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A look inside Discord, the gaming chat app that's ready to take on Slack

Discord started small, and is becoming a titan to take on all other messaging apps.

Danny Konstantinovic

11.27.20 1:30 PM in Tech

Playstation 5 price gougers are selling consoles for thousands on Ebay

Danny Konstantinovic

11.25.20 1:30 PM

Why rapid prototyping is the next frontier in alternative data: An interview with UBS Chief Data Scientist Norman Niemer

Ivan De Luce

11.25.20 8:02 PM

Tech

E-commerce wars: Which buy now, pay later service will become the next PayPal?

Jael Goldfine

11.25.20 9:00 PM

Markets

Julia Gray

Amazon is price gouging cleaning products for the second COVID wave

Cleaning product companies are using the heightened demand as an opportunity for price gouging.

Who’s afraid of Peloton? The gym industry shrinks while at-home fitness wins

Jael Goldfine

10.9.20 7:15 PM

Travel apps rebound after Pfizer vaccine announcement, stay-home tech lags behind

Julia Gray

11.11.20 11:00 AM

Century 21 is closing for good, a blow to NYC shoppers and landlords

Jael Goldfine

9.15.20 4:45 PM

Glossier is #cancelled - here's which companies could benefit from the billion-dollar beauty brand's failure

Jael Goldfine

8.21.20 5:00 PM

Regus puts part of its portfolio in bankruptcy as urban office market struggles

Elana Dure

8.21.20 2:00 PM

Tech

Danny Konstantinovic

Twitch streamers dominated election night coverage

Twitch is becoming the go-to for young people's political content.

Hulu and Netflix are only getting more expensive

Danny Konstantinovic

11.17.20 9:30 PM

Working from home has made 49% of Silicon Valley workers feel job uncertainty, study finds

Ivan De Luce

10.30.20 5:00 PM

Google Stadia is failing because its leaders don't understand games

Danny Konstantinovic

10.22.20 9:05 PM

The curious case of Quibi: why its "quick bites" were doomed from the start

Julia Gray

7.13.20 7:59 PM

A look inside Parler: The right-wing social media app is unbearably monotonous, even to its users

Henry Englert

7.8.20 8:44 PM

Innovation

Julia Gray

Beauty wars: Sephora and Ulta battle for industry dominance in the pandemic era

The cosmetics giants are trying to adapt to post-pandemic retail. But which will win the COVID-era beauty war?

How Bath & Body works became L Brands' “secret superstar"

Jael Goldfine

10.23.20 12:00 PM

WGN premieres new 'unbiased' cable newscast: Can it compete?

Andrew Hirschfeld

9.9.20 12:00 PM

What is the XFL and why did The Rock buy it?

Jael Goldfine

8.7.20 5:45 PM

Target is cutting discounts and lowering average price point. How will the retailer stack up in the e-commerce wars?

Julia Gray

8.5.20 10:00 AM

Rental or resale? The pandemic might kill Rent the Runway, but Depop will thrive

Jael Goldfine

7.31.20 1:55 PM

Features

Here are the cheapest and most expensive places to move during the pandemic

There isn't a definitive answer as to whether people are moving more during the pandemic, but home sales data can give us a better understanding of the cities in flux.

How Quantopian's open-source investment dream died

Danny Konstantinovic

11.9.20 10:30 PM

Hiring data reveals the job cuts and lobbying behind Big Tech’s Prop 22 campaign

Henry Englert , Julia Gray

10.27.20 4:00 PM

These 10 food companies make everything you eat and drink

10.19.20 7:30 PM

A brief history of L'Oréal: A cosmetics dynasty with far-right origins

Amy Lamare

9.22.20 2:30 PM

People

Ivan De Luce

Forget Silicon Valley. You can make millions running a “sweaty startup” according to Nick Huber

We spoke with Nick Huber about why Silicon Valley culture is killing local entrepreneurship, and the benefits of local entrepreneurship.

Can Ray Dalio bring the world’s biggest hedge fund back to its former glory?

Ivan De Luce

9.22.20 6:00 PM

8 tips to land a startup job straight out of college: an exclusive interview with Greylock

Ivan De Luce

10.8.20 4:00 PM

The worst VCs to work with, as rated by founders

Danny Konstantinovic

9.23.20 11:19 PM

This headhunter was sick of toxic sales culture, so she founded her own firm and became a millionaire by 30

Ivan De Luce

9.16.20 10:30 AM

How this MIT graduate built a billion dollar hedge fund while dodging the FBI

Danny Konstantinovic

7.2.20 5:00 PM

Latest Articles

Silicon Valley Exodus: Top executives are leaving San Francisco to escape taxes, rent, and politics

Recently departed executives include Dropbox CEO Drew Houston, investor Keith Rabois, and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale.

Ivan De Luce

11.24.20 8:48 PM

Freelance wars: Upwork vs. Fiverr

COVID-19 just accelerated the freelance takeover, a boon for companies like Fiverr and Upwork. But which is leading the market?

Andrew Hirschfeld

11.24.20 5:00 PM

These are the 10 craziest VC tweets of all time

VCs get a lot of hate online. These tweets might explain why.

Danny Konstantinovic

11.23.20 1:30 PM

Meet Gordon Singer, the man who saved SoftBank

Singer, the head of hedge fund Elliott Management’s London office, offered three key strategies to SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son to guide the bank back to success.

Ivan De Luce

11.20.20 7:04 PM

Guitar Center died, but the guitar isn't dead— These companies are cashing in on America's new hobby

The pandemic guitar boom proved the industry is alive and well. But, given Guitar Center's bankruptcy, where people will buy them in the future?

Jael Goldfine

11.19.20 7:00 PM

This Israeli startup raised $53 million for COVID-killing lights: An interview with Juganu CEO Eran Ben-Shmuel

We spoke with the Juganu CEO on how the company aims to use its technology to combat the spread of the coronavirus.

Ivan De Luce

11.19.20 3:39 PM