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CEO of Rappler, a media company critical of the Philippines government, is arrested
There’s serious concern around press freedom in the Philippines after Maria Ressa, the CEO of independent media company Rappler, was arrested last night. Ressa, who was CNN’s bureau chief
Quora says 100 million users may have been affected by data breach
Quora said today that a security breach may have compromised data from about 100 million users. In an email sent to users today and a blog post by CEO Adam D’Angelo, the company said a “malicious
Khosla GP launches Bling Capital to help seed-stage startups build products
Ben Ling, a Khosla general partner until next month, is closing in on $60 million for his debut fund.
Alibaba made a smart screen to help blind people shop and it costs next to nothing
Just a few years ago, Li Mengqi could not have imagined shopping on her own. Someone needed to always keep her company to say aloud what was in front of her, who’s been blind since birth. When s
EdTech is having a renaissance, powered by the emerging world
So-called ‘EdTech’ has seen many false dawns over the years. After being lauded as the teaching platforms of the future, most MOOCs (Massive Open Online Course platforms) have not quite li
‘Quora for cancer’ startup theMednet raises $1.3 million in seed funding
TheMednet launched out of Y Combinator earlier this year to bring physicians a sophisticated platform for finding the best in treatment research, starting with cancer. It has now raised $1.5 million
Quora just launched a self-serve ad platform
While Quora has been around for almost seven years, it’s been a little slow when it comes to monetization through advertising. The question-and-answer site first launched ads last year in April
Quora tests video answers to steal Q&A from YouTube
Newly-minted unicorn Quora has even bigger ambitions than text questions-and-answers. And it’s not going to let video giants or startups disrupt its future. This week Quora began testing video a
Crunch Report | Quora Valued At Around $1.8B
Today’s Stories Q&A app Quora valued around $1.8 billion in $85 million fundraise Elon Musk’s Neuralink wants to turn cloud-based AI into an extension of our brains Duolingo launches pai
Q&A app Quora valued around $1.8 billion in $85 million fundraise
Quora just became the unicorn of subjective human knowledge. After eight years carefully cultivating an intelligent question and answer community, it's just raised an $85 million Series D round co-led
The Mednet launches its ‘Quora for cancer,’ an online medical knowledge base
A New York City startup called The Mednet today launched a platform that gives physicians a knowledge-sharing tool that’s as easy to use as Quora, but provides them with expert answers about the lat
2017 is the year your startup gets funded
The turn of the calendar is cathartic for entrepreneurs -- there’s something about starting a new year that inspires folks to launch a new startup, build a new product or raise capital. If you’re
Q&A site Quora clamps down on anonymity – will review content before publishing, restrict actions
Quora, a crowdsourced Q&A site that’s generally smarter than Yahoo Answers, is making a big change to how anonymity works on its service. Most notably, it will begin cracking down on spam an
Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine are taking to Quora on the heels of Trump’s AMA
Hot on the heels of Trump’s not officially sanctioned Reddit AMA, the GOP nominee’s chief rivals are taking a break from the campaign trail to answer some questions to Q&A site, Quora. The Dem
Quora loses its public face, Marc Bodnick
Quora’s been at the Q&A game for 7 years now but still is only starting to monetize. It’s growing, but momentum could take a hit tonight as long-time head of business and community Mar
Quora begins making money with the introduction of advertising
Question and answer site Quora has made its first push to monetize after it added advertising.
Quora’s first acquisition is Arab Spring instigator’s Q&A site Parlio
“Ex-con” isn’t normally something you find on a founder’s resume. But Google employee Wael Ghonim went to jail for sparking the Egyptian Revolution. Now he might be wearing som
Quora Turns 80M Visitors Into Q&A Bounty Hunters With Knowledge Prizes
Quora is going to let companies pay cash to incentivize great answers to their burning questions. It's a forceful way to squeeze private insights into its public question and answer site, which has qu
Quora Launches Troll-Free AMA “Writing Sessions”
The chaos of Reddit’s Ask Me Anythings doesn’t lend itself to the most thoughtful answers. They’re short, plagued by trolls, and people who care about the topic or person might not k
How Product Hunt Hopes To Avoid The Pitfalls That Wounded Quora And Buried Digg
When Ashwinn Krishnaswamy and two of his buddies were living with their parents and working out of a basement in the suburbs of Philadelphia, they had only their development skills, a solid sense of p