Webster
@Webster
352 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Webster upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Sandrine
@Sandrine -
over 3 years ago
Deepgram raises $12M for enterprise speech recognition
Deepgram, a startup focused on high-quality, real-time speech recognition, announced a $12 million Series A this morning.The startup, founded a half decade ago, according to Crunchbase data, with just a few million in raised capital, is interesting, as its success to date...continued
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Webster upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Madalyn
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over 3 years ago
5 Surefire Growth Strategies for E-Commerce Entrepreneurs
From Facebook updates to email marketing, supercharge your business with these proven tactics.March 18, 2020 5 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.I dropped out of college to pursue entrepreneurship full-time. My first breakthrough came t...continued
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Webster upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Gregoria
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over 3 years ago
The Problem With Trump's Triage Testing
Triage entered the lexicon of the coronavirus era last Friday, when President Donald Trump claimed that Google is working on a tool to determine who's eligible for testing. In this case, only people who display serious symptoms will be able to get a test for the novel cor...continued
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Webster upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Casper
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over 3 years ago
Steam Game Festival lets you play indies that would've been at GDC
You'll be able to check out demos of the games. We don't know all the studios taking part just yet, but we'll update this article with some of the featured games when the event starts later today at 1PM ET / 10AM PT. That said, we do know the event will run until March 23...continued
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Webster upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Hannah
@Hannah -
over 3 years ago
County deems Tesla a ‘non-essential’ business during shelter-in-place order
Tesla is not an essential business according to the Alameda County Sheriff, a declaration that could force the automaker to shutter some of its operations in the county under a shelter in-place directive that was ordered because of the global spread of COVID-19, a disease...continued
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Webster upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Muriel
@Muriel -
over 3 years ago
How did we get to 5G? The history of mobile networks
2G brought digital networks and the first data connections. Though they were a trickle by today's standards, these speeds in the kilobits-per-second were revolutionary for the time, frequently faster than the dial-up most people in the US were still using. 3G arrived with...continued
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Jarod
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over 3 years ago
Daily Crunch: Alphabet’s Verily launches COVID-19 screening site
Alphabet launches a site for COVID-19 test screening, the stock market continues to fall and Microsoft Teams goes down. Here’s your Daily Crunch for March 16, 2020.1. Alphabet’s Verily launches its California COVID-19 test screening site in a limited pilotAlphabet-owned h...continued
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Webster upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Erik
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over 3 years ago
Oyo layoffs, Airbnb’s delayed IPO and the long-term quandary of investing in travel startups
It’s the best and worst of times for travel startups.Massive growth over the past few decades has made tourism one of the big global industries, covering everything from recreation to business conferences to shopping sprees.But doubts about the future of the industry are ...continued
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Webster upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Ariel
@Ariel -
over 3 years ago
Rihanna's Fenty Beauty House highlights collaborative influencer marketing on TikTok
This story was delivered to Business Insider Intelligence Digital Media Briefing subscribers earlier this morning.To check to see if you already have access to Business Insider Intelligence through your company, click here.The music superstar turned business mogul announc...continued
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Webster upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Marlon
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over 3 years ago
Get Up to Speed on the Marketing Flywheel
Forget the funnel. This is what customers want.March 16, 2020 6 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.The funnel concept has been around for a long time. Marketing teams use it to plan out the journey people take from prospect to lead to cu...continued
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Webster upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Allene
@Allene -
over 3 years ago
Paramount delays the release of A Quiet Place Part II indefinitely due to coronavirus fears
Paramount is delaying the release of A Quiet Place Part II indefinitely due to concerns over the spread of the novel coronavirus. The film follows other major film delays, including the upcoming James Bond thriller No Time To Die (delayed to November) and Peter Rabbit 2: ...continued
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Webster upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Myles
@Myles -
over 3 years ago
Investors move from coronavirus woes to Biden wins as markets rally on Super Tuesday results
While the aftermath of Super Tuesday has left the Democratic Party riven between its more liberal and moderate wings, investors viewed last night’s results as a win for business and markets.Shaking off the steady beat of bad news about the advance of the novel coronavirus...continued
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Webster upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Manley
