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HSBC and BlackRock estimate that the Indian edtech giant Byju’s, once valued at $22 billion, is now worth nothing.

BlackRock has slashed the value of stake in Byju’s, once worth $22B, to zero

Developer Q&A site Stack Overflow is launching a new program today that will give AI companies access to its knowledge base through a new API, aptly named OverflowAPI. The launch…

Google brings Stack Overflow’s knowledge base to Gemini for Google Cloud
Apps

Stack Overflow cuts 28% of its staff

12:44 am PDT • October 17, 2023

Developer community site Stack Overflow has laid off 28% of its staff, the Prosus-owned company announced Monday. In a blog post, Stack Overflow’s CEO, Prashanth Chandrasekar indicated that the company…

Stack Overflow cuts 28% of its staff

If Reddit and Stack Overflow were ever to create an offspring, it might look a little something like Daily.dev, perhaps with a little bit of Hacker News somewhere in the…

Daily.dev is like Reddit meets Stack Overflow
Crypto

In search of a new crypto deity

12:20 pm PDT • June 5, 2021

Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review! Last week, I wrote about tech taking on Disney. This week, I’m talking about the search for a new crypto messiah.…

In search of a new crypto deity

The legendary Q&A website for programmers (and probably one of the most copy-and-pasted sites on the internet) Stack Overflow is being acquired. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Prosus…

Stack Overflow acquired by Prosus for $1.8 billion

Stack Overflow is the default Q&A site for programmers (though the overall Stack Exchange network goes well beyond helping you answer your basic PHP questions). But over the course of…

Stack Overflow adds a free tier to its fast-growing Teams service

Stack Overflow has long been the Q&A site of choice for developers. But while that’s what most people know the company for, it has also built out a jobs site…

How Stack Overflow’s new CEO plans to kickstart enterprise growth

Developer knowledge sharing site Stack Overflow has confirmed hackers breached its systems, but said customer data is unaffected. “Over the weekend, there was an attack on Stack Overflow,” wrote Mary…

Stack Overflow confirms breach, but customer data said to be unaffected

Stack Overflow and other various sites and tools have made it easy to Google search for solutions — or code snippets — to the easier parts of putting together an…

Optic wants to help developers drop boilerplate code into their development flow

Some changes are underway at Stack Overflow, the online community where some 50 million developers and others converge to talk programming and many other things. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed…

Developer community Stack Overflow reportedly lays off 20% as it refocusses business

iOS 11 is now available to download, First Miso Robotics flipping burger installed in a restaurant and Stack Overflow’s salary calculator. All this on Crunch Report.

Stack Overflow, the popular developer community and job board, is launching a new tool today for developers that will allow them to find out how much other developers in their…

Stack Overflow’s developer salary calculator tells you how much money you should be making

Stack Overflow, the community site best known for providing answers for all of your random coding questions, also has a thriving jobs board and provides services to employers looking to…

Stack Overflow puts a new spin on resumes for developers

Since its launch in 2008, Stack Overflow has become the go-to community for discussing programming-related questions. Now the service is launching a new product that aims to harness its community to build a repository of…

Stack Overflow goes beyond Q&As and launches crowdsourced documentation

Calling all developers, YouTube has taken steps to join Stack Overflow and bring discussions about its API there. For those who are using the API, you know that Google Groups…

YouTube Moves API Discussions And Support To Stack Overflow, Ditches Google Groups

Q&A network Stack Exchange will be launching Stack Overflow DevDays this fall, a two day conference targeting coders who want to brush up or dive into the latest programming technologies like MongoDB,…

All this week on Founder Stories, we’ve shown segments from Chris Dixon’s interview with Stack Exchange CEO Joel Spolsky, who also writes the Joel on Software blog. In the final…

(Founder Stories) Joel Spolsky On Startups: "Have A Co-Founder Otherwise You'll Go Insane"

Content farms and SEO are the bane of the Internet. Google is fighting it, but somehow spam results keep slipping through. In this second installment of our Founder Stories interview…

(Founder Stories) Stack Exchange's Joel Spolsky On How SEO Makes The Internet Worse

Today, Stack Overflow founder Joel Spolsky announced that he raised another $12 million in venture capital and that he is changing the name of his company to Stack Exchange. He…

(Founder Stories) Stack Exchange CEO Joel Spolsky On When To Take VC Cash

Vertical Q&A site network Stack Overflow has just announced new funding, in a $12 million Series B round lead by Index Ventures, Spark Capital, and their first investor Union Square…

It seems as though Q&A network Stack Overflow has put the $6 million in funding it received back in May to good use, crossing the 10 million unique monthly visitor mark…