“We don’t have enough quality apartments for highly educated people with high salaries and high standards,” said Aram Shahbandarian, a former Google employee based in Yerevan who is helping many […]
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Back to news homeThe Home Cooks (and Start-Ups) Betting on Prepared Meals
Several days a week, Jullet Achan moves around the kitchen of her apartment in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, stirring up dishes from her Surinamese background: fragrant batches of goat curry, root vegetable […]
Trump’s Truth Social Is Poised to Join a Crowded Field
For months, former President Donald Trump has promoted Truth Social, the soon-to-be-released flagship app of his fledging social media company, as a platform where free speech can thrive without the […]
Cremation Borrows a Page From the Direct-to-Consumer Playbook
Operating as a tech overlay may work well for, say, a travel or hospitality start-up, but in the funeral business, it brings its own headaches. In almost every state, consumers […]
Tech Start-Ups Reach a New Peak of Froth
Astonishing data for 2021 tell the story. U.S. start-ups raised $330 billion, nearly double 2020’s record haul of $167 billion, according to PitchBook, which tracks private financing. More tech start-ups […]
Can Anyone Satisfy Amazon’s Craving for Electric Vans?
That number is growing quickly. Amazon is several years — and tens of billions of dollars — into a huge push to deliver packages, shifting away from relying on large […]
The Peanut Butter Secret: A Lavish Tax Dodge for the Ultrawealthy
This is the story of the incredible cloning tax break.In 2004, David Baszucki, fresh off a stint as a radio host in Santa Cruz, Calif., started a tiny video-game company. […]
The 2021 Good Tech Awards
In the tech industry, 2021 was a year of profits and pivots.Thanks in part to the pandemic and the digitization of our lives, all of the big tech companies got […]
Jury in Elizabeth Holmes Trial Ends Fourth Day of Deliberations
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Jurors ended a fourth day of deliberations without a verdict on Monday in the fraud trial of Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the failed blood testing […]
How the Copycats Came for Clubhouse
“More people getting into social audio is good for social audio,” Maya Watson, Clubhouse’s head of global marketing, said in an interview. “We’re not bothered by it, and, if anything, […]