Nina Wolpow
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In New Rebecca Minkoff Tops And Dresses, The Blockchain Is Stitched In
For its new RM Green(e) line, Rebecca Minkoff has teamed up with Resonance, a bootstrapped company operating out of New York’s Chelsea Piers that offers cloud-based production alternatives for designers that want to cut back on inventory. → Read More
Next Billion-Dollar Startups 2021
A $1 billion valuation isn’t what it used to be, as companies reach that milestone with breakneck speed, but there are still plenty of up-and-comers worth keeping an eye on. Here are Forbes’ picks for 25 venture-backed startups most likely to become unicorns. → Read More
Next Billion-Dollar Startups: How Notarize Built A $760 Million Business In Online Notaries
Pat Kinsel started Notarize after his own nightmare with getting documents notarized. To get it off the ground, he and his cofounder had to convince state and local regulators that online notarization using cameras could be as secure as that performed in person. → Read More
Big Tech Pledges To Do Better Battling Internet Violence Against Women. History Suggests They’ll Come Up Short.
Over 200 influential women wrote an open letter to big tech asking them to end abuse of women online. Experts and survivors are skeptical it'll happen. → Read More
Google’s New Ecommerce Chief Lays Out An Ambitious Plan To Win In Online Shopping
Google introduced new features and an expanded partnership with Shopify aimed at grabbing a bigger piece of a booming e-commerce business in the face of Amazon’s increasing success at winning a greater share of the market for searches by online shoppers. → Read More
Kremlin-Backed Sberbank Outstrips Oil Giants To Become Russia’s Top Public Company
State-owned financial behemoth boasts an $85 billion market value. → Read More
Banking App Lili Raises $55 Million To Help Freelancers Tackle Expenses, Access Credit
In deciding whether or not to bet on the founders of Lili, a digital banking app that caters towards America’s freelancers, Group 11 founding partner Dovi Frances wanted to be sure he had “the OGs of the digital banking industry.” → Read More
For FarmWise’s Cofounders, Opportunity Was In The Weeds
Cofounders Sébastien Boyer and Thomas Palomares launched Farmwise in 2016 to tackle two major pain points for the farming industry: the increasingly unpopular use of pesticides, and persistent labor shortage. Robots, they believe, can solve this problem. → Read More
Sidewalk Labs Spinout Replica Raises $41 Million Series B
Urban planning data platform Replica has raised a $41 million Series B led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund. → Read More
AI Startup Idelic Raises $20 Million To Make Trucking Industry Safer, Less Costly
Cardiff and his cofounders are set to announce a $20 million series B raised by Idelic, a startup that applies AI and machine learning to data from trucking fleets in order to ensure driver safety and streamline logistics. → Read More
Plastic Surgeons Are Mostly Men, But Their Patients Are Mostly Women
Why the industry’s double gender gap matters. → Read More
Inside An Inspiring School That's Empowering Girls In Iran
Farzaneh was 16 when she discovered she was pregnant. Desolate after years of living with no mother and a neglectful father, the teen had tried to end her life by overdosing on tranquilizers. But she lived. And when she woke up, she learned that her brother-in-law raped her while she was → Read More
4-Year-Old Girl Shot Dead By Angry Driver
A 4-year-old girl is dead after an armed suspect in another car pulled up to her family's truck and shot her in the head. Authorities in Albuquerque, NM, where the shooting occurred on Tuesday, say they are still looking for the killer. So far, they've found nothing to explain the driver's → Read More
Joe Biden Announces He's Not Running For President
Vice President of the United States Joe Biden stood next to his wife and Barack Obama in the White House Rose Garden on Wednesday morning and told the world he's not running for president. "Unfortunately, I believe we're out of time, the time necessary to mount a winning campaign," Biden said. → Read More
Judge Demands Blood From Offenders Too Poor To Pay — Literally
"There's a blood drive outside," Alabama circuit court judge Marvin Wiggins told offenders who showed up in his courtroom in September, according to a complaint. They were ordered to be there because they hadn't paid their fines. He went on: "If you don't have any money, and you don't want to go to → Read More
Kid Arrested For Clock Gets To Stargaze With Obama Tonight
Ahmed Mohamed used to be the 14-year-old whose passion for science landed him in handcuffs in September. Now, Ahmed is about to become the 14-year-old whose passion for science brought him to the White House. Ahmed's story received attention in the media after he built a clock — on his own — → Read More
Miss The Debate? It's All In These 5 Videos
On Tuesday night, we got our first chance to see all the Democrats in the 2016 field speak together, in one room, on the issues that matter most. After all the hype surrounding the GOP debates, watching the Dems was a well-needed break. For most of the night, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders → Read More
A GOP Candidate Posted Super Offensive Tweets, But It Wasn't Trump
Donald Trump made a big deal about his plans to live-tweet tonight's Democratic debate. And then, surprisingly for those of us who are used to his feed's endless insults, he was pretty mild. He spent a lot of time retweeting supporters about how boring it all was and popped off a few uninspired → Read More
What's Bill Clinton's Favorite Thing To Do In Vegas?
It's a Tuesday evening, and former President Bill Clinton is hanging out in Sin City. Usually, we'd be a little concerned about that. On this particular night, however, he has a good reason: the first Democratic debate is underway, and he wanted to shout out his support for former Secretary of → Read More
Who Is The Mystery Wizard At The Democratic Debate?
The Democratic debate has its first in-audience celebrity, and he's rocking some serious chin hair. Meet Democratic Dumbledore. At the last Republican debate, a mysterious man starting generating a ton of attention. The so-called "hot guy" behind host Jake Tapper briefly became a national → Read More