How will tech companies cope with an office-free future?
Depending on your business, your job, and your living situation, the pandemic showed that many workers didn't need to be sitting in a cubby farm...
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Airbnb will no longer offer COVID-19-related refunds beginning May 31
Airbnb announced that it will soon no longer offer refunds for COVID-19-related circumstances, including when a guest becomes sick with the virus.
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Pandemic-fueled companies are finding the new reality hard to swallow
Could it be that companies that fell out of favor due to COVID-induced shifts in the economy are best prepared to excel this year?
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COVID rapid tests available on e-commerce in China for the first time
China is allowing the public to take COVID-19 rapid antigen self-tests for the first time as infection numbers hit a two-year high in recent days....
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Welcome to the it’s-so-subtle pivot season
As late-stage tech startups face the changing environment in the public markets, their early-stage counterparts are in a different world altogether.
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Spotify must be more transparent about its rules of the road
Companies once believed they could rely on algorithms to catch inappropriate content and intervene with public relations in high-profile cases....
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Hopin’ into lessons from Peloton
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. In the...
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Joni Mitchell joins Neil Young, pulls her music from Spotify over vaccine misinformation
Spotify’s Joe Rogan headache is about to get a lot worse. Earlier this week, musician Neil Young announced that he would pull his music from...
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The pandemic trade is over
News broke today (shoutout CNBC for the scoop) that Peloton is halting production of its hardware for a bit. Compare and contrast the following...
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US residents can order free, at-home COVID-19 tests starting on January 19th
One year, 10 months and eight days after the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans will be able to order free, at-home...
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Twitter bans Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene’s personal account over COVID-19 misinformation
Twitter has permanently suspended the personal account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-GA) “for repeated violations of our COVID-19...
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Phylagen, which tracks indoor microbiomes, is “racing ” to meet return-to-work efforts
Two years into a worldwide pandemic, outfits around the globe are wrestling with how to resume their in-person operations safely. Consider that Apple...
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Developers and designers can help businesses manage the semiconductor shortage
The semiconductor shortage is going to continue to cause disruptions, so it is up to businesses to make changes now to set up their organizations as...
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Truveta is making progress towards building a living medical portrait of America
Truveta wants to collect privacy-safe medical data from around the United States on a regular basis, making it available for researchers to sift and...
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A security bug in health app Docket exposed COVID-19 vaccine records
The bug, now fixed, allowed access to other people's vaccination records.
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Employees are designing the workplace of the future
What factors would make people want to come into the office? SAP research found four: peer-to-peer learning, collaboration, community-building and...
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Apple will require unvaccinated employees to test for COVID-19 daily
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SkyCell raises a $35 million series C round and enters COVID-19 vaccine distribution market
SkyCell, a Swiss company developing smart containers for transporting medicines and vaccines, is announcing a significant round of funding. On top of...
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YouTube will now ban content with vaccine misinformation
YouTube expanded its medical misinformation policies today to include new guidelines that ban vaccine misinformation. The Google-owned video platform...
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Apple Wallet is getting verifiable COVID-19 vaccination cards
There's a real chance you'll need proof of a COVID-19 vaccination to enter certain venues, and Apple is hoping it can save you some of the...
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Facebook changes misinfo rules to allow posts claiming COVID-19 is man-made
Facebook made a few noteworthy changes to its misinformation policies this week, including the news that the company will now allow claims that COVID...
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3 views on the future of meetings
Founders aren’t flocking to build just another SaaS tool or Airtable copycat — they're trying to disrupt the only thing possibly more...
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Lyft, Uber kick off free COVID-19 vaccine rides program
Uber and Lyft have officially started to offer free rides to anyone traveling to get a COVID-19 vaccine, two weeks after the ride-hailing companies...
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White House teams up with dating apps to give vaccinated users free perks
With vaccination rates slowing in the U.S., the White House is getting creative about getting shots in arms. Beyond protecting yourself and others...
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Interactio, a remote interpretation platform, grabs $30M after seeing 12x growth during COVID-19
Interactio, a remote interpretation platform whose customers include massive institutions like the United Nations, European Commission and Parliament...
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IFA Berlin 2021 is canceled, citing ‘uncertainties’ around vaccine rollouts
After IFA became one of an extremely small number of in-person trade shows in 2020, the gfu Consumer & Home Electronics GmbH is pulling the plug...
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Worksome pulls $13M into its high skill freelancer talent platform
More money for the now very buzzy business of reshaping how people work: Worksome is announcing it recently closed a $13 million Series A funding...
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Huma, which uses AI and biomarkers to monitor patients and for medical research, raises $130M
While much of the world eagerly watches to see if the vaccination rollout helps curb and eventually stamp out Covid-19, one of the companies that has...
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