Biden Administration, Stimulus and Impeachment News: Live Updates

Biden Administration, Stimulus and Impeachment News: Live Updates

Here’s what you need to know: Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader, and Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, his Republican counterpart, reached an agreement on rules for the trial.Credit…Erin Schaff/The New York Times Donald J. Trump’s lawyers on Monday denounced the impeachment case against him as partisan “political theater,” arguing … Read more

DoorDash acquires Chowbotics – TechCrunch

DoorDash acquires Chowbotics – TechCrunch

DoorDash acquires a salad-making startup, Twitter confirms subscription plans, and Tesla makes a big bet on Bitcoin. This is your daily crisis for February 8th, 2021. The big story: DoorDash acquires Chowbotics DoorDash acquired the Bay Area startup behind Sally, a salad machine-style robot that added contactless orders last fall. DoorDash said the acquisition will … Read more

Zillow skit on Saturday Night Live goes viral as show pokes fun at house-browsing ‘fantasies’

Zillow skit on Saturday Night Live goes viral as show pokes fun at house-browsing ‘fantasies’

The Zillow Group didn’t have a Super Bowl ad, but thanks to Saturday Night Live, it may have seen the weekend of its greatest marketing weakness. The Seattle real estate giant was the subject of a hilarious SNL sketch that made fun of how home browsing on Zillow is a substitute for sex, especially for … Read more

Google-backed Dailyhunt and Josh’s parent firm raises over $100 million – TechCrunch

Google-backed Dailyhunt and Josh’s parent firm raises over $100 million – TechCrunch

VerSe Innovation, the parent company of popular news and entertainment app Dailyhunt and short video app Josh, announced Monday that it had received over $ 100 million in a Series H funding round from Qatar Investment Authority and Glade Brook Capital Partners has collected. The announcement follows another investment of over $ 100 million that … Read more

Hitting the Books: Kenya’s digital divide is hampering its mobile money revolution

reimagining money

While mobile money apps have been slow to gain acceptance in the US, they’ve taken other nations like Sweden, China and especially Kenya by storm, enabling people for whom conventional banking has remained out of reach new ways to send, receive and invest their hard-earned cash. In Reimagining Money: Kenya in the Digital Finance Revolution, … Read more