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Finance
Robinhood offers $15 discount, blames outage on record trades
It wasn’t the leap year, a coding blip, or a hack that caused Robinhood’s massive outages yesterday and today that…
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STARTUPS
Rippling starts billboard battle with Gusto
Remember when Zenefits imploded, and kicked out CEO Parker Conrad. Well, Conrad launched a new employee onboarding startup called Rippling,…
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Trends
Xerox sweetens HP offer to $24 per share as take-over drama continues
Ever since Xerox set its sights on HP last November, the companies have been engaged in an ongoing battle. Xerox…
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Xerox wants to replace HP board that rejected takeover bid
In Xerox’s latest effort to get HP to bend to its will and combine the two companies, it announced its…
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Away CEO is stepping down in light of reports of toxic culture
Away CEO Steph Korey is stepping down following The Verge’s report of toxic culture at the luggage startup. Taking her…
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Google employees will rally in protest of alleged worker retaliation
Google is under fire again for its treatment of employees. Tomorrow, a group of Google employees is holding a rally…
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AWS confirms reports it will challenge JEDI contract award to Microsoft
Surely just about everyone was surprised when the Department of Defense last month named Microsoft as the winner of the…
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Lightspeed co-founder Chris Schaepe is out over college admissions scandal, after being exposed by sports blogger
Silicon Valley venture capitalist Chris Schaepe is out at Lightspeed Venture Partners, after telling his partners about having hired Rick…
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Slack says it will comply with sanctions and block Iran-based activity, apologizes for botched first effort
Slack has apologized after it shut down the accounts of users who have visited Iran following a poorly executed effort…
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