Maureen
@Maureen
445 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Maureen upvoted the following post about 3 years ago:
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about 3 years ago
Platzi Will Pay You Up to $40,000 to Study
The pandemic has created a series of obstacles for people, but it has also generated ideas to promote professional success, educational innovation and the progress of economies. To stay motivated by the constant hunger for learning and growth, Platzi , the online educatio...continued
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about 3 years ago
Sacha Baron Cohen plays Covid vaccine dealer to the stars
Comedian and actor Sacha Baron Cohen revealed his fictional Covid-19 vaccine side business during a segment on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!."Source: CNNSource: CNNPowered by NewsAPI.org
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Rex
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about 3 years ago
Texas Attorney General Sues Griddy for False Advertising in Wake of Winter Storm Price Hikes
Griddy, the Texas power supplier that’s made headlines recently for customers’ sky-high energy bills in the wake of widespread winter storm outages, has racked up another lawsuit. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the company for “false, misleading, and deceptive...continued
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Maureen
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about 3 years ago
WTT Middle East Hub - Final Four (Men's Finals at 11:20a EST Friday) - Butterfly Table Tennis
March 5, 2021 (by Steve Hopkins)The WTT Contender Event in Doha is down to the Final 4, and three of four in the Men’s Semifinals are Butterfly Players. Top seeded Tomokazu Harimoto had smooth sailing again with a 3-1 win over Korea’s Cho. Dimirij Ovtcharov, Worl...continued
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Elaina
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about 3 years ago
From the ashes of nearly a billion dollars, Ample resurrects Better Place’s battery swapping busi...
A little over 13 years ago, Shai Agassi, a promising software executive who was in line to succeed the chief executive at SAP, then one of the world’s mightiest software companies, left the company he’d devoted the bulk of his professional career to and started a business...continued
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about 3 years ago
Robotics roundup
I’m excited for any opportunity to talk about soft robotics. There’s something other-worldly about the world of inflatable robotic bladders. Human beings are wont to develop robotics in their own image. The world of soft robots are something akin to what the technology wo...continued
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about 3 years ago
Don't miss the chat with Hubspot founder Brian Hallinger at Entrepreneur Masters!
How can you use marketing to 'get into life' to your customers? So tonight you can't miss the live broadcast of the talk with Brian Halligan Co-founder & CEO Hubspot and creator of the Inbound Marketing concept.I spoke with Brian Halligan as part of his participation ...continued
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Ismael
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about 3 years ago
Attend TechCrunch’s free virtual Miami meetup on March 11
Attend TechCrunch’s free virtual Miami meetup on March Valley is novel, but not unique. Throughout the United States and abroad, there are communities of technology entrepreneurs leveraging local assets to build great companies. TechCrunch has long told these stories, an...continued
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Rex
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about 3 years ago
Google plans to stop targeting ads based on your browsing history
In a major change for its core business model, Google said today that it plans to stop selling ads that rely on your individual web browsing history. Additionally, it won't build any tools to track your specific data across its products in the future. The announcements co...continued
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Giovanni
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about 3 years ago
$100 million for mealworms
$100 million for and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the behind the headlines.This is our Wednesday show, where we niche down and focus on a single topic, or theme. This week we’re talking agtech, a surprisingly cool...continued
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Sandrine
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about 3 years ago
10 Anthology Shows That Explore the Dark Side of Technology
When we think about the future, we imagine flying cars or holographic computer screens from movies like Minority Report. But we don’t always consider the ramifications of such advances. That’s where shows like Black Mirror and Tales from the Loop come in: they explore the...continued
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Jarod
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about 3 years ago
Piano acquires analytics company AT Internet
Piano is expanding its platform for digital publishers with the acquisition of AT Internet, a 25-year-old analytics company based in France.Even if you don’t recognize Piano as a company, TechCrunch readers will probably be familiar with the product, since we use it to ma...continued
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Elvie
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about 3 years ago
MIT’s insect-sized drones are built to survive collisions
