Rex
@Rex
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Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Rex
@Rex -
almost 3 years ago
Zencargo raises $42M to expand its digital-first freight forwarding platform internationally
While consumers and businesses continue to use their purchasing power to spin the wheels of the globalized economy, one of the companies that’s built a technology platform to help that economy operate more smoothly is announcing an investment to double down o…
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Jimmy
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almost 3 years ago
Equity Monday: Dogecoin is passé, but student notes are big business
Equity Monday: Dogecoin is passé, but student notes are big and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, tal...continued
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almost 3 years ago
Apple is giving a laser company that builds some of its AR tech $410 million
Apple has announced that it’s awarding Pennsylvania-based optical technology company II-VI with $410 million from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund. Apple CEO Tim Cook tweeted that the company’s tech helps power Apple’s FaceID, Memoji, and Portrait Mode. The company also m...continued
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Rex
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almost 3 years ago
India paddler Sathiyan plots medal surprise in Tokyo - Reuters India
India have yet to win an Olympic medal in table tennis but the country's leading paddler Sathiyan Gnanasekaran believes he can break that jinx in Tokyo this year.
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almost 3 years ago
Uber’s mixed Q1 earnings portray an evolving business
Uber’s mixed Q1 earnings portray an evolving Uber followed Lyft in reporting its Q1 2021 earnings this week. And like its rival, its results take a little bit of work to understand. So, this afternoon, we’re going to parse them as a pair so that we both understand what’s...continued
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almost 3 years ago
Apple expands its ad business with a new App Store ad slot
At the same time as it’s cracking down on the advertising businesses run by rivals, Apple is introducing a new way for developers to advertise on the App Store. Previously, developers could promote their apps after users initiated a search on the App Store by targeting sp...continued
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Dayton
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almost 3 years ago
HTC will reportedly unveil Vive Focus 3 Business Edition and Pro 2 at Vivecon
HTC is gearing up to launch two new enterprise virtual reality headsets at Vivecon this month, according to Protocol. The publication has spotted mentions of a Vive Focus 3 Business Edition standalone headset and a high—end Vive Pro 2 PC-VR headset in company documents. I...continued
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Rex
@Rex -
almost 3 years ago
The second wave of “cancel culture”
Conservatives are weaponizing “cancel culture” against progressives. Progressives are using it to eviscerate each other.
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almost 3 years ago
Sprout.ai raises $11m Series A led by Octopus Ventures to apply AI to insurance claims
It was way back in 2018 that Omni:us appeared to disrupt the insurance market by applying AI to this most legacy of all industries. It has now gone on to raise $44.1 million. In a similar vein, Shift Technology in France has raised $100 million. Now a UK star…
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almost 3 years ago
Epic acquires game-art portfolio site ArtStation
Epic Games has added another hyphen to its multi-hyphenate business with the acquisition of ArtStation, the premier hosting website for CGI- and videogame-focused artist portfolios. The site features a large number of works from talented amateurs and established professio...continued
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almost 3 years ago
Verizon CEO memo: Apollo to focus on commerce, content and betting with new Yahoo business
With Verizon’s long-anticipated sale of its media business now finally in progress — by way of a deal, announced earlier today, with private equity firm Apollo paying $5 billion for Yahoo, AOL, and the many various internet brands and services that are part of the operati...continued
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almost 3 years ago
Answering post-NFL draft questions for all 32 teams: QB conundrums, rookie battles, more
7:00 AM ETNFL NationESPN So long, 2021 NFL draft. Hello, offseason. With all seven rounds in the books, front offices for all 32 teams are surely confident that they improved their rosters over the weekend. That's not always the case, though. Which rookie quarterbacks wil...continued
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about 3 years ago
Data was the new oil, until the oil caught fire
We’ve been hearing how “data is the new oil” for more than a decade now, and in certain sectors, it’s a maxim that has more than panned out. From marketing and logistics to finance and product, decision-making is now dominated by data at all levels of most big private org...continued
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Abbie
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about 3 years ago
