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In the financial services industry, blockchain looms as a large but distant and somewhat mysterious presence. A few forward-thinking bankers take it seriously and are trying to figure out how to turn it to their own advantage.… Story continues … “Money 20/20 recap: Jack Dorsey, blockchain, and the future of financial services”
I’m a stringer for VentureBeat this week at the #Money2020 conference, looking for good stories about blockchain. Here’s one about how Overstock.com is about to offer stock (in itself) via T0, its Bitcoin-based equities trading platform. (Just don’t call it an exchange, even though it is.)… Story continues … “Overstock.com could begin first Bitcoin-based stock trades”
This week’s guest is David Wadhwani, the (relatively) new CEO of AppDynamics. My interview with him is in this week’s podcast.
Above: David Wadhwani
Wadhwani joined AppDynamics as its CEO and president in late 2015, after a storied career at Adobe.… Story continues … “AppDynamics CEO: Don’t call my $2B company a unicorn (podcast)”
A lot of us sort of expected CES 2016 to reveal a new, more practical side to the consumer electronics industry.
Guess again. Despite a looming global economic slowdown, the devaluation of tech-company unicorns, and the fact that everybody already has as many smartphones, tablets, and wrist gadgets as they need, CES continued to show us the same cavalcade of craziness and excess that it always has.… Story continues … “Dylan’s Desk: At CES, the ridiculous never goes out of style”
In this week’s episode, we talk with Kakul Srivastava, the VP of product management for GitHub.
We caught up with her recently to talk about how GitHub has evolved into a platform (and what it means to be a platform), how the company figures out which new features and products to build, and the role of open source software in stimulating innovation.… Story continues … “How GitHub is building a platform and supporting open source (podcast)”
We’re investigating the nature of these Innovation Engines in a series of What To Think podcasts, sponsored by Pivotal Tracker, and columns by VentureBeat editor at large Dylan Tweney. Tune in here to learn the secrets behind the tech world’s most successful platforms.… Story continues … “How Castlight is using data to transform health care (podcast)”
For more than a decade, people who follow Washington politics have wondered when the tech industry was going to start taking politics seriously.
This week, the tech industry made two big moves that show that tech — or at least its most successful billionaire founders — is beginning to understand how much political power it commands.… Story continues … “Tech billionaires tackle politics the way Batman fights crime”
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The iPad Pro is one of the most hotly anticipated products to come out of Apple in quite awhile. The 12.9-inch work-oriented tablet went on sale this week, and the first crop of reviews came out yesterday.
Unfortunately for Apple fans, some of those reviews don’t look so hot.… Story continues … “The iPad Pro might point to the future, but that future’s not here yet”
In this week’s episode, we talk with Tomasz Tunguz, a partner at Redpoint Ventures and a noted expert on SaaS company metrics.
Tunguz explains how a law firm internship in South America when he was 17 launched him into tech, building a small software company and then winding up at Google before landing at Redpoint seven years ago.… Story continues … “VC Tomasz Tunguz explains his approach to SaaS investing (podcast)”
Too often diversity discussions in business are framed as a zero-sum game: affirmative action versus meritocracy, minority versus majority, them versus us.
There are some hopeful signs that the tech industry is starting to realize that this is not the case.… Story continues … “Using data to improve diversity — and business performance”