June 7, 20210CommentsA better metaphor to describe Apple than “walled garden” is as a carrier, like Verizon, with an intense focus on increasing average revenue per user (Dieter Bohn/The Verge)
June 7, 20210CommentsLightspeed buys Ecwid for $500M; NuOrder for $425M in ongoing e-commerce consolidation play
June 7, 20210CommentsAnalysis of Trump’s social media engagement before and after bans shows a significant drop but some posts still receive equal engagement due to amplification (New York Times)
June 7, 20210CommentsLightspeed, which makes point-of-sale software, buys e-commerce platform Ecwid for $500M and B2B e-commerce platform NuOrder for $425M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
June 7, 20210CommentsA look at the design work behind the sound effects in communication products from companies like Slack, Microsoft, Facebook, and others (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
June 7, 20210CommentsOpenSooq, a Jordan-based online classifieds service, raises $24M led by the Saudi Jordanian Investment Fund (Matthew Martin/Bloomberg)
June 7, 20210CommentsA look at the rise of the meditation app Calm, downloaded by 100M+ users and valued at $2B, which aims to make meditation easy, friendly, and accessible (Annie Lowrey/The Atlantic)
June 7, 20210CommentsThe Station: Aurora gets closer to a SPAC deal, Spin’s new strategy and Waymo One app numbers
