Kristina
@Kristina
442 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Kristina upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Elian
@Elian -
over 4 years ago
The portable PlayStations were Sony at its most ambitious
The portable PlayStations were Sony at its most ambitiousAs we mark 25 years of PlayStation this week, Sony’s grip on the home console market has rarely been stronger. The PS4 recently outsold the original PlayStation to become the second bestselling version yet behind th...continued
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Kristina upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Minnie
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over 4 years ago
Progressive VCs and private equity are using tech and analytics to revolutionize investing
Progressive VCs and private equity are using tech and analytics to revolutionize investing – TechCrunchPrivate equity and venture capital investors are copying our counterparts in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job.When I was single, I register...continued
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Kristina upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Rex
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over 4 years ago
Postscript raises $4.5M to help Shopify shops stay connected with customers over SMS
Postscript raises $4.5M to help Shopify shops stay connected with customers over SMS – TechCrunchBack in February, we wrote that Postscript “wants to be the Mailchimp for SMS.” Now they’ve raised $4.5 million to help get it done.This round was led by Accomplice, and backe...continued
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Kristina upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Iva
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over 4 years ago
5 Digital Marketing Tips for the Legal Niche From a Lawyer
5 Digital Marketing Tips for the Legal Niche From a LawyerWhen it comes to effective digital marketing, the speed of technology, innovation and adoption presents unique challenges.If you're trying to introduce your law practice to a new level of online marketing, you may ...continued
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Kristina upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Grayce
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over 4 years ago
Intel's Officially Out of the Smartphone Modem Following $1 Billion Deal with Apple
Intel Finalizes Deal to Sell Smartphone Modem Business to AppleAfter first announcing a deal back in July, Intel is now finally getting out of the smartphone modem business thanks to some help from Apple.However, while the acquisition is valued at $1 billion, the sale of ...continued
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Kristina
@Kristina -
over 4 years ago
AWS announces EKS on Fargate is available
AWS announces EKS on Fargate is available – TechCrunchToday at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, the company announced that Elastic Kubernetes Service is available on Fargate.EKS is Amazon’s flavor of Kubernetes. Fargate is a service announced in 2017 that enables you to launch...continued
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Kristina upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Elaina
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over 4 years ago
A Review of Instagram Marketing by Matthew Lucas
A Review of Instagram Marketing by Matthew LucasKristin Johnson is the author of AIN'T "U" GOT NO MANNERS, winner of three 2019 Dan Poynter Global eBook Awards (Silver-Best eBook Cover, Bronze-Technology and Engineering, Honorable Mention-Self Help) and "the Bible for Soc...continued
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Kristina upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Hannah
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over 4 years ago
Fulcrum, which provides freelance placement opportunities for technical projects, raises $1 million
Fulcrum, which provides freelance placement opportunities for technical projects, raises $1 million – TechCrunchLa Jolla, Calif.-basedFulcrum, a job-placement company for technical projects, has raised $1 million in a seed round of funding, led by local technology investm...continued
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Kristina upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Izaiah
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over 4 years ago
Chinese companies want to help shape global facial recognition standards
Chinese companies want to help shape global facial recognition standardsThe report details how Chinese companies including ZTE, Dahua and China Telecom are proposing standards for facial recognition to the UN's International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the body respons...continued
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Kristina upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Bart
@Bart -
over 4 years ago
Guide to Performing Bulk Email Verification
A Complete Guide to performing Bulk Email VerificationEmail marketing has been around a long time as a marketing strategy. It was created to reach the target audience in the fastest way possible. It is not only cost-effective but also more comfortable to address many peop...continued
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Kristina upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Arvid
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over 4 years ago
Freshworks raises $150M Series H on $3.5B valuation
Freshworks raises $150M Series H on $3.5B valuation – TechCrunchFreshworks, a company that makes a variety of business software tools, from CRM to help-desk software, announced a $150 million Series H investment today from Sequoia Capital, CapitalG (formerly Google Capita...continued
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Kristina upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Clarissa
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over 4 years ago
Where top VCs are investing in real estate and proptech (Part 2 of 2)
Where top VCs are investing in real estate and proptech (Part 2 of 2) – TechCrunchIn part two of our survey that asked top VCs about the most exciting investment areas in real estate, we dig into responses from 10 leading real estate-focused investors at firms that span e...continued
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Kristina upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Jerrold
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over 4 years ago
