Meggie
@Meggie
420 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Meggie upvoted the following post over 2 years ago:
Devin
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over 2 years ago
News aggregator SmartNews raises $230 million, valuing its business at $2 billion
SmartNews, a Tokyo-headquartered news aggregation website and app that’s grown in popularity despite hefty competition from built-in aggregators like Apple News, today announced it has closed on $230 million in Series F funding. The round brings SmartNews’ total raise to ...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 2 years ago:
Delia
@Delia -
over 2 years ago
Index Ventures launches web-app to help founders calculate employee stock options
The ability to offer stock options is utterly essential to startups. They convince talented people to join when the startup is unlikely to be capable of matching the high salaries that larger, established tech firms can offer.However, it’s a complex business developing a ...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 2 years ago:
Mariano
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over 2 years ago
Amazon One’s palm-scanning tech makes first move into entertainment venues
Amazon’s palm-scanning technology, Amazon One, has always been about more than just fast payments. Really, it’s about Amazon controlling and verifying identities, with the company hoping to deploy its service in public spaces like offices and stadiums. Today, Amazon annou...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 2 years ago:
Marlon
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over 2 years ago
Why Local Marketing Still Matters in the Digital Age
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.As our digital worlds have expanded, it has become increasingly popular for small businesses with an ecommerce store or online services to market themselves nationally.The problem is that many of these business...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 2 years ago:
Nelson
@Nelson -
over 2 years ago
JB Straubel’s Redwood Materials is expanding into the battery materials business
JB Straubel’s Redwood Materials is expanding into the battery materials Materials, the company started by former Tesla co-founder JB Straubel that aims to create a circular supply chain for batteries, is expanding its business. While it has been known primarily as a recy...continued
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Jessika
@Jessika -
over 2 years ago
Intuit confirms $12B deal to buy Mailchimp
Intuit confirms $12B deal to buy afternoon Intuit confirmed persistent rumors that it was in the process of buying Mailchimp, detailing a $12 billion transaction that will bring the well-known email infra company to its corporate remit.Intuit is not a well-known player i...continued
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Meggie
@Meggie -
over 2 years ago
The Station: Apple car shakeup, how Sept. 11 changed travel, and a pledge from airlines
The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox. Hi readers: Welcome to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving…
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Rowan
@Rowan -
over 2 years ago
What Is Zero Trust? It Depends What You Want to Hear
For years a concept known as “zero trust” has been a go-to cybersecurity catchphrase, so much so that even the notoriously dilatory federal IT apparatus is going all in. But a crucial barrier to widespread adoption of this next-generation security model is mass confusion ...continued
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Meggie
@Meggie -
over 2 years ago
NFL's opening weekend produces record betting
10:03 AM ETThe new legal sports betting market in the U.S. just experienced its busiest four-day stretch ever as the NFL season kicked off.GeoComply, a company that provides geolocation services to sportsbooks, tracked 58.2 million online transactions that took place Thur...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 2 years ago:
Manley
@Manley -
over 2 years ago
How a Publishing Executive Spends Her Sundays
“At the beginning of Covid, you could see the evolution of readers’ needs through what was selling,” said Sanyu Dillon, the chief marketing officer for Penguin Random House. It started with a rise in interactive workbooks for children, she said. Later last spring, “baking...continued
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Angus
@Angus -
over 2 years ago
Samsung's larger, stretchier OLED display technology is creepy and cool
Hot on the heels of LG's "Real Folding Window" showcase, Samsung is taking its moment to shine with a new stretchable OLED display demo.At this week's Global Tech Korea 2021, Samsung presented an impressive 13-inch OLED panel that appears to stretch at varying degrees. Th...continued
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Elaina
@Elaina -
over 2 years ago
Data Brokers Know Where You Are—and Want to Sell That Intel
At the end of July, a Catholic priest resigned from the church, after Catholic news site The Pillar outed him by purchasing location data from a data broker on his usage of Grindr. The incident didn’t just illustrate how people can wield Grindr data against members of the...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 2 years ago:
Grayce
@Grayce -
over 2 years ago
Republican Governors Infuriated by Biden's Vaccine Mandates
