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Features

I tried the YouCam Makeup app and created the Perfect Woman

For beauty brands and retailers, AR makeup was expected to function as a marketing tool and a complement to in-store retail. But the pandemic accelerated beauty tech into something else entirely when companies made the shift to digital.

Julia Gray

3.8.21 5:00 PM in Features

This week in Business Twitter: Jay-Z and Jack Dorsey become business partners, Dave Portnoy launches an ETF, and Seth Rogen starts a weed company

Ivan De Luce

3.5.21 7:00 PM

Square is paying nearly $300 million for TIDAL, but says it’s not even interested in streaming

Ivan De Luce

3.4.21 6:00 PM

Features

Meme hustlers and yield farmers? Defi is their world, where finance, digital art, and the blockchain are colliding

Joon Ian Wong

3.5.21 8:03 PM

Markets

Joon Ian Wong

The crypto art world is exploding — so here come the tech moguls to screw it up

NFTs are everywhere, including at a Christie's auction of the artist Beeple. But the new tech seems to be recreating the old problems of the art world.

Costco is adding jobs and raising its minimum wage during the pandemic

Julia Gray

2.25.21 6:00 PM

Sneakers and purses are the hottest resale commodities: Can Poshmark keep up with the fashion marketplace explosion?

Jael Goldfine

3.3.21 7:30 PM

Macy's sales and job listings plummeted in 2020, but data shows the retailer was struggling before COVID

Julia Gray

2.24.21 8:30 PM

Tiffany's web traffic soars over 400% as pandemic weddings make a comeback

Julia Gray

2.19.21 4:30 PM

Are "Buy Now Pay Later" startups the new payday lenders?

James Ledbetter

2.17.21 4:46 PM

Tech

Julia Gray

Twitter comes for creator payment platforms like Patreon with new Super Follows feature

Twitter announced two upcoming features: a tweet monetization feature called Super Follows and interest-based groups called Communities. Its stock rose 5% following the news.

After surging engagement during the pandemic, Citizen app will now track helicopters

Julia Gray

3.2.21 4:00 PM

Spotify is entering the creator economy and cementing its podcast dominance

Julia Gray

2.23.21 7:00 PM

Coinbase, now valued at $77 billion, is about to go public. Here’s what you need to know.

Ivan De Luce

2.18.21 9:00 PM

Even under Biden, alt-right media continues to thrive on Facebook

Danny Konstantinovic

2.17.21 9:30 PM

The bossware boom is upon us: a look inside the employee monitoring software market

Julia Gray

2.10.21 1:00 PM

Innovation

Ivan De Luce

Sneakerheads had reason to hate Nike's SNKRS app even before the scandal

A Nike VP just resigned following a sneaker reselling scandal. Sneakerheads see it as a symptom of a larger problem with Nike's secondary market.

NFTs explained: Coveted by Chamath, Vaynerchuk, Cuban, and regular people, too; but what the heck are they?

Joon Ian Wong

2.25.21 4:06 PM

The business of dating apps: How do swipes actually make money?

Jael Goldfine

3.1.21 5:15 PM

David Dobrik's Dispo app wants to put the 'social' back in social media, but can it rival Instagram?

Julia Gray

2.16.21 9:30 PM

Here's why Shopify's weekly user count soared 184% over the last year

Julia Gray

2.4.21 2:30 PM

Go viral or go home: "TikTok leggings" raise the stakes as athleisure brands battle it out

Julia Gray

1.25.21 10:00 PM

Features

Meet the pizza ordering app giving your corner slice joint a fairer piece of the pie

Shop owners and customers alike love Slice, but can they take on the big boys of online ordering?

COVID vaccine tracker: Here's which states are the worst at delivering vaccines

Julia Gray

3.4.21 2:42 PM

COVID vaccine tracker: Here's which states are administering vaccines the fastest

Julia Gray

3.4.21 1:00 PM

Zillow is coming. (For your old home, new home, real estate agent, mortgage lender, moving company, handyman...)

Karen Fischer

2.18.21 4:56 PM

The biggest haters on Elon Musk's Tesla Bitcoin buy are his fellow techies

Joon Ian Wong

2.12.21 12:00 PM

People

Danny Konstantinovic

Alex Cohen thinks tech Twitter is boring

Alex Cohen is tech Twitter's biggest contrarian, challenging the normal discourse and posting his unfiltered self.

This VC is after ‘hilariously early’ startups — here are the 4 factors that will make her write a check

Ivan De Luce

2.26.21 1:00 PM

Dave Portnoy is launching an ETF for the buzziest stocks on social media

Ivan De Luce

3.2.21 7:00 PM

Seth Rogen announces Houseplant, a new weed company

Danny Konstantinovic

3.1.21 5:19 PM

Kin Euphorics CEO is reinventing happy hour in the growing non-alcoholic market

Andrew Hirschfeld

2.8.21 4:00 PM

Vice Ventures wants good companies in "bad" industries

Julia Gray

1.6.21 8:00 PM

Videos

'I raised $15 million practically overnight. It was straight downhill from there.'

Former Goldman Sachs CFO Marty Chavez on building startups, surviving the crash of '87, the dot-com bubble of 2000, and dealing with "ruthless" valedictorians who "wanted to kill me."

12.28.20 5:00 PM

Mayor Francis Suarez on Softbank's $100 million investment in Miami startups

3.2.21 1:00 PM

Mahbod Moghadam on leaving Genius: ‘I had started getting on people's nerves after we raised our Series A.’

12.30.20 11:00 AM

Latest Articles

Disney Stores are getting shut down — but they've been declining for years

Although the company’s decision to axe it's storefronts seems like a major step towards its digital-first strategy, Disney Stores have been on the decline for some time now.

Danny Konstantinovic

3.5.21 5:00 PM

These startups help restaurants turn food waste into takeout, but can they survive in a post-COVID world?

A growing market of takeout apps like Too Good To Go and Karma are helping restaurants stay afloat, cut costs, and handle food waste during the pandemic.

Andrew Hirschfeld

3.4.21 7:00 PM

This map shows Beyond Meat's expanding global reach, thanks to its new partnership with McDonald's

Beyond Meat will now exclusively supply McDonalds, KFC, and Pizza Hut.

Jael Goldfine

3.3.21 3:30 PM

The end of Indie.vc has come

Indie.vc, long hailed for its innovative approach to startup funding, is shutting down after six years and nearly 40 startups.

Ivan De Luce

3.2.21 11:00 PM

Vinyl sales jumped nearly 30% in 2020 — but they’re still dwarfed by music streaming revenue

More people are buying records since the pandemic began, but it’s still a niche market compared with streaming services like Spotify.

Ivan De Luce

3.1.21 5:41 PM

Robinhood is facing 49 — that's right, 49 — lawsuits over Gamestonks

Robinhood is being hit with 46 class action lawsuits and three individual ones, according to a statement released by the company Friday. It wouldn’t be their first lawsuits, and it won't be their last.

Ivan De Luce

2.26.21 11:00 PM