He Created the Web. Now He’s Out to Remake the Digital World.
New York Times
Inrupt is betting that trusted organizations will initially be the sponsors of pods. The pods are free for users. If the concept takes off, low-cost or free personal data services…
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Cryptocurrency Start-Up Underpaid Women and Black Employees, Data Shows
The fast-growing cryptocurrency start-up Coinbase has been rattled in recent months by tensions between executives and employees[1] who said they were being treated unfairly because of their race or gender.…
With Money, and Waste, China Fights for Chip Independence
“There have been some stunning absurdities that defy logic and common sense,” China Economic Weekly said[1]. Yet there has also been progress. Two companies, Yangtze Memory Technologies and ChangXin Memory…
Airbnb Tops $100 Billion on First Day of Trading, Reviving Talk of a Bubble
Unlike the other start-ups, which have seen demand for their products soar in the pandemic, Airbnb spent most of the year reeling as people canceled their bookings. In the first…
DoorDash Stock Soars After Initial Public Offering
SAN FRANCISCO — Wall Street loves a pandemic winner. Shares of DoorDash soared in their first day of trading on Wednesday, capping a year of outsize growth for the country’s…
Uber Jettisons Flying Car Project
A day after Uber handed[1] its autonomous car project to a Silicon Valley start-up, the company is doing the same with an ambitious and money-intensive effort to build flying cars.…
Uber Is Giving Self-Driving Car Project to a Start-Up
In 2016, Uber acquired the autonomous trucking start-up Otto, led by Anthony Levandowski, a former Google engineer. When Google first tested its self-driving car on public roads a decade ago,…
‘This Is Insanity’: Start-Ups End Year in a Deal Frenzy
SAN FRANCISCO — Hopin, a virtual events start-up in London, had seven employees and was valued at $38 million at the beginning of the year. Johnny Boufarhat, the company’s chief…
Facebook to Acquire Start-Up Kustomer as It Faces Antitrust Glare
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook is facing the glare of regulators[1] for buying up promising start-ups and neutralizing them as a competitive threat. But that hasn’t stopped the social network from…
‘Tokenized’: Inside Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase
SAN FRANCISCO — One by one, they left. Some quit. Others were fired. All were Black. The 15 people worked at Coinbase[1], the most valuable U.S. cryptocurrency start-up, where they…
