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Clubhouse Media Adds Andreessen Horowitz Partner To Advisory Board
Friday, April 2, 2021 - 3:56pm | 324Clubhouse Media Group Inc (OTC: CMGR) will be adding Andrew Omori to its advisory board. What To Know: Omori is a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, one of the leading venture capital firms. Andreessen Horowitz has over $16.5 billion in assets under management. Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz,...
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LinkedIn Set To Take On Clubhouse With Creator Mode: What Investors Should Know
Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - 6:23pm | 489The rise of Clubhouse has given influencers and experts in different fields a chance to share and interact with an audience. Several companies are planning to offer platforms that compete against Clubhouse, including a newly announced platform from LinkedIn. What Happened: LinkedIn, which was...
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Fintech Focus For April 1, 2021
Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - 5:19pm | 1750Quote To Start The Day: International Business Machines Corp. expects 80% of its employees to work in a hybrid model after the pandemic, a setup that offers flexibility but also poses challenges for community-building and upward mobility for staff in a virtual workspace. The majority of workers...
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Spotify Forays In Live Audio With Locker Room Acquisition: Report
Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - 8:15am | 452Spotify Technology SA (NYSE: SPOT) marked its live audio debut with the acquisition of sports-talk app Locker Room and its parent Betty Labs for a $50 million valuation to capitalize on the pandemic induced industry boom, CNBC reports. Clubhouse rival, Locker Room, was initially...
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The 'Boiler Room' Stock Pitch Recap: Futu, Intuitive Surgical, Ocugen, Sprouts Farmers Market And More
Friday, March 26, 2021 - 5:50pm | 1737Every Friday, at 3 p.m. ET, Ritholtz Wealth Management CEO Josh Brown and Benzinga CEO Jason Raznick host "The Boiler Room," a Clubhouse audio chat where listeners can pitch their favorite stock. Here are this week's pitches. FUTU: Futu Holdings (NASDAQ: FUTU) Futu is a holding...
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What New Products And Updates Could Debut At Facebook Developer Conference?
Wednesday, March 24, 2021 - 1:05pm | 455Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) will host a virtual event for developers in June that could show off new updates and products. What Happened: Facebook will host developers at a single-day, virtual-only conference on June 2, TechCrunch reports. The event is called “F8 Refresh” and it will...
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The 'Boiler Room' Stock Pitch Recap: Texas Pacific Land Corp, StoneCo, Virgin Galactic And More
Saturday, March 20, 2021 - 8:37am | 2308Every Friday, at 3 p.m. ET, Ritholtz Wealth Management CEO Josh Brown and Benzinga CEO Jason Raznick host "The Boiler Room," a Clubhouse audio chat where listeners can pitch their favorite stock. Here are this week's pitches. Virgin Galactic Holdings (NYSE: SPCE) Virgin Galactic is an...
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The 'Boiler Room' Stock Pitch Recap: Nautilus, Uber, Lamar Advertising And More
Saturday, March 13, 2021 - 8:38am | 2172Every Friday, at 3 p.m. ET, Ritholtz Wealth Management CEO Josh Brown and Benzinga CEO Jason Raznick host "The Boiler Room," a Clubhouse audio chat where listeners can pitch their favorite stock. Here are this week's pitches. NLS: Sam pitched Nautilus Inc (NYSE: NLS), which...
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ByteDance Looks To Copycat Popular Clubhouse App For China: Reuters
Thursday, March 4, 2021 - 8:32am | 482TikTok parent ByteDance is working on replicating the popular U.S.-based audio chat service, Clubhouse, for China, Reuters reports. Discussions about TikTok and ByteDance on Clubhouse attracted interest from ByteDance executives, including CEO Zhang Yiming. However, ByteDance...
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Fintech Focus For February 15, 2021
Monday, February 15, 2021 - 12:20am | 2274Quote To Start The Day: Do not confuse motion and progress. Source: Alfred A. Montapert One Big Thing In Fintech: More than 90M millennials will soon be in what Goldman Sachs calls their “prime spending years.” Millennials have overtaken the baby boomers to become the largest...
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Stanford Researchers: Clubhouse's Raw Audio Data Vulnerable To Access By Chinese Govt.
Saturday, February 13, 2021 - 1:05pm | 493Clubhouse downloads rose quickly in China, where users are usually blocked from discussing sensitive subjects such as the government crackdown on Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement. Researchers at the Stanford Internet Observatory are warning users of the social media...
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How Facebook, Mark Cuban Are Competing With The Clubhouse Craze
Wednesday, February 10, 2021 - 4:21pm | 435Social media platform Clubhouse has skyrocketed in popularity in recent weeks, and Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) is reportedly scrambling to launch its own audio chat product in response. What Happened? Clubhouse is a popular app that provides voice chat in rooms that contain anywhere from a...
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Fintech Focus For February 10, 2021
Tuesday, February 9, 2021 - 9:59pm | 1887Quote To Start The Day: The question isn’t who is doing to let me, it’s who is going to stop me. Source: Ayn Rand One Big Thing In Fintech: In January 2021, FinTech startups worldwide raised VC/PE investments worth $7.8 billion across 294 deals. In terms of MoM growth, there was a 37.4...
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Fintech Focus For February 9, 2021
Monday, February 8, 2021 - 8:32pm | 2129Quote To Start The Day: If you can change your mind, you can change your life. Source: William James One Big Thing In Fintech: Tesla has disclosed in an SEC filing published Monday that it has bought $1.5 billion worth of bitcoin. "In January 2021, we updated our investment policy to provide...
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Exclusive Social Media App Clubhouse Rises In Rankings Following Musk, Zuckerberg Appearances
Saturday, February 6, 2021 - 4:46pm | 562Clubhouse, Silicon Valley’s invitation-only audio chat room, is now one of the fastest-growing social media apps in the world. What Happened: According to Sensor Tower, an app analytics company, Clubhouse ranks in the top 30 of apps that iPhone users have downloaded this week...