Esports is growing up. Activision Blizzard just announced the Overwatch League, a new esports league built around Overwatch, which will be the first major esports league with a traditional city-based team structure, just like professional sports leagues. Seven [...]
ZeroFox, a startup that helps companies manage social media risk including scams, malicious links and account hijacking, announced a $40 million Series C investment today. The round was led by Redline Capital Management and Silver Lake Waterman (which [...]
Some more M&A news in the world of artificial intelligence. Today it was announced that Google has acquired Halli Labs, a very young (its first public appearance was on May 22 of this year) startup based out of [...]
A few weeks ago I stopped at a garage sale in Brooklyn and found a stack of Nintendo Power magazines. Nintendo Power, for the non-80s kids, was a magazine produced by Nintendo from 1988 to 2012. It was [...]
Part of the sexism problem in tech/VC comes down to the fact that women are far outnumbered by men, especially at the top of the food chain. Women represent seven percent of the partner positions within the tech [...]
Hutch, the interior design app that takes a photo of your room and virtually redecorates it, has raised $10M in funding from real estate platform Zillow. Zillow’s CEO Spencer Rascoff will also join Hutch’s board of directors as [...]
Unless you’ve had a chance to try some Apple HomeKit products in someone’s home or apartment, it can be hard to understand how it all works. In order to help with that, Apple has unveiled interactive HomeKit experiences [...]
After helping to launch the Partnership on AI with Google, Facebook and others; and doubling down on AI research, today Microsoft unveiled a new initiative that points to how it plans to target specific verticals in what can [...]
Two years ago, Stephen Kane was looking for his next big idea. A lawyer who previously worked for the mega-firm O’Melveny & Myers and then spent time at Lex Machina, a software company that analyzed caselaw for lawyers, [...]
