Alexzander
@Alexzander
417 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Alexzander upvoted the following post over 2 years ago:
Elian
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over 2 years ago
Facebook's chief technology officer is leaving the company after 13 years
Facebook is about to close an important chapter in its history. CNBC reports the social network's chief technology officer, Mike Schroepfer, is stepping down from his role after a total 13 years at the company. He'll move to a part-time position as Facebook's first Senio...continued
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Alexzander upvoted the following post over 2 years ago:
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over 2 years ago
Carmichael Roberts, Sean O’Sullivan will share insights into climate tech and investing at Disrupt
Carmichael Roberts, Sean O’Sullivan will share insights into climate tech and investing at effects of a warming planet, from frequent and extreme flooding to hurricanes and drought, has prompted activists and governments to take action. It’s also spurred a growing number...continued
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Alexzander upvoted the following post over 2 years ago:
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over 2 years ago
Business Updates: What Would an Evergrande Default Look Like?
Daily Business BriefingSept. 21, 2021Updated Sept. 21, 2021, 12:42 p.m. ETSept. 21, 2021, 12:42 p.m. ETWall Street began to recover on Tuesday from its worst decline in months, posting a small gain in a day of turbulent trading.The SP 500 rose about half a percent, after ...continued
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over 2 years ago
How to Make Your Content Marketing Strategy Worth the Investment
Most marketers agree with the established wisdom that content marketing is one of the best ways to promote a brand online. It’s relatively easy to get started, making it accessible, it serves as a complementary strategy for other channels (like email marketing, social med...continued
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over 2 years ago
How My Job Search Forced Me to Catch Up With Technology
After working in the entertainment industry for 25 years and taking a Covid-forced break from searching for work, I recently started looking for steady employment. The job site Indeed reports that the average length of a job search is 20 weeks. I'm now about one-fourth of...continued
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over 2 years ago
Inside GitLab’s IPO filing
Inside GitLab’s IPO filing Fast growth, sticky the technology and business world worked towards the weekend, developer operations (DevOps) firm GitLab filed to go public. Before we get into our time off, we need to pause, digest the company’s S-1 filing, and come to so...continued
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over 2 years ago
How to Build Ideal Partner Personas for Channel Marketing
The world of marketing has become increasingly more complex in recent years. With omnichannel approaches, platforms, and various approaches to content. it can sometimes seem that a marketer’s work is never done. But, thankfully, new ways of dealing with our marketing issu...continued
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Alexzander
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over 2 years ago
Gingko Bioworks, valued at $15B, begins trading today: Here’s how their business works
Gingko Bioworks, a synthetic biology company now valued at around $15 billion, begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange today. Gingko’s market debut is one of the largest in biotech history. It’s expected to raise about $1.6 billion for the company. It’s…
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Alexzander upvoted the following post over 2 years ago:
Allene
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over 2 years ago
4 ways to leverage ROAS to triple lead generation
4 ways to leverage ROAS to triple lead TU is the global director of demand generation at Brightpearl, a leading retail operating system. She is passionate about setting up innovative strategies to grow sales pipelines using data-driven decisions. Businesses that don’t ...continued
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over 2 years ago
The neobank threat is on the rise-but incumbents already have the power to meet it
Digital banks are driving customers to their ranks, from awareness to account opening. We've rounded up what incumbents stand to lose from neobanks, and how to stave off the threat. Insider Intelligence publishes hundreds of r...continued
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Alexzander
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over 2 years ago
Mastering the Art of Customer Service
Jeff Toiste, author, consultant and trainer, shares ways that business owners can glean insights and learnings from their online reviews, as well as best practices for responding and engaging with reviews.
