Author: Bilal

Fringe is a new company pitching employers on a service offering lifestyle benefits for their employees in addition to, or instead of, more traditional benefits packages. “We didn’t think it made sense that employees need to be sick, disabled, dead or 65+ to benefit from their benefits,” wrote Fringe  chief executive Jordan Peace, in an email. The Richmond, … Continue reading Fringe pitches a monthly stipend for app purchases and subscriptions as the newest employee benefit Continue Reading →

hen Mallun Yen started Operator Collective last year, she wanted to build an investment firm for people who didn’t have a voice in Silicon Valley. That meant connecting women and people of color with operators who have been intimately involved in building companies from the ground up, then providing early-stage investment. She then brought in Leyla Seka  as … Continue reading Operator Collective brings diversity and inclusion to enterprise investing Continue Reading →

“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it earns it… he who doesn’t… pays it,” Albert Einstein once said. For those who aren’t financial gurus, allow me to put this quote in layman’s terms: everyone who’s able to save up a little, and is patient enough, can get wealthy. It’s … Continue reading Holy Sheet: Apply Einstein’s ‘8th wonder of the world’ to your money in Google Sheets Continue Reading →

Your hands will thank you You spend all day on your computer, so do your hands a favor and get a comfortable  mouse. Today, doing so doesn’t have to break the bank. Amazon is selling the Microsoft Ergonomic Mouse for $20. That’s the all-time low, and well below the $30 to $36 it usually sells for. [ Want … Continue reading Microsoft’s Ergonomic Mouse is just $20 right now Continue Reading →

Sengled via Amazon is selling its Pulse Solo light bulb with JBL speakers for $18. Now we’ve seen it all. Sengled via Amazon is selling its Pulse Solo Bluetooth bulb with integrated dual-channel JBL speakers for $18 with the discount code ASNXI5LP. That’s $12 off the usual price, and a whopping $40 less than it cost at release. … Continue reading Light up your eyes and ears: This $18 smart bulb has JBL speakers inside Continue Reading →

Death Stranding supports Nvidia’s performance-boosting DLSS 2.0 technology. It’s not the best time to buy a high-end graphics card, but if you don’t want to wait any longer—perhaps to prepare for this fall’s Cyberpunk 2077 release—then Nvidia’s sweetening the pot for a few weeks. Through July 29, buying any GeForce RTX 20-series graphics card from a participating retailer will get you … Continue reading Nvidia bundles Death Stranding for PC with GeForce RTX graphics cards Continue Reading →

Taking the Express lane to EOL. When it launched in 2019, Logitech’s Harmony Express Alexa remote seemed to be the way of the future: a simple, voice-powered remote that controlled all your devices with ease. Barely a year later, Harmony has announced that it is shutting the whole thing down as of September 30. As … Continue reading Harmony is offering a full refund to anyone who ever bought its $250 Alexa remote Continue Reading →

Setting prices and expectations With the launch of its slightly faster, slightly better, exactly-the-same-price Ryzen 3000 XT processors this week, AMD became just a bit more like Intel…and Nvidia. More importantly, I suspect these new CPUs may exist to set the stage for removing a key AMD value proposition from next-gen “Zen 3” Ryzen CPUs. Whither goest … Continue reading Adios, Wraith? Why AMD’s XT chips signal doom for a key Ryzen selling point Continue Reading →

These cans sound like headphones that cost three or four times as much, but the controls on not one but two review units locked up after an hour or so of sustained use. AT A GLANCE Tribit XFree Go headphone   $24.99 See It on Amazon (Prime Eligible)   Before I discovered the price of Tribit’s … Continue reading Tribit XFree Go headphone review: Amazing sound, great price, and one glaring flaw Continue Reading →

Analysts warned that any gains would likely be in the short term, with economic concerns clouding long-term forecasts. As consumers sheltered in place during the second quarter, they bought PCs by the ton. Both Gartner and IDC research firms reported big positive swings in PC and Chromebook sales for the second quarter. Gartner reported a 2.8 percent … Continue reading PC market surges as coronavirus forces working from home Continue Reading →