Giles
@Giles
445 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Giles upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Kristina
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over 4 years ago
Bloodsucking Prison Telecom Is Scamming Inmates With 'Free' Tablets
GTL Prison Telecom Scams Inmates With 'Free' TabletsWhen you get free technology, you can reasonably assume that you’re getting screwed. That’s infinitely truer if you’re in prison.As Reason first reported, the West Virginia Division of Corrections struck a deal in Februa...continued
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Giles upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Arvid
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over 4 years ago
Taiwan’s Appier raises $80M for AI-based marketing technology
Taiwan’s Appier raises $80M for AI-based marketing technology – TechCrunchArtificial intelligence continues to be the theme of the moment in enterprise software, and today a company out of Asia that has built a suite of AI-powered marketing and ad tools is announcing a ro...continued
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Giles upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Casper
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over 4 years ago
For Holiday Ads, Nothing Says Tradition Like Cardi B’s Twerk Shop
For Holiday Ads, Nothing Says Tradition Like Cardi B’s Twerk ShopIn a 22nd-floor suite of the Ritz-Carlton in Manhattan, sipping a nonalcoholic sparkling rosé from Pepsi, I was waiting for Cardi B to talk to me about Christmas.The Grammy-winning rapper stars in Pepsi’s ne...continued
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Giles
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over 4 years ago
Sources: Pack's Bulaga avoids major knee injury
1:36 AM ETSANTA CLARA, Calif. -- It wasn't all bad news after the Green Bay Packers' blowout loss at the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday night: At least they didn't lose starting right tackle Bryan Bulaga for the rest of the season.Sources said Bulaga, who left the game in ...continued
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Giles upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Manley
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over 4 years ago
TikTok Owner Reportedly Expanding Its Empire Into Music Subscriptions
TikTok Reportedly Getting Into the Music Subscription BusinessTikTok owner ByteDance, the Beijing-based behemoth that answers to no man (or at least U.S. senator) is reportedly crafting plans to fulfill its destiny, i.e., its foray into the subscription music business.Acc...continued
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Wilmer
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over 4 years ago
Juul Gradually Weening Itself Off Employees
Juul to Cut 500 Jobs Amid Vaping FearsE-cigarette company Juul billed itself as an evolution in smoking cessation and has largely been recast in the court of public opinion as a wildly effective new tool for addicting kids to nicotine. The Wall Street Journal today report...continued
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Ariel
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over 4 years ago
In a victory over Amazon, Microsoft wins $10B Pentagon JEDI cloud contract
In a victory over Amazon, Microsoft wins $10B Pentagon JEDI cloud contract – TechCrunchThe U.S. Department of Defense today announced that Microsoft has won its Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract, worth up to $10 billion over a period of 10 year...continued
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Giles upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Arvid
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over 4 years ago
Direct mail still works if you avoid common mistakes
Direct mail still works if you avoid common mistakes – TechCrunchWe’ve aggregated many of the world’s best growth marketers into one community. Twice a month, we ask them to share their most effective growth tactics, and we compile them into this Growth Report.This is how...continued
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Rex
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over 4 years ago
Late Night Is Tickled by Gordon Sondland’s Impeachment Testimony
Late Night Is Tickled by Gordon Sondland’s Impeachment Testimony“You know what these hearings could use? A guy who paid a million dollars for his ambassadorship.” — SAMANTHA BEE“Not only did Sondland leave Trump’s defense in tatters, he also implicated Mick Mulvaney, Mike...continued
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Clarissa
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over 4 years ago
Plot to Steal Florida Hurricane Aid Leads to Indictments
Plot to Steal Florida Hurricane Aid Leads to IndictmentsTwo former city officials in Lynn Haven, Fla. and three business executives have been indicted on charges that they conspired to fraudulently take $5 million meant for hurricane disaster aid from the federal governme...continued
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Myles
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over 4 years ago
Karma’s new electric hinge-winged hypercar concept goes 0 to 60 mph in 1.9 seconds
Karma’s new electric hinge-winged hypercar concept goes 0 to 60 mph in 1.9 seconds – TechCrunchKarma Automotive took the wraps off Tuesday of a new electric concept car called the SC2 that produces a heart-thumping 1,100 horsepower and can travel from 0 to 60 miles per ho...continued
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Alan
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over 4 years ago
Vayyar nabs $109M for its “4D” radar tech, which detects and tracks images while preserving privacy
Vayyar nabs $109M for its ‘4D’ radar tech, which detects and tracks images while preserving privacy – TechCrunchThe future of the connected home, connected car and connected everything will have a lot of imaging technology at the center of it: sensors to track the movemen...continued
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Sandrine
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over 4 years ago
Woman Who Survived Las Vegas Shooting Dies
Woman Injured in Las Vegas Shooting Dies 2 Years LaterTwo years after a horrific attack at a Las Vegas hotel became the deadliest shooting in modern American history, a California woman who was shot and paralyzed that night has died.The woman, Kim Gervais, 57, was a count...continued
