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The Verge breaks down this news: What a Snapchat Archive Means Given Snapchat’s initial draw – disappearing photos – their new feature could run the risk of undermining the platform. Users were drawn to Snapchat in order to share photos that wouldn’t stick around forever, and this understanding meant that Snapchat’s community could be less obsessed with status and proving itself. Users felt safer sharing something that wouldn’t stick around....

The Stamford Innovation Center is an incubator that claims to have Connecticut’s largest coworking space. In addition to coworking, it offers classes, mentoring, and events and hosts Startup Weekend Stamford and the Lean Launch Ventures accelerator. The 16,000-square-foot space is located inside Stamford’s Old Town Hall, a historic building that housed the city mayors until around 1960. The building was refurbished nearly a decade ago, and the government decided to offer it to the Innovation Center to help drive job growth in the area....

Today, startup Jane Technologies launched the cannabis industry’s first end-to-end online marketplace, where customers can find and order preferred products available in real-time at local dispensaries. The difference between Jane and other marketplaces online is notable. The platform keeps tabs on a dispensary’s supply through a point-of-sale system and allows consumers to search their site for items in real-time. You can compare prices, products and services with other dispensaries in their area, and reserve preferred items for in-store pickup or delivery....

Clarity’s Straight Up Startup Advice is a collection of startup advice from 150 entrepreneurs – from the likes of Tinder founder Sean Rad to Twitter cofounder Biz Stone. The quotes collected in the free, downloadable feature advice on everything from marketing and growth, to team building and venture capital. We’ve gathered a few of those quotes below: On Customer Acquisition: “Business goes where it is wanted. Business stays where it is appreciated....

Besides the normal issues of transitioning into an uncertain job market, Brendonfelt frustrated with the complexities of the student loan repayment process. “As a college graduate facing loans of my own, I had a first-hand understanding ofthe need for an effective, simple tool to manage loans.” – McQueen Tuition.io, a free service dedicated to helping students manage their loanportfolios, launched into public beta on January 2nd. In private beta, Tuition....

The problem is confidence. Startups have relied on a steady stream of capital from investors that, simply put, were easily impressed. Only two years ago, innovative technologies and market demand combined with a flashy presentation and a CEO wearing a bow tie was enough to get the funding you needed to give it the ol’ college try. And because they relied on unending optimism, investors began seeing a serious lack of return on their investments....

Need more funding news? You can get the Tech.Co Deals Roundup sent directly to your inbox by subscribing here. Funding Secure Messaging Platform Symphony Raises $100M from Google, Others Symphony, a Palo Alto, CA-based secure Cloud-based messaging platform, announced today that it has raised $100 million in a new round of funding from investors including Google, Inc. Other investment comes from Lakestar, Natixis, Societe Generale, UBS, and existing investors Merus Capital....

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This week, we interviewed Leah Bannon, Founder of Tech Lady Hackathon. Tech Lady Hackathon is a day dedicated to technical training and civic hacking.Tech Lady Hackathon + Training Day is a day for women from experienced coders to total newbies to gather for training and civic hacking in a supportive environment. About 150 women gather for a Saturday about once a year. The training usually covers introductions to popular open source languages (e....

The report states that the application gave in to several data requests from Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office. The information handed over supposedly belonged to users accused of child abuse and terrorist activity. In the face of accusations, Telegram denies handing over any personal information, claiming “to this day, we have disclosed 0 bytes of user data to third parties, including governments.” Telegram Hands Over User Data to Authorities, Sources Suggest If you’re one of Telegram’s 500 million active users, your privacy may no longer be guaranteed....

In Silicon Valley, a full 43% of startup employees are remote – possibly thanks to sky-high local salaries that encourage outsourcing to cheaper locations. Startups in Boston (33%), Los Angeles (32%), New York (27%), and Chicago (26%) all have more than a quarter remote employees. Meanwhile, Bangalore – a city that some startups outsource to – rounds out the bottom of the list with only 16% remote employees. At Encore Alert, for example, half of their product engineer team works remotely from Brazil....

I knew I wanted to go out on my own and try my hand at building a business. That move nearly happened the year prior, but in hindsight that year I spent preparing to make the move positioned me much better for success. I’ve since launched my firm that helps companies like SpaceX, Hootsuite, and Duo Security develop talent strategies. These are some of they key learnings that helped me prepare for a new career as a solopreneur....

While it’s certainly a device that falls within today’s Internet of Things realm, I can’t decide whether it’s actually a good product or if it’s entirely pointless. But, even worse, maybe I’m just too thrown off by the ARING’s product video that my opinion of the product itself is tainted by my opinion of the video. The promo video for ARING made the rounds around Twitter on Friday and (of course) features the ARING wearable device and some of its features....

Much like Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance before Congress, this hearing was filled with a number of poignant questions about the future of the United States of America in regards to technology. Unfortunately, also like Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance before Congress, there were also a lot of wildly oversimplified and misinformed questions that further demonstrated the growing knowledge gap between tech and politics. Just because politicians are out of touch with the tech world though, doesn’t mean Google shouldn’t be under scrutiny....

Now combine that data point with a complete reversal of the old cliche that “immigrants are taking our jobs away,” and you have Viva farms, a Washington state-based “farm incubator” dedicated to helping revive small farms in America by spotting migrant entrepreneurs the resources they need to get going. How It Works The news on this incubator’s work to revive blue collar farm jobs comes via the Seattle Globalist, which offers this breakdown of the organization’s process: The result sounds like a classic tale of American success: The newly minted farmers make “a hundred mistakes” in their first season, but rapidly learn and achieve increasingly strong growth — that’s “growth” in the literal sense as well as the figurative one....

After all, they’ve shattered multiple Guinness World Records, incorporated GIF and sticker sharing, and were the first ever third party keyboard accepted on the iOS platform. The team has turned their attention these days away from text functionality – seeing as how they’ve got that locked down – and more towards the future of content integration. To that end Fleksy struck a strategic partnership with URX, a Y Combinator graduate, mobile deep linking company....

This weekend, you can take your experience to the height of Americanness by not only watching football and cooking up some juicy burgers, but also supporting our national spirit of entrepreneurship with the Grillbot. Invented by Ethan Woods and launched in 2014, the Grillbot is a grill-cleaning robot. About 10-15 minutes after grilling – as long as the grill is under 250 degrees – just place it on the grate and set it to clean for 10-30 minutes....

1. Day-to-Day Management vs. High-Level Oversight As the CEO, your job is to lead your team to meet the outcomes and objectives of the company on a daily basis. You must oversee the marketing and sales teams to ensure the company is generating consistent growth, and you must manage the operations team to ensure orders are being fulfilled and customer expectations are being met consistently. When transitioning to boardroom leadership, your priority must be the overall strategic plan, company’s financial health, and on optimizing the growth of the business....

The California-based company’s most expensive line of laptops have been given the latest generation Intel Core processors, and with more processing cores than ever before. These new 8th and 9th-gen Intel Core processors get either six or eight cores, rather than the lowly four cores on previous MacBook Pros. What Do More Processor Cores Actually Mean? Good question. Essentially, the more cores a processor has, the more efficient it is at handling tasks....