September 2023

Let’s face it: traditional dating app filters aren’t cutting it. While sharing the same basic interests like yoga or watching movies is nice to have in a relationship, it’s also important to find a partner who is equally motivated and shares similar ambitions. The League, the dating app designed for driven and career-focused people, announced […]

Lucas Ochoa and Gautam Bose were hired together out of college at Google Creative Lab, Google’s tech and culture incubator, and spent three and a half years launching products like the AI Test Kitchen, Teachable Machine and Google Pixel Buds Pro. In early 2020, their team was tasked with finding consumer applications of Google’s LaMDA […]

TV streaming hardware and software company Roku has announced in an SEC filing that it plans to lay off approximately 10% of its workforce — it represents more than 300 employees. The company is trying to reduce its operating expenses as they have been growing at a rapid pace. At the end of 2022, Roku said […]

If you think almost every app has some form of vertical video, add one more unexpected one to the list: Google Play Store. Google has introduced an original video series called “The Play Report” to let people discover new apps, and it will show up in the Play Store as well. The company said it […]

Want to get better at negotiations? An expert in reading facial expressions shares her best tips.

Social media company Snap (SNAP) is struggling to grow its revenue amid a weak advertising market. Moreover, the company remains unprofitable. However, with the company tapping into the potential of…

It’s easy to start a startup. But it’s far more difficult to shut one down. An estimated 90% of all startups fail, so there is no question that the problem is a widespread one. Yet the process to wind down a company is largely manual and bureaucratic. That’s something three-time founder Dori Yona realized when […]

Intuit, the U.S. financial and accounting software giant, has unveiled its first customer-facing generative AI–powered solution: a digital assistant to assist small businesses and consumers. Called Intuit Assist, the digital assistant is embedded across Intuit’s platform and products, namely TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks and Mailchimp, with a standard user interface to offer personalized recommendations using […]

Kenji Niwa, an immigrant entrepreneur, experienced the challenges of getting financial products, including a credit card, without a credit history when he moved to the U.S. in 2017 to get his MBA at UC Berkeley. Niwa realized that the issue is not just for international students who undergo financial stress in the U.S. — local […]