As the influencer industry has grown, with new creator-led startups and content production companies emerging, so has the need for capital from investors. Business Insider is recognizing 14 venture capital and investment players who are fueling startups that are shaping the creator economy.These investors are innovating and driving growth in the industry in 2020. Send your influencer industry tips to the authors at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..Subscribe to Business Insider's influencer newsletter: Influencer Dashboard.

As the influencer business grows with new creator-led startups and other companies that help with content production, so has both the interest and need for capital from investors. 

Both traditional and upstart investors are making bets on the creator category, where influencer marketing alone is expected to grow into a $15 billion industry by 2022. 

Many successful social-media stars work with a variety of third-party companies to support content and partnership growth. 

"I'm a big believer in that the biggest consumer companies in the future will be built around creators because they have so much distribution," said Blake Robbins, a partner at Ludlow Ventures, a Detroit-based venture firm that has invested in the gaming organization and lifestyle brand 100 Thieves. "There are some really interesting opportunities within consumer, whether that's software or physical goods. There's going to be a lot of interesting companies that emerge here, and I also think there's this rising middle class where even if you're not making millions of dollars a year as a content creator there's still opportunity to make a real living."

In this new list, Business Insider is putting a spotlight on venture capital and investment professionals innovating and driving growth in the creator industry.

These power players are helping influencers and content creators build larger businesses in 2020, and tapping into direct-to-consumer opportunities that have emerged as digital creators have shown they can drive product sales through their personality-based brands.

Whether adapting existing business services used by legacy TV or print media to the specific needs of a digital creator, or inventing new business lines that are unique to the social-media landscape, a slew of companies in the creator space are popping up to meet the needs of a new generation of digital stars.

This list was determined by Business Insider based on our reporting and factors like the success of the companies they've invested in and their impact on the influencer business as a whole.

Here are the 14 investors and firms, listed in alphabetical order: 

For more on the business of influencers, check out these power lists on Business Insider Prime:

Original author: Amanda Perelli and Dan Whateley

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Getty

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Monday.

Facebook has rejected a proposed code of conduct from an Australian watchdog that would make it pay for news links, the Guardian reports. Facebook said there would be no "significant" effect on its business model if it stopped sharing newslinks.US states appear to be backing off using contact tracing apps to monitor the spread of COVID-19, NBC reports. The states that have rolled them out have not had great success in getting significant portions of the population to download them.Germany is launching its own COVID-19 contact tracing app this week, Engadget reports. Originally the country said it would make its app without Google and Apple's specialized API, but it later reversed its position.Sources told the Wall Street Journal that short video streaming app Quibi is on track to sign up 2 million subscribers by the end of this year, far less than original target of 7.4 million. Daily downloads have not topped 379,000 since its launch day on April 6.SoftBank has invested roughly $500 million in Credit Suisse funds that invest in some of its own startups, The Financial Times reports. The funds have latterly increased their exposure to several startups in SoftBank's portfolio.SpaceX launched 58 of its Starlink satellites on Saturday, leaving a rainbow-colored cloud in the Florida sky. The Falcon 9 rocket carrying the mission to orbit lifted off just before dawn from Cape Canaveral, Florida.A US antitrust probe into big tech wants the CEOs of Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Facebook to testify before the House in July, Axios reports. Letters were reportedly sent to the CEOs requesting their attendance last week, and suggested subpoenas could be used to compel them.Google apologized after search results failed to automatically bring up an image of Winston Churchill. Google said this was the result of a technical glitch, not a conscious decision to remove the image of the former British prime minister.Facebook released a trove of 100,000 deepfake videos as a resource to help train algorithms to spot them better, MIT Tech Review reports. The faces of 3,426 actors were used to build the dataset.Tesla is adding wireless phone chargers and USB-C ports to some of its US Model 3s, Elektrek reports. The upgrade is coming to cars made in its Fremont, California factory after appearing in its Shanghai factory.

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Original author: Isobel Asher Hamilton

British quantum computing startup Universal Quantum has emerged from stealth to announce a £3.6 million seed round.The startup wants to build a quantum computer with chips comprising one million qubits. For context, today's quantum computers have 20 to 50 qubits and the technology is difficult to scale up.Others competing in the field include Google and IBM, with quantum computing promising major breakthroughs in climate change, drug discovery, and other scientific fields.Read on for an exclusive look at Universal Quantum's pitch deck.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

British startup Universal Quantum has raised £3.6 million ($4.5 million) in new funding to try and beat IBM and Google to the moonshot of building a functioning quantum computer.

The University of Sussex spinout has emerged from stealth to announce its ambition to build a 1-million qubit quantum computer and test whether the tech might solve some of humanity's biggest challenges.

Quantum computing is at the very edge of physics and computer science, but the race to build a true super computer is heating up with Palo Alto's PsiQuantum raising $215 million in April, and Finland's IQM announcing a €15 million raise on Thursday.

The promise of quantum computing is that it could be considerably more powerful than traditional computing, enabling humanity to solve major challenges around climate change, drug discovery, and areas we haven't thought of. The trouble is, quantum computers are extremely difficult to run and, depending on who you talk to, none have really managed to outstrip classical computers.

A two-module quantum computer prototype Universal Quantum

In traditional computing, information is encoded in bits that are only one of two values at any one time, usually represented as 0 or 1, on or off. Quantum computing operates in the realm of quantum mechanics, a mysterious branch of physics that famously no one understands. And it doesn't rely on bits, but a unit called a qubit which can be in two states simultaneously.

"What quantum computers do is make use of a number of very cool effects you see in the quantum world and one of them, for example, is that something can be in two places at the same time," said Dr Sebastian Weidt, CEO and cofounder of Universal Quantum, adding: "In a conventional computer, bits are represented as a one or a zero. And because we now live in the quantum world, we can represent ones and zeroes at the same time. That's where a lot of the computational power comes in."

Different players working on this technology are taking different approaches to try and exhibit "quantum effects", Weidt said.

IBM and other firms use superconducting qubits which are fabricated onto a chip, which is then cooled down to absolute zero or minus 273.15 degrees Celsius. That technology literally requires something like a giant refrigerator which is, for obvious reasons, quite difficult to scale up.

Universal Quantum says it has developed tech based on trapped ions. "You use individual charged atoms and you encode information inside of them, so each atom becomes a qubit," said Weidt, adding that the qubits are in a vacuum system with cool technology and there is no need for giant refrigerators.

