21st Birthday with a charming and exclusive doodle today. Two Stanford PhD students established the search engine, Sergey Brin and Lawrence (Larry) Page, 21 years ago on September 1998. Larry and Sergey created Google in their rooms at Stanford in California. The...
Steam will shortly allow you to play local-only multiplayer games with far off friends
Prerna Mahtani,
6 years ago
2 min read
Co-op video games are amazing. Alas, it is not forever possible to get everyone in front of the same TV. Plus not all co-op games have online play, so playing over the internet is out. Keeping this in mind, Valve has been working on “Remote...
Canoo Removes The Covers Of Its New Electric Vehicle
Prerna Mahtani,
6 years ago
2 min read
Canoo, the Los Angeles-based startup has finally revealed its first model, the eponymously named Canoo. The Canoo creators have departed quite drastically from the traditional designs that other electric vehicle manufacturers have favoured. More About The Latest Electic Vehicle Exceptionally, Canoo has finished the design...
A Fight Brews Between WeWork and SoftBank, As Adam Neumann Faces Pressure to Step Down
Prerna Mahtani,
6 years ago
2 min read
According to a new WSJ report, members of WeWork’s board, involving co-founder and CEO Adam Neumann, are preparing to pressure Neumann to step down, and alternatively become We’s, non-executive chairman. The move, states the outlet, would permit him to stay at the company he developed...
Dropbox will start to roll out the new Dropbox app publically today
Prerna Mahtani,
6 years ago
2 min read
In June, Dropbox showed a preview version of the “new Dropbox.” The latest version is developed around a standalone app interface and centred on integrating all of your work tools into one place. It is a notable exciting overhaul from the manageable shared folders that...
Walmart’s Flipkart verifies it is joining the food retail business in India
Prerna Mahtani,
6 years ago
2 min read
India’s Flipkart is joining the retail food business as the e-commerce giant seems to extend its reach in the nation. Flipkart sold a majority stake in the business to Walmart for $16 billion last year. Flipkart’s Entrance In Food Retail It has registered an entity...
Newly-rebranded Thimble allocates $22M to take flexible insurance to the gig economy
Prerna Mahtani,
6 years ago
2 min read
Thimble, which gives flexible, short-term insurance to small businesses and freelancers, is stating that it has raised $22 million in a Series A funding round managed by IAC. Until today, the startup was identified as Verifly, a name attached to the company’s primary aim of...
GoFundMe starts a free platform for nonprofits and charities
Prerna Mahtani,
6 years ago
2 min read
GoFundMe has earned its name originally as a platform for individuals to organise fundraisers for personal causes. It is a service that has witnessed hundreds of campaigns go viral in social media to raise well over $5 billion in funding to date. Presently, the startup...
Uber lays off another 350 over Eats, self-driving and other departments
Prerna Mahtani,
6 years ago
2 min read
Uber has recently laid off about 350 employees over a variety of teams within the company. This indicates what the firm says is its third and last phase of layoffs of the process it started earlier this year. Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced this news...
Bird’s Chief Legal Officer Takes New Flight: Company Transition
Prerna Mahtani,
6 years ago
2 min read
Bird, the $2.5 billion electric scooter company, is losing its chief legal and policy leader. David Estrada, who was appointed last year from Kitty Hawk, is entering another mobility company, SoftBank-backed Nuro. A spokesperson for Bird says that Estrada is leaving the Santa Monica-based business...