Wine-by-the-glass subscription service Vinebox raises $5.9 million
One SF startup wants you to get home from a day at work and polish off a bottle of wine by yourself. Vinebox isn’t really trying to get you wasted… Read more »
Day: January 18, 2019
Salesforce is building new tower in Dublin and adding hundreds of jobs
Salesforce put the finishing touches on a tower in San Francisco last year. In October, it announced Salesforce Tower in Atlanta and today it was Dublin’s turn. Everyone gets a tower. Salesforce… Read more »
Sony venture arm invests in geocoding startup what3words
Sony’s venture capital arm has invested in what3words, the startup that has divided the entire world into 57 trillion 3-by-3 meter squares and assigned a three-word address to each one…. Read more »
Alphabet’s Verily scores FDA clearance for its ECG monitor
Big week for Google wearable news — which, honestly, is not a phrase I expected to write in 2019. But a day after the company announced an agreement to purchase… Read more »
Corruption at DJI may cost the company $150 million
DJI, the world’s leading maker of consumer drones, said today that extensive corruption discovered within the company could lead to losses as great as $150 million in the 2018 financial… Read more »
Where are The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s children?
Midge Maisel’s kids don’t really fit her new life. So the show ignores them completely. Midge Maisel can do it all. She tells jokes. She cooks brisket. She charms the… Read more »
The shutdown’s effect on the US economy, explained
“The longer it goes on, the bigger the risk is of broader damage.” The government shutdown isn’t catastrophic for the US economy on a broad level — at least not… Read more »
Democrats’ impeachment agita, explained
Party leaders wanted to wait for Mueller. Events may not cooperate. When it comes to the potential impeachment of President Donald Trump, House Democrats have desperately been trying to take… Read more »
Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un to meet for second nuclear summit within weeks, White House confirms
DONALD Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un are set for a second summit in February in a bid to avert nuclear war. News of the meeting with the reclusive dictator came… Read more »
Tyson Fury vs Deontay Wilder II set for April 27 or early May, says Frank Warren
TYSON FURY vs Deontay Wilder II is set for April 27 or early May, according to the Gypsy King’s promoter Frank Warren. The WBC heavyweight clash is also set to… Read more »
Netflix reveals Bandersnatch ending most viewers chose and says Brits were least likely to throw tea over Stefan’s computer
NETFLIX has revealed the Bandersnatch endings most people choose – explaining that brew-loving Brits were the least likely to take the option of flinging tea over Stefan’s computer. The Black… Read more »
Emmerdale fans convinced Matty was the one who told police Cain ‘murdered’ Joe Tate
EMMERDALE fans are convinced Cain Dingle’s step-son Matty Barton will call the police on him after he witnesses his step-dad push his mum Moira around. Viewers of the show took… Read more »
UK weather forecast: Britain faces -8C CHILLER tonight before more snow tomorrow as Met Office warns it’s going to get COLDER – see where with our map
BRITS face -8C chills tonight and more snow tomorrow as the Met Office warns it’s going to get even colder. Around two inches of snow is set to fall with… Read more »
NRC Debunks Sale of Tickets Online
By Kasim Sumaina in Abuja The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has debunked the ‘fake news’ making the rounds on the social media that it had commenced the sale of online… Read more »
Melaye Gets Bail on Health Grounds
FCT High Court, Maitama, on Friday granted bail to Sen. Dino Melaye on health grounds. Melaye, representing Kogi West in the National Assembly had been in police custody since Jan…. Read more »
Buhari Promises to Find Lasting Solution to Herders-Farmers’ Violence
By Omololu Ogunmade in Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari Friday in Abuja appealed to cattle herders and farmers throughout the country to accommodate and tolerate one another, saying his administration was… Read more »
FG Accuses Atiku of N156m Fraud
*Says ex-VP has questions to answer when he returns from US By Omololu Ogunmade in Abuja Twenty-four hours after former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential… Read more »
Don’t Put Buhari Under Undue Pressure, Secondus Tells APC, Cabals
By Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, has warned the All Progressives Congress (APC) and those he called the ‘presidency… Read more »
Veteran Googler heads to Lyft to lead 1,000-plus person engineering team
Eisar Lipkovitz, a veteran Google executive who most recently led the video and display advertising team there, is leaving the company to head up engineering efforts at Lyft . As… Read more »
Reserve your demo table today for the TechCrunch Winter Party at Galvanize
There are just three short weeks until Silicon Valley’s startup community takes a night off to relax, connect and get down at the 2nd Annual TechCrunch Winter Party at Galvanize…. Read more »
Facebook is secretly building LOL, a cringey teen meme hub
How do you do, fellow kids? After Facebook Watch, Lasso, and IGTV failed to become hits with teens, the company has been quietly developing another youthful video product. Multiple sources… Read more »
Backing Culture Genesis, T.I. launches Tech Cypha, an investment syndicate for tech deals
With an inaugural investment into the Los Angeles-based entertainment startup Culture Genesis, Clifford Harris Jr., who’s better known as “T.I.”, has launched a new syndicated investment vehicle called Tech Cypha. Launched by… Read more »
Google starts pulling unvetted Android apps that access call logs and SMS messages
Google is removing apps from Google Play that request permission to access call logs and SMS text message data but haven’t been manually vetted by Google staff. The search and mobile… Read more »
Trump’s shutdown tactics borrow from the Freedom Caucus
How the ultraconservative House faction may have influenced the current border wall spending fight. When President Donald Trump declared last month that he was willing to risk a partial government… Read more »
Watch: White House spokesperson repeatedly declines to deny that Trump directed Cohen to lie to Congress
Even Fox News found it suspicious. The White House hasn’t denied a bombshell BuzzFeed report by Jason Leopold and Anthony Cormier alleging that President Donald Trump directed his longtime lawyer… Read more »
Can Americans learn to love ugly fruits and vegetables?
$160 billion worth of produce in the US gets tossed every year. Misfits Markets wants you to eat ugly produce instead. When shopping for produce, it’s only natural to pick… Read more »
Science funding is a mess. Could grant lotteries make it better?
We might be better off funding scientific research by choosing projects at random. Here’s why. Science has a funding crisis. Nearly all academic researchers in the sciences rely on outside… Read more »
“The world doesn’t fit me”: a new memoir chronicles everyday life at 460 pounds
Writer Tommy Tomlinson on battling obesity. “All of us … have this disconnect between the face we put out to the world and the one we wear alone. I try… Read more »
What is the Netflix Turn Up Charlie UK release date, who’s in the cast with Idris Elba and what’s it about?
IT’S not quite James Bond, but Idris Elba is taking on a new role in upcoming Netflix comedy Turn Up Charlie. Here’s what we know about the new series… Idris… Read more »
What is The Umbrella Academy UK release date on Netflix, who’s in the cast with Ellen Page and what’s it about?
COMIC book fans can rejoice at The Umbrella Academy coming to their screens. Here’s everything you need to know about the new series starring Ellen Page and how to catch… Read more »