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WIRED
Listening to Black Women: The Innovation Tech Can't Crack
WIRED
3 min read · 114 saves · Jan 11th · Sydette Harry · Tech creators and journalists ignore the insights and experiences of Black women—and fail to see the harm of their "innovations."
Fast Company
What I learned from talking to 20 diversity, equity, and inclusion experts
Fast Company
7 min read · 112 saves · Jan 8th · Albrey Brown · Albrey Brown, head of diversity, equity, and inclusion at Airtable, wanted a fresh perspective in his DEI efforts in 2021, so he talked to experts across industries to find out what they’re thinking.
VICE
Senate Votes to Allow FBI to Look at Your Web Browsing History Without a Warrant
VICE
1 min read · 224 saves · 2020-05-13 · The government just got even more power to spy on your internet habits as millions remain quarantined at home.
VICE
Instacart Workers Win Historic Union Election
VICE
2 min read · 25 saves · 2020-02-01 · After months of upheaval, Instacart employees voted to form the Silicon Valley app's first union in the United States.
Marker by Medium
How a Hot $100 Million Home Design Startup Collapsed Overnight
Marker by Medium
20+ min read · 129 saves · 2020-02-24 · Courtney Rubin · The untold story of how Homepolish’s extremely Instagrammable house of cards came tumbling down
The Verge
YouTube is a $15 billion-a-year business, Google reveals for the first time
The Verge
2 min read · 156 saves · 2020-02-03 · Nick Statt · Turns out YouTube is a big moneymaker for Google.
mtlynch.io
My Second Year as a Solo Developer
mtlynch.io
~12 min read · 118 saves · 2020-01-31 · Two years ago, I quit my developer job at Google to build my own software business. A year later, I posted an update about my finances, happiness, and lessons learned. Today marks the end of my second…
The New York Times
How Each Big Tech Company May Be Targeted by Regulators
The New York Times
8 min read · 48 saves · 2019-09-08 · While Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google have all drawn attention to how they dominate markets, the reasons are as different as the companies.
Entrepreneur
7 Tech Trends to Watch Out for In 2020
Entrepreneur
4 min read · 389 saves · 2019-09-02 · With innovations developing fast, we predict the sector's most significant coming changes.
Jane Manchun Wong
Facebook hides like counts in experiment, too
Jane Manchun Wong
2 min read · 43 saves · 2019-09-02 · First look at Facebook’s unreleased experiment to hide like counts following Instagram
OneZero
The Next Re-bundling Will Be Multi-Media (Video, Music, Games, News)
OneZero
~12 min read · 108 saves · 2019-08-23 · Mike Raab · And tech is beating media to the punch
TechCrunch
Tile teams up with Google to bring its lost item finding technology to Google Assistant
TechCrunch
2 min read · 2019-09-06 · As rumors about Apple’s plans to launch a Tile competitor swirl, Tile today announced it’s teaming up with Google to make it easier for users to locate their lost items using their Android devices and…
