TechTaffy

tech:

taffy

Tom Peters Joins Vint Cerf, Mark Cuban As SparkLabs Advisor

By TechTaffy Desk

Management guru and author Tom Peters has joined SparkLabs’ honorary board of advisors. Other advisors include Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks; Michael Crow, president of Arizona State University; Ray Ozzie, founder & CEO of Talko; and Vint Cerf, vice president & chief Internet evangelist for Google.

SparkLabs is a startup accelerator in Korea. It just hosted its first Demo Day in Seoul, Korea. SparkLabs provides a 3-month long program for seed to early-stage entrepreneurs who want to build global companies.

SparkLabs invests $25,000 in each company, and provides free office space, and mentorship, among other things.

 

Just in

Around the web

Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone — The Verge

Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users, writes Tom Warren. 
Around the web

Biden signs TikTok ‘ban’ bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it — The Verge

President Joe Biden signed a foreign aid package that includes a bill that would ban TikTok if China-based parent company ByteDance fails to divest the app within a year, writes Lauren Feiner.
IT

IBM to acquire HashiCorp for $6.4B

IBM and HashiCorp have entered into an agreement for IBM to acquire HashiCorp, a provider of infrastructure and security management products, for $6.4 billion.
AI

OpenAI introduces new enterprise features

OpenAI announced new features aimed at enterprise users on Tuesday, at the wake of Meta's recent LLama 3 announcement.
Around the web

Oracle is moving its world headquarters to Nashville to be closer to health-care industry — CNBC

Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison said Tuesday that the company is moving its world headquarters to Nashville, Tennessee, to be closer to a major health-care epicenter, writes Ashley Capoot.