Galen Moore
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How overlay networks could change Web3
Community We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! The early internet concept of an overlay network has an important role to play in the formation of blockchain infrastructure. The framework of a […] → Read More
Crypto Long & Short: The Market Says Bitcoin Is for Speculation, Not Dollarization
Data from services on Bitcoin and Ethereum shows what's real in crypto adoption stories, CoinDesk's Galen Moore notes. → Read More
With Bitcoin 'Bear Markets' Like These, Who Needs the Bulls?
Bitcoin bear markets were getting shorter until 2020. Now the price story is rise, dip, repeat. → Read More
Coinbase Stock Price, Explained in 3 Charts
Coinbase's stock price points to its true value proposition and the desire for a passive, diversified investment in crypto. → Read More
Crypto Volume Surge Leaves Tron Out of CoinDesk 20
A near-tripling in crypto volume varied across the CoinDesk 20 list of most-traded crypto assets, with some seeing quarter-over-quarter declines. The exception was tron (TRX). → Read More
4 Metrics That Show How the Current Bitcoin Spike Is Different From 2017
The current bitcoin bull run is indeed different from three years ago, though that doesn't mean we won't see another peak-and-trough cycle. → Read More
Sports Execs Trade VR for Augmented Reality at MIT Sloan Conference
At the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston last Friday, the NBA’s senior vice president of digital media, Melissa Brenner, got bullish on the p → Read More
Trump and Kalanick: Twin Chief Executives Face Similar Problems
In the rinse-repeat rhythm of Uber’s PR crises, it’s easy to miss that this particular cycle has been a long one. Uber’s latest wave of negative press bega → Read More
Monster.com acquisition: Randstad Snaps up Job Search Pioneer
Monster Worldwide, the Internet job search pioneer that started out in an want-ad agency's office closet in 1993, has a greed to a buyout by Randstad for $429 million in cash, the companies... → Read More
Startup Funding in Austin: Late Stage VC Missing in Consumer Tech
In Austin last week, everyone was talking about startup funding in "third-tier cities." It's a lack of growth equity investment that is keeping Austin there. → Read More
EMC Documentum's Dell Cousins Are Selling to Private Equity
On the cusp of closing its deal to acquire EMC Corp. ($EMC), Dell Inc. has sewn up one of the last remaining divestitures it needs to make the deal possible. According to a news release, Dell... → Read More
Dell Is Close to Selling Off Software Divisions to Private Equity (Report)
On the cusp of closing its deal to acquire EMC Corp. ($EMC), Dell Inc. is about to sew up one of the last remaining divestitures it needs to make the deal possible. According to a Reuters report,... → Read More
Zipcar Layoffs: Car Sharing Co. Retools, Eyes 1-Way & Self-Driving
Car-sharing is a lot more complicated than it was when Zipcar pioneered the idea in 1999 in Cambridge, Mass. Since then the company has gone through changes in early leadership, an IPO and... → Read More
How Noncompetes Will Stifle Charlie Baker's Digital Health Opportunity
When Gov. Charlie Baker walked to the podium at BostInno's State of Innovation, Tuesday, you already knew he was going to talk about GE moving its headquarters to Boston. And it was a good bet... → Read More
Boston VC Rich Levandov on Sidecar, AOL and How to Invest in Dysfunctional Businesses (Q&A)
We have an incredible line-up of speakers at the Boston State of Innovation event next Tuesday. Out of all of them, there is one I was most interested in speaking with ahead of the event. Rich... → Read More
Salesforce Is Building a 'Commerce Cloud' in Boston Amid Retail's 'New Normal'
Why Demandware ($DWRE) CEO Tom Ebling thinks he can build a bigger and bigger e-commerce software business with the help of Salesforce ($CRM). → Read More
Denied IPO, Mobile App Adtech Startup Fiksu Has Been Acquired by Noosphere
Fiksu has been acquired. The venture-backed Boston adtech company, an early mover in mobile adtech focused on apps, will become part of ClickDealer, a marketing agency that focuses on... → Read More
Boston's Newest Wearables Startup Wants to Help You Exit Bad Relationships
Pplkpr is the latest quantified self startup to drop all its vowels and move into Boston's downtown Leather District. → Read More
A Husband and Wife in Tech Are Pushing a New Weapon Vs. Patent Trolls in MA
"Patent troll" is a not very nice way to say "non-practicing entity"--a company that doesn't own much except patents, and doesn't do much except sue others for allegedly infringing them. But in... → Read More
The Kraft Group Is Spinning off the Patriots' Analytics Tech as a Startup
KAGR, the Kraft Analytics Group, is going to market with business intelligence and analytics technology built for the New England Patriots. → Read More