Lucia, a six-year old, hides from Zoom calls and has rejected every edtech tool from Seesaw to Khan Academy. She will spend all of first grade in quarantine. Her mother, Claire Díaz-Ortiz, says her daughter fits squarely into the “distance learning death zone.” The idea is that younger children are too young to do distance…
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Giving potential employees a realistic sense of their first 30 days will help keep them from quitting.
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NEW YORK, NY, Diligent Corporation has received an increased investment from Clearlake Capital Group, and a new investment from funds managed by Blackstone.
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Software valuations are bonkers, which means it’s a great time to go public. Asana, Monday.com, Wrike and every other gosh darn software company that is putting it off, pay attention. Heck, even service-y Palantir could excel in this market. Let me explain. Over the past few weeks, TechCrunch has tracked the filing, first pricing, rejiggered…
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California opened a new front in its battle against Uber and Lyft over their classification of drivers as contractors instead of employees, with the state’s labor commissioner on Wednesday filing suit against the two companies. The San Francisco ride-hailing firms decided from the start of their operations to “misclassify” their drivers “as a means of…
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