QA Wolf, a startup that helps other companies vet lines of code, emerged from stealth mode Wednesday after it raised $20.1 million to boost its engineering core and marketing teams.… Read More
Today’s featured stories Nest’s digital health ambitions revealed in records from secretive purchase of Seattle startup Senosis Backed by Seattle firm, Canadian pot company Tilray sees value soar to $20… Read More
President Trump has tapped a top aide of Peter Thiel (best known for co-founding PayPal, investing in Facebook, and killing Gawker) as deputy chief technology officer. Michael Kratsios, who worked… Read More
Billionaire tech investor and PayPal founder Peter Thiel has been making headlines since May with his ardent and vocal support of Donald Trump, an uncommon stance in Silicon Valley. Speaking at a… Read More
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has tweeted just 68 times at his 144,000 followers in his limited use of Twitter, but he clearly hit a high-water mark on Dec. 7, 2015, when… Read More
Donald Trump’s candidacy for president goes against everything the technology sector believes in and the prospect of his presidency would be “a disaster for innovation,” according to an open letter… Read More
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg may be planning to give away almost all of his stock in the company, but that doesn’t mean he’s going anywhere. “I plan on being involved… Read More
If you grew up in Tornado Alley, you know the terrifying destruction that comes with tornado season. It’s hardly a natural event that elicits positive connotations. But one Canadian engineer… Read More
Could Marc Andreessen be the next major investor eyeballing the burgeoning legal marijuana market? Mayhaps. It came to our attention today that he was certainly retweeting a lot of comments about marijuana.… Read More
Founders Fund is betting big on marijuana. Peter Thiel’s venture capital firm today announced that it has made a multi-million dollar investment in Privateer Holdings, a four-year-old Seattle firm that… Read More
Well, here’s some more interesting news about the lifestyle habits of the tech world’s rich and famous. Venture capitalist and weed investor Peter Thiel takes human growth hormones to build muscle… Read More
Peter Thiel has a funny relationship with marijuana. In September, he bashed Twitter’s executives and said there was “probably a lot of pot-smoking going on there.” Now, though, Thiel appears to… Read More
Competition is an epidemic and your college degree is worthless. At least, that’s the opinion of controversial entrepreneur Peter Thiel. The billionaire co-founder of PayPal and famous first investor in… Read More