Weidt argues this will be easier to scale up to build a true quantum computer. "It's not enough to be at tens of qubits, and that's where we're currently at .... we need to be at the millions of qubits.

"We didn't care too much about doing stuff with five qubits, 10 qubits to get a great Nature paper," he added. "We asked ourselves: 'Okay, what would it take to build a 1-million qubit computer, what's stopping us right now?'"

Universal Quantum's new backers include Village Global — a fund that offers connections to Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Other backers include Hoxton Ventures, Propagator VC, Luminous VC, and 7 Percent.

Read Universal Quantum's (redacted) pitch deck below:

Original author: Shona Ghosh

The PlayStation 5 is coming this holiday season, according to Sony, and a ton of new games for the new console were just revealed.From a new "Spider-Man" game to this year's "NBA 2K" entry, the PlayStation 5 is getting a ton of new games. Whether you're looking for huge new sequels, like "Horizon Forbidden West," major new entries in long-established franchises, like "Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart," or this year's "NBA 2K" game, the PlayStation 5 has something for you.These are the biggest games that were revealed during Sony's big event last week!Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

The PlayStation 5 is just months away, and this past week we got our first real look at games running on Sony's next-generation game console.

Great news: Not only do those games look stunning, but Sony revealed a plethora of unknown titles and hotly anticipated sequels during its big PS5 reveal event. 

From the new "Spider-Man" game to this year's "NBA 2K" entry, these are the 15 most exciting new PS5 games we saw this week:

Original author: Ben Gilbert

2020 Aston Martin DB11 V8. Matthew DeBord/Insider

If cars like the V12 version of the DB11 and the Ferrari 812 Superfast are rolling anachronisms at best and, at worst, on the automotive endangered-species list, then the DB11 V8 is an effort to stave off the inevitable. Personally, I'd rather have four more cylinders under the hood, but the virtues of the DB11 V8 are considerable, even if the machine has endured something of a soul-ectomy. (Interestingly, what's saddening in the DB11 V8 is utterly exhilarating in its stablemate, the glorious Vantage, more on that in a subsequent review).

What's good about the DB11 is indeed very good, and unlike many, many other 21st-century asphalt-obliterating beast-mobiles — all-wheel-driven and suspension-managed and rather generally sanded off the rough edge — the DB11 is rather a wild thing. The car is a tail-happy gunslinger, and you don't even have to try that hard to unstick the meaty Bridgestones from the road; a mere burst of throttle when executing a routine left or right turn will have you micro-drifting through the 'burbs, gleefully. The equation is simple: much horsepower and torque piped to the rear wheels, plus snappy steering, yields a giddy dose of oversteer. Cue giddy grin.

When that gets old, which it never does, you can always aim the DB11 at an unveering expanse of highway and savor the perfectly calibrated roar and rumble that the V8 produces. No, it ain't the majestic basso of the V12. But it'll do.

And when that gets old, which it also never does, you can just park the DB11 and look at it. Holy schmokes, does Aston Martin know how to sculpt sheetmetal! No Aston is as beautiful as the DB9, but the current lineup is ... well, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and declare inarguably the most gorgeous slate of vehicles money can buy.

A lot of money, of course, and let's face it, Astons depreciate faster than cannonballs tossed from ravine bridges. But who cares? Toyota Corollas lose value, too. I'd rather be carping about how much moolah I'm blowing while I'm behind the wheel of a sumptuous, made-in-England grand tourer: financial agony should at least be exquisite.

The general idea behind the V8 variant of the DB11 is that by decreasing the size and bulk of the motor, the driving dynamics become lighter and sportier — less grand-tourer than sorta-kinda sports car. Indeed, the DB11 V8 is more sprightly than the V12, and perhaps even a tad wilder. I clocked the 0-60 mph time at a spirited four seconds flat, but the DB11 is supposed to be faster than that, so chalk the discrepancy up to my cowardice. Somehow, the car allegedly manages just south of 20 mpg in combined fuel economy, and doggone if I didn't have a hard time incinerating high-octane petrol during my time with the DB11.

I wouldn't opt for the yellow paint job, but it sure pops in photos. So influencers, consider the choice. As with all Aston paint jobs I've experienced up close and personal, it's hypnotic.

In case you haven't guessed by now, I'm a sucker for Astons. The number-one plaything on my to-do list, should I unexpectedly make bank, is a DB9. I have a hard time reviewing the things objectively because I consider my wardrobe unworthy (paging Brioni) and because I'm weak-in-the-knees and fuzzy-in-love the whole time. Aston Martins are weapons of objectivity destruction in my world. They have me at VROOM!

They also don't play nice. I recently sampled both a Porsche Turbo S and a Mercedes-AMG GT R (which shares a lot of bits and pieces with the DB11) and durned if I struggle to unsettle those cars. The Porsche can't be ruffled by mere mortals, and the Merc is so loud and aggressive that it actively encourages you to be careful.

The DB11 V8, meanwhile, starts off mellow and mannered and then progressively unleashed hell. Before you know it, you're hanging on for dear life — but asking for more. And it's not obvious you can handle it. I fret not about throwing a 911 into a corner. And in, say, a Ferrari 812, I'm going so fast in a straight line that I don't want to tempt fate. But the DB11 V8 whispers in your ear about the limits of grip and urges you to hit that corner with an abundance of foolish energy. Beware.

In the weird world of true GTs, the DB11 is something special: a car with so much soul that it effortlessly crossed the mind-body barrier. After a few minutes behind the wheel, you feel alive in ways that only a machine this utterly and unapologetically alive can make you feel.

Worth way over $200,000? Well, if you have to ask ...

Original author: Matthew DeBord

A Las Vegas house with an attached 15,000-square-foot underground bunker is for sale.The house and bunker are listed for $18 million. Inside, the house's bunker is covered in murals of landscapes at different times of the day.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

Only about two miles from the Las Vegas strip, an ordinary-looking house sits on top of a 15,000-square-foot bomb shelter. The massive doomsday bunker is listed for $18 million, including a 5,000-square-foot home furnished in full 1970s style, plus murals throughout.

Realtor Stephan LaForge told Business Insider that the real draw of the listing is the massive underground property, though the I-beams and underground features are harder to represent in photos than the house's interior. LaForge told Realtor.com that the price reflects the impossibility of creating a structure like this today. It last sold for $1.15 million in 2015.

