Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Top Stories of the Day // December 25, 2018

What history could tell Mark Zuckerberg | Tesla shares fall 7.6% following price cuts in China and Elon Musk's promise to reimburse missed tax credits | Salesforce keeps rolling with another banner year in 2018 | My product launch wishlist for Instagram, Twitter, Uber and more | Four ways to bridge the widening valley of death for startups | Stock markets suffer their worst Christmas Eve trading day | Silicon Valley's year of reckoning |
THE DAILY CRUNCH
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25 2018 TODAY'S TOP STORIES:
TOP HEADLINE | Natasha Lomas

What history could tell Mark Zuckerberg

Perhaps Mark Zuckerberg obsessed over the wrong bit of history. Or else didn't study his preferred slice of classical antiquity carefully enough, faced, as he now is, with an existential crisis... Read More…
Catherine Shu

Tesla shares fall 7.6% following price cuts in China and Elon Musk's promise to reimburse missed tax credits

Monday was a tough day for the U.S. stock market, but Tesla shares were hit especially hard. The stock fell by 7.6 percent after Tesla cut the Model 3's price... Read More…
Ron Miller

Salesforce keeps rolling with another banner year in 2018

The good times kept on rolling this year for Salesforce with all of the requisite ingredients of a highly successful cloud company -- the steady revenue growth, the expanding product... Read More…
Josh Constine

My product launch wishlist for Instagram, Twitter, Uber and more

'Twas the night before Xmas, and all through the house, not a feature was stirring from the designer's mouse . . . Not Twitter! Not Uber, Not Apple or Pinterest!... Read More…
Shahin Farshchi

Four ways to bridge the widening valley of death for startups

As early and late-stage funding becomes more abundant, founders and their early VC backers need to get smarter about how to position their companies for a looming valley of death... Read More…
Jonathan Shieber

Stock markets suffer their worst Christmas Eve trading day

Twas the last trading day before Christmas, and on the trading floor, Most stocks were falling, and then falling some more, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin all the banks had called,... Read More…
Anna Escher

Silicon Valley's year of reckoning

Tech companies have always branded themselves as the good guys. But 2018 was the year that the long-held belief that Silicon Valley is on the right side of progress and... Read More…
Kirsten Korosec

Alphabet spins off moonshot project Malta with backing from Gates's BEV fund

Malta, the renewable energy storage project born in Alphabet's moonshot factory X, is now on its own and flush with $26 million from a Series A funding round led by... Read More…
Connie Loizos

Dolls Kill is raising up to $15 million for its edgy fashion brand made for 'misfits'

When founder Bobby Farahi met Shaudi "Shoddy" Lynn, it was at a rave in L.A. Farahi has said he was immediately drawn to the fashion sense of Lynn, who was... Read More…
Kirsten Korosec

On Christmas Eve, Chevrolet drivers can track Santa from their cars

North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, has been tracking Santa's progress around the globe every Christmas Eve for more than 60 years. Even a government shutdown won't prevent NORAD... Read More…
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