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Mirthless posted:You gotta admit it's kind of weird that an advertising company owned a bunch of robotics startups Android creator and top-notch hire Andy Rubin had a long-term plan about how to integrate and use all the robotics stuff he bought. Unfortunately, when he walked, nobody else did.
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Pebble laid off 25% yesterday(ish?), I'm trying to keep a list of companies that have been scaling back on some level, some via news announcements and some through my network: Pebble Zenefits Yahoo VMWare DoorDash SurveyMonkey LivingSocial AutoDesk MixPanel Instacart KaBam EMC Pivotal Optimizely Tango NetApp HomeJoy Avid Sidecar Zynga Evernote Cisco Obviously not all are startups, some are big time enterprise companies. This also has a bunch of startups that have recently(ish) failed: http://autopsy.io/ mitztronic fucked around with this message at 16:45 on Mar 25, 2016 |
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My memory sucks; have we already mentioned Valeant's CEO resigning Monday?
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DOOP posted:I work at a chemical plant that's owned by a law firm They get weirder, I work for a prison telco vendor that's owned by a car rental company.
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Josh Lyman posted:Snapchat just bought Bitmoji for $100 million. I sure hope that's mostly stock. Hard to tell.
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Josh Lyman posted:Snapchat just bought Bitmoji for $100 million. Anyone learning about bitmoji from this thread, please post your impressions of dawning disgust.
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Is there an anime equivalent of Bitmoji? Asking for a friend.
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We're those the little cartoons everyone on FB posted for about a week before it got super annoying and caused Zuckerberg to write a way to ignore it?
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You guys shouldn't be surprised about 100 mil for bitmoji. I mean, poo poo, what was paid out for Instagram?
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FilthyImp posted:We're those the little cartoons everyone on FB posted for about a week before it got super annoying and caused Zuckerberg to write a way to ignore it? there are other little cartoons on facebook that haven't gone away, and  at the increasingly excessively detailed smilies ("emoticons" or "emojis" are terrible words) for people with no taste and stunted emotional development
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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blowfish posted:there are other little cartoons on facebook that haven't gone away, and Man, we were really ahead of the curve on this one. 
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Doc Hawkins posted:Anyone learning about bitmoji from this thread, please post your impressions of dawning disgust. I hadn't heard of it before now; I can get why people might like it and how it fits into what I think Snapchat does (not that I'm really clear on that, either). Why I don't understand is why Snapchat would rather buy it for $100M than duplicate the functionality for what I imagine must be possible for a tiny fraction of the cost.
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mitztronic posted:Pebble laid off 25% yesterday(ish?), I'm trying to keep a list of companies that have been scaling back on some level, some via news announcements and some through my network: The fintech space is going to be rapidly adding notches to this belt. I'm at one of the lending startups and we laid off ~20% a month ago because the burn rate was too drat high but uh we're doomed and I'm looking for a way out. Much of the space is expanding deeper into subprime, and we all know how heavy exposure to that plays out.
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Anyone have a clear idea of the status of Box? I want to get my stuff out before it collapses.
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Discendo Vox posted:Anyone have a clear idea of the status of Box? I want to get my stuff out before it collapses. They announced a  strong fourth quarter for 2015quote:We have a history of cumulative losses, and we do not expect to be profitable for the foreseeable future. Edit: Silly me, that's from their stock filings and not their strong quarter announcement. 
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Tetraptous posted:I hadn't heard of it before now; I can get why people might like it and how it fits into what I think Snapchat does (not that I'm really clear on that, either). Why I don't understand is why Snapchat would rather buy it for $100M than duplicate the functionality for what I imagine must be possible for a tiny fraction of the cost. Some combination of ~ideas people~ and ~brand identity~ I imagine.
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Tetraptous posted:I hadn't heard of it before now; I can get why people might like it and how it fits into what I think Snapchat does (not that I'm really clear on that, either). Why I don't understand is why Snapchat would rather buy it for $100M than duplicate the functionality for what I imagine must be possible for a tiny fraction of the cost. The answer to this is always that they aren't buying the technology, they're buying the user base.
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Discendo Vox posted:Anyone have a clear idea of the status of Box? I want to get my stuff out before it collapses. I wouldn't worry too much about that (you should always have local copies anyway), one of the majors will buy the corpse (and all your data) for a bag of nickels.
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duz posted:The answer to this is always that they aren't buying the technology, they're buying the user base. Which will be monetised... how and when?
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blowfish posted:Which will be monetised... how and when? When the investors see the increased user base and dump more money on them.
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duz posted:The answer to this is always that they aren't buying the technology, they're buying the user base.
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redscare posted:The fintech space is going to be rapidly adding notches to this belt. I'm at one of the lending startups and we laid off ~20% a month ago because the burn rate was too drat high but uh we're doomed and I'm looking for a way out. Much of the space is expanding deeper into subprime, and we all know how heavy exposure to that plays out. What exactly is fintech? I've read so much of the yospos bitcoin thread that seeing "disrupt" and "banking" makes me instantly suspicious.
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AFAIK it's basically any new startup-y tech that involves money as the main product or service.
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blowfish posted:Which will be monetised... how and when? 
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I think Bitmoji does ad tie ins, like the latest Calvin Klein collection for your avatar or something.
