Image: Tada Images/Adobe Stock Kanban boards are a great way to visualize and track the progress of any project. In Microsoft SharePoint, there’s never been a great way to create a kanban board that had the features most people wanted. But with the new Board view now available, combined with the Lists app, it is … Read more
The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE) announced the results of the ISC (Class 12) second semester exams on Sunday. Due to the ongoing uncertainties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the board held the exam in two terms — one in November-December last year, and the second in April-May. The percentage of students … Read more
What you need to know Twitter’s board of directors has officially filed for a shareholder’s vote on the Elon Musk acquisition. It’s unclear when the shareholders will hold the vote to make the final decision. Musk claims there are still three major issues that need to be resolved before the deal can proceed. We’re still … Read more
Yousuf Khan is a partner at Ridge Ventures. Prior to joining Ridge, he was the first CIO of Automation Anywhere, CIO and vice president of Customer Success at cloud-based AI platform Moveworks, as well as CIO of Pure Storage, Qualys and Hult International Business School. More posts by this contributor To achieve enterprise sales success, … Read more
Brad Feld, a venture capitalist of 25 years an author of several books, has just republished a book that first came out in 2013 and to which Feld, with the help of coauthors Matt Blumberg and Mahendra Ramsinghani, has added quite a bit for this new, second edition. Called Startup Boards:A Field Guide to Building … Read more
Yahoo announced six new members of its board of directors today, about a year after the internet brand was acquired by private equity firm Apollo for $5 billion [Disclosure: TechCrunch is part of Yahoo]. The new appointees include Jessica Alba, actress and founder of The Honest Company; Aryeh Bourkoff, founder and CEO of the independent … Read more
A majority of Axon’s AI Ethics Board resigned in protest yesterday, following an announcement last week that the company planned to equip drones with Tasers and cameras as a way to end mass shootings in schools. The company backed down on its proposal Sunday, but the damage had been done. Axon had first asked the … Read more
9 of 12 members of an ethics board appointed by Axon to advise its technology decisions have resigned, citing the company’s plan to install Taser-equipped drones and pervasive surveillance at schools. “After several years of work, the company has fundamentally failed to embrace the values that we have tried to instill,” the departing members write. … Read more
A majority of Axon’s AI ethics board resigned in protest yesterday, following an announcement last week that the company planned to equip drones with Tasers and cameras as a way to end mass shootings in schools. The company backed down on its proposal Sunday, but the damage had been done. Axon had first asked the … Read more
As concerns mount about the future of Elon Musk’s buyout agreement, Twitter’s board of directors has seen an unexpected shake-up. On Wednesday, Silver Lake co-CEO Egon Durban failed to win support from a majority of Twitter shareholders to remain on the board for another term after two investor groups raised concerns that Durban sits on … Read more