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Innovation

A SNKRS reseller’s mom was a Nike VP, but sneakerheads already had reasons to hate the app

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.

Ivan De Luce

3.3.21 8:00 PM in Innovation

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

Jael Goldfine

3.3.21 3:30 PM

The end of Indie.vc has come

Ivan De Luce

3.2.21 11:00 PM

Markets

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

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

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

Opendoor price data shows the real estate crunch isn't going away this year

Julia Gray

2.12.21 1:00 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.

Spotify is entering the creator economy and cementing its podcast dominance

Julia Gray

2.23.21 7:00 PM

Microsoft is teaming up with lobby groups to undercut Google and Facebook in Europe

Ivan De Luce

2.23.21 4:00 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

Joon Ian Wong

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

What are non fungible tokens? What's fungibility? Here's how to understand the rise of NFTs in digital art and online ownership.

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

Rights are the holy grail of the music industry — and more valuable than ever

Ivan De Luce

12.18.20 5:11 PM

These companies are turning the humble house plant into a multimillion-dollar industry

Lucy Dean Stockton

12.16.20 5:30 PM

Features

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

The hot real estate market of Austin is becoming a case study in how the company plans to dominate residential real estate. "Everyone is watching what Zillow is doing.”

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

Julia Gray

3.1.21 2:42 PM

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

Julia Gray

3.1.21 1:00 PM

Three r/WallStreetBets GameStop investors explain why they did it, what went wrong, and how much they made

Jael Goldfine

2.12.21 8:22 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

How housing startup Zeus Living won a ‘mad fight for survival’ as COVID threatened to shut it down

Ivan De Luce

2.18.21 4:00 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

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

Ivan De Luce

9.30.20 4:57 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

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

The Buzz Index, created by VanEck, is made up of 75 stocks that people are talking about on social media.

Ivan De Luce

3.2.21 7:00 PM

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

During the pandemic, Citizen introduced an in-app contract tracing tool and a feature that lets users create their own incident alerts. And now, with its fresh round of funding, it wants to track helicopters.

Julia Gray

3.2.21 4:00 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

Seth Rogen announces Houseplant, a new weed company

Houseplant has been operational in Canada since 2019, but Rogen's announcement marks the launch of its U.S. operations.

Danny Konstantinovic

3.1.21 5:19 PM

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

How do dating apps make money? The Business of Business looks into the tricky, booming business of monetizing swipes.

Jael Goldfine

3.1.21 5:15 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