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Hi, happy Thursday, all. We have to zoom off sort of abruptly today so we may be missing something juicy in today’s newsletter. If so, we’ll get you caught up tomorrow morning. Top News In a company email earlier today, Twitter cited “technical and business constraints” as the reason behind a new shutdown of third-party APIs. The move […]

Happy Wednesday! Top News Y Combinator is expanding to China after a year or two of dropping hints about such plans. Toward that end, it announced the hiring last night of former Microsoft and Baidu executive Qi Lu, who will develop a standalone startup program that runs on Chinese soil. TechCrunch has more here.  Uber just reported its second quarter financials, […]

Tuesday! We’re keeping things on the (slightly) shorter side today as we’re very under the weather — the product, no doubt, of spending time last week in a variety of germ-infested venues, including one giant amusement park. Below, you can see us having the bejeebers scared out of us at said park, along with one […]

Hello, happy Monday! We’re back from our quick break and already insanely busy, so no column today, *but* a quick programming note about our September 25th event in San Francisco before we jump into things. In addition to interviews with James Monsees and Adam Bowen,the founders who designed the Juul vaporizer that’s taking over the world; and founder David Rogier of MasterClass, which has fast become the […]

Friday. Looks like we made it.  Hope you have a most wonderful weekend, everyone, and week. We’ll see you Monday, August 13th, when we’re back from a quick vacation from our computer screen.:) Top News Peloton, a six-year-old, New York-based company that makes a $2,000 stationary bicycle and charges its sticky customer base $39 a month […]

Hello! Happy Thursday.:) Top News Cisco says it’s paying $2.35 billion in cash and equity awards for eight-year-old, Ann Arbor, Mi-based Duo Security, a company that sells cloud-based tools to prevent security breaches on devices. Duo, which employs 700 people, had raised $121 million from investors, including GV, True Ventures, and Redpoint. TechCrunch has more on what happens next here.  It happened. Apple jus won the race […]

August! Holy smokes. Quick mention/reminder: we’re on a workation at the moment (a truly terrible idea — do not do this). Meanwhile, next week, we’re taking an actual vacation, meaning we’re shutting down SVC for five days. We’ll miss you, but it has to happen. We’ll resume our normal publishing schedule on Monday, August 16th.:) […]

Hello, and happy Tuesday.:) We have to keep things short and sweet today as we’re juggling a little bit. More tomorrow . . . Top News Facebook says it has identified a coordinated political influence campaign, with dozens of inauthentic accounts and pages that are believed to be engaging in political activity ahead of November’s midterm […]

Hi, happy Monday, all. Hope your week is off to a good start.:) Top News Tech shares are losing momentum right now. The Nasdaq Composite Index sank 1.4 percent today, posting its biggest three-day loss since March. The FANG cohort (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google) tumbled almost 3 percent, leaving the group down more than 9 percent since […]

Friday! [Rides bicycle into sunset.] Hope you have a terrific weekend, everyone. We’ll see you Monday.:) If you’re looking for a distraction in the next couple of days, this week’s “Equity” podcast, with our charming co-hosts Alex Wilhelm of Crunchbase News and Matthew Lynley of TechCrunch, along with the very funny Alexis Ohanian of both […]