The house itself is a unique draw and has become somewhat famous. It has five bedrooms, six bathrooms, and a pool, plus a small guesthouse that sits aboveground. It was built in 1978 as a bomb shelter, although it isn't actually protective against a nuclear disaster. Current owners, the Society for the Preservation of Near Extinct Species, added period-appropriate furniture and other improvements that might make the house more livable to potential buyers.

3970 Spencer Street is listed with Stephan LaForge with Berkshire Hathaway Nevada Properties.

Take a look inside. 

Original author: Mary Meisenzahl

Four years after being acquired by Salesforce, Quip has evolved from a standalone productivity and collaboration tool to a product that is embedded directly into Salesforce's customer focused tools. Quip is best known for its co-founder Bret Taylor, who is now Salesforce's COO, but the product itself has become core to Salesforce's mission of giving organizations a "360 degree" view of their customers. It's meant to make Salesforce easier to use.Quip is now run by Ryan Aytay, who focuses on the customer facing and business side, and original co-founder Kevin Gibbs, who focuses on engineering and product. Both are co-CEOs of Quip.Quip is seeing a big uptick in usage during this remote work era, according to a recent report and Salesforce internal figures.Click here to read more BI Prime stories.

When the University of San Francisco asked Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff to help source personal protective equipment for its medical workers in early March, he turned to one of his senior executives, Ryan Aytay, to help organize the effort.

Within days, Aytay pulled together a team of employees from within Salesforce to put aside their day-to-day jobs and focus on a task that included working with partners like Alibaba to find trusted PPE vendors. Their efforts were a success: Salesforce bought over $25 million-worth of PPE — more than 50 million pieces — to send to hospitals and agencies in need. To organize that effort, from sourcing to shipping, Aytay used Quip — a productivity tool Salesforce acquired in 2016 for $750 million.

Quip is best known because of the rapid rise through the ranks of co-founder Bret Taylor, who is now Salesforce's chief operating officer, while less is known about where the product stands now. Four years post-acquisition, Quip has evolved from a standalone productivity and collaboration tool with built-in office suite functionality to a product that is embedded directly into Salesforce's customer focused tools and a core part of the company's business. 

"We make it easier for anyone that uses Salesforce to know everything about a customer, everything that drives whatever they're doing, whether it's closing a deal or a service ticket or any process they want to do," Quip co-founder and co-CEO Kevin Gibbs told Business Insider. "We can make all of the users of Salesforce products more productive because we're getting all of that customer information at their fingertips."

Quip is now jointly run by Aytay, who focuses on the customer facing and business side, and original co-founder Gibbs, who focuses on engineering and product. In addition to running Quip, both have dual roles within Salesforce. Aytay also oversees strategic partnerships and key projects for Benioff and was recently promoted to Salesforce's chief business officer, and Gibbs also runs engineering and strategy for Salesforce's mobile apps. 

Evolving from a standalone productivity app to integrating with Salesforce

Quip has undergone a significant transformation in recent years under the leadership of Aytay and Gibbs. In its original form it was a collaboration app that let users create, annotate, and chat about documents or spreadsheets in real-time, competing against Google Drive, Microsoft Office, and even Slack. 

While it still exists as a standalone productivity app that costs between $10 and $25 per user per month, Salesforce primarily pushes it as part of its larger "Customer 360" set of products. That means that it's now deeply integrated into Salesforce's existing tools and meant to help make them easier to use, allowing people to collaborate and share information directly within Salesforce in new ways.

"We are about making Salesforce better," Aytay said. "It's about connecting the productivity component and the CRM context."

Here's what using Quip through Salesforce might look like:

A salesperson trying to close a deal with a new customer would ordinarily have to send that prospect an email with details to close a deal. With Quip, however, they could instead send a document that automatically pulls relevant data from their Salesforce database (to edit the document the customer would have to sign up for a Quip account, but just to read it they wouldn't have to). Then, when a deal gets approved through Quip, it's automatically recorded in a salesperson's Salesforce database.

Aytay calls it "extending" the capabilities of Salesforce via Quip and says that the product isn't trying to compete with the likes of Google Drive or Microsoft anymore. Instead, it's trying to partner with those apps. Quip allows users to embed a Google document or spreadsheet in the tool and integrates with Slack as well.

Ultimately, Aytay and Gibbs believes that Quip allows Salesforce users to be more productive: Instead of needing to switch between a bunch of different apps, they can access all the information they need in once place. 

"You're eliminating the need for someone to swivel-chair through email or swivel-chair to some spreadsheet or some other messaging application," Aytay said, "Because it's now all encapsulated inside of Salesforce."

Existing Salesforce customers pay an add-on fee for Quip integration, though prices differ between customers and there is no one set price. 

Quip in the remote work era

Like most productivity software, Quip is seeing a big uptick in usage right now during the coronavirus-related remote work era. Quip usage increased 15% between February and March, according to a report from security company Okta about the most popular workplace apps during remote work. 

Salesforce doesn't break out individual user numbers for its products, but confirmed that more businesses are signing up for Quip during the coronavirus crisis. Quip signed up 62% more customers per week between mid-March and mid-April than it signed up between mid-December and mid-March, Salesforce said. Users are also sending 20% more messages in Quip during the remote work era.

Though it declined to share Quip's revenue growth, Salesforce includes it in its "Salesforce Platform and Other" category in its quarterly earnings, along with several others businesses like Tableau and Trailhead. That category grew 62% year-over-year as of its last report.

Salesforce employees are using the product more too, including to share information with customers, he said. Salesforce is reimagining how it operates, its sales people are working from home, using video calls, and collaborating in Quip. That's also allowing them to easily share information with customers because "we're not able to go out and shake their hands and each and every day," he added.

Although Quip wasn't built specifically for remote work, the fact that it allows easy collaboration and access to information in the CRM system means that the product is especially useful right now, Gibbs said. He wants Quip to be the place where sales people, service agents, developers, and anyone else who uses Saleforce's customer facing tools can get work done. 

As a result of the pandemic, every business now has to rethink how it operates — from how it sells products to how it's providing customer service.

The effort that Quip's engineering and product teams have put into integrating the product over the last few years means its "very relevant" right now, Aytay said: "The things you did every single day before are different now."

Fitting into Salesforce without losing Quip's company culture 

As Quip has evolved, Gibbs' team has made user needs and experiences a priority, trying to figure out where Quip can help improve productivity for their specific jobs. The goal is to make sure the product design reflects the ways people are actually using it. Gibbs said he is still learning about how industries like healthcare and finance can best utilize Quip's capabilities. 

