Anna Hensel
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New York, NY, United States
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Heartland Ventures is bringing Silicon Valley VCs to Indiana
Heartland Ventures, an Indana-based venture capital firm, is leading Silicon Valley investors on a tour of the state as they consider Midwest investments. → Read More
Thumbtack partners with Alia to bring benefits to independent contractors, starting with cleaners
Thumbtack is partnering with Alia, which helps house cleaners access benefits like paid time off, as it explores ways to offer benefits to more contractors. → Read More
Ann Arbor and Memphis are among the top cities for female founders raising their first round
A new study found that female-founded startups made up 21 percent of companies that raised an initial VC round in 2017, compared to 7 percent in 2005. → Read More
Documents show how Google used shell companies to keep datacenter negotiations quiet
Documents obtained in a lawsuit against the city of San Jose show the lengths Google will go to to keep details about new datacenters under wraps. → Read More
Amazon only has itself to blame for its failed New York campus
Amazon's Long Island City campus was dead on arrival, after the company negotiated with New York officials for more than a year in secrecy. → Read More
Amazon cancels New York HQ2 plans
Just three months after Amazon announced it would bring 25,000 jobs to New York, the ecommerce giant is shelving those plans. → Read More
Heartland Tech Weekly: Why Amazon won’t drop its New York expansion plans
If Amazon truly believed that any other city could handle 25,000 tech jobs, then why wouldn't it have gone somewhere that was also offering them more tax breaks? → Read More
Google commits $13 billion for U.S. datacenters and offices in 2019
Google says that for the second year in a row, it's growing faster outside the Bay Area than in it. Here's where the company will be investing in 2019. → Read More
Jack Dorsey’s ‘chaotic’ interview proves Twitter will never be the place for deep conversations
Jack Dorsey's interview with Recode's Kara Swisher was hard to follow. But Twitter's UX issues aren't the only thing making it hard for users to converse. → Read More
Seattle’s VC firms raised more new funds in 2018 than they had in 10 years
Seattle is adding more new VC firms, as the city is adding more tech jobs than San Francisco. But, seed stage capital remains hard to come by. → Read More
Instagram may soon get direct messages for the web
As Facebook is making messaging a key priority for 2019, Instagram is testing out the ability for sending direct messages on the web. → Read More
Amazon reportedly reconsiders New York expansion
'Two officials familiar with [Amazon's] thinking told the Washington Post that it may not bring 25,000 jobs to New York City afterall. → Read More
Businesses can now respond to Instagram messages from Facebook, starting in the U.S. and Brazil
It's a small but important change as Facebook is trying to make it easier for businesses to toggle between the company's various apps. → Read More
Facebook logged a user into someone else’s account with a recycled phone number
Telecom providers recycle millions of phone numbers every year, which creates an added security risk for users who rely on their phone for login purposes. → Read More
Twitter reports record revenue of $909 million in Q4 2018 despite losing 5 million monthly users
Twitter lost monthly active users for the third consecutive quarter, but says increases in monetizable daily active users show its strategy is working. → Read More
Heartland Tech Weekly: Square’s Jim McKelvey says universities still crucial for tech education
Nearly 10 years on, Square cofounder Jim McKelvey is back in St. Louis as the founder of LaunchCode and Invisibly - and a major donor to the city's Washington University. → Read More
Snap reports revenue of $390 million, up 36% as DAUs remain flat at 186 million
For the first time in two quarters, Snap is no longer losing daily active users, and it generated more revenue than Wall Street expected. → Read More
Facebook Messenger finally gets an ‘unsend‘ feature
Messenger first announced it was working on an unsend feature for everyone after it was revealed that CEO Mark Zuckerberg had the ability to do so. → Read More
In ‘Zucked’, early Facebook investor Roger McNamee explains why he turned against the company
Early Facebook investor Roger McNamee has a new book out called Zucked, in which he details his two-year-crusade warning about the dangers of social media. → Read More
Facebook’s 15th birthday is clouded by controversies and concerns
As Facebook turns 15, the most important thing is not what the company has accomplished, but how the environment it's operating in has changed. → Read More