The US Has Three COVID Problems - Wed, Jan 20 2021

Wattpad is set to be acquired by South Korean internet company Naver Corp. for an estimated $754 million CAD ($600 million USD). Naver announced the deal early before market open Wednesday morning local time in South Korea. Wattpad confirmed the…

Alibaba and Ant co-founder Jack Ma has resurfaced after months out of public view, quashing intense speculation about the plight of the billionaire grappling with escalating scrutiny over his internet empire. China's most recognizable entrepreneur…

WASHINGTON — President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. moves into the White House on Wednesday facing many weighty issues: a global pandemic. A crushing recession. Racial injustice. Right-wing extremism. But Mr. Biden's personal weight-control and…

Fifteen years ago, when I worked as a product manager at Amazon, Jeff Bezos declared at an all-hands meeting that Amazon was not a retailer — it was a software company. “Our business is not what's in the brown boxes. It's the software…

Hot off the presses, I just read Ask Your Developer: How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win in the 21st Century by Jeff Lawson, founder and CEO of Twilio. It is, by far, the best book I've read explaining the real dynamics of…

Audio will be available later today. Filmmaker Ken Burns has spent his career documenting American history, and he always considered three major crises in the nation's past: The Civil War, the Depression and World War II. Then came the…

(CNN) President Donald Trump issued a raft of 11th-hour pardons and commutations early Wednesday that included his onetime political strategist, a former top fundraiser and two well-known rappers but not himself or his family. The batch of clemency…