Trailers of the week: Minecraft, Elio, and Alien: Earth
SULTAN JANAN This week, I went to a theater to watch a showing of the black-and-white version of Johnny Mnemonic, starring Keanu Reeves. Old-heads like me may recall it as a bad…
November 24, 2024
Entrepreneur Marc Lore on ‘founder mode,’ bad hires, and why avoiding risk is deadly
Entrepreneur Marc Lore has already sold two companies for billions of dollars, collectively. Now he plans to take his food delivery and take-out business Wonder public in a couple of…
Tech CEOs want to replicate Tim Cook’s Donald Trump playbook
Instead of sending government relations executives or lobbyists, Cook would appeal to Trump directly through phone calls and meals, said people familiar with the interactions. Cook then developed a meeting…
Apple will never stop thinking about making a TV
It’s not exactly a secret that Apple has explored the possibility of building a television. Before his death in 2011, co-founder Steve Jobs famously told biographer Walter Isaacson that he’d…
Australian government drops misinformation bill
The Australian government has withdrawn a bill that would have fined online platforms up to 5 percent of their global revenue if they failed to stop the spread of misinformation.…
Apple’s movie theater beef with Hollywood is getting worse
Wolfs director Jon Watts told Collider on Friday that he didn’t think a sequel to the George Clooney and Brad Pitt movie, which Apple had already greenlit, would be happening.…
Latin America fintech will be a market to watch in 2025
Heading into 2024, Mike Packer, a partner at fintech-focused QED Investors, predicted we’d hit the bottom for funding to Latin American fintech startups during the year. While momentum wasn’t a…
13 Best Toiletry Bags, Tested and Reviewed (2024)
There were multiple great bags we tried whose features or designs just didn’t add up to a place in the top spots above. However, everyone has something different they’re looking…
Nintendo’s terrific Switch Pro Controller is $20 off through Black Friday
Although there are many great third-party gamepads available, the Switch Pro Controller remains the best all-around controller for Nintendo’s aging console. It’s much more comfortable to use a full-size controller…
Executive assistants, high salaries, and other ways early-stage founders will trigger a seed VC
VC Jenny Fielding, co-founder of Everywhere Ventures and former Techstars managing director, was basically trolling on X when she posted, “Y’all have strong opinions about pre-seed founders who have EAs…