Pinterest Adds DoorDash Exec, Caviar Lead Gokul Rajaram To Its Board
The company announced it’s appointed Gokul Rajaram, Caviar Lead at soon-to-go-public DoorDash to its Board of Directors and as a member of its Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. The addition signals Pinterest’s desire to bring more digital advertising expertise to its board, given Rajaram’s past experience.
Why 96% Of Companies Today Will Fail In 10 Years
“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.” The reality may be worse though, not just a half, but an absolute majority of marketing budgets is wasted on customers that don’t generate enough profitability.
Google Exec Leaves To Join VC Firm
Google advertising chief Sridhar Ramaswamy is joining Greylock Partners, the venture capital firm announced. He will be replaced by Prabhakar Raghavan, formerly a vice president of engineering for Google's Cloud apps, with a strong background in AI research.
Will robots ever love us back?
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I search for the most irrational, most passionate, and most likeable — or unlikeable — person in the room. Maybe they’re the theoretical robot mole — that is, if the scientists are doing their jobs right.</span>
BSD Tech Weekly - June 16, 2017 - Black Swan Dexteritas, Inc.
The selloff started with a report on technology valuations from Goldman Sachs last Friday, and a report from Bloomberg News that upcoming iPhones will use modem chips with slower download speeds than...
An American Hedge Fund Is Advertising For A £124k Job That Offers To Freeze Employees Bodies' When They Die
The San Fransisco-based hedge fund Numerai is currently advertising for a full stack engineer. You would be paid pretty well -- $US130,000 to $US160,000 (or about £100,000 to £124,000) -- to develop the numer.ai stock market app, and work with the team of mathematicians and machine learning experts.
Tech Unicorn Ve Interactive's Valuation Slashed To £300M
Ve Interactive, the advertising technology company, was once valued at £1.5 billion, making it one of a handful of British “unicorns.” But a £3 million emergency cash injection agreed last week saw it valued at £300 million.
Paul Singer's Hedge Fund Dissolves Stake In Interpublic
Feb 14 (Reuters) - U.S. hedge fund Elliott Management Corp has dissolved its stake in advertising company Interpublic Group of Companies Inc, a regulatory filing showed on Tuesday.
Google Ventures-Backed Adelphic Acquired By Time Inc. For Undisclosed Sum
The acquisition, which is expected to close during the first quarter, is expected to boost the people-based advertising technology offered through Viant, a company Time Inc. acquired last year. Time Inc. is the publisher of more than 100 magazines, including Time, Sports Illustrated and Fortune. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Clairvest Scores Big Wins With Cieslok Exit, Rivers Casino Recap
<p>Clairvest Group is seeing a lucrative payday following the private equity firm’s sale of a Canadian out-of-home advertising business and the refinancing of a U.S. casino.</p>
<p>This month Clairvest sold Cieslok Media, a Toronto operator of large-format digital and static billboards in cities across Canada. The buyer was Bell Media, a multimedia subsidiary of BCE.</p>