Wednesday, August 12, 2026
Startups
How to Build a Billion-Dollar Office Culture in a Ten-Dollar Office Space
A startup office does not need polished concrete floors, nap pods or a rooftop espresso bar to feel inspiring. Some...
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On September 9, 1947, Grace Hopper’s team at Harvard pulled a dead moth out of the Mark II computer’s relay, taped it into the logbook with the note ‘first actual case of bug being found,’ and preserved the page that gave software its oldest metaphor
On the afternoon of September 9, 1947, a team of engineers at Harvard’s Computation Laboratory was hunting a fault in...
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In Startup Building and Backing: Our Fates are Intertwined
“Our fates are intertwined.” I’ve been thinking about that phrase a lot lately at York IE. Not just as a...
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Payoneer Sells to Nuvei for $2.75B in Bet on Unified Global Payments Infrastructure – AlleyWatch
Nuvei, the global payment technology company, has agreed to acquire Payoneer (Nasdaq: PAYO) for $7.40 per share in cash, valuing...
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The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 6/15/26 – AlleyWatch
The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report takes us on a trip across various ecosystems in the US, highlighting some of...
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Norway’s sovereign wealth fund owns roughly 1.5% of every listed company on Earth, and the team deciding how it votes at 9,000 annual shareholder meetings is smaller than the compliance department of a single mid-sized European bank
It is a Tuesday morning in Oslo, and a small team inside Norges Bank Investment Management is working through proxy...
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Britain just convicted four protesters as terrorists without a terrorism trial
In a Bristol courtroom this month, a judge reached for a sentencing tool that had never before been applied to...
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The Pistol shrimp snaps its claw so fast it creates a bubble that briefly reaches 4,700°C — nearly the surface temperature of the sun — and stuns prey with a flash of light the animal itself cannot see
When marine acousticians first lowered hydrophones into tropical reefs in the early twentieth century, they reported back a sound like...
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Most people don’t realise the loneliest stretch of adulthood often arrives in the early 50s, when the children have left, the parents are still here but smaller, and nobody in the house is being raised anymore
For decades, the dominant warning about midlife went something like this: the empty nest will hit when the last child...
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On October 29, 1969, a UCLA student named Charley Kline tried to send the word ‘LOGIN’ over ARPANET to Stanford, and the system crashed after the letter O — making the first message ever transmitted across the internet the accidental, almost biblical ‘LO’
At roughly 10:30 p.m. on October 29, 1969, a UCLA graduate student named Charley Kline put on a telephone headset,...
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