Technology

[ad_1] Amazon’s market-leading cloud business Amazon Web Services just announced a big partnership with business communications company Slack. Even before to the partnership, analysts suggested Amazon could buy a company like Slack or Zoom to replace its own unpopular chat …

[ad_1] Uber is making Juneteenth a company holiday this year, the ride-sharing giant’s CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, said Wednesday. Uber joins fellow San Francisco tech companies Twitter and Square in declaring the holiday a paid day off, though the latter two …

[ad_1] Amanda Ramirez, a college senior, runs the YouTube channel Amanda Monroe, which has 32,000 subscribers.  She is part of a trend of YouTubers becoming famous for sharing their college experiences — especially their move-in videos, which can rack up …

[ad_1] Foundation Capital is spearheading #JuneteenthVC, an online day of action calling on venture firms and portfolio companies to publicly share their commitments to combat racism in Silicon Valley. General partner Steve Vassallo told Business Insider that many other VCs …

[ad_1] Los Angeles-based data-management startup Open Raven picked up a $15 million Series A venture round led by Kleiner Perkins this week. The startup uses simple visualization and user controls to help companies find, manage, and protect their cloud-based data. …

[ad_1] Slack followed others in the tech industry like Facebook, Twitter, and Box, by announcing that it intends to become a more “distributed” company and allow more remote work even after the coronavirus crisis ends. The goal is to give …

[ad_1] Tesla registrations, a key indicator for sales, fell dramatically in April and May in California, according to new data.  The unexpected news did little to shake investor confidence in the high-flying stock.  It’s the first look into how Tesla’s …

[ad_1] ByteDance, the parent company of short-video app TikTok, generated $5.6 billion in revenue for the first-quarter of 2020, Reuters reports. This figure represents 130% growth in revenue year-over-year for the China-based company, which is now reportedly worth more than …

[ad_1] America’s newest billionaire is Apoorva Mehta, the 33-year-old founder of grocery delivery app Instacart. Forbes added Mehta to its Billionaires List after Instacart’s latest funding round, which valued the app at $13.7 billion (up from an $8 billion valuation …

[ad_1] The founder of a Silicon Valley think tank promoting the construction of seasteads — or floating cities that operate independently of existing governments — told The Telegraph that he’s seeing an increase in interest. The news comes as the …