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Neo Rasa posted:My favorite parts are how shocked they are by the bamboo scaffolding as opposed to "traditional metal" like nothing more than five feet high was built ever built by humanity before aluminum or glass fibre hybrid and this sentence: "It was a great meal, but felt very foreign." Been there! I talk about the bamboo scaffolding, but in the context of "for every finished building there are 4 or 5 being built. You have no idea how insane it is to see a city being built that fast." It's changed a lot in the 7 years since I was last there. The massive, empty roadways are now packed with cars (and the air quality has gotten a lot worse). Working with them for 11 or 12 years now, it's sometimes really challenging and sometimes really rewarding. Absurd Alhazred posted:Unless they can demonstrate that they had a viable trademark interest in the Node.js stack before he wrote the Kik library in that context, how is what he did illegal? Whether or not a court would have sided with Kik on this is immaterial - NPM unilaterally gave his project ownership to Kik without court involvement. Anyone who was using it was now subject to a completely different author putting anything they wanted in it's place - including keeping it mostly as-is but adding in a trojan to steal confidential information from their database. The original author realized what a horrible policy this was and removed everything else he'd ever done from such a malicious site. It just turned out that most of the internet (Including, hilariously enough, Kik) built their websites using one very popular module of his. Queue the gigantic explosion when everyone everywhere who used node.js finds they can't build/deploy due to this. Things gone horribly wrong: * Kik using a vague legalistic threat instead of either asking nicely or actually lawyering up. Doubly so when there is no reasonable way to comply with their demand due to the massive impact it has on everyone else. * NPM having a flat namespace (requires ownership transfer and means anyone using Kik suddenly got Kik from another source) * NPM thinking it was a court of law * NPM making it neigh-impossible to use any other way than "always download from our servers to make ourselves indispensable to the entire internet" * The reliance on micro-modules, including ones as small as a single line of code (Downloaded 88 million times per month) * The existence of "Un-publishing" at all when doing so would break dependencies - that's what "You give us a right to distribute in perpetuity" policies are supposed to fix. * Un-publishing making the module up-for-grabs so any Russian botnet could inject a trojan into millions of websites. Ashley Madison on literally every social media site all at once. It's only the massive attention this attracted that prevented it. * Kik posting an article about it on Medium defending their actions instead of apologizing for how much they hosed everyone. * loving Facebook using and releasing a framework that relies on a third party 11-line helper function instead of writing it themselves. The whole thing is a great reminder of how dumb and fragile the tech startup ~~~disruptor~~~ system really is. Harik fucked around with this message at 02:51 on Mar 26, 2016 |
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Jesus loving christ: http://recode.net/2016/03/24/snapchat-is-buying-bitstrips-the-company-that-turns-you-into-an-emoji/ quote:Snapchat Is Buying Bitstrips, the Company That Turns You Into an Emoji In the "ballpark of $100 million". Probably stock but what in the ever loving Christ is happening.
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Less Fat Luke posted:Jesus loving christ:
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Josh Lyman posted:Literally this entire page, buddy.
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Always growth, never maturity. Bring it into the ecosystem. Spinning, ever spinning.
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Shifty Pony posted:What exactly is fintech? I've read so much of the yospos bitcoin thread that seeing "disrupt" and "banking" makes me instantly suspicious. Basically any tech "thing" that's for money instead of whatever. The most visible subsegment is online B2C lending (Lending Club, SoFi, etc) but there are also B2B lenders, investment/money management apps like Acorns/Mint/Betterment/Wealthfront, new mortgage entrants like Rocket Mortgage, plus whatever else can skirt existing regulations. The basic idea is "banking, but easier/more modern. Most will go bankrupt or get bought by existing financial institutions. Bitcoin isn't disrupting poo poo.
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I don't know, it seems to be an easy way to transfer money for illegal activites, since it's anonymous, untraceable, and irreversible. The transaction costs are high, but less than traditional money laundering.
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menino posted:Always growth, never maturity. Bring it into the ecosystem. Spinning, ever spinning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rup3EdA0kw
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Flickr used to be fantastic. However, it dove into the shitter as soon as Yahoo decided it needed to be overhauled. For example, they gave it a slick look. Problem was, that "slick look" made it just awkward enough to use that I stopped using it. Time was, you'd load some photos, and you simply flip from page 1 to 2 to 3. But then they put in that idiotic "infinite scroll" horseshit that slowed down the page and was worse to use in every way. I seem to recall that it also became more awkward to do basic things like searching by tag, etc. Mayer is just a terrible CEO. Yahoo may have been embattled, but just about every affirmative step the company has taken has been inane.
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Konstantin posted:I don't know, it seems to be an easy way to transfer money for illegal activites, since it's anonymous, untraceable, and irreversible. The transaction costs are high, but less than traditional money laundering. Yeah but it's sometimes hard to cash out and not as anonymous as most users think because once you put in or take out any money you put your name and/or bank account number to a traceable chain of transactions, not counting insanity like meeting some crackhead with a bag full of amazon gift cards in a parking lot and hoping you don't get stabbed.
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There are some b2b fintech startups doing cool stuff e.g. kensho Centre of gravity of the fintech world is probably NY these days
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TheWeepingHorse posted:Flickr used to be fantastic. However, it dove into the shitter as soon as Yahoo decided it needed to be overhauled. For example, they gave it a slick look. Problem was, that "slick look" made it just awkward enough to use that I stopped using it. Time was, you'd load some photos, and you simply flip from page 1 to 2 to 3. But then they put in that idiotic "infinite scroll" horseshit that slowed down the page and was worse to use in every way. I seem to recall that it also became more awkward to do basic things like searching by tag, etc. The search was completely ruined by the infinite search, but they brought back pagination on people's photostreams. I guess making it a giant pain in the rear end to browse a specific person's photos was bad enough that even the yahoos realized that.
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Josh Lyman posted:Can't we all agree that VR porn is going to be the killer app? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv5NJqOEXkY
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