Garnet
@Garnet
330 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Garnet
@Garnet -
almost 3 years ago
Finance Capitalism vs Industrial Capitalism: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Are Destroy...
Yves here. Michael Hudson explains how the Covid-19 rescue programs are further entrenching the position of rentiers. He also takes up the the theme of financial versus industrial capitalism, which was the central theme of his important paper From Marx to Goldman Sachs.Pr...continued
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Jessika
@Jessika -
almost 3 years ago
Thuan Pham, who fled Vietnam as a child and became Uber’s CTO in 2013, is leaving the company
Thuan Pham, who fled Vietnam as a child and became Uber’s CTO in 2013, is leaving the companyThuan Pham, hired as Uber’s chief technology officer by former CEO Travis Kalanick back in 2013, is leaving the company in three weeks, the ride-share giant revealed today in an S...continued
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Marlon
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almost 3 years ago
As Uber reportedly contemplates layoffs, a look back at its post-IPO financial performance
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.Yesterday news broke that Uber’s CTO Thuan Pham would leave the company (confirmed), and that the American technology giant is contemplating a huge staffi...continued
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Colin
@Colin -
almost 3 years ago
Puppet names former Cloud Foundry Foundation executive director Abbey Kearns as CTO
Puppet, the Portland-based infrastructure automation company, today announced that it has named former Cloud Foundry Foundation executive director Abby Kearns as its new CTO.Current Puppet CTO Deepak Giridharagopal will remain in his role and focus on R&D and leading ...continued
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Rex
@Rex -
almost 3 years ago
Velo3D, a supplier of 3D printers to SpaceX, raises $28 million
Despite fundraising in the middle of a worldwide pandemic that has managed to shut down a significant chunk of global manufacturing, the developer of a metal composite 3D printing technology, Velo3D, has managed to raise $28 million in funding.Over the past fifteen months...continued
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deyner1984
@deyner1984 -
almost 3 years ago
Life in embargoed countries: the Cuban case.
Do you know how is to live in an embargoed country? Inventiveness and creative minds shake hands trying to help people to survive.Let´s check the latest article at Coil explaining the Cuban case!!#Cuba #creativeminds #embargoSource: https://cli.re/yZeQRk
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Cyril
@Cyril -
almost 3 years ago
There’s a reason Trader Joe’s won’t let you order groceries for pickup or delivery
Photo : Alexi Rosenfeld ( Getty Images )As both a crowd control measure and a safety precaution for essential employees, many grocery stores have begun offering grocery pickup and/or delivery during nationwide stay-at-home orders. Online ordering forms make it simple to s...continued
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Zetta
@Zetta -
almost 3 years ago
Apple and Google Are Teaming Up to Build Coronavirus-Tracking Tech. Hold Your Applause.
Image : GettyAs the global coronavirus pandemic continues to spread and testing remains criminally limited, Apple and Google have announced a partnership to roll out contact-tracing technology to track the spread of covid-19. And Apple is promising that privacy is baked i...continued
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Bart
@Bart -
almost 3 years ago
Cleo Capital’s Sarah Kunst launches a fellowship for laid-off workers
Sarah Kunst graduated from college in 2008 and went straight into the luxury marketing world with a job at Chanel.Then, the stock market collapsed and Kunst was laid off. It was that layoff, Kunst says, that brought her to the world of startups and eventually to founding ...continued
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Abbie
@Abbie -
almost 3 years ago
This Office Noise Simulator Makes Working From Home Less Soul-Crushingly Lonely
Screenshot : Alice BradleyThe cutely designed microsite Reichenbergerstr 121 simulates office noise— handy if you’re working from home and you miss the sounds of working in an office, or coffee shop, or anywhere where other humans work alongside you.AdvertisementPrimary-c...continued
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Alexandro
@Alexandro -
almost 3 years ago
NASA Is Using Red and Blue 3D Glasses to Safely Drive the Mars Rover While Working From Home
Photo : Andrew Liszewski ( Gizmodo ) , NASAThe next time you complain about having to put on a clean shirt for a video call, consider the challenges others have to deal with while working from home. Without access to their powerful NASA computers, the team responsible for...continued
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Sandrine
@Sandrine -
almost 3 years ago
Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 105 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements
Apple today released a new update for Safari Technology Preview, the experimental browser Apple first introduced four years ago in March 2016. Apple designed the Safari Technology Preview to test features that may be introduced into future release versions of Safari.Safar...continued
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Nelson
@Nelson -
almost 3 years ago
The 10 Biggest Graphic Design Mistakes You Can Make in Your Marketing Pieces
