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Walt Disney Announces 2021 Accelerator Companies

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According to the company, it has selected eight companies for the 2021 Disney Accelerator Program, including companies in the areas of messaging, the frontiers of technology, e-commerce, data, and personalization. The three month mentorship program has been run since 2014.

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Apple Expands Testflight To MacOS

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Apple announced on Monday at WWDC 2021 that it will be extending its Testflight beta testing service to the Mac and the MacOS platform. Burstly, the developer behind Testflight, was acquired by Apple back in 2014. The software--which was previously only available on iOS--was originally developed in Southern California.

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Fisker Announces New Sub-$40,000 SUV

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Los Angeles-based electric car startup Fisker announced a brand new vehicle today, a sub-$40,000 SUV, promising that it will start shipping to customers in the second half of 2021. That company, Fisker Automotive, went through $1.4 billion in investor and government money before going bankrupt.

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8 Organizational Cultures Boost Output And Cut Costs

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58 million workers identified themselves as freelancers in 2021, up 5 million since 2014. Work is becoming more of a tradable commodity, rather than a job, with freelancers and independent contractors, according to recent data. In the U.S., Freelancers now make up 36% of U.S. workers and earned over $1 trillion last year.

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How the myth of the ‘girlboss’ harms emerging women in tech

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Nasty Gal CEO Sophia Amoruso is credited with coining the term in the title of her 2014 memoir, “#Girlboss,” which chronicled her rags-to-riches success and was adapted into a Netflix show. Less than 2% of venture capital funding went to all-female founding teams in 2021, marking a five-year low. .

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Human Capital: Moving away from ‘master/slave’ terminology

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In 2014 , open-source platform Drupal moved to replace “master/slave” with “primary/replica.” . Meanwhile, Twitter began taking steps to replace those terms earlier this year and hopes to finish replacing that terminology by the end of 2021, according to CNET. . Then, in 2018, programming language Python ditched the racist terminology.

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