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Whon Namkoong, the co-chief executive of Kakao, has resigned after a fire incident at a data center caused a mass outage over the weekend and disrupted several services at Kakao. Namkoong, who joined Kakao in 2015, was elevated to the co-CEO role this March. At a press conference Wednesday, he said the company will do […]

Kakao co-CEO resigns after fire incident that caused mass outage by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

At TechCrunch Disrupt today, Activision Blizzard General Manager Johanna Faries elaborated on the company’s plans to clean up some of the worst behavior in the franchise’s community, even as new lawsuits and allegations about its own culture continue to emerge. Last month, Activision Blizzard released a formal code of conduct for the Call of Duty […]

Activision Blizzard’s Johanna Faries highlights the company’s emerging ‘anti-tox’ strategy by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch

Chief co-founders Carolyn Childers and Lindsay Kaplan started the company because they had experienced first-hand being women executives without a ton of support. They created a community of female leaders that is now 20,000 strong, with 60,000 sitting on waitlists, but just don’t call these women ‘girl bosses.’ The two women appeared at TechCrunch Disrupt […]

Why members-only club Chief, with a waitlist of 60K, hates the term ‘girl boss’ by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

As if it weren’t enough to have AI tanning humanity’s hide (figuratively for now) at every board game in existence, Google AI has got one working to destroy us all at ping pong as well. For now they emphasize it is “cooperative,” but at the rate these things improve, it will be taking on pros […]

Watch Google’s ping pong robot pull off a 340-hit rally by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

In July, Reddit jumped on the NFT train, launching an NFT-based marketplace that allows users to purchase blockchain-based profile pictures for a fixed rate. Given the general sentiment around NFTs today, you might assume — like me — that the experiment ended poorly. But the opposite’s the case apparently. Today during a panel at TechCrunch […]

Redditors have created millions of crypto wallets to buy NFT avatars by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Shared micromobility company Bird is exiting several markets across the world as it struggles to build an economically viable business, according to a regulatory filing. Bird said it will “fully exit Germany, Sweden and Norway, as well as wind down operations in “several dozen additional, primarily small to mid-sized markets” across the U.S., Europe, the […]

Bird exits Germany, Sweden, Norway and ‘several dozen’ US, EMEA markets by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

Cityblock Health is focused on providing affordable, human-centered healthcare in lower-income and marginalized communities, while also building sustainable business models. Founder and CEO Toyin Ajayi talked at Disrupt today about the challenges of tackling the healthcare system’s inequalities, while serving patients with personalized medical care, behavioral health care and social services. “Do I believe that […]

Cityblock Health CEO Toyin Ajayi on how to scale human-centered care models by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch