George
@George
471 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
George upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
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over 4 years ago
The Problem With Trump's Triage Testing
Triage entered the lexicon of the coronavirus era last Friday, when President Donald Trump claimed that Google is working on a tool to determine who's eligible for testing. In this case, only people who display serious symptoms will be able to get a test for the novel cor...continued
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over 4 years ago
CVS sent false coronavirus information to staff
CVS mistakenly sent false information to its staff about how to combat the coronavirus, a spokesperson for the company confirmed to CNN Business on Tuesday.The email, sent Monday by CVS Chief Medical Officer Troy Brennan, falsely suggested that the virus could be killed b...continued
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over 4 years ago
County deems Tesla a ‘non-essential’ business during shelter-in-place order
Tesla is not an essential business according to the Alameda County Sheriff, a declaration that could force the automaker to shutter some of its operations in the county under a shelter in-place directive that was ordered because of the global spread of COVID-19, a disease...continued
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over 4 years ago
Business banking fintech Penta raises another €18.5M
Penta, the Berlin-based business banking challenger that also now operates in Italy, has raised €18.5 million, described as the first closing of a new funding round.Leading the round is new investor RTP Global and existing investor HV Holtzbrinck Ventures. Also participat...continued
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over 4 years ago
DoorDash will temporarily reduce or waive its commission fees
DoorDash will also allow over 100,000 independent restaurants to join its subscription program for free, while existing partners will have their commission fees reduced. DashPass lets diners pay $10 a month to have delivery fees waived on orders over $15. In today's world...continued
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over 4 years ago
Postmates reveals plans to cover medical costs for couriers as part of COVID-19 response
Postmates said that it will be creating a fund to cover the costs for doctor appointments and medical expenses related to the COVID-19 outbreak for its delivery fleet, and, for merchants, Postmates will waive commission fees for stores in impacted markets.The goal, the co...continued
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over 4 years ago
How to Launch Your Own Data-Driven Email Marketing Campaigns
Marketers can take advantage of data to build effective email marketing campaigns tailored to their target audience.Studying and tracking data over time reveals what does and doesn’t work. And marketers can use a/b testing to rectify mistakes, overcome issues, and achieve...continued
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over 4 years ago
Oyo layoffs, Airbnb’s delayed IPO and the long-term quandary of investing in travel startups
It’s the best and worst of times for travel startups.Massive growth over the past few decades has made tourism one of the big global industries, covering everything from recreation to business conferences to shopping sprees.But doubts about the future of the industry are ...continued
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Sandrine
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over 4 years ago
Alphabet’s Verily launches its California COVID-19 test screening site in a limited pilot
Alphabet -owned health technology company Verily has launched the COVID-19 screening site that was first misrepresented by President Trump as a broadly focused coronavirus web-based screening and testing utility developed by Google. After a flurry of blog posts by Google ...continued
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over 4 years ago
Paramount delays the release of A Quiet Place Part II indefinitely due to coronavirus fears
Paramount is delaying the release of A Quiet Place Part II indefinitely due to concerns over the spread of the novel coronavirus. The film follows other major film delays, including the upcoming James Bond thriller No Time To Die (delayed to November) and Peter Rabbit 2: ...continued
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Garnet
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over 4 years ago
Chargify acquires Keen to bring event-based billing to its platform
Chargify, the subscription billing platform, announced today that it has acquired event streaming company, Keen for an undisclosed amount. One interesting aspect of this deal is that both companies are part of the Scaleworks private equity firm’s stable of companies.Keen ...continued
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over 4 years ago
AI is An Ideology, Not A Technology
A leading anxiety in both the technology and foreign policy worlds today is China’s purported edge in the artificial intelligence race. The usual narrative goes like this: Without the constraints on data collection that liberal democracies impose and with the capacity to ...continued
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over 4 years ago
Cobalt.io pentesting service brings wizard-like setup to platform