Quip customers that used the app before the acquisition are new customer prospects for Salesforce's core customer-focused software, and it tries to show them the value of integrating productivity and sales tools. Salesforce declined to name specific customers.

While Quip's product has been deeply integrated with Salesforce, Quip's workforce and company structure has largely stayed separate and intact. Many of Quip's employees have stayed with the company since it joined Salesforce, and even risen up through the ranks. Gibbs said that was a quality that appealed to him during the acquisition process.

"What I think Salesforce does an amazing job of is not mandating how people integrate and work together but, instead, talking about values," Gibbs said. "I didn't have to sort of contort myself to a new way of being, as being part of Salesforce."

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Original author: Paayal Zaveri

Seedpods are treehouse-like popup resorts designed by Nomadic Resorts.The pods are based on the shape of seeds and are low-impact and sustainable.The first prototypes were installed in a nature reserve in Mauritius in 2019.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

The future of travel, and glamping, might be in luxury tents shaped like seeds. At least, that what design studio Nomadic Resorts is proposing, in what they're calling a "hospitality revolution."

No one knows what travel will look like as the world moves past the COVID-19 pandemic, but this might be a clue. The Seedpod is somewhere between a treehouse and a tent, and functions as a pop-up resort. Seedpods could potentially solve some travel issues exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic.

With lockdowns and people stuck at home, Nomadic Resorts is betting that people will crave outdoor experiences. The pandemic has also led to an economic downturn, but Seedpods are cheaper than a hotel would be, while still having amenities that regular tents wouldn't. They're available to buy from Nomadic Resorts for $3,400.

Here's what they're like.

Original author: Mary Meisenzahl

Snowflake has reportedly filed confidential paperwork for an IPO and is aiming for a $20 billion valuation, according to the Financial Times. Snowflake has declined to comment.The cloud data warehousing company is one of the hottest startups in tech. "It's going to be the blockbuster enterprise listing for 2020," Constellation Research analyst Ray Wang told Business Insider.Here are 5 reasons Snowflake has drawn much attention in the tech world — from its Click here for more BI Prime stories.

Snowflake is reportedly planning to go public in what could be one of the most closely watched trading debuts in tech this year.

The Silicon Valley startup has submitted paperwork for a confidential initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to the Financial Times.  

Snowflake is aiming for a valuation of as high as $20 billion, the report said. The company just raised $479 million in February at a $12.4 billion valuation. In total, Snowflake has raised $1.4 billion from investors including Sequoia and ICONIQ Capital.

"It's going to be the blockbuster enterprise listing for 2020," Constellation Research analyst Ray Wang told Business Insider. "Investors are looking for winners on cloud and analytics."

Here are 5 reasons Snowflake's reported plan to go public is getting the tech world excited:

Original author: Benjamin Pimentel

Former Apple engineer Sabrina Paseman says the key to getting hired at Apple is proving that you're a problem solver.That's how she believes she landed her interview at the company, where she worked for more than five years as an engineer on the Mac team.Paseman brought prototypes of a product she had previously tried to develop and walked through her mistakes during the interview.She left Apple recently and founded Fix The Mask, a project that provides designs for creating a brace that can be used to make surgical masks more effective for protection against the coronavirus.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

Sabrina Paseman has simple advice for anyone hoping to land a job at Apple: prove that you're a problem solver.

"People just want problem solvers in all aspects of all fields," Paseman, who spent more than five years at Apple as a product design engineer on the Mac team, recently said to Business Insider. "So that would be my advice for anyone starting out in product design."

Paseman recently started a project called Fix The Mask that teaches people how create a brace that makes surgical masks more effective for COVID-19 prevention. When she was interviewing at Apple years ago, Paseman says she was surprised to receive an offer. That's because she majored in biological engineering during her undergraduate studies, not mechanical engineering which is what she was hired to do at Apple.

But there is one reason why Paseman believes her interview likely stood out from the rest: She provided concrete evidence of her ability to think through mistakes and address problems.

Instead of just referencing past experiences, Paseman brought prototypes of a medical device that she had been working on the previous summer and walked through what she would have done differently. It's this choice that Paseman said she believes "blew them away" and landed her the job.

"I said, 'These are the things that I did, and this is what I would do differently,'" Paseman said. "And I showed them my thought process [and] iterations. And I think the fact that I brought tangible things to them and I was able to elaborate on what was good and what was bad about them, that itself made them want to hire me."

Paseman said she believes that principle could be valuable in all disciplines, not just engineering.

"Just showing that whenever you encounter a problem that you don't necessarily know how to solve, you have a really open mindset of, 'Okay, there's something wrong here. Let's try to dive down into details and figure out what's wrong,'" Paseman said.

Apple employs 80,000 people, according to the company's job creation website. According to the job search and reviews site Glassdoor, 65% of applicants have had a positive experience interviewing at the company. Apple also ranked 84th in Glassdoor's current list of the 100 Best Places to Work.  

Apple doesn't say much about its interview process publicly, but CEO Tim Cook has been vocal about how he views the next generation of Apple's workforce and beyond.

When speaking during an American Workforce Policy Advisory Board meeting last year, Cook advocated for more coding education in schools, saying that there's a "mismatch" between the skills that are needed in the future and those coming out of colleges.

"So we've never really thought that a college degree was the thing that you had to do well," said Cook. "We've always tried to expand our horizons."

As for Paseman, she's applying what she's learned at Apple to her new Fix The Mask project, which she co-founded in March along with another former Apple employee Megan Duong. 

"I learned that good design comes from simple design," Paseman said. "And simple design can only be achieved by really fully understanding the problem." 

Original author: Lisa Eadicicco

Demand for artificial intelligence technology has been growing over the last five years and is poised to grow even faster due to the COVID-19 crisis, experts say.As businesses adapt to major changes caused by the crisis, they'll likely turn to AI technology to streamline operations and become more efficient, analysts and investors said.AI technology has helped businesses with tasks like making long-term sales growth projections to automating routine, time-consuming tasks.Two VCs say industry-specific AI software is especially poised to see strong growth and increased investment.Here are 12 startups that well-positioned to grow in a post-COVID world, including Tempus, Replicant, and Olive. Click here to read more BI Prime stories.

Artificial intelligence — once relegated to academic studies and sci-fi nerds — has become one of the hottest technologies, infiltrating every industry.

AI adoption was already accelerating before the COVID-19 crisis, but experts say that demand for AI tools is now is poised to grow even faster. 

