Amazon will juice its Freevee free streaming service with 100+ Amazon Originals in 2023

As part of its pitch to advertisers this week at the IAB NewFronts, Amazon announced today it has plans to bring over 100 Amazon Original series and movies from... Read more »

Vercel brings new backend tools to its frontend cloud

Frontend platform Vercel today announced the launch of a number of backend services, including Redis and PostgreSQL databases and an object storage service, all of which Vercel built with... Read more »

Blue checks reappear on Twitter if you update your bio, lmao

Jumpscare alert: there is currently a bug on Twitter wherein legacy blue check holders can update their bio and briefly get their badge of (dis)honor back. It doesn’t seem... Read more »

It’s never too late to align product-market fit metrics with your company’s values

It’s a perennial question for early-stage startups: how does one find product-market fit (PMF)? What do you do to ensure that your idea takes such a form that it... Read more »

YouTube gives advertisers new ad formats across Shorts

As part of this year’s YouTube Newfront presentation, the company announced Monday that it’s rolling out new ad formats to its short-form feature Shorts. Of note, the company is... Read more »

Lyft layoffs arrive, GM kills off the Chevy Bolt and Tesla makes a ‘deep fake’ defense

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive the full edition of the newsletter every weekend in your... Read more »

Once-hot photo-sharing social app Poparazzi is shutting down

Poparazzi, the once-hot photo-sharing app that hit the top of the App Store in 2021, is shutting down. The company announced the news via a Medium blog late last... Read more »

How this investor widens its net by refusing warm intros

I have often been annoyed by warm introductions. I get why investors insist on them, but it has always struck me as lazy and un-inclusive. So I was filled... Read more »

SpaceX’s Starship didn’t self-destruct immediately as planned during test launch

SpaceX’s recent Starship test flight, the first during which it flew with its Super Heavy orbital booster, was a bit more of a mess than it even appeared when... Read more »

Hey look, OpenAI is even richer now

Hello and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Our Monday show covers the latest in... Read more »
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