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Meet the 5 judges who will pick the 2021 winner of TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield

TechCrunch

He went on to found Clicker, an internet video search and programming guide. During his time at CBSi, Lanzone led the creation, launch and growth of streaming services CBS All Access, CBSN and CBS Sports HQ. He worked at Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves), a division of IAC/InterActiveCorp.,

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8 investors and founders highlight Valencia’s potential as a fintech and cybersecurity hub

TechCrunch

The city appears to be strong in areas such as travel, AI, cybersecurity, fintech, agritech, travel tech, biotech, sports tech, and VR. We have some of the top incubators and accelerator programs in Spain. So to find out what the startup scene in Valencia looks like, we spoke with eight local investors, executives and founders.

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At Chaos, a chaotic response to assault allegations

The Parallax

As public allegations of sexual harassment and assault proliferate across tech and cybersecurity , politics , sports , academia , entertainment , and the media , many organizations are learning the hard way that they need to do more than establish a code of conduct. ”—Dia Kayyali, tech and advocacy program manager, Witness.

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#742 My Body, My Pixels: A Deep Dive on Digital Autonomy with Todd Zywicki, Professor of Law at George Mason University

Modern CTO

With 10 schools and colleges offering more than 200 degree programs, Mason is a vibrant community of scholars and researchers that spans three campuses in Arlington (Mason Square), Fairfax, and Prince William and learning locations across the Commonwealth of Virginia. He is a contributor to the popular legal blog The Volokh Conspiracy.

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5 Women Who Made an Impact on Technology

TIBCO - Connected Intelligence

Her accomplishments include programming the Mark 1 computer that brought speed and accuracy to military initiatives; developed the first business-oriented machine (UNIVAC I), architected COBOL, which is still a standard of data processing today; and the idea that computer code could be written and read like language.

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Tanya Maslach Joins Women On Business as a Contributing Writer.

Women on Business

Tanya currently writes about leadership, in sport, work and life on Elevati’s Blog at www.elevati-inc.com/blog.  Each story brings a relevant analogy to the business issue at hand, making the learning more fun, the process guarantee more impact, and the happiness-meter on high.

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Daily Crunch: Generative AI search engine startup You.com adds multimodal chat

TechCrunch

The Fifteen Percent Pledge is a racial equity and economic justice nonprofit organization working toward a more equitable economic future. The New York–based startup launched in 2019 with the novel idea of bringing the talent agency model that is popular in Hollywood and sports to other professions. Some are even about You.