Giles
@Giles
445 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Giles @Giles - almost 3 years ago
Chung: Called 'not right minority' in NFL job hunt
2:41 PM ETFormer NFL offensive lineman and assistant coach Eugene Chung, who is Korean, says he was told he was "not the right minority" while interviewing for an NFL coaching job this offseason."It was said to me, 'Well, you're really not a minority,'" Chung said during ...continued
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Giles @Giles - almost 3 years ago
Pats' plane assisting China's vaccine diplomacy
3:51 PM ETAssociated Press MIAMI -- The New England Patriots' team plane has delivered 500,000 Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccines to El Salvador -- and in the process inadvertently inserted itself into a testy geopolitical fight for influence in Latin America.The "Pats Plane"...continued
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Maureen @Maureen - almost 3 years ago
Snapchat shows off new AR features and more ‘inclusive’ camera tech
Snapchat just unveiled some major upgrades to its in-app camera. The company showed off new interactive augmented reality features, announced partnerships with YouTube and other companies and previewed a new more “inclusive” version of its camera's technology.Beginning la...continued
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Marlon @Marlon - almost 3 years ago
New York’s Attorney General Joins Criminal Inquiry Into Trump Organization
Donald J. Trump and his family came under increasing pressure from New York investigators after the attorney general’s office said Tuesday it was working alongside the Manhattan district attorney in an ongoing criminal fraud investigation.The two offices have been conduct...continued
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Ryleigh @Ryleigh - almost 3 years ago
Unbounce snags Snazzy.ai to add automated copywriting to platform
Unbounce snags Snazzy.ai to add automated copywriting to a Vancouver startup best known for helping marketers create automated landing pages, added a new wrinkle this morning when it announced it has acquired Snazzy.ai, an early-stage automated copywriting startup. The t...continued
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Minnie @Minnie - almost 3 years ago
Opinion: Is the Gates divorce any of our business?
Jill Filipovic is a journalist based in New York and author of the book " OK Boomer, Let's Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind ." Follow her on Twitter . The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely her own. View more opinion articles on CNN.(CNN) Bill and Mel...continued
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Elian @Elian - almost 3 years ago
Amazon Has Extended the Moratorium on Police Use of Its Facial Recognition Software
Law enforcement officials are still banned from using Amazon’s facial recognition technology “until further notice,” the company said on Wednesday, a decision that effectively extends a yearlong moratorium that had been set to expire on June 1.Known as Rekognition, the pr...continued
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Emmie @Emmie - almost 3 years ago
Marketing automation platform Klaviyo raises $320 million at over $9 billion valuation - Reuters
(Reuters) - Klaviyo said on Tuesday it had raised $320 million in its latest funding round, valuing the data and marketing automation platform at more than $9 billion.The Series D round, which comes months after the company’s $200 million Series C financing, was led by in...continued
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Giles @Giles - almost 3 years ago
Klaviyo’s next-gen email marketing platform engorges on $320M at a $9.5B valuation
Klaviyo’s next-gen email marketing platform engorges on $320M at a $9.5B marketing is decades old, but it’s a category that has surprising life in it. Multiple generations of email marketing companies have come through and sustained success, from Constant Contact to Mail...continued
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Americo @Americo - almost 3 years ago
Gogoro is joining the battery swapping revolution in China
Electric scooter company Gogoro continues to expand outside its home country of Taiwan in a big way, as it just announced new partnerships with a pair of China’s leading two-wheel manufacturers. DCJ, the top gas-powered motorcycle company in China, and Yadea, one of the b...continued
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Giles @Giles - almost 3 years ago
Klaviyo’s next-gen email marketing platform engorges on $320M at a $9.5B valuation
Email marketing is decades old, but it’s a category that has surprising life in it. Multiple generations of email marketing companies have come through and sustained success, from Constant Contact to Mailchimp. These brands often become household names — afte…
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Giles @Giles - almost 3 years ago
Vanessa Bryant Delivers Emotional Hall of Fame Speech for Kobe
Kobe Bryant, the former Los Angeles Lakers star who was killed in a helicopter crash last year, was posthumously inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame on Saturday.
