An Amazon Fulfillment Center in Spokane, Washington (GeekWire Photo) The union votes are now in the hands of the National Labor Relations Board, and the two factions have met their single ballot challenges in the year-long struggle to organize nearly 6,000 Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Ala. Over the next two days, a decision will … Read more
European regulators have questions about a Facebook privacy breach, Clubhouse is adding payments, and a robotics company has SPAC plans. This is your daily crisis for April 6th, 2021. The big story: Facebook faces data breach questions A breach of personally identifiable information (such as email addresses and phone numbers) on more than 500 million … Read more
Do you have a stack of Magic: The Gathering cards in storage somewhere? With the game’s “modern” format, you’re likely to be sitting on at least a few that might be worth selling. One of the most popular places to buy and sell trading cards online is on eBay. What keeps most people from parting … Read more
ConductorOne announced a $ 5 million seed round led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Accel. Fuel Capital, Fathom Capital and Active Capital also participated. Founded late last year by veterans of the enterprise ID startup Okta, ConductorOne will use the funds to build a platform that enables IT pros to automate and manage employee … Read more
Glints, the Singapore-based career platform, announced today that it has raised $ 22.5 million in Series C funding led by Japanese human resources firm PERSOL Holdings. The new capital will be used to expand Glints in Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam and Taiwan, as well as to recruit its product and development teams. Oswald Yeo, co-founder and … Read more
Today is the first day of contact for the Star Trek franchise, a celebration where people learned about the extraterrestrial volcanic species and set the stage for the United Federation of Planets a few centuries later. Sure, the April 5th meeting won’t be for 42 years, but Paramount + is still celebrating with a day … Read more
A depiction of the Throne bathroom interior for mobile workers. (Image above throne) Amazon recently got caught in an unexpected PR mess when company officials claimed its employees would never have to resort to bottle urination. The absurdity of the situation came to a head last week after it was quickly discovered that Amazon delivery … Read more
Why has Byju raised over $ 1 billion in the last year and is already nearing another half a billion dollars in hedge? We’re getting some answers today. Byju’s announced on Monday that it had acquired Aakash Educational Services, a 33-year-old chain of physical coaching centers, as the Indian online learning giant continues to consolidate … Read more
The reports from his native Korea were correct, LG is closing its cell phone business. With losses soaring and billions of dollars seemingly wasted on quirky cell phones, the electronics giant has officially thrown in the towel of its struggling phone division. In a statement, the company said: “In the future, LG will continue to … Read more
Check out the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of March 28, 2021. Sign up to receive these updates in your inbox every Sunday by subscribing to our weekly GeekWire email newsletter. The most popular stories on GeekWire Amazon rarely apologizes, … Read more