Cobalt.io wants to change the way companies purchase and pay for pentesting services, which test an application for vulnerabilities before it goes live. Today, the company announced a number of enhancements to the platform.Jacob Hansen, CEO and co-founder at Cobalt, says ...continued
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over 4 years ago
The good SaaS times will end and challenges are coming
We’ve had a great decade-long run in SaaS — abundant capital, a thriving economy and a massive existing market shift from on-premise to cloud.But the good times will end and challenges are coming.I’m not predicting when it will happen — maybe it’s the spread of COVID-19, ...continued
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over 4 years ago
4 Ways Marketing Automation and Personalization Can Work Together
We accept automation in our personal lives. So why are we so afraid of using it to optimize our companies?March 14, 2020 4 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.Automation makes 21st century life possible. Siri and Alexa help us schedule ou...continued
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over 4 years ago
Bill Gates steps down from Microsoft board
Bill Gates, co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft, is stepping down from the board of the company. Gates previously served as CEO of Microsoft until 2000 when he stepped down from the position in order to spend more time on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In 2008,...continued
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over 4 years ago
Stonly grabs $3.5 million to make customer support more interactive
Stonly is building a service for customer support teams so that they can share step-by-step guides to solve the most common issues users have. The startup just raised a $3.5 million funding round led by Accel with business angels also participating, such as Eventbrite CTO...continued
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Alexie
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over 4 years ago
Assembled raises $3.1M led by Stripe to build ‘the operating system for support teams’
CRM software accounts for one-quarter of all enterprise IT spend. But ironically, while a lot of money is spent on platforms like Salesforce or SAP to manage incoming calls and outgoing marketing and sales activity, not a lot of attention is given to the issue of how to h...continued
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Emmie
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over 4 years ago
TechCrunch Events and coronavirus
We here at TechCrunch are watching the novel coronavirus situation closely, as most of you likely are.In addition to our editorial coverage of the effects of the novel coronavirus on the business of entrepreneurship — and the ways that technology can help — we have a numb...continued
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Ismael
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over 4 years ago
Quibi accused of patent infringement for its 'Turnstyle' video feature
The tech in question allows Quibi to play different videos depending on whether the viewer is holding their phone horizontally or vertically, and it's central to Quibi's offering. Eko's lawyers sent Quibi a letter demanding that it stop using the technology or license it....continued
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over 4 years ago
Amazon Will Sell Its Cashless Go Technology to Brick-and-Mortar Retailers
Photo : GettyAmazon and its intrepid CEO, Jeff Bezos, haven’t made any secret of their push to dominate other industries. Space travel? Sure! Healthcare? Why not? Real estate? I... guess?Now, it looks like the trillion-dollar company is setting its sights on courting a ne...continued
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Pablo
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over 4 years ago
Amazon offers no-checkout technology to other retailers
Amazon has made a splash in recent years with Amazon Go, a series of convenience stores—and more recently a full-fledged grocery store—in Seattle, New York, Chicago, and San Francisco. Now the company is offering to license the technology to other retailers.A new website ...continued
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George
@George -
over 4 years ago
Robinhood’s third outage may point to deeper problems in its tech stack
After suffering its third outage in two weeks, Robinhood’s founders may need to take a deeper dive into the technology stack that powers their business.That’s because the outage the mobile asset-trading platform experienced yesterday was unrelated to previous issues that ...continued
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Ericka
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over 4 years ago
The tech boss who lost more than a billion
Image copyright Miguel Soltero Image caption Andrew Rickman today runs Rockley Photonics, which specialises in designing and producing next-generation, optical computer chipsThe BBC's weekly The Boss series profiles different business leaders from around the world. This w...continued
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Moises
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over 4 years ago
This $30 training will turn you into an in-demand digital marketer
Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.TL;DR: Learn how to promote your own brand with the Dynamic Digital Marketing Manager bundle for just $29.99, a 97% savings as of March 9.As with most things in the moder...continued
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