Blog Verité

Keepin’ News Real

Twitter CEO’s weak argument why investors shouldn’t fire him

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey might not spend six months a year in Africa, claims the real product development is under the hood, and gives an excuse for deleting Vine before it could become TikTok. Today he tweeted, via Twitter’s investor

Read More

Michigan Supreme Court hears case over Flint water liability

Flint’s water troubles began in April 2014 when the city traded a corrosion-controlled water source for a non-controlled one, the Flint River.

Read More

Cruise Ship is Held off California Coast for Covid-19 Testing

A patient who died from the virus had previously traveled on the vessel, which was heading toward San Francisco. About 20 people on board are showing symptoms.

Read More

Tel Aviv Stock Exchange continues slide as virus outbreak batters global markets

Oil and gas shares keep falling, dropping 11.3% this week, while El Al sees small gain; global markets rebound slightly after massive sell off

Read More

US denies that it attempted to communicate with Hamas terror group

Senior Trump administration official says ‘there is no truth’ to Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh’s claim that Washington offered to meet leadership

Read More

Kinnos, which makes colorized disinfectant to ensure surfaces are covered, just landed $6 million in funding

Kinnos, a New York-based startup, was founded six years ago, but what the five-person company produces is suddenly top of mind — and a new round of funding reflects as much. To wit, Kinnos, which makes additives that cause disinfectants

Read More

Female-founded startups landed more deals globally in 2019 than ever before

We all know the disruptive stories of female-founded startups like Glossier and ezCater. And we also know how those success stories belie the much harder time thousands of other women entrepreneurs have when it comes to raising capital. That’s why

Read More

People Can Just Barely Handle This Friendship Between This Dog and Its Cat Buddy

More than two decades later, Rose and Jack’s iconic Titanic love story may have finally met its match. The love displayed between a dog and a cat in a new short film — in the form of a viral Twitter

Read More

Dow sinks 1,000 points on alarm over virus spreading in United States

Wall Street’s losses deepened and the Dow Jones Industrials shed 1,000 points in afternoon trading on Thursday as death toll in the United States rose to 11 and travel related stocks took a severe beating.

Read More

Bird launches Scoot Mopeds in Austin ahead of SXSW

The Scoot Moped — an electric moped borne out of Bird’s acquisition of Scoot — will launch in Austin five months after unveiling the shared micromobility vehicle. The new moped is the latest effort by Bird to diversify its product

Read More