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(Gothamist) Less than 24 hours after Albany’s Three Men in a Room announced their “framework” for a deal that leaves the city’s rent regulations mostly unchanged for the next four years, a crowd of protesters gathered outside Governor Cuomo’s Midtown office to voice their outrage and concern for the future. “I’m exhausted, frustrated, and honestly…
Circa, a news app, will cease publishing circa now, according to a post from its co-founder Matt Galligan on Medium titled “Farewell to Circa News.” This announcement follows days of drama surrounding the news app’s fate, which abruptly stopped updating on Monday, leaving at least one reader very confused. But now we have our answer:…
Of the richest venture capitalists, all are worth more than $1 billion, and all are men. The majority of these have invested in Groupon, LinkedIn, Skype, YouTube, Paypal, Facebook and others. Chances are, you are legally barred from joining their exclusive investors’ club. More than 97% of Americans cannot invest in the latest startups, nor…
Farewell to Circa News It’s with great disappointment that we let you know that Circa News has been put on indefinite hiatus. Producing high-quality news can be a costly endeavor and without the capital necessary to support further production we are unable to continue. Our mission was always to create a news company where factual,…
The Assembly, controlled by Democrats, had pushed to strengthen rent regulations so that fewer apartments would become market rate in future years, but it faced opposition from the Republican-controlled Senate. As part of the agreement, the rent threshold at which a vacant apartment can be deregulated will increase to $2,700, from $2,500. That threshold would…
More than a million people use Slack every day now. You do, probably. Hard to imagine you reading a story about enterprise software if it wasn’t a part of your working life. Then again, Slack has always been a little weird like that. A year and a half ago, no one had ever heard of…
Here’s the short Circa version: We tried to do something very different, we took huge risks, we built a product that spawned a whole new category, and we enjoyed every moment of it, at least until the money ran out and that sucked. Care to know more? By all means, read on: We got some…
Slack, maker of extremely expensive professional chatrooms, is annexing online work culture at a stunning rate. The industry narrative doesn’t quite cover it! Sure, a lot of companies are signing up and closing their Campfire chats, their Hipchats and their IRCs. But the thing about Slack that gives you that low dread of unstoppable acceleration…
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Black cab drivers gum up a London street to protest against Uber. Photo by Chem Squier. This article originally appeared on VICE UK. It was seven o’clock on a cold January evening when Orhan, a taxi driver for Uber, first realized he had a problem. Well into his second shift of the day, he tried…