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over 3 years ago
AI is An Ideology, Not A Technology
A leading anxiety in both the technology and foreign policy worlds today is China’s purported edge in the artificial intelligence race. The usual narrative goes like this: Without the constraints on data collection that liberal democracies impose and with the capacity to ...continued
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Webster upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Arvid
@Arvid -
over 3 years ago
Cobalt.io pentesting service brings wizard-like setup to platform
Cobalt.io wants to change the way companies purchase and pay for pentesting services, which test an application for vulnerabilities before it goes live. Today, the company announced a number of enhancements to the platform.Jacob Hansen, CEO and co-founder at Cobalt, says ...continued
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Webster upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Ezequiel
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over 3 years ago
4 Ways Marketing Automation and Personalization Can Work Together
We accept automation in our personal lives. So why are we so afraid of using it to optimize our companies?March 14, 2020 4 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.Automation makes 21st century life possible. Siri and Alexa help us schedule ou...continued
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Webster upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Raoul
@Raoul -
over 3 years ago
Bill Gates steps down from Microsoft board
Bill Gates, co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft, is stepping down from the board of the company. Gates previously served as CEO of Microsoft until 2000 when he stepped down from the position in order to spend more time on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In 2008,...continued
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Webster upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Joe
@Joe -
over 3 years ago
The good SaaS times will end and challenges are coming
We’ve had a great decade-long run in SaaS — abundant capital, a thriving economy and a massive existing market shift from on-premise to cloud.But the good times will end and challenges are coming.I’m not predicting when it will happen — maybe it’s the spread of COVID-19, ...continued
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Webster upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Elaina
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over 3 years ago
How to Convert Someone to Your Cause in 5 Simple Steps
Phillip Stutts discusses the branding and marketing lessons he's learned from working in politics for the past two decades.March 14, 2020 1 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.Phillip Stutts, founder of Go Big Media and Win Big Media and ...continued
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Webster upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Leda
@Leda -
over 3 years ago
Why TikTok Will Never Die
Here's how companies and brands can create viral marketing content on platforms like TikTok.March 13, 2020 1 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.Thomas Ma, co-founder of Sapphire Apps Media, talks about how working at his mother’s nail sa...continued
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Webster upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Patrick
@Patrick -
over 3 years ago
Stonly grabs $3.5 million to make customer support more interactive
Stonly is building a service for customer support teams so that they can share step-by-step guides to solve the most common issues users have. The startup just raised a $3.5 million funding round led by Accel with business angels also participating, such as Eventbrite CTO...continued
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Webster upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Allene
@Allene -
over 3 years ago
Washington state approves stronger facial recognition regulations
The House and the Senate originally couldn't agree on the language used for Senate Bill 6280. After a series of negotiations, though, they were able to decide on a final version of the bill, which the lawmakers say is "one of the first and most comprehensive laws to regul...continued
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Webster upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Moises
@Moises -
over 3 years ago
Yext aims to deliver more coronavirus-related answers by making its site search free
Yext says that in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s making its Yext Answers site search product free for 90 days.You might not see an obvious connection between site search and a worldwide pandemic. You might even think this sounds like a marketing gimmick. But Yext...continued
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Webster upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Garnet
@Garnet -
over 3 years ago
White House asks tech leaders for help with coronavirus response
On Wednesday, U.S. Chief Technology Officer Michael Kratsios convened representatives from a number of the tech’s biggest companies to gameplan a response to the worsening global coronavirus pandemic.According to The Washington Post, the meeting, held remotely over the ph...continued
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Webster
@Webster -
over 3 years ago
NBA Player Finds Out Season Suspended While Playing On Twitch
Photo : Christian Petersen ( Getty )Phoenix Suns all-star Devin Booker is pretty much every basketball fan tonight, with his “what the fuck is goin on, bro” response to news the NBA’s season has been suspended.Earlier this evening, the league took the decision to suspend ...continued
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Webster
@Webster -
over 3 years ago
Report: Nebraska basketball team quarantined briefly after Fred Hoiberg leaves game sick - IndyStar
CLOSE What I’m Hearing: Due to the spread of the coronavirus media is restricted to clubhouses with no end in sight. USA TODAYThe Nebraska basketball team remained in its Bankers Life Fieldhouse locker room Wednesday night after coach Fred Hoiberg left the bench during a ...continued
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