One doubts Samsung’s convictions at their own peril. The company will be the first to point to the OG Note phablet as the ultimate expression of this phenomenon. The line may be gone, having been absorbed into the flagship Galaxy S product, but its influence on the industry is still being felt a decade after…
When you love a sport as much as Terry Lovingier loves horse racing, the time and effort you put into it is irrelevant. That is why when you ask Lovingier where he finds the time and energy to be chairperson of the board for the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association, secretary for the Thoroughbred Owners of…
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Last month, Andreessen Horowitz — one of venture capital’s largest and most prominent players — announced that its “headquarters will be in the cloud” going forward. Founded in 2009 in Menlo Park, California, the firm — also known as a16z — has for years been a symbol of Silicon Valley investing. Its new philosophy in…
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After years of dominance in Manchester, there has been a power shift between Liverpool and Man United that has left the latter stuck in the 2000s. For much of 2021 and 2022 if you tried to drive round Anfield, you wouldn’t have got very far. One of the roads around the stadium was blocked to…
Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis’ (IUPUI) Women’s Philanthropy Institute is highlighting 10 Black women philanthropists with its Black Women Give Back List. The Black Women Give Back List highlights Black women who saw a need in their community and took matters into their own hands to address it. These women not only change our perception of…
A new company from the creators of the Godot game engine is setting out to grab a piece of the $200 billion global video game market — and to do so, it’s taking a cue from commercial open source software giant Red Hat. Godot, for the uninitiated, is a cross-platform game engine first released under…
Former Arkansas State Senator Jon Woods was the first official in the state to endorse President Trump in 2016. Two years later US District Judge Timothy L. Brooks of the Western District of Arkansas Judgment Woods to serve 18 years in federal prisonin addition to three years of supervised release and ordered Woods to pay…
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Lavrenti Beria Guest post by John L. Kachelman, Jr. There is a historical reminder of the false security that a deeply enmeshed bureaucrat believes his is protected from his malevolence. Beria reminds those who are working “behind the scenes,” pursuing their own agendas, that their safety is never secure; their security is tenuous at best;…
Microtraction, an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in African startups at the pre-seed stage, is announcing that it has reached the first close of its second fund, Microtraction Community Limited. The fund doesn’t have a set target at the moment, the founding partners told TechCrunch, but it achieved the first close at $15 million….
Africa’s informal retailers supply most of the continent’s population with a broad range of consumer goods and generate over $1 trillion in sales annually. However, troubles with outward inefficiencies and inward challenges have led to the prominence of B2B e-commerce startups across the region, which provide various tech-enabled solutions to address access to products and…