"The entire industry of AI is getting a huge boost from this unfortunate crisis," David Blumberg, founder and managing partner at Blumberg Capital, told Business Insider in May. "There is a silver lining to this dark cloud that we've all been living in for over two and a half, three months."

Former Cisco CEO John Chambers, who now runs his own venture firm JC2 Ventures, told Business Insider in an interview in May that he expects one to five major AI players to emerge from the current crisis. 

AI has helped businesses take on big and small tasks, from making long-term sales growth projections to the automation of routine, time-consuming tasks. A 2019 Gartner survey found that major organizations planned to double their number of AI-related initiatives in the following year, from an average of 4 to 10. But as they pandemic has forced businesses to try to adapt to major changes, like the sudden pivot to remote work and tightening budgets, they're looking for ways to streamline and operate more efficiently. 

"AI is best at solving all these really boring meat-and-potato problems," James Cham, a partner at Bloomberg Partners, told Business Insider. Many of the opportunities for using AI involve "straightforward process engineering," he said, where the technology can be used to shorten or streamline a process.

Industries like collaboration, shipping logistics, and manufacturing and warehousing will be particularly keen on using AI, said Sandeep Bhadra, a partner at Vertex Ventures. 

Jake Saper at Emergence Capital had a similar prediction, that "vertical" specific AI software will be in more demand. 

Here are 12 startups that analysts and investors say are well-positioned to grow thanks to a surge in demand for AI tools:

Original author: Benjamin Pimentel and Paayal Zaveri

Irish grocery delivery startup Buymie has raised $9 million to grow its business and expand into the UK. The delivery app, backed by new investors Wheatsheaf Group, will begin operations in Bristol, UK as part of its growth plans. "Back in 2014, I realised that the online grocery business was dysfunctional but that demand would grow," Devan Hughes, CEO and cofounder of Buymie, told Business Insider in an interview. "Covid has brought around a gold rush of businesses trying to shoehorn same-day grocery delivery but we work because we are an ally of retailers, not a disruptor."Click here for more BI Prime stories.

Online grocery delivery is one of the few sectors set to benefit from economic changes wrought by the coronavirus pandemic, with shoppers stuck at home during lockdown.

In the UK alone, the online grocery market in 2020 could be worth £16.8 billion ($21 billion) according to research firm Mintel. Mintel links a 33% year-on-year growth in the space to COVID-19, although it's already a lucrative market for companies that get it right.

It's with this in mind that Buymie, a grocery delivery startup from Ireland, is making the UK its next market. 

Dublin-based Buymie, founded in 2015, operates a same-day grocery delivery service, where you can order groceries and have them delivered to your door. It plans to expand to Bristol, UK armed with €8 million ($9 million) in fresh funding.

The startup's additional capital comes from new investors Wheatsheaf Group, part of the Grosvenor Estate, a British property group with $36.7 billion assets under management as of 2019. Follow-on investments were also committed from existing backers including: Act Venture Capital, Sure Valley Ventures, Haatch Ventures, and HBAN.

"Back in 2014, I realized that the online grocery business was dysfunctional but that demand would grow," Devan Hughes, CEO and cofounder of Buymie, told Business Insider in an interview. "COVID-19 has brought around a gold rush of businesses trying to shoehorn same-day grocery delivery but we work because we are an ally of retailers, not a disruptor."

UK food delivery startup Deliveroo has expanded into grocery, as has Uber via its Uber Eats service through partnerships with grocers such as Morrisons and Aldi.

Buymie's latest round came about due to the coronavirus. The company closed a €2.2 million round in Q4 2019 after strong growth but opted to extend it with new investment. The company is trading nine months ahead of its 2020 business plan, Hughes said. 

Buymie says its partnership model with retailers, including Lidl in Ireland, and the Co-op in the UK, allow it to leverage its tech and algorithm better than its competitors. "Retail partnerships are key to our business," Hughes added. 

These latest funds will go towards investment in the startup's IP and scaling its infrastructure alongside increased headcount in the company's operations and tech teams. Beyond Bristol, Buymie is also considering expansion into 15 other UK cities.

Check out Buymie's pitch deck below: 

Original author: Callum Burroughs

SpaceX launched dozens new internet-providing Starlink satellites on Saturday morning along with a few of Planet Labs' imaging spacecraft.The Falcon 9 rocket carrying the mission to orbit lifted off just before dawn from Cape Canaveral, Florida.This caused the rocket's expanding plume of exhaust fumes to catch beams of morning sunlight, creating an enormous and spectacular multi-colored glowing cloud.People as far as Alabama saw the blue-hued cloud with a rainbow of colors in it and took photos and video of the phenomenon.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

The best time to see a rocket launch is amid the twilight of dusk or dawn, when darkness blankets the ground but sunlight still shines high in the sky. In such moments, billowing plumes of rocket-engine exhaust high above Earth can catch the sun and create spectacular glowing clouds.

On Saturday morning at 5:21 a.m. ET, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 58 internet-beaming Starlink satellites to space along with three of Planet Labs' new high-resolution SkySat Earth-observing spacecraft.

The Starlink-8 mission, as it's called, was SpaceX's eighth batch of its latest Starlink satellites after two earlier experimental launches, and it marks the company's 540th such satellite delivered to orbit.

It's also one of three Starlink missions the company hopes to fly in less than three weeks to work toward providing global internet service before the end of 2020. (That is, if the SpaceX can figure out an affordable means of connecting users to its network, as founder Elon Musk recently intimated.)

As the rocket ascended from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and over the Atlantic Ocean, it created the glowing-cloud phenomenon, and people from multiple states were around to document it in photos and videos to breathtaking effect.

"An epic display on Florida's Space Coast this morning!" photographer John Pisani tweeted shortly after the launch, sharing two stunning long-exposure photos he took of the rocket ascending to orbit.

John Kraus, the house photographer for the space media company SuperCluster, recorded a time-lapse movie of the entire launch and uploaded it to Twitter.

The clip compresses about eight minutes of flight into 15 seconds: 

SuperCluster also tweeted one of Kraus' still photos, and it shows how the expanding exhaust plume glowed in a rainbow of colors in the predawn twilight.

Jamie Groh, a teacher and part-time reporter for Teslarati.com, also shared a photo of the predawn launch — but one she took from 140 miles away from the rocket's launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

"I'm fairly certain all of my neighbors were wondering why there was a crazy lady outside screaming at 5am," Groh said in her post.

