Benjamin Pimentel
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Flexport is buying Deliverr from Shopify. Here's the pitch deck the startup used to raise its $40 million Series C and become an acquisition target for some of the biggest names in e-commerce.
Amazon Prime has gotten people used to fast, free shipping. Deliverr wants to help online stores do it for their customers, too. → Read More
EX//TECH: Tech's Season of Broken Banks
Tech’s season of broken banks began with Silvergate, the crypto bank that had been teetering for months. Then came the sudden, shocking meltdown of Silicon Valley Bank, the startup world’s go-to bank for four decades. A third failure, Signature Bank, another key crypto player, was unceremoniously shut down by the feds on Sunday. → Read More
Facebook parent Meta is eliminating another 10K employees
Facebook is slashing more jobs. Meta, the tech giant’s parent company, said it is eliminating an additional 10,000 employees on top of the 11,000 workers laid off late last year. → Read More
‘Silicon Valley Bank was scarier. Silvergate was uglier.’
Michele and Konrad Alt, founders of Klaros Group, discuss the implications of the bank failures. → Read More
Silicon Valley Bank's stock plunges 60%
The bank known for helping launch tech startups has reeled from the downturn and rising interest rates. → Read More
Major crypto bank Silvergate is shutting down
Silvergate announced that it was liquidating the crypto bank which became the latest casualty of the crypto market downturn. → Read More
Salesforce pulls a surprise. Its stock soared
Salesforce shares soared after the tech giant beat expectations. → Read More
Dropped out of Stanford to hunt blockchain money launderers
TRM Labs CEO Esteban Castano recalls crypto startup's quirky journey. → Read More
Chip giant Nvidia emerges as key AI player as stock surges
Nvidia is seen playing a key role in the AI craze. → Read More
Google's AI blunder erases $100 billion in value
A glitch in Google's AI chatbot rollout caused the tech giant's stock to plummet. → Read More
Google unveils ChatGPT rival in AI counteroffensive
Google unveiled a new AI chatbot called Bard, challenging ChatGPT. → Read More
A Palo Alto startup helps you cook like a professional chef with help from AI
Two years ago, chef Thomas Zacharias showed up at a Bombay kitchen for an unusual cooking session. As he was making his famous recipe for Kerala vegetable stew, a network of sensors and cameras recorded everything he was doing. When he was done, an engineer with CloudChef recreated the dish aided by the digital information culled from the recording of Zacharias’s culinary skills. The chef was… → Read More
Silicon Valley legend John Chambers says serial tech layoffs are a bad idea
Tech companies are doing multiple rounds of layoffs. That's a bad idea, Silicon Valley legend John Chambers said in a conversation with The Examiner. → Read More
ChatGPT triggers Microsoft, Google billion-dollar AI brawl
Microsoft is making a massive investment in OpenAI, the San Francisco maker of ChatGPT, the groundbreaking AI software that has taken the tech industry by storm. → Read More
Microsoft joins tech layoff trend by slashing 10,000 workers
Microsoft joined the tech layoff trend on Wednesday saying it is eliminating about 10,000 jobs as the corporate behemoth reels from an economic downturn. → Read More
Crypto contagion is spreading two months after FTX collapse
Crypto contagion is spreading two months after FTX collapse → Read More
How ChatCPT could help amateur cyberhackers
Even notice cyber crooks are getting in on the act. → Read More
Coinbase to slash nearly 1000 jobs
The job cuts come just six months after Coinbase eliminated 18% of its workforce. → Read More
OpenAI of the ChatGPT craze is now tech’s hottest startup
San Francisco startup is reportedly raising capital at a whopping $30 billion valuation. → Read More
Stitch Fix cutting 20% of workforce as CEO resigns
The company also announced that CEO Elizabeth Spaulding is stepping down. → Read More