Garnet
@Garnet
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Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Garnet
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over 2 years ago
Hong Kong's Lam tells solicitors' group to stay out of politics - Reuters
Hong Kong's government may cut ties with one of the city's key legal profession associations if it gets involved in politics, leader Carrie Lam said on Tuesday in her latest warning to civil society groups./cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuters/EK6PMWZN6VIL7OPUQBFJ5RDWJY.jpg)
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Garnet
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over 2 years ago
New EU marketing rules — implications for fund managers - Reuters
On 2 August 2021, the EU's cross-border distribution of funds rules (Directive (EU) 2019/1160) amending the EU's Alternative Investment Fund Manager's Directive ("AIFMD") and Regulation (EU) 2019/1156) came into effect./cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuters/RYDD7D6KTZBOVDW26ZW4DQ2BXM.JPG)
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over 2 years ago
Bucs waive ex-Navy DB given special exemption
4:03 PM ETTAMPA, Fla. -- The Tampa Bay Buccaneers waived three players Sunday following their preseason-opening loss to the Cincinnati Bengals, including former Navy cornerback Cameron Kinley, who was given a special exemption by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to delay hi...continued
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Roger
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over 2 years ago
Jury decides Apple should pay $300 million in patent dispute
Apple must pay $300 million in royalties following a retrial in a patent dispute, a Texas jury determined Friday. As reported by Reuters, the jury found that Apple should pay patent company Optis Wireless Technology and its related companies because the technology Apple u...continued
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Meggie
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over 2 years ago
Silicon Valley should fight its stigma against military work
Dr. Phil Wagner is the founder and CEO of Sparta Science. After receiving his medical degree from USC, he was frustrated by the lack of evidence-based approaches to performance and injury prevention within sports, the military and occupational health, inspiring him to cre...continued
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Hulda
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over 2 years ago
How one founder bucked the data-driven trend and created a startup based on inspiration
How one founder bucked the data-driven trend and created a startup based on Oleg Stavitsky and his co-founders started Endel, they didn’t necessarily expect for it to become a venture-backed business with the likes of Amazon’s Alexa Fund as investors. Stavitsky and his f...continued
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Marie
@Marie -
over 2 years ago
Building a growth community in India with Ayush Srivastava of Growth Folks
Indian startups of all sizes are raising record amounts of investment funding this year and getting public exits, as we’ve been covering in recent months. To hear more about the growth behind the numbers we caught up with Ayush Srivastava, a co-founder of growth marketing...continued
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over 2 years ago
Growth roundup: Storytelling for startups, early-stage influencers, retail media spend
“I like to think of successful brand-building as creating a company that customers would be upset to separate from their identity,” growth marketing expert Julian Shapiro told us earlier this week. “For example, they’d cease to be the man with Slack stickers all over his ...continued
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over 2 years ago
Poshmark says Apple ad tracking changes hit marketing - Reuters
A screen displays the company logo for Poshmark Inc. during the company's IPO at the Nasdaq Market Site in Times Square in New York City, U.S., January 14, 2021. REUTERS/Brendan McDermidAug 10 (Reuters) - Second-hand retailer Poshmark Inc (POSH.O) on Tuesday forecast thir...continued
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over 2 years ago
GM is adding to two new zero-emission commercial vehicles to its lineup
GM is adding two new zero-emission commercial vehicles to its Motors said Wednesday it is adding two new zero-emissions vehicles to its commercial portfolio as it looks to expand its first-to-last-mile business arm, BrightDrop.The first vehicle will be a battery electric...continued
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over 2 years ago
Daily Crunch: Bangalore-based UpGrad becomes India’s newest unicorn with $185M funding round
Daily Crunch: Bangalore-based UpGrad becomes India’s newest unicorn with $185M funding 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 August 9, 2021. W...continued
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over 2 years ago
Microsoft in talks to back India’s Oyo
Indian budget hotel chain Oyo may have lost a significant portion of its business to the pandemic, but it is inching closer to finding a new investor: Microsoft.Microsoft is in advanced stages of talks to invest in Oyo, valuing the Indian startup at about $9 billion, acco...continued
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over 2 years ago
Pizza Hut Will Use AI... to Recommend What Pizza to Get... Based on... the Weather
Pizza Hut has posited a strange question: What weather is pizza weather? Perhaps it’s a riddle. Or perhaps a machine-learning salesman in a brimmed straw hat waltzed into a Pizza Hut marketing meeting with a whistle and a tune:Pizza when it’s fairPizza in a squallPizza pi...continued