President Biden’s orders pushing millions of workers to get vaccinated were aimed at turning the tide on a pandemic that has killed 650,000 Americans. But on Friday, the mandates immediately deepened the nation’s political divisions over coronavirus vaccinations and gover...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 2 years ago:
Adelia
@Adelia -
over 2 years ago
5 Creative and Fun Relationship Marketing Ideas to Increase Sales Without Selling
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.Modern digital marketing strategies have created blurred lines between advertising, public relations and sales. Businesses that focus primarily on strictly compartmentalized approaches, hard sales and rigid dat...continued
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over 2 years ago
Abu Dhabi starts marketing two-tranche bonds, document shows - Reuters
A general view of the Abu Dhabi skyline is seen, December 15, 2009. REUTERS/Ahmed JadallahDUBAI, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Abu Dhabi locked in $3 billion on Wednesday with its second bond sale of the year for which it received more than $9.75 billion in orders for two tranches, ...continued
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Meggie
@Meggie -
over 2 years ago
Scalapay raises $155M at a $700M valuation as buy-now, pay-later services continue to boom
Scalapay, a buy-now, pay-later (BNPL) technology provider that has made significant headway with retailers and consumers in Europe and in categories like fashion, has closed a round of funding that it will be using to fuel its expansion ambitions. The startup…
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 2 years ago:
Abbie
@Abbie -
over 2 years ago
Real-time database platform SingleStore raises $80M more, now at a $940M valuation
Organizations are swimming in data these days, and so solutions to help manage and use that data in more efficient ways will continue to see a lot of attention and business. In the latest development, SingleStore — which provides a platform to enterprises to help them int...continued
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Meggie
@Meggie -
over 2 years ago
Speech recognition works for kids, and it’s about time
Speech recognition holds tremendous promise for something desperately needed in the era of COVID-19: technology that can significantly improve reading outcomes and tackle the global literacy crisis in a real and profound way.
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 2 years ago:
Adelia
@Adelia -
over 2 years ago
Performance marketing agency MuteSix bets on content and data to boost DTC e-commerce
Warby Parker filing to IPO last week was one more sign that direct-to-consumer (DTC) is an extremely powerful e-commerce trend. But LA-based performance marketing agency MuteSix didn’t wait that long to build its business around scaling DTC brands.Created in 2014 and acqu...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 2 years ago:
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over 2 years ago
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 2 years ago:
Giles
@Giles -
over 2 years ago
Make accessibility part of your startup’s products and culture from day one
Joe Devon is the co-founder of Diamond, a digital agency that builds accessible experiences. He is also a co-founder of Global Accessibility Awareness Day and chair of the GAAD Foundation. The world of accessibility has experienced a tipping point thanks to the pandemi...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 2 years ago:
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over 2 years ago
TURN $100,000 TO $1Million
3. Calculate the figures The next stage in accumulating $1 million in financial wealth is to perform some calculations utilizing various scenarios. There are three things to consider here: how much you can contribute to your assets on a monthly basis, how long you have to...continued
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Zackery
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over 2 years ago
AON3D closes $11.5M Series A, partners with Astrobotic to send 3D printed parts to the moon
3D printing has garnered a lot of hype, much of it for good reason: the technology has unlocked new kinds of object shapes and geometries, and it uses materials that tend to be much lighter weight than their traditionally manufactured counterparts. But there remain high b...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 2 years ago:
Pablo
@Pablo -
over 2 years ago
McCarthy Threatens Technology Firms That Comply With Riot Inquiry
WASHINGTON — Representative Kevin McCarthy, the House Republican leader, has threatened to retaliate against any company that complies with the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot, after the panel asked dozens of firms to preserve the phone and social me...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 2 years ago:
Liliane
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over 2 years ago
Why picking a good company name is a tricky business
"Few people truly understand how hard it is to find or create a name that is easy to say, easy to spell, has meaning, conveys personality, is protectable, supports a strong domain name, and will be able to grow with the business as its strategy evolves," she says.Source: ...continued
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