Cynthia
@Cynthia
423 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Cynthia upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Marlon
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over 4 years ago
Appier raises $80 million for AI that improves marketing decisions
Appier raises $80 million for AI that improves marketing decisionsGetting a customer onto a company’s website to check out its products is challenging enough in itself, but getting them to complete a transaction is a whole different ball game. Last year, 75% of all ecomme...continued
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Cynthia upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
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over 4 years ago
FDA warns 15 companies for illegally selling CBD products
FDA warns 15 companies for illegally selling CBD productsThe US Food and Drug Administration sent a warning to 15 companies that have illegally sold cannabidiol products, better known as CBD, by adding it to food or marketing it as a dietary supplement.consumer update abo...continued
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Madalyn
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over 4 years ago
How The Army’s Use Of TikTok Could Be A National Security Threat
How The Army’s Use Of TikTok Could Be A National Security ThreatLast week, Senator Chuck Schumer wrote the U.S. Army to ask it to think twice before using TikTok for recruiting purposes. Schumer cited TikTok’s Chinese origin and laws that required Chinese companies to ass...continued
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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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over 4 years ago
Bellman wants to simplify property management for residential buildings
Bellman wants to simplify property management for residential buildings – TechCrunchMeet Bellman, a new French startup that wants to improve residential building management using technology and a fair amount of human interactions. The startup has been co-founded by Antoni...continued
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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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over 4 years ago
Providing emergency and security services to employees, Base Operations raises $1 million
Providing emergency and security services to employees, Base Operations raises $1M – TechCrunchIn 2017, when a destructive earthquake struck Puebla, Mexico, sending shock waves to Mexico City and destroying buildings in the nation’s megalopolis and its surrounding suburbs...continued
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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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Allene
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over 4 years ago
Crunchbase raises $30M more to double down on its ambition to be a ‘LinkedIn for company data’
Crunchbase raises $30M more to double down on its ambition to be a ‘LinkedIn for company data’ – TechCrunchThe internet and search engines like Google have made the world our oyster when it comes to sourcing information, but in the world of business, there remains a persi...continued
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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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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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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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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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Mariano
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over 4 years ago
California Is Suing Juul for Allegedly Targeting Kids With Its Bad Marketing
California Is Suing Juul for Allegedly Targeting Kids With Its Bad MarketingJuul is staring down yet another lawsuit.California officials announced Monday that the state has a lawsuit filed alleging that Juul marketed its products to teens and youth through, among other t...continued
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Cynthia
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over 4 years ago
Pakistan to host first test match since 2009 Sri Lanka bus attack
Pakistan to host first test match since 2009 Sri Lanka bus attackSource: Al Jazeera EnglishPowered by NewsAPI.orgKeywords:Pakistan • Test cricket • Test cricket • Sri Lanka •
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Cynthia upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
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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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Cynthia
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over 4 years ago
How a Fast-Rising Opera Singer Prepared for Her Met Debut
How a Fast-Rising Opera Singer Prepared for Her Met DebutOn a Monday evening in early November, the singer J’Nai Bridges, 32, is standing at the piano in the front room of her Harlem apartment. In just four days, she will make her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New Yo...continued
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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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over 4 years ago
Amperity acquires Custora to improve its customer data platform
Amperity acquires Custora to improve its customer data platform – TechCrunchAmperity announced today that it’s acquiring another company in the customer data business, Custora.Amperity co-founder and CEO Kabir Shahani told me that Custora’s technology complements what Amp...continued
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over 4 years ago
Valence launches a social network for black professionals
Valence launches a social network for black professionals – TechCrunchOver the past two years, as technology companies continued to struggle with diversifying their work forces, Los Angeles-based venture capitalist Kobie Fuller wrestled with how to solve the problem.As a ...continued
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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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Alvah
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over 4 years ago
Africa: more gazelles at home than unicorn IPOs abroad
Africa can list more gazelles at home than unicorn IPOs abroad – TechCrunchAt the recent TechCrunch Disrupt SF, Senegalese VC investor Marieme Diop suggested that Silicon Valley’s unicorn IPO model might not be right for African startups.The is largely because the contine...continued
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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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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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