The launch plume was so bright and large that it could be seen as far as Daleville, Alabama, wrote Twitter user Chance Belloise.

High-altitude winds eventually blew around the expanding exhaust trail into a winding cloud, creating a snake-like pattern in the sky, as shown in an image tweeted by photographer Greg Diesel Walck.

 

Starlink-8 is not the first time SpaceX's rocket launches, which are now the most frequent of any US-based aerospace company, has produced such a widely celebrated light show.

After SpaceX's June 2018 launch of a Cargo Dragon resupply spaceship to the International Space Station, its rocket-launch plume similarly grabbed high-altitude light to create an amazing glowing "dragon's tail."

And on December 22, 2017, SpaceX's liftoff of 10 Iridium NEXT satellites created over coastal California what is arguably the rocket company's most beautiful launch scene.

SpaceX/Flickr (public domain)

When rockets launch, they leave behind a trail of hot exhaust, also called a plume. The appearance of the plume depends on the fuel, in SpaceX's case it's RP-1 — a high-grade kerosene — burned by liquid oxygen.

Falcon 9 rockets can send payloads more than 250 miles above Earth, beyond the edge of space and where the space station orbits our planet.

At first, a rocket leaves behind a relatively thin plume. But as it climbs higher and higher toward space, the air pressure gets lower and lower. About a dozen miles up, the air pressure is less than 1% of that at Earth's surface, causing hot launch plumes to dramatically expand.

If atmospheric conditions are right, these billowing plumes can make water condense out of the air, which then freezes into tiny ice crystals. And if the timing is right, these crystals can reflect the sun's light from far over the horizon like a mirror, beaming it down to a dark, pre-dawn or post-sunset location (at least until high-altitude winds blow around the plume and ice).

The phenomenon is known to scientists as noctilucent or "night-shining" clouds, which form naturally and most frequently over the Arctic and Antarctic.

For a visual walkthrough of why twilight rocket launches look so stunning, watch the video below by Scott Manley, an astrophysicist and popular YouTuber, who uses SpaceX's December 2017 mission as an example.

Original author: Dave Mosher

Internet veterans may recall one of the most memorable spon-con gaffes — or at least it was, prior to Saturday. Alicia Keys, a creative director for phone maker Blackberry, was tweeting from an iPhone back in 2013. She left her role with Blackberry shortly after.

But Keys' mistake was overshadowed on Saturday when the internationally beloved Korean pop group BTS made a similar error. The group tweeted an anniversary message to fans from an iPhone before quickly deleting the post and resharing it from an Android device, according to screenshots posted by BTS fans.

The group has a prominent partnership with South Korean electronics giant Samsung, which runs Android software on its mobile devices.

The group's highly active internet fanbase caught the mistake almost immediately and posts pointing out the misstep were shared thousands of times.

 

 

 

 

The group has a highly visible partnership with Samsung and prominently features its latest Galaxy Z Flip phone in music videos and other promoted posts on members' personal pages and those for the group.

Original author: Megan Hernbroth

Sgt. 1st Class Joshua David, a Green Beret, gets paid by the US Army to play video games.David and the Army's other esports players stream for roughly five hours a day, but still maintain the service's military standards.Here's what his day looks like and how recruits can also become a member of the Army's esports league.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

US Army Sgt. 1st Class Joshua David, a Green Beret, can speak two dialects of Arabic and handle a Special Forces attack dog.

But David isn't conducting close-quarters combat training for the Army at his regular job — he could instead be found playing video games, for hours on end, as a member of the Army's esports team.

David, an active-duty soldier, is getting paid by the federal government to play video games.

The 30-year-old Oklahoma native started off playing video games during the Nintendo-64 era with titles like "Perfect Dark" and "GoldenEye," and eventually made his way to the Halo series following the launch of the Xbox.

"When Xbox came out with 'Halo: Combat Evolved', I pretty much became obsessed," David said. "When 'Halo 2' came out, I chased that."

The third title of the Halo series eventually tempered his expectations and set him on the path to public service.

"When 'Halo 3' came out, that's when I figured I wasn't going to be good at the 'Halo' series anymore," David said. "And that's right around when I joined the Army. They may be linked."

"There's probably a good relation there," David joked. "That might be why I'm not good in school, because I was playing too much Halo."

The Xbox 360's legendary "Red Ring of Death" error. Flickr user 'Brenderous'

With his academic prospects dimmed, David, who "didn't know anything about the military," joined the Army as an infantryman in 2008.

"I didn't even know what a Ranger was," he said, referring to the title earned by completing one of the Army's light infantry training schools. "It got offered to me in Basic Training and I said, 'Sure.'"

After a few years in a Ranger regiment and two deployments to Afghanistan, David tried out for the Army's Special Forces selection process and then made his way to the 5th Special Forces Group. Four deployments later, he volunteered to become part of the Army's newest initiative with the esports community and began streaming video games on a full-time basis.

Much like the difficulty in the Special Forces selection process, the Army had to filter through thousands of applicants for their esports team — about 6,500 in total.

Not all of his colleagues in the Special Forces community were on board with his career move while others cast friendly shade: "He was doing the 'Call of Duty' thing in real life and now he's doing it in a video game," David recalled.

"When I got offered to do it full-time ... it was probably about 70-30 in favor of what I was doing," David said. "Guys my age and younger really are open and they understand what was going on."

US Army Ranger candidates complete an exercise during the first phase of training. US Army Photo

"Some of the older guys weren't that happy," he added. "You know, they don't really understand how many people actually play videos games and watch it. But once you start showing them statistics, they really start to open up."

Esports and game streaming has exploded in recent years. Business Insider Intelligence estimates esports viewership to increase at a 9% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2019 to 2023 — from 454 million to 646 million — nearly doubling the audience from 2017.

A separate study from the Activate consulting firm indicates that the number of American esports viewers will exceed the audience from every other US-based professional sports league, except the NFL, by next year.

David's transition from using real weapons to firing them in-game wasn't all too difficult and he says there wasn't an overlap with his military training. But there were other social barriers he needed to overcome in order to fit in with his new community.

"For me, being a little older than what most people ... by 8-10 years, I'd say the hardest thing for me is that I had to learn the terminology," David said. "There's so many words people use these days that I have no idea what they're saying."

US Army Sgt. 1st Class Joshua David Courtesy of Joshua David/US Army

'Nerdy soldiers'

David's day starts out just like any other active-duty soldier in the Army: physical training (PT) in the morning and a day out of the week for administrative tasks.

