Alexie
@Alexie
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Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Alexie
@Alexie -
almost 3 years ago
Lance signs deal; Wilson last unsigned top pick
11:13 AM ETSan Francisco 49ers quarterback Trey Lance signed his rookie contract Wednesday, leaving New York Jets quarterback Zach Wilson as the last unsigned first-round selection from the 2021 draft.Lance, the No. 3 overall pick, signed his fully guaranteed four-year, $...continued
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Ryleigh
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almost 3 years ago
Shares of protein discovery platform Absci pop in market debut
Absci Corp., a Vancouver company behind a multifaceted drug development platform, went public on Thursday. It’s another sign of snowballing interest in new approaches to drug development — a traditionally risky business. Absci focuses on speeding drug development in the p...continued
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Jimmy
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almost 3 years ago
Filing: Instant grocery startup Gopuff is raising $750M more at a $13.5B valuation
Gopuff, the “instant” grocery delivery startup that has been on an acquisition and expansion tear in the last several months to scale its business, is also racing to raise money to fuel those efforts. Documents uncovered by Prime Unicorn Index and shared with TechCrunch s...continued
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almost 3 years ago
Pegasus: the spyware technology that threatens democracy - video
Pegasus spyware is capable of bypassing your phone's security and gaining complete access to your device – including emails, messages, GPS location, photos, video and your phone's microphone. A Guardian investigation can now reveal widespread abuse of the Pegasus technolo...continued
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Giovanni
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almost 3 years ago
How to Make Your Business Stand Out From the Noise
Free Book Preview: Brand Renegades Discover how two entrepreneurs used unconventional business strategies to turn their startup into a multimillion-dollar 2021 2 min Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you'll find inte...continued
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Marie
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almost 3 years ago
Daily Crunch: Bitcoin ‘is a big part of our future,’ says Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey
Daily Crunch: Bitcoin ‘is a big part of our future,’ says Twitter CEO Jack get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here.Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for July 23, 2021. It’s been an i...continued
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Kraig
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almost 3 years ago
Tailor Brands raises $50M, aims to be one-stop shop for small businesses to launch
Tailor Brands raises $50M, aims to be one-stop shop for small businesses to Brands, a startup that automates parts of the branding and marketing process for small businesses, announced Thursday it has raised $50 million in Series C funding.GoDaddy led the round as a stra...continued
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Elaina
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almost 3 years ago
I Launched a PR Agency Even Though I'd Never Wanted to Start a Business
July 22, 2021 7 min Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their a teenager, I tried everything: community theater, basketball, cross-country skiing, social work, hours and hours of piano lessons, Aikido, horseback riding. Thi...continued
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Alexie
@Alexie -
almost 3 years ago
Magic lands $27M Series A for its ‘plug and play’ passwordless tech
Magic, a San Francisco-based startup that builds “plug and play” passwordless authentication technology, has raised $27 million in Series A funding. The round, led by Northzone and with participation from Tiger Global, Volt Capital, Digital Currency Group and…
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Manley
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almost 3 years ago
Intel’s Mobileye takes its autonomous vehicle testing program to New York City
Mobileye, a subsidiary of Intel, has expanded its autonomous vehicle testing program to New York City as part of its strategy to develop and deploy the technology.New York City joins a number of other cities, including Detroit, Paris, Shanghai and Tokyo, where Mobileye ha...continued
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Patrick
@Patrick -
almost 3 years ago
Sololearn raises $24M for its bite-sized, Duolingo-like mobile-first coding education app
Coding is not just for engineers and computer programmers anymore: The pace of technology and its growing ubiquity mean that even nontech roles will require workers to have some degree of knowledge to do their jobs in the future. Today a company called Sololearn — which h...continued
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almost 3 years ago
Indonesia markets U.S. dollar bonds as COVID-19 spending grows - Reuters
JAKARTA, July 21 (Reuters) - Indonesia is marketing three tranches of U.S. dollar-denominated bonds, a finance ministry official said on Wednesday, in what would be its fourth global debt issuance this year.The bonds offered are 10-year bonds with initial price guidance a...continued
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Elvie
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almost 3 years ago
3 critical lessons I learned while scaling RingCentral’s customer support team
3 critical lessons I learned while scaling RingCentral’s customer support Spivak is the senior director of Global Customer Support at RingCentral, a global leader in communication and call center software provider. There are many things I wish I knew when starting out ...continued
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Rahsaan
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almost 3 years ago
In growth marketing, creative is the critical X factor
Jonathan Martinez is a former YouTuber, UC Berkeley alum and growth marketing nerd who's helped scale Uber, Postmates, Chime and various startups. As we move toward a privacy-centric, less targeted future of growth marketing, the biggest lever will become creative on p...continued
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Alexie
@Alexie -
almost 3 years ago
Jeff Bezos thanked every Amazon employee and customer ‘because you guys paid for all of this,’ pr...
The world’s richest man wanted to say thanks to the people who made his brief trip into space Tuesday possible.But for some, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' expression of gratitude went over like a lead rocket.
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Alexie
@Alexie -
almost 3 years ago
Banker Mark Carney decides not to enter Canadian politics for now - Reuters
Mark Carney, who has led central banks in two Group of Seven countries, dismissed speculation he would enter Canadian politics, saying on Tuesday he would not contest an election expected soon.
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Myles
@Myles -
almost 3 years ago
No Need for Speed at Grants Pass Downs in Oregon
Scriver, however, has a dream.“I want to go to Kentucky and ride,” she said. “I want to ride at Churchill Downs — even a small race.”Scriver has been atop a horse since learning to walk — as a little girl in 4H in Curlew, Wash., and barrel racing at rodeos as an adolescen...continued
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Jaydon
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almost 3 years ago
GM to launch fleet charging service to power commercial EVs, even at home
GM to launch fleet charging service to power commercial EVs, even at and its new EV business unit BrightDrop are launching a fleet charging service as the automaker aims to ramp up its bet on connected and electric commercial vehicles.The service, branded Ultium Charge 3...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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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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Priscilla
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almost 3 years ago
Black teen barred from skating rink by inaccurate facial recognition
A facial recognition algorithm used by a local roller skating rink in Detroit wouldn’t let teen Lamya Robinson onto the premises, and accused her of previously getting into a fight at the establishment.But Robinson had never even been to the rink.The facial recognition sy...continued
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Ariel
@Ariel -
almost 3 years ago
An insurtech startup exposed thousands of sensitive insurance applications
A security lapse at insurance technology startup BackNine exposed hundreds of thousands of insurance applications after one of its cloud servers was left unprotected on the internet.BackNine might be a company you’re not familiar with, but it might have processed your per...continued
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Hannah
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almost 3 years ago
LG Chem will invest $5.2B in battery materials through 2025
LG Chem will invest $5.2B in battery materials through Korea’s LG Chem has earmarked ₩6 trillion ($5.2 billion) over the next four years to build out its battery materials business. The investment comes as automakers and state regulators set targets to transition away fr...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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Grayce
@Grayce -
almost 3 years ago
Emergence Capital’s Doug Landis explains how to identify (and tell) your startup story
Emergence Capital’s Doug Landis explains how to identify (and tell) your startup do you go beyond the names and numbers with your startup pitch deck? For Doug Landis, the answer is one simple compound gerund: storytelling. It’s a word that gets thrown around a lot of lat...continued
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