How the Owner of a Doggie Day Spa Spends His Sundays
When Brian Taylor grooms his canine clients, sometimes he transforms their fur into all kinds of colors and shapes. “It’s just like hair,” he said. “Artists can turn hair into anything people want, and that’s what I do for dogs.”As the owner of the Harlem Doggie Day Spa, ...continued
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Assunta
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about 3 years ago
F.B.I. Surveillance in Spying and Terrorism Cases Plummet
The judge in that case said the F.B.I. had reported to the court that its internal oversight and compliance audits in 2020 had found several problems, mostly in 2019. Among them were instances in which the F.B.I. system had a previewing pane that had automatically display...continued
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Alvah
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about 3 years ago
Lawsuit over Rite Aid 'rapid release' acetaminophen wins class certification - Reuters.com
A lawsuit accusing Rite Aid Corp of misleading consumers by marketing its acetaminophen gelcaps as “rapid release” can go forward as a class, a federal judge has ruled.U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California, on Wednesday found that California re...continued
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about 3 years ago
Pandemic-hit India says UAE is Plan B for T20 World Cup - Reuters
This year's Twenty20 World Cup could be moved to the United Arab Emirates if the COVID-19 crisis does not subside in India, the country's cricket board said.
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Rex
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about 3 years ago
What is Cortana? A guide to Microsoft's virtual assistant, and how you can use it to improve your...
Summary List PlacementMicrosoft's Cortana is a cloud-based personal assistant that operates outside the realm of standard voice-enabled AI. Cortana doesn't just understand voice commands and carry out tasks but is integrated for use across Microsoft's 365 sui…
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Rahsaan
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about 3 years ago
MessageBird acquires SparkPost for $600M using $800M Series C extension
MessageBird, a communications platform out of the Netherlands, had a busy day today, with two huge announcements. For starters, the company got an $800 million extension on its $200 million Series C round announced last October. It then applied $600 million of the extensi...continued
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Adelia
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about 3 years ago
Solar roof-tile and energy startup SunRoof closes €4.5M led by Inovo Venture Partners
SunRoof is a European startup that has come up with a clever idea. It has its own roof-tile technology which generates solar power. It then links up those houses, creating a sort of virtual power plant, allowing homeowners to sell surplus energy back to the grid.It’s now ...continued
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Priscilla
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about 3 years ago
Look out Amazon Go — A Lisbon startup plans to offer autonomous stores to other retailers
Look out Amazon Go — A Lisbon startup plans to offer autonomous stores to other out Amazon Go. A Lisbon startup plans to offer the same autonomous store technology to other retailers. Lisbon-based Sensei, a computer vision startup that allows convenience stores to offer ...continued
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Angus
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about 3 years ago
Greece’s Viva Wallet raises $80M for its neo-bank targeting small business merchants
Challenger banks continue to make significant waves in the world of finance, with smaller outfits luring customers away from incumbents by providing an easier way for them to not only engage with basic banking services, but to tap into a wave of technology that brings mor...continued
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Rex
@Rex -
about 3 years ago
Atlassian launches a Jira for every team
Atlassian today announced a new edition of its Jira project management tool, Jira Work Management. The company has long been on a journey of bringing Jira to teams beyond the software development groups it started out with. With Jira Service Management, it is successfully...continued
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Rex
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about 3 years ago
Atlassian launches a Jira for every team
Atlassian today announced a new edition of its Jira project management tool, Jira Work Management. The company has long been on a journey of bringing Jira to teams beyond the software development groups it started out with. With Jira Service Management, it is…
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Hulda
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about 3 years ago
Improving Diversity in the Technology Bubble
April 20, 2021 6 min Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their is no secret that the diversity of the workforce at technology firms is a big problem. Between 2013-2017, only 1% of VC-backed entrepreneurs were Black and 9.2%...continued
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