Nelson
@Nelson
419 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Nelson upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Iva @Iva - over 4 years ago
Why this Black Friday is absolutely crucial for struggling retailers
Why Black Friday is absolutely crucial for struggling retailersLondon (CNN Business)Happy Sunday. A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business' Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up righthere.This year, Black Friday is more than just the ...continued
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Nelson upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Ariel @Ariel - 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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Nelson @Nelson - over 4 years ago
Opinion: Want to bridge divides? Clean your Twitter house first
Want to bridge divides? Clean your Twitter house first (opinion)Christopher Bail is the director of the Polarization Lab at Duke University. Follow him on Twitter @chris_bail. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion on CNN.(CNN)As Republicans...continued
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Nelson @Nelson - over 4 years ago
Trump Ukrainianizes American Politics
The United States Is Starting to Look Like Ukraine - The New York TimesThe fourth theme is covert Russian interference, usually facilitated by local actors.Ukraine offers the world’s most extreme example of this kind of interference (nearby Georgia is a close second), sin...continued
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Clarissa @Clarissa - over 4 years ago
Obama says technology is 'splintering' society - CNET
Obama says technology is 'splintering' societyAs a former president of the United States, Barack Obama has stayed in a lot of presidential suites. Though the rooms are beautiful and spacious, he says, they also exemplify a couple of things: People don't need that much, an...continued
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Arvid @Arvid - 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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Erik @Erik - over 4 years ago
2,400 WeWork Employees Didn't Deserve This
WeWork Lays Off 2,400 Workers After Failed IPO Exposes It for What It IsThe stupendously long and expensive con of WeWork, a real estate subleaser disguised as a workplace technology ecosystem, came crashing down months ago. Of course, the company’s workers are the ones n...continued
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Nelson @Nelson - over 4 years ago
Toxic tweets: How NFL players deal with postgame noise
7:00 AM ETThe Cleveland Browns' recent release of safety Jermaine Whitehead for threatening fans on Twitter following a poor performance on the field resonated with Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Bud Dupree, partly because of personal experience.Dupree is part of the Ill-...continued
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Rex @Rex - 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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Kraig @Kraig - over 4 years ago
Vouch raises $45M led by YC Continuity for business insurance that targets startups
Vouch raises $45M led by YC Continuity for business insurance that targets startups – TechCrunch“Move fast and break things” is a term we usually associate with Facebook (at least, until 2014) and the general startup ethos of being disruptive. Now in true entrepreneurial ...continued
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Casper @Casper - over 4 years ago
Why do billions of people still not have glasses?
Why do billions of people still not have glasses?Making spacecraft is not a job in which you can afford to be slapdash.At Lockheed Martin, for example, it used to take a technician two painstaking days to measure 309 locations for certain fasteners on a particular curved ...continued
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Alan @Alan - 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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Maureen @Maureen - over 4 years ago
Uber Freight expands app to Canada
Uber Freight expands app to Canada – TechCrunchUber Freight, the Uber business unit that helps truck drivers connect with shipping companies, said Wednesday it’s launching the app in Canada as part of its global expansion plan.The move into Canada will give Uber Freight a...continued
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Josiah @Josiah - over 4 years ago
From the NBA to Sequoia to TikTok and more, a week of national security concerns with China
From the NBA to Sequoia to TikTok and more, a week of national security concerns with China – TechCrunchIt has been a tough week for China-U.S. relations. Vice President Mike Pence ratcheted up the administration’s rhetoric yesterday, calling the NBA “a wholly owned subsi...continued
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Nelson @Nelson - over 4 years ago
Irked Bengals WR Boyd: Nothing came my way
5:09 PM ETCINCINNATI -- Bengals wide receiver Tyler Boyd wasn't bashful about voicing his frustration after the least productive outing of his career.Boyd had only one catch for zero yards in the Bengals' 17-10 loss at Oakland, Cincinnati's 10th defeat in as many games th...continued
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Eleanora @Eleanora - 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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Muriel @Muriel - over 4 years ago
Samsung ramps up its B2B partner and developer efforts
Samsung ramps up its B2B partner and developer efforts – TechCrunchChances are you mostly think of Samsung as a consumer-focused electronics company, but it actually has a very sizable B2B business as well, which serves more than 15,000 large enterprises and hundreds of t...continued
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Kari @Kari - over 4 years ago
Why Salesforce is moving Marketing Cloud to Microsoft Azure
Why Salesforce is moving Marketing Cloud to Microsoft Azure – TechCrunchWhen Salesforce announced this week that it was moving Marketing Cloud to Microsoft Azure, it was easy to see this as another case of wacky enterprise partnerships. But there had to be sound business ...continued
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Ezequiel @Ezequiel - 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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Manley @Manley - over 4 years ago
Waymo expands self-driving services to include B2B car parts delivery trial
Waymo expands self-driving services to include B2B car parts delivery trial – TechCrunchSelf-driving vehicle technology company Waymo has expanded its business relationship with automotive retail company AutoNation, the companies announced today. The new extension builds ...continued
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Patrick @Patrick - 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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Hank @Hank - 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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Nelson @Nelson - over 4 years ago
Twitter Details Its Political Ad Ban as Civil Rights Groups Ask, What About the Nazis?
Twitter Details Its Political Ad Ban as Civil Rights Groups Ask, What About the Nazis?Twitter on Friday revealed the final details of a plan to restrict political ads across its platform, saying it would prohibit political content in paid ads from candidates and political...continued
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Meggie @Meggie - 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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Colin @Colin - over 4 years ago
Easy Tips on Using LinkedIn for Your Marketing Purposes
Easy Tips on Using LinkedIn for Your Marketing PurposesMarketing guru Eric Siu speaks with a LinkedIn pro about leveraging the platform to promote your business.In this video, Entrepreneur Network partner Eric Siu speaks with marketing friend Gaetano Dinardi about his exp...continued
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