DYLAN TWENEY
Dylan Tweney

Dylan Tweney

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VentureBeat

What to Think Ep. 37: Can Marissa Mayer save Yahoo?

Nicholas Carlson, the chief correspondent for Business Insider, has just published a book that goes deep into Yahoo under Marissa Mayer. Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo has details such as Mayer’s first day at work and her showdowns with activist investors and truculent executives. We brou
Dylan Tweney 2 min read
Media Appearances

I talk to Fox Business about CES 2015

Wearables will be everywhere at CES, I said last week on the eve of the big gadget show. “Everyone wants to be the next Apple watch,” I told Fox Business, “but unfortunately we’re going to have to wait for the Apple Watch to come out.” And as everyone knows, Apple doesn’t do CES. I also […]
Dylan Tweney 1 min read
VentureBeat

Dylan’s Desk: Four trends to watch in the coming year

It’s the traditional time for journalists to take a look at the past year, extend the trendlines forward, and make some predictions about how the coming year will play out. Unfortunately, journalists’ track record on that score is not so great. For instance, three years ago, I predicted five gadgets
Dylan Tweney 5 min read
VentureBeat

These 17 companies achieved $1B+ valuations in 2014

Update 12/29: We’ve added AdYen. Update 12/30: We’ve added IronSource. Update 1/6/2015: We’ve added Credit Karma. It is really, really difficult to create a company and grow it to the point where investors believe it is worth $1 billion or more. That milestone is so difficult to achieve, in fact, th
Dylan Tweney 7 min read
Family

Bigos

“In the pots warmed the bigos; mere words cannot tell Of its wondrous taste, colour and marvellous smell. One can hear the words buzz, and the rhymes ebb and flow, But its content no city digestion can know. To appreciate the Lithuanian folksong and folk food, You need health, [to] live on land, and
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VentureBeat

Body cameras are the first step to reducing police brutality

Let’s get one thing clear: No gadget will fix bad policing. There is no app to cure racism. But putting body cameras on police officers is one hell of a start. It is one of the few areas where a new technology offers a clear, unambiguous social benefit. Usually there are tradeoffs and unintended con
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Notes

Successful people

“It’s extremely dangerous to follow the advice of successful people. Those successful people often don’t even know why they are successful. Luck may have been part of it. And even if they did know, how do you know their recipe for success is applicable to you?” — Wise words from the founder of Finni
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VentureBeat

What Uber tells us about tech startups vs. journalists

We know this much: Uber has a huge public relations problem on its hands. On Monday, Buzzfeed reported comments made by a senior vice president on Uber’s team, Emil Michael, at a private dinner. Michael’s comments suggested that he felt Uber would be justified in hiring an opposition research team t
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