The number of things that can be done from the comfort of one’s own bed has increased in recent years — shopping, banking and now geospatial analytics. Ok, it doesn’t sound sexy but it might give you a leg up the next time your friend starts an arcane argument with …
Read More »Uber rival Grab’s first CFO is leaving the company after just seven months
Grab, Uber’s archrival in Southeast Asia, is losing its first CFO just seven months after her appointment, the company confirmed. Linda Hoglund joined Singapore-based Grab from video streaming company HOOQ in May, where she had also been CFO, but four-year-old Grab announced her departure internally as part of a reshuffle of its financial …
Read More »Google’s head of diversity is leaving the company
Google’s head of diversity, Nancy Lee, is retiring from Google after several years of leading the company’s global diversity and inclusion team, TechCrunch has learned. Lee, who originally joined Google’s legal team back in 2006, has been working on diversity at Google for the last few years. She started her diversity …
Read More »Leaving Aleppo
Aleppo first became caught up in the war in July 2012, when rebels launched an offensive to expel government forces and gain control over northern Syria. But the assault was not decisive, leaving the city divided in half with the opposition controlling the east, and the government controlling the west.
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