Alexandro
@Alexandro
432 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Alexandro
@Alexandro -
almost 3 years ago
Sources: Rodgers nixed deal to be top-paid QB
9:41 AM ETAaron Rodgers turned down a two-year extension offer from the Green Bay Packers this offseason, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter.The deal, sources said, would have tied the reigning MVP to the Packers for five more seasons and made him the highest-paid quarterb...continued
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Jarod
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almost 3 years ago
Zoom is buying a cloud call center company for $14.7 billion
After experiencing enormous growth during the COVID-19 pandemic, Zoom has made its first major acquisition by purchasing cloud contact center company Five9 for $14.7 billion, it announced. The move will allow Zoom to expand into call center technology worth up to $24 bill...continued
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Liliane
@Liliane -
almost 3 years ago
Can facial analysis technology create a child-safe internet?
Suppose you pulled out your phone this morning to post a pic to your favourite social network – let’s call it Twinstabooktok – and were asked for a selfie before you could log on. The picture you submitted wouldn’t be sent anywhere, the service assured you: instead, it wo...continued
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Elliott
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almost 3 years ago
We (Sort of) Moved!
CommunicateHealthApr 15 · 2 min readAlt: A doodle drives a moving truck with “W❤HHL” emblazoned on the side while another doodle waves out the passenger-side window. They’re following a sign that points toward communicatehealth.com.This week, in the spirit of spring clean...continued
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Giles
@Giles -
almost 3 years ago
How pitch training can help startups get their story right
When you hire a marketing consultant, you don’t necessarily expect to wind up discussing your life’s purpose. Yet, that is what Spanish marketing expert and entrepreneur Alex Barrera often ends up doing with startup founders who hire him to help improve their pitch. They ...continued
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Kari
@Kari -
almost 3 years ago
Extra Crunch roundup: Think like a VC, CockroachDB EC-1, handle your stock options
Ants and camels are famously resilient, but when it was time to select a name for a startup that offers open-source, cloud-based distributed database architecture, you can imagine why “Cockroach Labs” was the final candidate.Database technology is fundamental infrastructu...continued
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Alexie
@Alexie -
almost 3 years ago
Find Your Voice (and Tone)
CommunicateHealthApr 8 · 3 min readAlt: A doctor doodle is talking to a patient with dog leg. The doctor doodle frowns and says, “You won’t need a dog-leg-ectomy after all.” The patient doodle says, “Why do you sound so sad about it?” The doctor doodle says, “Whoops. Wron...continued
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Iva
@Iva -
almost 3 years ago
Outdoorsy co-founders detail how they expanded the sharing economy to RVs
Jen Young and Jeff Cavins were sitting in a beige conference room at a downtown Vancouver hotel, wasting away under fluorescent lights, an endless PowerPoint and a pair of sad Styrofoam cups of coffee between them. Young was there on a marketing contract. Cavins was a boa...continued
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Cyril
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almost 3 years ago
Aidoc raises over $66M for AI radiology analysis technology
Aidoc, an artificial intelligence company that develops triage and analysis software, is about to double its funding. On Tuesday, the company announced a round of $66 million. Before that the company had raised about $67 million in its five-year lifetime. Aidoc develops “...continued
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Alexandro
@Alexandro -
almost 3 years ago
Sherman arrested on domestic violence charge
11:17 AM ETFree-agent cornerback Richard Sherman was booked at 6:08 a.m. local time at the King County Correctional Facility in Seattle for burglary domestic violence, according to public records.Sherman also was denied bail.Sherman, 33, completed his third season with th...continued
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Emmie
@Emmie -
almost 3 years ago
Volkswagen’s new business strategy puts software and autonomous driving front and center
Volkswagen will ramp up its software, mobility as a service and battery tech to stay competitive in the coming decades, as it and other automakers prepare for the largest transition in personal mobility since the invention of the car.Laying out the company strategy Tuesda...continued
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Garnet
@Garnet -
almost 3 years ago
5 Tips to Significantly Increase the ROI of Your Next Email Campaign
July 12, 2021 5 min Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their marketing has always been one of the most affordable and effective online-marketing strategies, driving revenue with a click of the mouse and allowing you to mai...continued
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Alexandro
@Alexandro -
almost 3 years ago
Controversial WhatsApp policy change hit with consumer law complaint in Europe
Facebook has been accused of multiple breaches of European Union consumer protection law as a result of its attempts to force WhatsApp users to accept...
