June 15, 20210CommentsInterviews with 53 people shed light on Airbnb’s secretive safety team, made up of ~100 agents, some with military backgrounds, who handle emergency situations (Olivia Carville/Bloomberg)
June 15, 20210CommentsThumbtack, a home improvement services marketplace, raises $275M at a $3.2B valuation led by the Qatar Investment Authority (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
June 15, 20210CommentsInterviews with ~200 people show how Amazon’s warehouse employment system, under strain before the pandemic, burned through workers and created huge confusion (New York Times)
June 15, 20210CommentsHome services platform Thumbtack raises $275M on a $3.2B valuation to double down on home management
June 15, 20210CommentsTwitter is asking for feedback on a new feature letting users “unmention” themselves as an anti-abuse tool and to help users control unwanted attentions (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)
June 15, 20210CommentsAnalysis: Amazon’s properties, including Amazon.com, WholeFoods.com, and Zappos.com, are blocking Google’s new FLoC tracking system from gathering data (Kate Kaye/Digiday)
June 15, 20210CommentsDuda, which helps large businesses to build websites, raises $50M Series D led by Claridge IL, bringing its total raised to $100M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
June 15, 20210CommentsThe Delta variant doubles the risk of hospitalization—but the vaccines still work
June 15, 20210CommentsDuda, a WordPress rival, raises $50M to help agencies and bigger companies build better websites