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Patrick @Patrick - almost 3 years ago
How to Start a Hydroponic Garden
Hydroponics was synonymous with growing copious amounts of weed in your apartment without much work, but these days hydroponic gardening is simply cutting-edge technology for sustainable farming. And while it seems that farming in a test tube is a bit out of touch with na...continued
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Nelson @Nelson - almost 3 years ago
Successfully Scale Your Business by Marketing on Reddit, Instagram, and Facebook
Franchise Your Business Schedule a FREE one-on-one session with one of our Franchise Advisors today and we’ll help you start building your franchise organization. Get 2021 2 min Our goal is to feature products and services that we think...continued
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Webster @Webster - almost 3 years ago
I love being a mogul: Hollywood stars go into business
"I've always wanted to be a mogul," says Thorne, who at 23, is an actor, singer, model, film director and businesswoman.Source: BBC NewsPowered by NewsAPI.org
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Allene @Allene - almost 3 years ago
Holidu books $45M after growing its vacation rentals business ~50% YoY during COVID-19
Vacation rental startup Holidu has tucked $45 million in Series D funding into its suitcase — bringing its total raised since being founded back in 2014 to more than $120M.The latest funding round is led by 83North with participation from existing investors Prime Ventures...continued
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Americo @Americo - almost 3 years ago
Apptopia raises $20M to expand its competitive intelligence business beyond mobile
Boston-based Apptopia, a company providing competitive intelligence in the mobile app ecosystem, has closed on $20 million in Series C funding aimed at fueling its expansion beyond the world of mobile apps. The new financing was led by ABS Capital Partners, and follows th...continued
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Assunta @Assunta - almost 3 years ago
Lidar startup Innovusion closes $64M round led by Temasek
More investors are joining the wave to bet on lidar, the remote sensing method that uses laser light to measure distances and has garnered ample interest from automakers in recent times. But it’s also a technology that has long been scorned by Elon Musk partly due to its ...continued
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Minnie @Minnie - almost 3 years ago
How one founder realized the potential of sustainable energy stored deep below our feet
How one founder realized the potential of sustainable energy stored deep below our this week’s Found podcast, we sat down with Dandelion co-founder and President Kathy Hannun. Kathy came up with the idea for Dandelion while working at Google X, tackling some of the world...continued
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Dayton @Dayton - almost 3 years ago
The 5 Best Digital Marketing Strategies to Empower Your Business
Grow Your Business, Not Your Inbox Stay informed and join our daily newsletter 2021 4 min Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their marketing is cost-effective and easily measured. With analytics, you can see near real-tim...continued
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Elalaoui @raysim2009 - almost 3 years ago
New Clickbank Diet Plans Pack 47$
Have you been through the misery of wanting to buy a nice dress but you can't because it doesn't fit? Think about losing weight, but you don't know where to start and what to do? Losing weight is not as difficult as all people think. Losing weight is easy with these weigh...continued
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Marlon @Marlon - almost 3 years ago
AI is ready to take on a massive healthcare challenge
AI is ready to take on a massive healthcare Metzer is CEO and co-founder of Emedgene, a leading precision medicine intelligence company. Which disease results in the highest total economic burden per annum? If you guessed diabetes, cancer, heart disease or even obesity...continued
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Delia @Delia - almost 3 years ago
India grants approval for 5G trials, avoids Chinese firms
Indian telecom ministry on Tuesday said it has granted several telecom service providers permission to conduct a six-month trial for the use and application of 5G technology in the country. New Delhi has granted approval to over a dozen firm spanning multiple nationalitie...continued
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Moises @Moises - almost 3 years ago
Verizon CEO memo: Apollo to focus on commerce, content and betting with new Yahoo business
With Verizon’s long-anticipated sale of its media business now finally in progress — by way of a deal, announced earlier today, with private equity firm Apollo paying $5 billion for Yahoo, AOL, and the many various internet brands and services that are part of the operati...continued
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Cyril @Cyril - about 3 years ago
Sequoia’s Mike Vernal will share how to iterate with tempo at TC Early Stage in July
TC Early Stage is back in July and we have a fantastic lineup in store that’s laser-focused on marketing and fundraising. That includes, but is not limited to, Sequoia’s Mike Vernal, whose portfolio companies include Citizen, PicsArt, Whisper, Threads, Houseparty and more...continued
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