Close connections and remote work: Investor in Seattle helped Ohio dad land at portfolio company

Close connections and remote work: Investor in Seattle helped Ohio dad land at portfolio company

Ben Gilbert, left, and his father Alan Gilbert while backpacking the Olympic Peninsula, Washington state. (Courtesy photo by Ben Gilbert) As the co-founder and CEO of Seattle-based venture capital firm Pioneer Square Labs, Ben Gilbert spends a lot of time helping businesses start and finding the key people they need to succeed. When PSL spinout … Read more

Teardown shows the new Apple TV 4K is easy to repair, but Siri Remote is a pain

Devindra Hardawar

Given that the redesigned Apple TV 4K looks identical to the last model, we assumed it would be equally easy to fix. And according to iFixit’s teardown video, that’s exactly the case. Thanks to a little curiosity and standard screws, the construction site was able to break through the housing of the set-top box. In … Read more

Interactio, a remote interpretation platform, grabs $30M after seeing 12x growth during COVID-19 – TechCrunch

Interactio, a remote interpretation platform, grabs $30M after seeing 12x growth during COVID-19 – TechCrunch

Interactio, a remote interpretation platform whose clients include massive institutions like the United Nations, the European Commission, and Parliament, as well as companies like BMW, JP Morgan, and Microsoft, has closed a $ 30 million Series A after deploying its Tools increased 12-fold between 2019 and 2020 During the coronavirus pandemic, the demand for online … Read more

NYC Public Schools will have remote learning instead of snow days next school year

School buses are covered in snow during a snowstorm on February 1 in Brooklyn, New York.

Albert Bourla, CEO of Pfizer, said Tuesday the company had been mandated to ship 1.6 billion doses of its Covid-19 vaccine worldwide this year and the company expects to deliver at least 3 billion doses of the vaccine by 2022 to produce. The company is in talks with countries for multi-year contracts with potential delivery. … Read more

Passive collaboration is essential to remote work’s long-term success – TechCrunch

Passive collaboration is essential to remote work’s long-term success – TechCrunch

Mohak Shroff is the technical director at LinkedIn. He leads the engineering teams responsible for building, scaling, and protecting LinkedIn. In 1998, Sun Microsystems tested the Open Work program, which allowed about half of the workforce to work flexibly wherever they wanted. The project required new hardware, software and telecommunication solutions and took about 24 … Read more

This startup is helping millennials to build $100K in passive income through remote real estate investing

This startup is helping millennials to build $100K in passive income through remote real estate investing

(CNN) – “Real Estate Investments” and “Residual Income”. Both terms are very appealing, but for many in their 20s and 30s, both can seem very distant. But Roofstock is trying to solve that. The first step in this process is to dispel some myths about buying property: Myth 1: You have to move and live … Read more