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It was a rather tense morning at TechCrunch headquarters this morning with the news that TechCrunch’s parent company, Yahoo, has announced that it is going to lay off 20% of its workforce. Amanda informed. It seems like the layoffs are mostly due to the ad tech side of the business so hopefully the TechCrunch team’s jobs are safe but these are the tech layoffs being done very close to home with 1,600 employees moving to new moving pastures. May you all find new vacancies soon, colleagues!
Our Black History Month on display today is Bell Hook’s Longing: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics, a collection of his early 1980s cultural critiques, an impressive collection of essays on the oppressive structures of domination. It is also very depressing to see how much of this is still relevant today, 30 or 40 years after the first essays were written.
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safe and sound: DoorDash has introduced a number of new safety features for its drivers, including reduced alerts and a way to let customers know the driver is in the middle of a trip. Ivan have more.
Here’s what’s in the open beta: Atlassian’s Jira Product Discovery, a tool to help development and business teams prioritize and collaborate on new product ideas, is expected to be generally available within the next three months. Frederick he is writing
fly over: hahaha explains the features of the new ultraportable DJI Mini 2 SE drone and why the name of that particular product confuses you. Startups and VCs
More than 90% of cybercrime leading to financial fraud or identity theft starts with email phishing, commonly known as phishing and spoofing. label reports. Sendmarc just raised $7 million in Series A funding to provide email protection to individuals and businesses against such attacks and general email spoofing.
Remember that article we wrote about how a feature doesn’t do business? Twitter said the basic API level will cost $100 per month, dashing the hopes of amateur Twitter bots and a number of small business use cases. Ivan reports.
Today was a big day for news on the site, so instead of the usual five, we’ve got seven stories for you, ranging from fintech to NFTs to meat and mushrooms (or meaty mushrooms).
4 video content tips to grow your startup business
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If your marketing plan doesn’t include TikTok, YouTube Shorts, or Instagram Reels, can you really call it a marketing plan?
Video content is key to driving initial engagement. That’s why growth expert Jonathan Martinez (formerly of Postmates, Uber and Chime) shares four tactics to get you started:
Take advantage of maker markets. Make short videos. Build lasting relationships with creators. share your videos
“If you go into 2023 without a video content plan for your startup, you are missing out on an important resource to increase brand awareness and reach more consumers,” Martinez writes.
Three more from the TC+ team:
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Well, as you read in our introduction, we are shocked by Yahoo’s announcement that it is going to lay off 20% of its workforce. Amanda there’s more to it. But that wasn’t the only bad news hitting the tech scene today: Frederick reports that Microsoft-owned GitHub will lay off 10% of its employees and go completely remote by the end of the fiscal year. About that, Pablo writes that developer giant GitLab is cutting its workforce by 7%.
And we have four more for you:
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Jason Jack is an experienced technology journalist and author at The Nation View. With a background in computer science and engineering, he has a deep understanding of the latest technology trends and developments. He writes about a wide range of technology topics, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, software development, and cybersecurity.