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Nestor
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over 2 years ago
Business Updates: Lucid Motors Beats Tesla in Range, E.P.A. Says
Daily Business BriefingSept. 16, 2021Updated Sept. 16, 2021, 11:57 a.m. ETSept. 16, 2021, 11:57 a.m. ETRetail sales increased slightly in August, the Commerce Department reported Thursday, highlighting an uneven pace for the economic recovery as spending behavior swings m...continued
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Nelson
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over 2 years ago
Alphabet’s Project Taara is beaming high-speed internet across the Congo River
Alphabet’s Project Taara is beaming high-speed internet across the Congo Moon is an associate editor at Engadget. More posts by this contributor Alphabet ended Project Loon earlier this year, but the things it learned from the internet-broadcasting balloon initi...continued
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Alexzander
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over 2 years ago
Goldman says $2.2B purchase of BNPL provider GreenSky will help expand Marcus
Goldman says $2.2B purchase of BNPL provider GreenSky will help expand morning, Goldman Sachs announced plans to acquire B2B2C lender GreenSky in a deal worth $2.24 billion. The acquisition, which is still subject to regulatory approval and is expected to close in the fo...continued
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Bobby
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over 2 years ago
CodeSignal secures $50M for its tech hiring platform
In less than a year after raising $25 million in Series B funding, technical assessment company CodeSignal announced a $50 million in Series C funding to offer new features for its platform that helps companies make data-driven hiring decisions to find and test engineerin...continued
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Alexzander
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over 2 years ago
Goldman says $2.2B purchase of BNPL provider GreenSky will help expand Marcus
The acquisition is positioned to bolster the firm's consumer business and offer new products and new ways to attract consumers to its Marcus by Goldman Sachs brand of finance products.
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Alexzander
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over 2 years ago
Sources: Cowboys DE Lawrence out 6-8 weeks
6:45 PM ETFRISCO, Texas -- Dallas Cowboys defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence suffered a broken foot in Wednesday's practice that will force him to miss six to eight weeks, according to sources.It is a giant blow to a defense that did not generate a sack in Week 1 against the...continued
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Joe
@Joe -
over 2 years ago
Casper cuts its CMO, CTO and COO amid further layoffs
Casper has laid off dozens of employees, including three C-Level executives: its chief marketing officer, chief technology officer and chief operating officer, sources say. The mattress company declined to comment.The round of layoffs, communicated to employees on Friday,...continued
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over 2 years ago
EnerVenue raises $100M to accelerate clean energy using nickel-hydrogen batteries
In order to support a buildout of renewable energy, which tends to over-generate electricity at certain times of day and under-generate at others, the grid is going to need a lot of batteries. While lithium-ion works fine for consumer electronics and even electric vehicle...continued
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Kraig
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over 2 years ago
Why bringing you emergency toothpaste could be big business
Why bringing you emergency toothpaste could be big and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.This is our Wednesday show, where we niche down to a single topic. This time ’round we took a loo...continued
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over 2 years ago
Logistics startup Stord raises $90M in Kleiner Perkins-led round, becomes a unicorn and acquires ...
When Kleiner Perkins led Stord’s $12.4 million Series A in 2019, its founders were in their early 20s and so passionate about their startup that they each dropped out of their respective schools to focus on growing the business.Fast-forward two years and Stord — an Atlant...continued
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Americo
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over 2 years ago
Fusion energy nears reality thanks to an ultra-powerful magnet
Fusion energy just had its second breakthrough in as many months. Motherboard notes an MIT- and Commonwealth Fusion Systems-led research team has successfully demonstrated a high-temperature superconducting electromagnet producing a field strength of 20 tesla — the most p...continued
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Ericka
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over 2 years ago
Alibaba slides on report of China plans to break up payment app
In recent months, Chinese regulators have been targeting other internet giants in a wide-ranging crackdown which has included competition and privacy issues, as well as user data and cryptocurrencies.Source: BBC NewsPowered by NewsAPI.org
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Alexzander
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over 2 years ago
Technology giant Olympus hit by BlackMatter ransomware
Olympus said in a brief statement Sunday that it is “currently investigating a potential cybersecurity incident” affecting its European, Middle East and Africa computer network. “Upon detection of suspicious activity, we immediately mobilized a specialized re…
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Alexzander upvoted the following post over 2 years ago:
Manley
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over 2 years ago
How a Publishing Executive Spends Her Sundays
“At the beginning of Covid, you could see the evolution of readers’ needs through what was selling,” said Sanyu Dillon, the chief marketing officer for Penguin Random House. It started with a rise in interactive workbooks for children, she said. Later last spring, “baking...continued
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