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How many startups shut down last year compared to the year before? A lot.

Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our interview show, where we sit down with … Continue reading

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Salesforce’s behind-the-scenes co-founder is tackling Slack as software company turns 25

As the lesser-known co-founder of Salesforce, Parker Harris has led some of the company’s most important projects since helping launch the company 25 years ago.

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How Sony’s PlayStation has rivaled Microsoft and Nintendo in the console wars

CNBC takes a look back at the how the Sony’s PlayStation brand created the best-selling video game console of all time.

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Women in AI: Sandra Watcher, professor of data ethics at Oxford

To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’ll publish several pieces throughout the year … Continue reading

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It’s-a-sale – Five Mario Day bargains to pick up this weekend on Nintendo Switch

It’s the weekend, you don’t have much planned, the Switch is on charge and you need a new game No way are you going to pay full price for a Mario game though. And Nintendo? They never lower the prices … Continue reading

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Classic EA games coming to Steam

For such a long time some of the most famous games from the 90s and early 2000s have been unavailable on the world’s largest game store, Steam. Electronic Arts was the publisher behind all of them and to get them, … Continue reading

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As the Change Healthcare outage drags on, fears grow that patient data could spill online

A cyberattack at U.S. health tech giant Change Healthcare has ground much of the U.S. healthcare system to a halt for the second week in a row. Hospitals have been unable to check insurance benefits of in-patient stays, handle the … Continue reading

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Sam Altman Is Reinstated to OpenAI’s Board

OpenAI named Sam Altman, its fired-then-rehired CEO, to its board of directors Friday. It also added three women with executive experience at Sony, Meta, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Sam Altman rejoins OpenAI board of directors as investigation into his ouster comes to a close

Sam Altman rejoined OpenAI’s board of directors and the company added three new board members, along with announcing the results of an internal investigation.

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Sam Altman to Return to OpenAI’s Board of Directors

Mr. Altman was among new additions to the board announced on Friday, more than three months after he was briefly pushed out of the company.

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