Author: Willoughby Avenue

Fountain uses artificial intelligence to connect you with specialists who can answer even the most arcane questions.

Aaron Patzer knew when he bought a house that Google just wasn’t going to cut it. The Mint.com founder suddenly found himself with a range of new problems and questions, from a broken hot water heater to uncertainty over how best to protect the wooden paneling on the side of his new home. But getting answers to these questions online proved tedious and sometimes impossible. Surely, he figured, there was a way to better connect people with the insights they need.

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CEOs of fossil fuel companies are raking it in—and their pay gives them little incentive to think about the long term.

Last year, ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson raked in $33.1 million—including bonuses for new drilling in the Arctic and the Canadian tar sands at a time when climate scientists argue that burning even the world’s existing reserves will fry the planet.

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The technology comes compliments of Square.

The 2016 presidential election will be notable for more reasons than bad hair jokes. It will be the first time that Twitter will be able to process political donations directly from supporters to candidates, thanks to a widget created by Square.

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The private aerospace company is opening a production facility, adding 330 jobs and investing more than $200 million.

Blue Origin, the rocket company started by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, announced Tuesday that it was building a manufacturing facility on Florida’s Space Coast, just south of the Kennedy Space Center, and would be launching from there “later this decade.” The company is investing at least $200 million in the region and will add about 330 jobs through its new production site. The announcement was touted as a huge boost toward realizing commercial space travel, with Florida making efforts to position itself as a hub of “space commerce.”

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“We keep setting new records week by week,” Ek said at an event on Monday.

Despite predictions that Apple Music could swallow streaming music competitors, a different phenomenon seems to be taking place: Apple’s interest in the rapidly evolving music industry is actually giving its competitors a boost.

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What could go wrong?

Lazily signaling approval on Facebook has always been easy, but the days of having to express a negative emotion—or show compassion—with words may be coming to an end.

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The app is monetizing its replay feature: You can now watch three replays for 99 cents.

Apparently Snapchat is just a little too much of a good thing—and the company is now using that fact to develop a new revenue stream.

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If you want to measure the 1099 economy, it makes sense to count 1099s.

The increasing number of independent contractors in the “gig economy” is quickly becoming a political issue, with presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush weighing in on opposite ends of the debate over whether it’s indicative of a return to sweatshop labor or innovation. The politician asking the more pertinent question, however, is Senator Mark Warner from Virginia.

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