Instagram to test hiding Like counts in the US next week
Instagram to test hiding Like counts in US, which could hurt influencers – TechCrunch“We will make decisions that hurt the business if they help people’s well-being and health,” says Instagram’s CEO Adam Mosseri. To that end, next week Instagram will expand to some users ...continued
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Kristina upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Ericka
@Ericka -
over 4 years ago
Comcast revives 'E.T.' to hawk cable and internet service
Comcast revives 'E.T.' to hawk cable and internet serviceComcast quotes Henry Thomas, the actor who plays Elliott, as saying that the short gives fans "everything they want out of a sequel" minus the parts that "could destroy the beauty of the original." Thomas, we love y...continued
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Kristina upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Oren
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over 4 years ago
Rossum raises $4.5M to make OCR-like data entry many times more accurate
Rossum raises $4.5M to make OCR-like data entry many times more accurate – TechCrunchEvery day, people slog over inputting date from invoices and other forms. So instead of using traditional Optical Character Recognition (OCR) extraction software, you could apply a new fo...continued
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Kristina upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Adelia
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over 4 years ago
GoCardless partners with TransferWise to bring low cost currency conversion to recurring payments
GoCardless partners with TransferWise to bring low-cost currency conversion to recurring payments – TechCrunchGoCardless, the London fintech that makes it easy for businesses to offer recurring bank payments, has partnered with TransferWise for its currency exchange.The m...continued
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Kristina upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Ezequiel
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over 4 years ago
Will the future of work be ethical? Founder perspectives
Will the future of work be ethical? Founder perspectives – TechCrunchIn June, TechCrunch Ethicist in Residence Greg M. Epstein attended EmTech Next, a conference organized by the MIT Technology Review. The conference, which took place at MIT’s famous Media Lab, examined h...continued
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Kristina upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Cameron
@Cameron -
over 4 years ago
Gradeup raises $7M to expand its online exam preparation platform to smaller Indian cities and towns
Gradeup raises $7M to expand its online exam preparation platform to smaller Indian cities and towns – TechCrunchGradeup, an edtech startup in India that operates an exam preparation platform for undergraduate and postgraduate-level courses, has raised $7 million from Tim...continued
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Kristina upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Ericka
@Ericka -
over 4 years ago
Giuliani Pursued Business in Ukraine While Pushing for Inquiries for Trump
Giuliani Pursued Business in Ukraine While Pushing for Inquiries for TrumpAs Rudolph W. Giuliani waged a public campaign this year to unearth damaging information in Ukraine about President Trump’s political rivals, he privately pursued hundreds of thousands of dollars in...continued
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Kristina upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Immanuel
@Immanuel -
over 4 years ago
Gordon Sondland: US ambassador to EU accused of sexual misconduct
Gordon Sondland: US ambassador to EU accused of sexual misconductGordon Sondland, the US ambassador to the EU, has been accused by three women of sexual misconduct.The allegations, published by Portland Monthly magazine and ProPublica, date back to before he became an amb...continued
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Kristina upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Kristina
@Kristina -
over 4 years ago
Bloodsucking Prison Telecom Is Scamming Inmates With 'Free' Tablets
GTL Prison Telecom Scams Inmates With 'Free' TabletsWhen you get free technology, you can reasonably assume that you’re getting screwed. That’s infinitely truer if you’re in prison.As Reason first reported, the West Virginia Division of Corrections struck a deal in Februa...continued
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Kristina upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Nelson
@Nelson -
over 4 years ago
Emissions, Impeachment, Butterball Turkey: Your Tuesday Evening Briefing
Emissions, Impeachment, Butterball Turkey: Your Tuesday Evening Briefing1. Thanksgiving travel might be a little complicated this year.More than 55 million peopleare expected to be heading to holiday gatherings by car or plane, and the weather isn’t going to make it easy....continued
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Kristina
@Kristina -
over 4 years ago
Bloodsucking Prison Telecom Is Scamming Inmates With 'Free' Tablets
GTL Prison Telecom Scams Inmates With 'Free' TabletsWhen you get free technology, you can reasonably assume that you’re getting screwed. That’s infinitely truer if you’re in prison.As Reason first reported, the West Virginia Division of Corrections struck a deal in Februa...continued
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Kristina upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Jarod
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over 4 years ago
Is the End of the Year Really a Good Time to Buy a Car?
Is the End of the Year Really a Good Time to Buy a Car?Every business you can think of is having a Black Friday sale, including car dealerships. Sure, maybe you weren’t thinking of putting a vehicle on your holiday shopping list, but the end of the year is often rumored t...continued
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Kristina upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Madalyn
@Madalyn -
over 4 years ago
VW's factory race teams will exclusively drive electric cars
VW's factory race teams will exclusively drive electric carsOn top of the ID.R, VW expects to rely on cars using its electric-oriented MEB platform for future competition.You could see this coming when VW has increasingly touted the ID.R as its flagship race car. It's als...continued
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