April 15, 2020 5 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.The following excerpt is from Robert W. Bly’s The Content Marketing Handbook. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes & NobleDesign plays an important role in the success of your content. L...continued
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Jerrold
@Jerrold -
almost 3 years ago
5 Startup Marketing Ideas That Actually Work
Are you new to the startup game, and even newer to the content marketing game? With all the work that goes into starting a business, there's little time to think about marketing strategies that prove successful and are feasible for a startup's teams to execute.If you find...continued
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Marjory
@Marjory -
almost 3 years ago
Virgin Orbit announces new plans for first Asian spaceport in Oita, Japan
Virgin Orbit may be focusing its production efforts right now on making ventilators to support healthcare workers battling COVID-19, but it’s also still making moves to build out the infrastructure that will underpin its small satellite launch business. To that end, the n...continued
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Wilmer
@Wilmer -
almost 3 years ago
Fascinating Discovery Suggests Neanderthals Invented String
The Neanderthal cord fragment. Image : C2RMFScientists working in the south of France have discovered a small Neanderthal cord fragment dating back to over 41,000 years ago. It’s now the oldest evidence of fiber technology in the archaeological record, and further testame...continued
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Maureen
@Maureen -
almost 3 years ago
See Dr. Birx's reaction to Trump's dangerous suggestion
President Trump asked William Bryan, head of science and technology for DHS, to study UV light and dangerously injecting disinfectant to treat coronavirus. Medical experts agree that sunlight and disinfectant are not safe human treatments for coronavirus.Source: CNNPowere...continued
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Cyril
@Cyril -
almost 3 years ago
Thank You, Small Business
April 24, 2020 3 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.It is hard to believe that six weeks ago we were all living life as we previously knew it and making plans for the life we thought was ahead.It has been an exhausting six weeks. It has ...continued
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Zetta
@Zetta -
almost 3 years ago
Replacing plastic with plant pulp for sustainable packaging attracts a billionaire backer
In a small suburb of Melbourne, two entrepreneurs are developing a technology that could mean big changes for the packaging industry.Stuart Gordon and Mark Appleford are the co-founders of Varden, a company that has developed a process to take the waste material from suga...continued
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Devin
@Devin -
almost 3 years ago
Coronavirus could push consumers away from influencers and toward streaming TV
As the nation struggles with a pandemic and economic uncertainty, fundamental shifts in consumer habits are leading marketers to rethink existing strategies and budgets allocated to influencers and streaming TV.These significant shifts are nothing new; just as the dot-com...continued
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Izaiah
@Izaiah -
almost 3 years ago
HealthJoy launches its revamped employee benefits assistance platform
HealthJoy, a platform that helps employees get the most use out of their benefits, launched its revamped user interface and technology stack today. The startup told TechCrunch that usage has doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic. While the new platform, called HealthJoy 2....continued
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Myles
@Myles -
almost 3 years ago
The Mandalorian’s stunning set and technology get explored in first trailer for Disney Plus docus...
The Mandalorian’s second season is still a few months away, but a new trailer for Disney Plus’ eight-part documentary series on the making of season 1 promises to fill the gap.Each episode of the Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian will focus on a different aspect of the show...continued
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Devin
@Devin -
almost 3 years ago
Apple and Google will release COVID-19 contact-tracing tools next week
Apple and Google’s COVID-19 contact tracking technology will be released to developers on April 28th, weeks before the companies initially said it would arrive. Tim Cook revealed the information to European commissioner Thierry Breton after the two met by video conference...continued
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Rose
@Rose -
almost 3 years ago
Magic Leap reportedly laying off 1,000 employees and dropping consumer business
Mixed reality company Magic Leap is reportedly laying off around 1,000 employees and abandoning its focus on consumer headsets. Bloomberg reported the news earlier today, citing anonymous sources, and Magic Leap confirmed an unstated number of layoffs were happening on it...continued
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Leda
@Leda -
almost 3 years ago
UK’s BBI puts $12M into Startup Funding Club for early stage startups
SFC (formerly known as Startup Funding Club – a UK a seed stage investor – has received £10 million from British Business Investments (the commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank), to deploy a total of £40 million across more than 100 early-stage startups in th...continued
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