Amazon cancels its QVC-like shopping show ‘Style Code Live’
Amazon’s own take on a QVC-like home shopping experience, “Style Code Live,” has gone off the air. The live program, first launched in March 2016, was streamed online and via mobile to Amazon shoppers, who could learn about fashion and beauty tips from style experts, then instantly shop the products being featured on the show. Just ahead of the Memorial Day weekend here in the U.S., “Style Code Live” announced it would air its final program.
[Tech Crunch ]
Uber, But for Meltdowns
In early March, Travis Kalanick, the 40-year-old CEO of Uber, was riding in an SUV to Palo Alto for the company’s Technology Day, thinking about how to help Uber survive one of the worst periods a corporation had ever experienced. In January, some 500,000 users had joined a campaign to #DeleteUber from their phones, in response to the company’s perceived lack of support for protests at JFK against the Trump administration’s immigration ban (Kalanick had recently joined Trump’s economic council), which seemed to underscore the long-standing view that Uber didn’t care much for its drivers. [ NY Mag ]
Marc Andreessen explains how self-driving cars could create a bunch of American jobs
Ballmer explains why he invested in Twitter
With one misspelled word, President Trump gifts Twitter the #covfefe meme
Covfefe: sometimes it takes something special to make you step back and realize the state of the world you live in. That’s what happened this Tuesday evening in the U.S. when President Trump gifted the internet a very unexpected present: the covfefe meme. Within an hour of the misspelled word going out in a tweet to his 31 million followers, “covfefe” had become Twitter’s No. 1 trending hashtag worldwide. It is even trending in countries outside of the U.S.
[ Tech Crunch ]
Essential’s road to mainstream success is a ten-year play
When Andy Rubin returns to smartphones after a few years in the wilderness, the tech press is going to take notice. Sites will speculate endlessly about teasers and report breathlessly about each small nuance ahead of launch. All of that comes with the territory when you’re the driving force that brought Android into the world. [ Tech Crunch ]
Reid Hoffman could spend hundreds of millions to fix some of the country’s biggest political problems
Uber fires Otto co-founder Anthony Levandowski due to Waymo dispute
Sydney creativetech hub and Hunter accelerator program receive Incubator Support scheme grants
Following weeks of confusion around the government’s $23 million Incubator Support scheme after the budget revealed the government would be “refocusing” the initiative to better support regional Australia, Minister for Innovation Arthur Sinodinos has announced grants for four new recipients, totalling $1.4 million. [ Startup Daily ]
Uber Just Fired the Executive At the Center of Its Self-Driving Car Lawsuit
Uber, the embattled but well-funded ride-hailing company, has reportedly fired the executive in charge of its self-driving car efforts. Anthony Levandowski was a vice president of technology at the San Francisco company before he was terminated on Tuesday, according to an internal email reviewed by severalpress outlets. [ Fortune ]
E736: Robinhood's Vlad Tenev talks mission, bldg billion $ startup & biz of millennial money mgmt
How Facebook praises and pressures a country’s leader to get exactly what it wants
The Rural Woman is breaking down barriers for women in rural Australia starting online businesses
Goldman-Backed Games Startup Aims for Vietnam's First IPO Abroad