Insects are a lot of things – but fragile they’re not. Sure, most can’t withstand the full force of a human foot, but for their size, they’re evolve to be extremely rugged and resilient. Insect-sized technology, on the other hand, is general another story.That’s certainly...continued
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Geovany
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about 3 years ago
Vernon Jordan, Civil Rights Leader and D.C. Power Broker, Dies at 85
After graduating from law school in 1960, he became a law clerk to Donald Hollowell, who had a busy one-man civil rights practice in Atlanta. Mr. Jordan worked closely on the case that desegregated the University of Georgia and grew close to Charlayne Hunter (later the jo...continued
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Delia
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about 3 years ago
Martech company Zeta Global raises $222.5M in debt
Martech company Zeta Global raises $222.5M in Global, the marketing technology company founded by David A. Steinberg and former Apple CEO John Sculley, is announcing an additional $222.5 million in new debt financing.The company has gone down the debt route before — a Se...continued
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about 3 years ago
Australian regional airline Rex to take on Qantas, Virgin in leisure market - Reuters
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Regional Express Holdings Ltd (Rex) will switch some of its marketing emphasis to the leisure market rather than business travel as it adds new destinations to challenge Qantas Airways and Virgin Australia, its deputy chairman said.Rex celebrated its fi...continued
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about 3 years ago
Bringing jobs and health benefits, BlocPower unlocks energy efficiency retrofits for low income c...
Retrofitting buildings to make them more energy efficient and better at withstanding climate change-induced extreme weather is going to be a big, multibillion-dollar business. But it’s one that’s been hard for low-income communities to tap, thanks to obstacles ranging fro...continued
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Juliet
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about 3 years ago
Swarm’s low-cost satellite data network is now available to commercial clients
One of the original startups that set out to create a low-Earth orbit satellite constellation to provide a data network here on Earth is now open for business: Swarm, which now operates 81 of its sandwich-sized satellites on orbit, announced today that its network service...continued
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Maureen
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about 3 years ago
Google updates Workspace
Google Workspace, the company’s productivity platform you’ll forever refer to as G Suite (or even ‘Google Docs’), is launching a large update today that touches everything from your calendar to Google Meet and how you can use Workspace with the Google Assista…
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Casper
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about 3 years ago
Francisco Partners is acquiring MyHeritage, sources say for $600M
Genealogy tracking online is a big business, and today comes some MA news for one of the bigger names in the field. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that Israel’s MyHeritage.com — a profitable site that lets people test DNA and track their family lineage and has some ...continued
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Rowan
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about 3 years ago
Joby Aviation takes flight into the public markets via a SPAC merger
Joby Aviation takes flight into the public markets via a SPAC Aviation, a startup that has spent a more than a decade developing an all-electric, vertical take-off and landing passenger aircraft, will become a public company through a merger with Reinvent Technology Part...continued
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about 3 years ago
The surprising friend to the world's rarest marine dolphins
There are only about 63 adult Maui dolphins left on earth. This new technology aims to help protect them from some of their biggest threats.Source: CNNSource: CNNPowered by NewsAPI.org
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Ericka
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about 3 years ago
Apple supplier Foxconn reaches tentative agreement to build Fisker’s next electric car
Apple supplier Foxconn reaches tentative agreement to build Fisker’s next electric supplier Foxconn Technology Group has reached a tentative agreement with electric vehicle startup-turned-SPAC Fisker to develop and eventually manufacture an EV that will be sold in North ...continued
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Maureen upvoted the following post about 3 years ago:
Giovanni
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about 3 years ago
11 Things to Stream If the Pandemic Stole Your European Vacation
A European tour can be the trip of a lifetime: a high school graduate taking a gap year to see the world, college grads backpacking around Italy, France, and Germany while figuring out what they want to do with their lives, free-spirited women traveling alone in search of...continued
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Devin
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about 3 years ago
Docyt raises $1.5M for its ML-based accounting automation platform
Accounting isn’t a topic that most people can get excited about — probably not even most accountants. But if you’re running any kind of business, there’s just no way around it. Santa Clara-based Docyt wants to make the life of small and medium business owners (and their a...continued
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