Dropbox shares soared today in biggest tech IPO since Snapchat
Cloud storage and collaboration company Dropbox — which started 10 years ago as a small startup in the San Francisco-based Y Combinator incubator program — went public today, and its shares were up nearly 36 percent as of market close this afternoon. The successful performance makes … Read More
Can the Houston Astros repeat? Here are 5 storylines for the 2018 MLB season
A new Major League Baseball off-season arrives Wednesday — Thursday for the Texas Rangers — after an unprecedented off-season that might become the norm until the players get another chance at the collective bargaining agreement. Most top free agents went unsigned for months and even into … Read More
Male driver killed in fiery crash in Eau Claire County
A male driver died Friday morning in a one-vehicle crash in the town of Washington, Eau Claire County Sheriff Ron Cramer said. The crash occurred at 10:20 a.m. on U.S. 53, just south of Highway V. The vehicle caught fire shortly after the crash, Cramer said, adding that the Eau …
Waiting for an execution
Russell Bucklew, who is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday, March 20, 2018, for killing a former girlfriend's new boyfriend in 1996 in eastern Missouri. Jeremy Weis Photography AP. By Mary Sanchez. The Kansas City Star. LinkedIn · Google+ · Pinterest · Reddit; Print; Order Reprint of this Story. Read …
Apple hid an iPhone X bug on YouTube, and people noticed
Apple has apparently patched an error in a new ad for the iPhone X that appeared on YouTube. In the original video, published March 16 (the same day the rival Galaxy S9 went on sale), a student strides, runs and rolls around her high school unlocking various objects with a …
Will Beavis & Butthead be the dullest thing ever in the YouTube age?
They'd be sitting on a sofa watching whatever was 'up next' on YouTube. Same concept, you might think, but YouTube 's algorithms will simply keep showing them videos by acts who sound like the one they're already watching. So they're unlikely to come across anything they aren't inclined to like … …
Vintage Car Lover “Brings ‘Em Back to Life” on His Hit YouTube Show
“Today, with the assistance of my grandson and awesome editor Robbie Savage, Jr., a New England Tech graduate, 'Bring 'Em Back To Life' is garnering tens of thousands of views and hundreds of 'likes' and 'shares' on YouTube,” Dennis said. “We're getting new subscribers every day. There are now … Read …
LinkedIn to open another German office
LinkedIn, the No. 2 business network in DACH (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland) after Xing, announced today it will open a second office in Germany as it seeks further growth in German-speaking countries. The company said (in German) it plans to open an office in Berlin in the second half of …
Cambridge Analytica row: Facebook scandal could push other tech companies to tighten data …
The scrutiny and the risk of regulatory action could affect Alphabet Inc's Google, Twitter Inc, Uber Technologies Inc, Microsoft Corp's LinkedIn and the many others that make their user data available to outide developers. The interconnections between platforms such as Facebook and Google and … Read More
What Do Amazon, Google and Facebook Employees Have in Common? It’s Not Salary or Free Food
LinkedIn just released its annual best companies to work for list and has a lot of great insight on how they were chosen. What was unique about this company's list is that it wasn't just US companies or global companies, it was country specific. It shed a light on otherwise …