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Alexandro
@Alexandro -
almost 3 years ago
Timo Boll Tips: 7 Quick Tips to Become a Safer Player
July 12, 2021 In this video, Timo Boll provides seven tips for improving by avoiding mistakes.Tip 1: Keep the racket above the tableTip 2: Push your knees outwardTip 3: Bend your wristTip 4: FocusTip 5: Play saferTip 6: Vary your servesTip 7: Come back to the table...continued
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Mariano
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almost 3 years ago
Novartis weighs entry into mRNA technology -chairman tells paper - Reuters
Novartis's logo is seen at the cell and gene therapy factory of the Swiss drugmaker in Stein, Switzerland, November 28, 2019. REUTERS/Arnd WiegmannZURICH, July 1 (Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Novartis (NOVN.S) could get into the field of messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) te...continued
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Wilmer
@Wilmer -
almost 3 years ago
Here's What's in Joe Biden's Sweeping Executive Order on Competition in Big Tech
On Friday, President Joe Biden signed an executive order aiming to encourage competition in the economy—specifically targeting some business practices popular with massive tech firms.Titled the Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy, the sweeping...continued
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Minnie
@Minnie -
almost 3 years ago
Halo will launch a remotely operated car service powered by 5G in Las Vegas
Halo will launch a remotely operated car service powered by 5G in Las technology has generated a lot of hype for its potential to power driverless cars using a remote operator, but for the past few years that’s all it’s been — hype. Las Vegas-based startup Halo and telec...continued
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Myles
@Myles -
almost 3 years ago
Navigating ad fraud and consumer privacy abuse in programmatic advertising
Jalal Nasir is the founder and CEO of Pixalate, a global ad fraud intelligence and marketing compliance platform. Previously, he was one of the early engineers on Amazon’s fraud prevention and risk management team and held various product leadership roles building adtech ...continued
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Grayce
@Grayce -
almost 3 years ago
Circle is a good example of why SPACs can be useful
Circle is a good example of why SPACs can be the wake of Coinbase’s direct listing earlier this year, other crypto companies may be looking to go public sooner than later. That appears to be the case with Circle, a Boston-based technology company that provides API-delive...continued
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Liliane
@Liliane -
almost 3 years ago
Citi Ventures head honcho Arvind Purushotham is coming to TC Early Stage
Citi Ventures head honcho Arvind Purushotham is coming to TC Early venture capital used to get a bad rap. The money flowed from corporations into startups when times were good, and quickly disappeared when the market turned.But startups and corporations discovered someth...continued
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Garnet
@Garnet -
almost 3 years ago
Nothing’s Ear 1 earbuds will feature noise cancelling and run $99
Fittingly, we don’t know a lot about Nothing. The young hardware startup has, however, done a stellar job building hype around precisely that fact. In the lead up to the July 27 launch of the company’s first product, the Ear (1), the Nothing marketing machine has released...continued
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Pablo
@Pablo -
almost 3 years ago
Meet Nickson, the furniture-as-a-service startup that Barack Obama’s ex-financial adviser just ba...
Ever toured an apartment and fell in love with the model unit?You’re not alone. Harvard Business School grad Cameron Johnson is a former institutional real estate investor and Greystar exec turned startup founder who realized that very often, “renters would try to rent th...continued
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Vijay Mistry
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almost 3 years ago
What Are Hemorrhoid's? What Can Be Done To Cure Them?
Hemorrhoids occur whenever the veins found inside the rectum get agitated and inflamed. They typically develop due to a lot of straining during a bowel movement.Piles or hemorrhoids have the potential to affect people of any age however as you get older the chance of havi...continued
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Assunta
@Assunta -
almost 3 years ago
Elon Musk just now realizing that self-driving cars are a ‘hard problem’
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is finally admitting that he underestimated how difficult it is to develop a safe and reliable self-driving car. To which the entire engineering community rose up as one to say, “No duh.”Or at least that’s how it should have happened in a just world. I...continued
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Americo
@Americo -
almost 3 years ago
Bragg Set to Be Manhattan’s Next D.A., and a Potential Trump Scourge
Mr. Bragg said repeatedly during the campaign that he had sued Mr. Trump or his administration more than 100 times during his tenure at the attorney general’s office. He also said he expected to be attacked by Mr. Trump, who said this week that the investigation was a for...continued
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