by Asmawisham | May 8, 2017 | Technology
Next Story Confide CEO Jon Brod on the White House, bad press, and what’s next for his secure messaging app Emmanuel Macron has been elected as the president of France. While you’ll be able to read plenty of profiles about him over the next few days, I wanted to use...
by Asmawisham | May 8, 2017 | Technology
Thursday night, at a StrictlyVC event in San Francisco, I sat down with Confide cofounder and president Jon Brod to talk with him about his decidedly topsy turvy 2017. Though his three-year-old messaging app was the belle of the ball at the start of the year — Wired,...
by Asmawisham | May 8, 2017 | Technology
Most at-home lab testing devices like Scanadu and Cor are still waiting for FDA approval, but simple lab testing can still be done in the confines of your own home and then shipped to a lab and that’s led to a handful of new startups offering services like STD or food...
by Asmawisham | May 8, 2017 | Technology
Last week hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the streets to protest what they saw as the evisceration of environmental legislation and a rollback of US efforts to stem the tide of climate change.Protests in Washington, Boston, New York, San Francisco, Chicago,...
by Asmawisham | May 8, 2017 | Technology
Richard Clarke has been watching the world for decades. The cybersecurity czar for the Bush and Clinton administrations, Clarke has been thinking and writing about threats – real-world and cyber – for years, culminating in his latest book, Warnings, a forthcoming...
by Asmawisham | May 8, 2017 | Technology
The whole on-demand space has faced a lot of scrutiny in the past few years as questions about whether they are viable businesses balloon and the periodic down round leaks out. Then Instacart raised a massive round at a $3.4 billion valuation, and while the terms...