You know a video is old if it went viral before there was YouTube. ‘Whassup?’ was a commercial campaign for Budweiser beer from 1999 to 2002. The company ran it worldwide and it eventually became a pop culture catchphrase. Recently, Budweiser teamed up with Burger King to recreate a legendary …
Read More »The Trump administration reportedly drafted a bill to abandon key World Trade Organization rules
Associated Press/Evan Vucci The Trump administration has reportedly drafted a bill that would abandon the US’ commitment to the World Trade Organization’s rules. Trump has recently been angling to withdraw the US from the WTO altogether — though Congress is unlikely to approve such a measure. Administration officials involved in …
Read More »There’s a better and cheaper way to trade Nike’s resurgence than buying the stock (NKE, FL)
Reuters Nike crushed earnings expectations on Thursday afternoon, sending the stock flying more than 10%. Jefferies says there’s a cheaper way to play the brand’s resurgence though Foot Locker. Follow Nike’s stock price in real-time here. If you missed out on catching Nike’s 11% surge following its earnings beat on Thursday, …
Read More »Verizon is shutting down go90
Verizon is pulling the plug on go90, its mobile video service (disclosure: Verizon owns Oath, which owns TechCrunch). It represented a big investment for the telecom company. After a big splashy launch in October 2015, the service never really found its audience. “Following the creation of Oath, go90 will be …
Read More »Bird and Lyft raise $900M, a16z launches a crytpo fund, and $6B more for Sequoia
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week Connie Loizos and I were joined by Norwest’s Scott Beechuk. Sadly, Matthew Lynley was reading slam poetry to ambivalent cacti in the Sonora Desert and thus couldn’t join us. He’ll be …
Read More »10 fast-food jobs that pay for college
Restaurant chains are increasingly using tuition benefits to attract hourly workers. US News & World report has the story. Read more: cnbc.com
Read More »Introducing The DigitalMarketer Podcast (And an Easy Way to Win Tickets to T&C 2019)
This has been a long time coming and we’re so excited to finally share the news that The DigitalMarketer Podcast is now available! [Listen on iTunes] This brand new podcast is hosted by DigitalMarketer’s very own Director of Content, Garrett Holmes, and Content Producer, Jenna Snavely. And, as you …
Read More »Twitter commits to taking on the bots and the abusers (yet again)
In a new blog post on Tuesday, Twitter committed to continue dealing with problems that have long plagued the website: spam and harassment. We do not value fake engagement. Taking bigger steps to improvehttps://t.co/A4b8IREWTc — jack (@jack) June 26, 2018 Since the 2016 election, malicious bot and troll accounts have …
Read More »Portuguese president gives Trump the most Big Dick Energy handshake yet
Lost amid the chaos of Wednesday’s Supreme Court-related news was this little meet-and-greet between President Trump and Portugal’s president, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, that added another chapter to Trump’s collection of awkward handshakes. From the video, it appears as if de Sousa gives Trump a nice firm tug, flexing a …
Read More »WhatsApp copies Telegram to add one-way ‘broadcast’ mode to group chats
“Good artists borrow great artists steal” is a phrase that Facebook seems acutely aware of. It’s common to speak of Instagram, the Facebook-owned photo-app-now-social-network, borrowing from Snapchat, but now Facebook’s WhatsApp chat app is increasingly drawing its innovation from others such as Telegram. This week, WhatsApp outed a new feature …
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