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Managed By Q launches a new task management feature for office managers –
Managed By Q, the office management platform recently acquired by WeWork, has today announced the launch of Task Management. The feature comes to Managed By Q by way of Hivy, a startup acquired by MBQ back in 2017, that focuses on connecting a company’s employees to the office manager that handles their requests. Pre-Hivy, collecting […] → Read More
Confirmed: Pax Labs raises $420 million at a valuation of $1.7 billion
Pax Labs, the popular vape maker, has today confirmed the close of a $420 million equity round, including from existing investors Tiger Global Management and Tao Capital Partners, and new investors including Prescott General Partners. → Read More
Original Content podcast: On ‘Guava Island,’ Donald Glover mixes music and politics
It was hard to know what to expect from “Guava Island. → Read More
Uber, Lyft implement new safety measures
Uber and Lyft instituted new safety features and policies this week. The move follows the death of Samantha Josephson, a student at the University of South Carolina, who was kidnapped and murdered in late March. → Read More
Lyric raises $160 million Series B led by Airbnb
Lyric, a platform for folks who struggle to decide between a hotel and an Airbnb, has today announced the close of a $160 million Series B financing led by none other than Airbnb . → Read More
Adobe launches an Adobe XD accelerator to woo developers
The design world is in a state of full-fledged competition. Never in history have designers and their respective teams had so many options to choose from. → Read More
Original Content podcast: Making sense of the surreal terrors in Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’
Jordan Peele fans who go to his latest film “Us” hoping to find another “Get Out” may be disappointed: Where Peele’s directorial debut lent itself to straightforward political allegory, the follow-up feels murkier and stranger. “Us” is a nightmarish journey… → Read More
Juul launches a pilot program that tracks how Juul devices get in the hands of minors
Juul Labs is today launching a pilot for its new Track & Trace program, which is meant to use data to identify exactly how Juul devices wind up in the hands of minors. Juul vaporizers all have a serial number down at the bottom, by the Juul logo. → Read More
Lemonade picks up $300 million Series D led by SoftBank Group
Lemonade, the insurance startup founded by Daniel Schreiber and Shai Wininger, has today announced a $300 million Series D financing led by the SoftBank Group, with participation from Allianz, General Catalyst, GV, OurCrowd and Thrive Capital. → Read More
Esports org OverActive Media gets investment from The Weeknd
OverActive Media, the company that owns Splyce esports org and the Overwatch League’s Toronto Defiant team, have announced that The Weeknd (real name: Abel Tesfaye) has invested in the company. → Read More
InVision announces new integrations with Jira
Today InVision announced even deeper integrations with Jira, letting users embed actual InVision prototypes right within a Jira ticket. → Read More
Democratic Senators question Juul about its Altria deal
Eleven democratic senators, led by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), have penned a letter to Juul Labs, asking a series of questions around the product’s marketing, its effectiveness as a tool to help people quit smoking combustible cigarettes, sales figures, and perhaps most importantly, more informa… → Read More
WeWork acquires Managed By Q
Managed By Q, the office management platform based out of New York, has today been acquired by The We Company, formerly known as WeWork. Financial terms were not disclosed. The WSJ reports that it was a cash and stock deal. → Read More
Home buying and selling platform Perch raises $220M in debt and equity
Perch, a home-buying and selling platform, has raised $220 million in a combination of equity ($20M) to fund operations and debt ($200M) to finance home purchasing. → Read More
Original Content podcast: ‘The Inventor’ offers a compelling overview of the Theranos saga
The story of how blood testing company Theranos rose to prominence, then collapsed following accusations of fraud, is getting told and retold in many forms: There’s reporter John Carreyrou’s book “Bad Blood,” plus an upcoming feature film adaptation starring Jennifer Lawrenc… → Read More
The best and worst April Fools’ jokes from around the web
The tech world sure does love a good prank. While some sat out on April Fools’, a number of big tech companies embraced the opportunity to waste time this way. → Read More
User Interviews, a platform for product feedback, raises $5 million
It’s not uncommon to hear CEOs and business leaders talk about focusing on the consumer. But the only way to build for the consumer is to hear what they want, which can be a resource-intensive thing to retrieve. → Read More
EA lays off 350 people
Though Apex Legends continues to be a bright spot for EA, the game publisher and the industry as a whole still have hurdles ahead. Today, EA confirmed that it laid off 350 people in marketing, publishing and other departments. → Read More
Original Content podcast: ‘Triple Frontier’ sends famous faces on a grim hike over the Andes
Even by the standards of the often, ah, “wide-ranging” conversations on the Original Content podcast, this latest episode covers a lot of ground. The initial focus is “Triple Frontier,” a film directed by J.C. → Read More
All the videos from Apple’s big media event
Video served as both form and function today at Apple’s media event, and the company wasn’t stingy with classic Apple event videos. → Read More