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over 4 years ago
Tuesday Company acquires VoteWithMe as tech for politics looks to consolidate ahead of 2020
Tuesday Company acquires VoteWithMe as tech for politics looks to consolidate ahead of 2020 – TechCrunchTuesday Company, the organizational toolkit for political advocacy groups and candidates, has taken another step to consolidate its position in the growing market for t...continued
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Giles upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Hannah
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over 4 years ago
5 Ways to Dominate Social Media Marketing in 2020
5 Ways to Dominate Social Media Marketing in 2020While social media continues to play a huge role in Americans’ lives in both a personal and professional sense, there’s also a growing wariness that marketers need to be aware of. For example, a 2018 Pew Research Center stu...continued
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Oren
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over 4 years ago
Playbuzz becomes Ex.co and expands its content marketing platform
Playbuzz becomes Ex.co and expands its content marketing platform – TechCrunchPlaybuzz, a startup that helps publishers to add things like polls and galleries to their articles, has rebranded itself as Ex.co.Co-founder and CEO Tom Pachys told me the name stands for “the e...continued
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Wilmer
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over 4 years ago
Factbox: Technology for Alphabet's futuristic smart city dream in Toronto
Factbox: Technology for Alphabet's futuristic smart city dream in TorontoTORONTO (Reuters) - Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Sidewalk Labs released a detailed overview on Friday of the futuristic technology it intends to incorporate in the smart city it wants to build in Toronto.The...continued
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Giles upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
George
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over 4 years ago
SoftBank and Line Corp. Seek to Create a Japanese Internet Giant
SoftBank and Line Corp. Seek to Create a Japanese Internet GiantTOKYO — Two weeks ago, SoftBank Group of Japan announced it had lost billions on soured investments in some of the world’s biggest tech start-ups. On Monday, it said it was ready to roll the dice again.The co...continued
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Giles upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Torey
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over 4 years ago
WeWork May Lay Off Thousands
WeWork May Lay Off ThousandsMr. Claure said that he would share his plans for the company’s future at an all-employees meeting that was originally scheduled for Tuesday but will now take place on Friday.The layoffs represent the human cost of a remarkable reversal in WeWo...continued
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Giles upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Eleanora
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over 4 years ago
Wayfair’s app adds 3D visualization tools, including interactive photos & a room planner
Wayfair’s app adds 3D visualization tools, including interactive photos & a room planner – TechCrunchHome furnishing retailer Wayfair was among the first to adopt AR technology as a means of helping people better visualize furniture and accessories in their own home, ...continued
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Giles upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Hank
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over 4 years ago
Oklahoma judge reduces Johnson & Johnson payout in opioid case to $465 million
Oklahoma judge reduces Johnson & Johnson opioid payout to $465 million(Reuters) - An Oklahoma judge on Friday said Johnson & Johnson must pay that state $465 million for fueling the opioid epidemic through the deceptive marketing of painkillers, down from his orig...continued
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Giles upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Patrick
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over 4 years ago
Commercetools raises $145M from Insight for Shopify-style e-commerce APIs for large enterprises
Commercetools raises $145M from Insight for Shopify-style e-commerce APIs for large enterprises – TechCrunchGlobal retail e-commerce is expected to be a $25 trillion business this year, and today one of the companies that has built a set of tools to help larger enterprise...continued
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Giles upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Assunta
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over 4 years ago
DJI announces the smallest Mavic drone yet
DJI announces the smallest Mavic drone yet – TechCrunchThe Mavic Pro was a revelation when DJI announced it a little over three years ago. The foldable drone was precisely the shot in the arm the industry needed to help make the technology more accessible for the masses.I...continued
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Giles upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Ezequiel
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over 4 years ago
Adidas backpedals on robotic shoe production with Speedfactory closures
Adidas backpedals on robotic shoe production with Speedfactory closures – TechCrunchAn expensive experiment in global distribution has been abandoned by Adidas, which has announced that will close its robotic “Speedfactories” in Atlanta and Ansbach, Germany, within 6 mont...continued
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Giles upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Meggie
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over 4 years ago
From a Sewing Needle to a Laser Cutter, a New Approach to Fashion
From a Sewing Needle to a Laser Cutter, a New Approach to FashionWho or what inspired you to go into your field?When I was 16 I moved to Amsterdam, because there was no high school in my town, and that’s when I became aware of fashion, both because it was around me and be...continued
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