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The gender wage gap is shrinking among computer programmers, but it’s still quite largeGlassdoor has released its latest gender pay gap data analysis. In the U.S., the unadjusted pay gap comes in at 21.4 percent, meaning women make just $0.79 for every $1 men earn. But, when controlling for variables like age, education, location, experience, […]

Former NEA partner Jon Sakoda takes the wraps off his new, Cisco-backed venture fund, DecibelJon Sakoda needed to decompress, he says. The founder-turned-venture investor had logged a dozen years with the investing heavyweight New Enterprise Associates after selling his last startup to Symantec in 2006. And what he wanted by last summer was more time […]

Demanding privacy, and establishing trust, in digital health Sean Duffy Contributor Sean Duffy is the co-founder and CEO of Omada Health, a digital behavioral medicine company focused on reducing costly chronic disease in employer and health plan populations. February’s Wall Street Journal report pulled back the curtain on just how much is at stake when […]

The danger of ‘I already pay for Apple News+’Apple doesn’t care about news, it cares about recurring revenue. That’s why publishers are crazy to jump into bed with Apple News+. They’re rendering their own subscription options unnecessary in exchange for a sliver of what Apple pays out from the mere $10 per month it charges […]

Original Content podcast: ‘Triple Frontier’ sends famous faces on a grim hike over the AndesEven by the standards of the often, ah, “wide-ranging” conversations on the Original Content podcast, this latest episode covers a lot of ground. The initial focus is “Triple Frontier,” a film directed by J.C. Chandor and starring Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac, […]

A new lawsuit involving Stanford and Sequoia Capital highlights fights to come over cell-free DNA testingThis morning, a publicly traded transplant diagnostics company called CareDx, along with Stanford University, sued another publicly traded genetic testing company, Natera, for patent infringement. Much appears to be at stake, and it all centers on cell-free DNA testing, a […]

FAA proposal aims to ‘streamline’ regulations for future space launchesOn Tuesday, the FAA and Department of Transportation published a proposal that greases the wheels for the commercial space industry, long bound by outdated regulations that were not created with a modern vision of private spaceflight in mind. Last May, the Trump administration signaled its intention […]