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Ericka
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over 2 years ago
The Station: An ADAS business bidding war, the gig worker fight heats up and Biden’s executive order
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.Hello readers: Welcome to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and...continued
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Garnet
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over 2 years ago
The cost of Velodyne’s internal drama is starting to add up
Velodyne Lidar, the sensor company that went public a year ago when it merged with special purpose acquisition company Graf Industrial Corp., reported its second quarter earnings Thursday, results that show a company spending more to find new customers for it…
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Alexzander
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over 2 years ago
Mexico sues US gun manufacturers over arms trafficking
According to a Mexican government statement, criminal organisations buy thousands of pistols, rifles, assault weapons and ammunition in supermarkets, on the internet and at arms fairs in the US which are then used to commit crimes in Mexico.Source: BBC NewsPowered by News...continued
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over 2 years ago
ByteDance rival Kuaishou is shutting down controversial app Zynn
ByteDance rival Kuaishou is shutting down controversial app Technology, a Chinese firm perceived as a ByteDance rival by many, said on Wednesday it will shut down its controversial short video app Zynn later this month. The app was only available in the U.S.The firm, whi...continued
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over 2 years ago
All-electric 2022 Audi e-tron GT and RS e-tron GT provide a pop of tech in understated packaging
Luxury, technology and a whole lot of flash often go hand in hand. In the age of space-faring billionaires, we all expect the latest wiz-bang gadget to look like something from the future, right?Not in Audi’s view. The 2022 Audi e-tron GT and RS e-tron GT are a pair of al...continued
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Marlon
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over 2 years ago
Argo AI can now offer the public rides in its autonomous vehicles in California
Argo AI, the autonomous vehicle technology startup backed by Ford and VW, has landed a permit in California that will allow the company to give people free rides in its self-driving vehicles on the state’s public roads.The California Public Utilities Commission issued the...continued
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Nestor
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over 2 years ago
Class, a Zoom-only virtual classroom, nears unicorn status after SoftBank check
Class, a virtual classroom that integrates exclusively with Zoom, announced today that it has raised $105 million in a financing led by SoftBank Vision Fund II. The 10-month-old startup has now raised a total of $146 million in known venture funding to date, which eclipse...continued
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Ezequiel
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over 2 years ago
He Hired 2 Men to Kidnap His Wife. They Ended Up Drowning.
Schanda Handley was at home with her daughter and a neighbor when two men showed up at the door, dressed in what looked like blue uniforms from an appliance store.They had a carpet steamer and asked Ms. Handley if they could demonstrate it for her. When she said no, the m...continued
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Jarod
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over 2 years ago
Summit invests $215M into Odoo, an open source business management software developer, at a $2.3B...
Open source has become a major force in the world of IT, and today a startup that has built a profitable operation by developing business management software on the principle is announcing a sizable secondary investment on the back of that growth.Odoo — a Belgium-based pr...continued
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Allene
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over 2 years ago
CEO Secrets: The son who hired his father and sister
In 2019, the agency generated sales of over £500,000, more than double its previous year. In 2020 turnover dropped to £350,000 with the impact of the pandemic, but 3 Heads say they are on track to hit £1m in sales this year.Source: BBC NewsPowered by NewsAPI.org
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Mariano
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over 2 years ago
BioNTech founder Uğur Şahin and Mayfield’s Ursheet Parikh are coming to Disrupt
BioNTech founder Uğur Şahin and Mayfield’s Ursheet Parikh are coming to hard to argue that any technology company has had a greater impact in the past decade than BioNTech, the mRNA-based therapeutics pioneer behind the world’s most widely-used COVID-19 vaccine. Develope...continued
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over 2 years ago
ConverseNow is targeting restaurant drive-thrus with new $15M round
One year after voice-based AI technology company ConverseNow raised a $3.3 million seed round, the company is back with a cash infusion of $15 million in Series A funding in a round led by Craft Ventures.The Austin-based company’s AI voice ordering assistants George and B...continued
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