TechCrunch LA

JULY 9, 2019

Doctours , a Los Angeles-based online platform for booking trips and treatments for medical and dental care around the world, is expanding its services to 35 countries. O’Shaughnessy wrote in an email. In 2018 alone, 14 million patients traveled abroad to seek healthcare, according to the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Taken together these “mega rounds” represent nearly half of the funding in 2018. If you look at the blue line below in what we are calling “private-market IPOs” you’ll see the discernible trend that began in 2014 and has continued through 2018 and you’ll see the impact this has potentially had on public IPOs in green. Still reading?

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

In 2014 , open-source platform Drupal moved to replace “master/slave” with “primary/replica.” . Then, in 2018, programming language Python ditched the racist terminology. Send me an email at megan@techcrunch.com . But GitHub is by no means the first company to consider and make these changes.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Portions of the newsletter are published as an article on the main site after it has been emailed to subscribers (that’s what you’re reading now). The Station is emailed every Saturday morning. Email me at kirsten.korosec@techcrunch.com to share thoughts, opinions or tips or send a direct message to @kirstenkorosec.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

Glossier affirmed our inherent beauty, then reminded us that we can be even more beautiful if we buy their “Boy Brow” pomade, which sold one tube every 32 seconds by 2018. Glossier founder Emily Weiss speaks at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2018 Image Credits: TechCrunch. Please stop using the word Girlboss thank you. What does that even mean?”

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Tech.Co

JULY 29, 2020

” – Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, wrote in an email to employees . Only about 29% of workers had the option to work from home between 2017 and 2018, according to the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Remote Working: What Is Twitter Doing? Working From Home Best Practice.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2015

An increasing number of startups are adopting a BYOD policy, realizing that individuals have their own preferences in the way they access data, collect emails or ‘chat’ to colleagues. Use of collaborative and other social media platforms. Another study predicts this number could grow to 24 million by 2018.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2014

An increasing number of startups are adopting a BYOD policy, realizing that individuals have their own preferences in the way they access data, collect emails or ‘chat’ to colleagues. Use of collaborative and other social media platforms. Another study predicts this number could grow to 24 million by 2018.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

An email subscription is coming! Email me or send a direct message to @kirstenkorosec. billion investment in 2018. The Austin City Council on approved in February 2018 the creation of a “dockless” bike share pilot program. As I’ve written before, consider this a soft launch. What else are we hearing?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Email is becoming ineffective, and by 2011 there will be three times more smart phones than computers. Our web software platform lets those groups address a younger generation, deal with micro billing and donations, and communicate in the new medium more effective than they used to. How is the company backed?

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 26, 2016

As social media becomes a platform for online extremists, valid questions regarding freedom of speech, monitoring and censorship have arisen. I suspect that the merged offerings from large vendors (Microsoft, Google) will get better, but that upstarts will be desired for cross platform capability.

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