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There’s been a significant corporate presence at major Pride marches, with a vast array of businesses draping their logos with the rainbow flag to mark their support. Among this, the support of tech corporations is to be welcomed and celebrated, and big tech has found plenty of ways to support the LGBTQIA community and celebrate pride sensitively in the past. Even so, it’s prudent to dig a little deeper into the way corporations may or may not genuinely engage with the spirit of Pride....

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A collection of the major US Airlines have also decried the move, citing the unnecessary disruption it will cause workers traveling in and out of the country, with tens of thousands of US citizens thought to be affected. US businesses and organizations relying on goods shipped from other countries have been warned that their supply chains could be affected due to the issues, as well as companies that haven’t already set their employees up with the tools needed to work remotely....

But is the video bubble showing signs of bursting already? Recent video news from Funny or Die might at least be a data point in favor of video’s inevitable death. Negative Video News: Funny or Die Cut 30% of Its Staff Funny or Die has shut down its San Mateo office entirely. The numbers from the comedy video publisher, according to Variety: Also of interest: “Longtime CEO Dick Glover exited the company in late 2015 to become the top exec at Mandalay Sports Media....

Naturally, secondary voice-based services will now emerge: Voice-based SEO, for instance. But that’s just on the consumer side. Enterprise voice data must be studied, too, which is why AI-based voice analytics platform VoiceOps has just left stealth to a seed round with the participation of Accel, Founders Fund and Lowercase Capital. VoiceOps works by transcribing phone calls and using their artificial intelligence engine to parse the information in order to provide insights such as an individual employee’s core skillset and any week-over-week trends....

The Good: The buttons on the side of the stylus are fully programmable and extremely convenient. I bound mine to the ‘eraser’ and ‘undo’ functions in Bamboo Paper. Make a mistake? Undo button right at your fingertips. Need to erase a little bit? The erase button is right there. Hold it down to erase and release to return to your brush. I’m sure there are tons of other bindings that are great but I found those to be the most useful for me....

Looking at the data from CB Insights, the top three reasons startups can fail include: no market need, running out of cash, and not having the right team. No market need is an obvious one; if you don’t even have consumers interested in or demanding whatever it is that you’re providing, then why did you bother with creating your company? Running out of cash can happen to anyone, but it takes skill to accurately predict your cash flow and spending – a skill that even the most brilliant minds in startups lack; even if your startup has gotten some funding, sometimes all it takes is a blink of an eye before that all disappears....

Tech.Co is looking to bring on two recent college grads as full-time, editorial fellows to work on our editorial team for a paid, four-month period. The fellowship is open to anyone with previous publishing experience in tech, business, science, or culture, and is remote (meaning: not location-dependent). Those with a penchant for humor, have previous editing experience, and displays unique wit on social media (particularly Twitter) will definitely get preference....

According to Wedgies CEO and cofounder Porter Haney, it’s the first time any of these platforms will have polling built into them. Top publishers like Engadget and Wall Street Journal, along with other media companies and independent publishers, use Wedgies Polls in their posts and articles to engage readers. Wedgies has even powered high-profile events such as voter opinion during the State of the Union address. For content publishers, this means that whenever you include a wedgies....

The fourth-biggest U.S. bank will make a direct equity investment of $50,000 to $500,000 in each selected company. The Startup Accelerator also will provide business planning expertise to firms as well as workshops and individual coaching to the firms. For its first accelerator round, Wells Fargo chose the three companies from areas that could help customer service, including a company from Kansas City and San Jose. Zumigo, San Jose, California: A developer of mobile services using a unique combination of location and mobile identity technologies to secure commerce and enable mobile marketing....

So why is DuckDuckGo steadily climbing the search engine ranks? Well…despite Google holding over 62% of the browser market share worldwide, there’s one thing that users are starting to get fed up with – a lack of privacy. Thanks to a not-so-tasty tech treat called a cookie, Google can follow you around the web. It tracks the pages you look at, then plasters the new phone you briefly admired during your lunch break all over website ad spaces....

The Android tool, which will let businesses customize their profiles with an additional landscape image, is still currently in testing but will only be available to WhatsApp Business users soon. With the app boasting over two billion users globally, this social media tool provides businesses with a valuable way to promote their brand to their audience. Read on to find out more about WhatsApp’s new cover photo feature, including how to install it....

But what about the big, multi-million dollar companies that make investors drool and have taken over the tech industry? As it turns out, bankruptcy in Silicon Valley is more common than you might think—and there are dozens of examples of wildly impressive tech companies that ended up filing for bankruptcy. So how can these big, seemingly stable businesses go bankrupt? Biggest Paths to Bankruptcy These are some of the biggest and most common paths leading to bankruptcy in the tech industry: One of the biggest reasons for going bankrupt is a simple lack of revenue....

Jeff Haynie agrees: His 20-year startup career taught him a thing or two. Writing at Recode, Haynie detailed five lessons he’s learned in the process, from the need to monetize early to the willingness to outsource to the reason behind measuring all data possible. But one point is a little counter-intuitive: Why scaling fast is bad. It’s a big part of most startup plans, but it only works with an established, steady process, something that’s hard to have when you’re focused on disrupting the tried and true....

The Cloud is easier to use and also much cheaper for clients and startups alike. Rather than spending a lot of money on buying and updating the hardware and software needed for their businesses or paying other personnel to do it, it’s considerably less expensive to run your service on a Cloud platform. All the data is centralized and stored in one place, giving you instant online access to services and resources at a lower cost....

While podcasts don’t seem poised to overtake TV in sheer hours watched (Netflix still accounts for a full third of all internet activity), they do have a healthy core audience, which means they could theoretically sustain a Netflix model. Here are the companies hoping to become the Netflix of podcasts and what the big barrier they face is. The Contenders There are three main contenders in the battle for all-you-can-hear podcast supremacy....

The company’s co-founder and president, Lin Bin, posted a minute-long video of the phone to Chinese social media site Weibo. And, it looks pretty handy. We take a closer look at the claimed features and abilities of this bendable phone, which is setting out its stall against rival tech from the likes of Samsung. The Xiaomi Foldable Phone…Actually Looks Pretty Good Right? It certainly seems more polished than some of the attempts we’ve seen to date....

But that wouldn’t happen to your car. That’s what you’re probably thinking. Your car would never be used to cause damage to businesses because, of course, you keep your car doors locked. That’s all fine and good. But how’s your router security? Keep reading to find out how small office and home office (SOHO) routers are being used in DDoS attacks to inflict damage to websites and businesses, and what you need to do to prevent your own router from joining a botnet army....

According to a media brief, “during this five day program drones will fly over and into five of GE’s most remote test and build facilities to give audiences never-before-seen views of the locations where today’s most badass jet engines, locomotives, wind turbines and industrial machinery are made and tested to extremes. ” Here’s what you should know about the 5-day live series and tour: Each day will explore a different area: Oil & Gas, Aviation, Renewable Energy, Transportation and Power and Water....