"Just like a normal unit, we have PT every morning, usually around 6:30; and then go eat breakfast; shower; get in your uniform," David said. "We're usually back to work by 9:00. Basically from there, we're either practicing our game and creating content for YouTube or whatever social media platform."

The esports league is part of the Army's broader Marketing and Engagement Brigade based in Fort Knox, Kentucky, where other military marketing teams are also stationed, such as the Golden Knights parachuting team.

"So the cool thing about the esports team is that we're right next door to the Army Crossfit and Strongman Team — so we get that unique opportunity [for] them kind of designating a workout for us," David said. "So now we have all these, you know, 'nerdy soldiers' because of how much video games they play."

David and the Army's other esports players stream to the public for roughly five hours a day, and then select highlights for upload on platforms like Twitch.

"When you're gaming ... it's really hard to get off that and then go sit back and try to clip stuff and create content if you want to do multiple platforms," he said. "There's really not enough time in the day to do everything, so you have to try and micromanage that time."

A US Marine Corps recruit receives verbal guidance from a drill instructor. via U.S. Marine Corps

'I want to enlist as a gamer'

As a community outreach program and a recruiting tool, David and other members of the Army's esports league are bombarded with questions from potential recruits. Through their conversations, the esports team realized there have been misconceptions about what they do and how to become a member.

"I'd say the biggest misconception about our program is that you cannot join the Army to be a 'video game player,'" David said. "It's not a job in the Army where you can just come off the street and say, 'Hey, I want to enlist as a gamer. Let's do that.'"

"You're still an infantryman, you're still a medic, you're still something," David added. "You can try out as an extracurricular activity, and maybe make the E-sports team."

Because the Army and every other military branch does not offer it as an occupational specialty, recruits are not able to join the esports league at the beginning of their military careers. Once they become a soldier, they can apply to become a member on an extracurricular basis, and then, hopefully, transition into becoming a full-time streamer or competitive gamer on the team.

"It's almost daily — the younger guys, 16-17, they're like, 'I want to do what you're doing,'" David said. "But then they kind of want to do everything that I'm doing and they don't want to put in a lot of work. To even be a Green Beret, it's two years of school."

"But I actually get a lot of interest on this," David added. "Guys actually talk to me about wanting to game, and ... maybe they want to try out for Special Forces or want to be a Ranger."

US Army

Soldiers with the esports league are also required to abide by certain rules, such as not being able to solicit subscriptions from the Army's official Twitch account and keeping their profanity down to a minimum.

"The last 12 years of my life I had quite a mouth on me," David said. "When we're streaming to the Army channels, we definitely try to be family friendly because you never know who's going come in and watch you."

"We're usually very good about our language," David added. "I mean, every now and then we'll slip up, followed by a quick apology, Especially if we're in the heat of the moment in a 'Call of Duty' match, sometimes we do slip up."

Once a soldier becomes a member of the esports team, they are assigned that role for the next three years. Soldiers must maintain the Army's requirements, including keeping up with its physical standards.

"If you're in any kind of negative standing in the military, or if you can't pass your PT test, you're not even eligible to try out," David said. "Soldier first, gamer second."

"You just got to remember: Yeah you're a gamer, but at the same time you're a soldier representing the United States Army," David added. "A lot of gamers these days are pretty toxic, especially in the "Call of Duty" world. You might be best player ... but if you can't portray the Army in a positive light, there's nothing we can really do with you."

Original author: David Choi

Twitter disclosed three major state-backed networks pushing propaganda for China, Russia, and Turkey.The Chinese network was by far the largest, comprising some 170,000 accounts.Twitter found a "core" network of 23,750 accounts tweeting pro-government material, and this was in turn spread by 150,000 "amplifier" accounts.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

Twitter has identified three new major state-backed disinformation networks, the social media company announced in a blog post on Thursday.

The networks, which have now been placed in Twitter's archive, appeared to be state-run operations from China, Russia, and Turkey.

All three networks were used to spread messages favorable to their respective governments, and in Russia's case to attack political dissidents.

The Chinese state-backed network was by far the largest of the three. Twitter disclosed 1,152 and 7,340 accounts for Russia and Turkey respectively, and 23,750 for China.

These 23,750 accounts only make up what Twitter calls the "core" of the state-backed operation, writing tweets to be disseminated. These were in turn picked up by some 150,000 "amplifier" accounts.

"Of the approximately 150,000 amplifier accounts, the majority had little to no follower counts either and were strategically designed to artificially inflate impression metrics and engage with the core accounts," Twitter said. Twitter did not disclose all the 150,000 amplifier accounts on the advice of researchers.

This vast network tweeted predominantly in Chinese languages and was "spreading geopolitical narratives favorable to the Communist Party of China (CCP), while continuing to push deceptive narratives about the political dynamics in Hong Kong."

Pro-democracy protests regained traction in Hong Kong in May after Beijing brought in sweeping new legislation to reduce the region's autonomy. Some saw this as a retaliation to the six months of protests which took place in the first half of 2019 in reaction to an extradition bill.

Original author: Isobel Asher Hamilton

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Former Facebook chief product officer Chris Cox will return after a year-long absence to his previous role at the company, which includes overseeing the main Facebook app, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Cox, one of Mark Zuckerberg's top lieutenants, left in March 2019 over "artistic differences" with the CEO over his plans to make Facebook more privacy-focused.Microsoft President Brad Smith says the company does not sell facial recognition to US police departments and committed not to unless a nationwide law is passed to regulate the technology. Smith's comments follow similar announcements from IBM and Amazon.Snap CEO Evan Spiegel addressed concerns of racism at the company during a company all-hands on Tuesday but said he would not release diversity numbers, sources told Business Insider. Snap's decision not to release diversity reports is a break from major tech companies, which have generally released their diversity numbers to the public.Joe Biden's campaign has demanded that Facebook fact-check political ads and crack down on misinformation. Facebook is refusing, arguing that it's up to elected officials to decide the rules on political advertising and campaigning.Sony will launch the PlayStation 5 during the 2020 holiday season with a standard model and a digital edition with no disc drive. Upgrades include a solid-state hard drive and a graphics card capable of ray-tracing technology.The secretive data analytics firm Palantir is preparing to file an S-1 ahead of a potential September IPO, Business Insider has learned. The IPO prep, first reported by Bloomberg, has been long anticipated at the 17-year-old company whose earliest backers include Peter Thiel's Founders Fund and In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the US intelligence and defense communities. Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan responded to criticism over Facebook's moderation policies following a letter written by dozens of scientists who receive funding through the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). Chan and Zuckerberg said that while they are "deeply shaken and disgusted by President Trump's divisive and incendiary rhetoric," Facebook operates independently from CZI and follows its own policies on moderating the platform.Tim Bray, the senior Amazon engineer who resigned in protest in May over the company firing internal critics, on Thursday said the company should be broken up. Bray was speaking during a union meeting on Zoom attended by Amazon warehouse workers, engineers, and organizers.Online events platform Hopin is in talks to raise around $40 million in fresh funding led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), according to two market sources with knowledge of the deal. Hopin is only a year old and has yet to publish its first financials, but appears to have attracted frenzied interest from backers as the coronavirus puts paid to conferences and live events.A customer is suing Apple for $1 trillion over claims that the company stole his iPhone after he brought it in for a repair. Raevon Terrell Parker claims that Apple kept the phone because it had "new features" that were used to aid in the development of iOS 12.

