Meggie
@Meggie
410 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Meggie upvoted the following post about 3 years ago:
Zetta @Zetta - about 3 years ago
Jackson, Mississippi, officials report progress in restoring water after last month's powerful storm
(CNN) After more than two weeks without a drop of water, one Jackson, Mississippi, restaurant is finally back open for business."It has been depressing, coming into work thinking we're going to open again, we get a drip of water, then it's gone," Sal & Mookie's manage...continued
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Joe @Joe - about 3 years ago
Using the Teach-Back Method
CommunicateHealthMar 4 · 2 min readAlt: A doodle with cat head talks to a doctor doodle via video chat. The doctor doodle asks, “Can you tell me the steps to care for your cat head?” The other doodle says, “Sure. First I’ll do the hokey-pokey. Then I’ll turn myself around...continued
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Muriel @Muriel - about 3 years ago
Small business owners react to Texas dropping mask mandate
Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. All times are ET. Disclaimer. Morningstar: Copyright 2018 Morningstar, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Factset: FactSet Research Systems Inc.2018...continued
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Rex @Rex - 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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Alexie @Alexie - about 3 years ago
MoFo launches pro bono accelerator for Black startup founders - Reuters
Black startup founders and entrepreneurs face a long line of hurdles. Between securing funding, building an effective team and marketing products and services, legal costs and requirements can get overlooked.Morrison Foerster hopes to mitigate those challenges with its B...continued
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Jerrold @Jerrold - 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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Geovany @Geovany - about 3 years ago
Amazon’s cashierless tech expands to London with first international store
Amazon has opened its first cashierless store outside of the US with a new Amazon Fresh location in London, UK. The store uses the company’s Just Walk Out technology, which allows customers to pick items off shelves and take them out of the store without having to stop an...continued
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Elaina @Elaina - 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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Grayce @Grayce - 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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Ariel @Ariel - about 3 years ago
Cables could help soft robots transform into harder structures
Cables could help soft robots transform into harder sub-category of soft robotics has transformed the way many think about the field. Oft-influenced by natural phenomenon, the technology offers a dramatically different approach than the sort of rigid structures we tradit...continued
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Marie @Marie - about 3 years ago
Unraveling ThredUp’s IPO filing: Slow growth, but a shifting business model
Another day, another venture-backed IPO filing. Today it’s ThredUp, a used-goods marketplace that is approaching the public markets in the wake of Poshmark’s own strong debut.Both companies have a related market focus, albeit different approaches to selling used goods. Po...continued
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Giovanni @Giovanni - 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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Rex @Rex - 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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Geovany @Geovany - 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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Jarod @Jarod - about 3 years ago
Census raises $16M Series A to help companies put their data warehouses to work
Census, a startup that helps businesses sync their customer data from their data warehouses to their various business tools like Salesforce and Marketo, today announced that it has raised a $16 million Series A round led by Sequoia Capital. Other participants in this roun...continued
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Alexzander @Alexzander - about 3 years ago
Alibaba Cloud turns profitable after 11 years
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, became profitable for the first time in the December quarter, the company announced in its earnings report.The firm’s cloud unit achieved positive adjusted EBITA (earnings before interest, taxes a...continued
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Felicita @Felicita - about 3 years ago
Overhaul Your Site's SEO and Improve Your Google Ranking with This Simplified Tool
Disclosure: Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you'll find interesting and useful. If you purchase them, Entrepreneur may get a small share of the revenue from the sale from our commerce partners.Growing your business online is crucial, but it can ...continued
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Torey @Torey - about 3 years ago
This gadget uses NASA-inspired technology to banish bad smells
Products featured here are selected by our partners at StackCommerce.If you buy something through links on our site, Mashable may earn an affiliate commission.TL;DR: Get rid of stinky smells for good with the VentiFresh ECO: Next Generation Odor Eliminator, on sale for $4...continued
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Kraig @Kraig - 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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Americo @Americo - 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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Marlon @Marlon - about 3 years ago
Miami edtech startup Nearpod acquired by Renaissance
Nearpod, the Miami-based edtech company, is being acquired by Renaissance Holding Corp., a group that develops education technology. While the deal hasn’t closed yet, Todd Brekhus, Chief Product Officer at Renaissance said in an interview this afternoon, “We have a defini...continued
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Rowan @Rowan - 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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Ericka @Ericka - 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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Devin @Devin - 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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Oren @Oren - about 3 years ago
AT&T Sells Minority Stake in Its Struggling DirecTV Business
It appears AT has found a buyer for its beleaguered DirecTV business.AT announced today that it will establish a new company with private equity firm TPG called New DirecTV that will oversee AT’s video business DirecTV, U-verse, and AT TV, the latter of which recently abs...continued
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