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The map above shows the headquarter locations of the top 101 Y Combinator Companies by valuation as of October 2018. Note Strikingly is headquartered in Shanghai China and not Sunnyvale as originally published. The San Francisco Bay Area is home to the vast majority of companies (74 73 out of...
This update converts some effects to use the GPU for rendering, resulting in huge performance gains. Copy/Paste can now be performed on selections, Bicubic resampling is now available for the Move …
The next billion users are not becoming more like us. We are becoming more like them.
Spotify's direct listing IPO filing reveals how monthly churn fell from 7.7% to 5.5% as personalization and family plans drove subscriber retention at scale.
A look at a Wikipedia editor's long-running campaign to discredit anti-war campaigners and journalists
Market-networks will produce a new class of unicorn companies and impact how millions of service professionals will work and earn their living.
Blockchain technology is ultimately a dual-edge technology that can be used to either support or supplant the law. This talk looks at the impact of blockchain technology of a variety of fields (finance, contracts, organizations, etc.), and the benefits and drawbacks of blockchain-based systems.
TestMu AI launches Day Pass to help teams quickly run cross browser tests without long‑term commitments boosting flexibility and testing efficiency.
Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are rapidly expanding as a poverty-reduction strategy around the world. Following the publication of positive findings…
Read our latest post from Pay Governance Partner John R. Ellerman and Managing Partner Ira T. Kay
You may have a great idea for a business, but ideas are cheap. Will your solution connect with customers? Here's the story of how we started Backblaze.
Folks lauded today that Microsoft has joined the Open Invention Network (OIN)'s limited patent non-aggression pact, suggesting that perhaps it will bring peace in our time regarding Microsoft's historical patent aggression. While today's announcement is a step forward, we call on Microsoft to make this just the…
What if we got the business model of the web wrong?
Does the Wirecutter offers unbiased real reviews? Not even close. This story is about a little company taking on a fake review site owned by the NY Times.
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One of the most controversial updates to the 2011 Scrum Guide has been the removal of the term “commit” in favor of “forecast” in regards to the work selected for a Sprint. We used to say that the Development Team commits to which Product Backlog Items it will deliver by the end of the Sprint. Scrum now encourages the…
Back in the early 1980s, Dr. David DeWitt – who you might know from past PASS Summit keynotes, formerly of Microsoft (LinkedIn) – was working on measuring database performance. His team wrote a benchmark, ran it against Oracle, and Oracle didn’t fare well in the results. Oracle reacted as one would expect – they were…
Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool
In the last few days there have been several stories about the sentencing of Eric Lundgren in a case that began in 2012, and we have received a number of questions about this case and our role in it. Although the case was not one that we brought, the questions raised recently have caused us...
Quarterly Bulletin 2014 Q1
Despite some ups and downs over the past several decades, today's real average wage in the U.S. has about the same purchasing power it did 40 years ago. And most of what wage gains there have been have flowed to the highest-paid tier of workers.
Human trafficking leaves no land untouched. In 2013 the U.S. State Department estimated that there are 27 million victims worldwide trafficked for forced labor or commercial sex exploitation. A 201…
While the size of the U.S. middle class remained relatively stable between 2002 and 2016, financial gains for middle-income Americans were modest compared with those of higher-income households.
