What history could tell Mark Zuckerberg | Tesla shares fall 7.6% following price cuts in China and Elon Musk's promise to reimburse missed tax credits | Salesforce keeps rolling with another banner year in 2018 | My product launch wishlist for Instagram, Twitter, Uber and more | Four ways to bridge the widening valley of death for startups | Stock markets suffer their worst Christmas Eve trading day | Silicon Valley's year of reckoning |
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25 2018
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TOP HEADLINE | Natasha Lomas | | Perhaps Mark Zuckerberg obsessed over the wrong bit of history. Or else didn't study his preferred slice of classical antiquity carefully enough, faced, as he now is, with an existential crisis... Read More… |
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Catherine Shu | | Monday was a tough day for the U.S. stock market, but Tesla shares were hit especially hard. The stock fell by 7.6 percent after Tesla cut the Model 3’s price... Read More… |
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Ron Miller | | The good times kept on rolling this year for Salesforce with all of the requisite ingredients of a highly successful cloud company -- the steady revenue growth, the expanding product... Read More… |
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Josh Constine | | 'Twas the night before Xmas, and all through the house, not a feature was stirring from the designer's mouse . . . Not Twitter! Not Uber, Not Apple or Pinterest!... Read More… |
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Shahin Farshchi | | As early and late-stage funding becomes more abundant, founders and their early VC backers need to get smarter about how to position their companies for a looming valley of death... Read More… |
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Jonathan Shieber | | Twas the last trading day before Christmas, and on the trading floor, Most stocks were falling, and then falling some more, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin all the banks had called,... Read More… |
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Anna Escher | | Tech companies have always branded themselves as the good guys. But 2018 was the year that the long-held belief that Silicon Valley is on the right side of progress and... Read More… |
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Kirsten Korosec | | Malta, the renewable energy storage project born in Alphabet's moonshot factory X, is now on its own and flush with $26 million from a Series A funding round led by... Read More… |
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Connie Loizos | | When founder Bobby Farahi met Shaudi "Shoddy" Lynn, it was at a rave in L.A. Farahi has said he was immediately drawn to the fashion sense of Lynn, who was... Read More… |
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Kirsten Korosec | | North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, has been tracking Santa's progress around the globe every Christmas Eve for more than 60 years. Even a government shutdown won't prevent NORAD... Read More… |
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