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Original author: Shona Ghosh

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan responded to criticism over Facebook's moderation policies following a letter written by dozens of scientists who receive funding through the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI).The scientists called out the Facebook billionaires for allowing Trump to use the platform to deliberately spread misinformation and use divisive language.In response, Chan and Zuckerberg said that while they are "deeply shaken and disgusted by President Trump's divisive and incendiary rhetoric," Facebook operates independently from CZI and follows its own policies on moderating the platform.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan responded to criticism over Facebook's moderation policies, saying that they are "deeply shaken and disgusted by President Trump's divisive and incendiary rhetoric" on the platform. 

Zuckerberg and Chan were responding to a letter sent out by more than 140 scientists who receive funding through the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). In the letter, the scientists argue that Facebook's policies are "directly antithetical" to the Initiative's mission statement and that the "spread of deliberate misinformation and divisive language" on the platform goes against what the initiative stands for.

"The spread of news that is not vetted for factual accuracy leads to confusion and a mistrust of experts," the scientists said.

"Like many, we were disconcerted to see that Facebook has not followed their own policies in regards to President Trump, who has used the Facebook platform to spread both misinformation and incendiary statements," they added.

They specifically cited Trump's May 29 Facebook post where he stated: "when the looting starts, the shooting starts," which the scientists say "is a clear statement of inciting violence."

In contrast, Trump posted the same statement to Twitter, where it was flagged for "glorifying violence," and put behind a content warning.

Dozens of Facebook employees walked out in protest of Trump's posts and called out the social media company for not taking action against the incendiary statements.

In the letter written by Chan and Zuckerberg, which was shared to Twitter by Recode reporter Teddy Schleifer, the billionaires say that while they are "deeply shaken and disgusted by President Trump's divisive and incendiary rhetoric," Facebook operates independently from the organization and follows its own policies on moderating the platform.

 

"We take your concerns seriously and to heart," the letter says.

"And personally, like you, we are deeply shaken and disgusted by President Trump's divisive and incendiary rhetoric at a time when our nation so desperately needs unity," they continued.

"Although CZI and Facebook are entirely separate and independent organizations with different missions and teams, we do share the same co-leader. And in this moment, we understand that CZI's relationship with Facebook is not an easy tension to bridge." 

The letter linked to a status update shared by Zuckerberg in which he explained that Trump's post was left up on the site because he referenced deploying the National Guard, and "people need to know if the government is planning to deploy force." 

Still, Chan and Zuckerberg said that Facebook's decisions are "not the decisions of CZI as an organization. Nor will Facebook ever dictate how we at CZI approach our mission, work, or partnerships." 

They also pledged to "redouble" efforts as a philanthropic organization to address racial injustice. 

Zuckerberg last week said the company was exploring ways to address feedback they received from the community on how they can improve their policies, including reviewing Facebook's policies "allowing discussion and threats of state use of force." 

Both Chan and Zuckerberg have recently spoken out in support of the protests against police brutality spurred by the May 25 death of George Floyd.

Original author: Rosie Perper

You can automatically forward email from your Yahoo Mail account to a Gmail account or any other email service.  Automatic forwarding can help you consolidate email in one account or temporarily send mail to someone else, such as if you're going on vacation.Email forwarding is found in your Yahoo Mail account's Settings menu.Visit Business Insider's Tech Reference library for more stories.

You can easily set up automatic email forwarding in Yahoo Mail, which lets you send a copy of incoming messages to Gmail or any other type of email service.

Automatic email forwarding can come in handy if you are trying to consolidate all your email to a single account, or if you want to delegate your messages to another person and need to automatically forward all new messages there. 

The step-by-step instructions below are for forwarding Yahoo Mail to Gmail, but is widely applicable to any email service.

How to forward Yahoo mail to Gmail

1. Open Yahoo Mail in a browser window and click the Gear icon at the top right of the page, under the Home icon. If the browser window is wide enough, the gear will be labeled "Settings."

Original author: Dave Johnson

You can archive emails in Microsoft Outlook to help keep your inbox well-organized by storing essential, non-urgent messages out of sight.An archive button in your Outlook inbox's top menu lets you move the email into a folder accessible from the client dashboard.You can only archive emails from your inbox and not any other folder. Visit Business Insider's Tech Reference library for more stories.

Many email clients can archive old emails, and Microsoft Outlook is no exception. 

Archiving an email moves it from your inbox into a designated folder created by your email client, where it's easily accessible but out of sight. The feature helps you save the messages you might need without choosing between trashing them or a clogged inbox. 

The process of archiving an email in Outlook only takes a couple of clicks. Since archiving is meant to move emails from your inbox into your archive folder, you'll need to be logged in to your Outlook account and have your inbox open. You currently can't archive emails from other folders, such as your drafts or sent folders. 

If you want to clean up your inbox, here's how to archive an email on Outlook in four easy steps.

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How to archive emails in a Microsoft Outlook inbox

1. Select the email in your inbox that you want to archive.

2. Click the "Archive" button located along the top menu bar of your inbox. 

The archive option is underneath your email inbox search bar and to the left of the Delete button. Chrissy Montelli/Business Insider

3. To view archived emails, click on the "Archive" folder on the left side of your inbox. 

The archive folder is accessible through the left-hand menu underneath the Deleted Items folder. Chrissy Montelli/Business Insider

Original author: Chrissy Montelli