Frank C. Morris, Jr. Crunch Network Contributor Frank C. Morris, Jr., heads the employment, labor and workforce management practice in Epstein Becker Green’s Washington, DC, office, and co-chairs the firm’s ADA and Public Accommodations Group. How to join the network Apps have become a driver of the economy. According to the Statista website, leading app […]
Earlier this week Instagram updated its news feed algorithm. Posts will no longer appear in chronological order and instead be sorted “based on the likelihood you’ll be interested in the content, your relationship with the person posting, and the timeliness of the post.” What this means is that Instagram will choose what to surface and when […]
Mattermark, a startup that mines and crunches public Internet data to provide investors, sales teams and others with search tools and other business intelligence, has raised another $7.3 million in funding — a Series B round that values the company at $42 million. The new cash injection will be used to hire more talent; and to keep […]
Vivek Wadhwa Crunch Network Contributor Vivek Wadhwa is an academic, entrepreneur, and author who holds appointments at Stanford, Duke, and Singularity University. More posts by this contributor: How to join the network Not long ago, all of the major innovations came from big research labs in the West. And Silicon Valley not only built the […]
The Jetsons presented a highly entertaining vision of what homes of the future would look like. The animated television show anticipated a world where humans would be able to do everything with just the push of a button. In many ways, the show turned out to be prophetic; today we have printable food, video chats, smartwatches […]
ServisHero, a company that provides local services on-demand via a mobile app in Southeast Asia, has landed a $2.7 million investment led by Golden Gate Ventures. Founded last June, ServisHero is based in Malaysia but already the service is available in Singapore and — as of today — Thailand too. This round, which is billed as a pre-Series […]
Airbnb will now let travelers from outside the U.S. to book properties in Cuba after receiving authorization from the U.S. government, reports the Associated Press. Previously, only Americans were allowed to reserve the site’s Cuban listings. They will open to international users on April 2. Airbnb launched its Cuban operations in April 2014, four months after the […]
People who have Kindles made before 2012 need to update their software by March 22 or lose Internet connectivity, Amazon announced. Procrastinators and people who missed the message will have to perform the unspeakably arduous task of connecting their Kindle to a computer with a USB cable to download the update manually. If you own a […]