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The future of batteries needs more than venture capital

French battery maker Verkor secured more than €2 billion (around $2.1 billion) to build its Dunkirk gigafactory, which is set to be operational by 2025.

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When companies have more influence than countries

Apple recently hit a market cap of $3 trillion only two years after it crossed the $2 trillion mark. Before that, it had taken more than 40 years to make it to $1 trillion. The company recorded revenue of almost $400 billion last year. If Apple were a country, according to the CIA’s World Factbook, its revenue would rank it at No. 50 on the list of countries ranked by GDP. While it’d lag the…

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Designers hated Figma’s collaborative design tool at first, but grew to love it

Back in 2012 when Dylan Field was a student at Brown University, he came up with the idea of building a browser-based design tool. At the time, design tools were all on the desktop, which meant that designers worked alone, sending files for review to the various stakeholders involved, then making changes based on feedback in a rather inefficient non-digital loop. Field and co-founder Evan Wallace…

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How technology unlocks business models: The story of Netflix

“Usually the best way to figure out if your crazy idea is any good is simply to try it. So that’s what we did,” Marc Randolph, Netflix’s co-founder and original CEO, That crazy idea was to send a CD through the mail to learn whether the concept of a mail-order DVD subscription service was practical. The CD, sent by USPS in a greeting card envelope, arrived safely the next day. The proof of…

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The on-demand delivery trilemma

Ali Ahmed Contributor Share on Twitter Ali Ahmed is a serial tech entrepreneur with expertise in on-demand delivery and robotics. More posts by this contributor How to win in the autonomous taxi space In the crypto world, there’s a popular maxim called the Blockchain Trilemma, which refers to the difficulty of simultaneously achieving three desirable properties in a blockchain network:…

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3 views: What does the future of social media look like after Twitter?

3 views: What does the future of social media look like after Twitter?

Twitter’s demise might be overstated, but we still can’t unsee what we saw in 2022. The newly Elon Musk-owned social network could continue zombie-shuffling for months or years for all we know if Elon Musk can scrape together enough advertising revenue to pay the bills — namely, the massive interest on the $13 billion in debt that he saddled the company with in order to buy it. Twitter could also…

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Mastodon creator Eugen Rochko talks funding and how to build the anti-Twitter

Mastodon creator Eugen Rochko talks funding and how to build the anti-Twitter

Eugen Rochko came up with the idea for and built Mastodon some six years ago during another one of Twitter’s dips. A developer who had already been interested in and was working with open source software, he got the idea for Mastodon from a federated version of a forum he’d built in high school. That project was called Zeon Federated, and it’s no longer active. While developing that, he also…

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As tech companies seek to limit losses, a reminder of how far some have to go

As tech companies seek to limit losses, a reminder of how far some have to go

The 2022 perspective that startups should cut their losses and chart a clearer path to profitability does not only apply to upstart tech companies. After a multiyear spending binge, larger technology companies are also pulling back on costs. For some major tech concerns, the cuts have come in the form of explicit layoffs and staffing reductions created by not backfilling departing employees,…

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