Garnet
@Garnet
407 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Garnet upvoted the following post almost 3 years ago:
Bobby
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almost 3 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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Garnet upvoted the following post almost 3 years ago:
Gregoria
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almost 3 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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Garnet upvoted the following post almost 3 years ago:
Felicita
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almost 3 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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Garnet upvoted the following post almost 3 years ago:
Zetta
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almost 3 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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Garnet upvoted the following post almost 3 years ago:
Ericka
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almost 3 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
@Garnet -
almost 3 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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almost 3 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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Garnet upvoted the following post almost 3 years ago:
Joe
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almost 3 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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Jaydon
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almost 3 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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almost 3 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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Garnet upvoted the following post almost 3 years ago:
Nestor
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almost 3 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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Garnet upvoted the following post almost 3 years ago:
Ezequiel
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almost 3 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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Garnet upvoted the following post almost 3 years ago:
Jarod
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almost 3 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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Garnet upvoted the following post almost 3 years ago:
Allene
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almost 3 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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Garnet upvoted the following post almost 3 years ago:
Mariano
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almost 3 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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Garnet upvoted the following post almost 3 years ago:
Assunta
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almost 3 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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Garnet upvoted the following post almost 3 years ago:
Elaina
@Elaina -
almost 3 years ago
Dan Olsen leads a product-market fit masterclass for the Startup Alley+ cohort
Dan Olsen leads a product-market fit masterclass for the Startup Alley+ Virginia, there are advantages to exhibiting in (the sold-out) Startup Alley at TC Disrupt 2021. Out of all the early-stage startups ready to exhibit on September 21-23, Team TechCrunch hand-picked 5...continued
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Garnet upvoted the following post almost 3 years ago:
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Jany
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almost 3 years ago
Sweden's Klarna buys influencer marketing platform APPRL - Reuters
A smartphone displays a Klarna logo in this illustration taken January 6, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File PhotoSTOCKHOLM, July 27 (Reuters) - Swedish payments firm Klarna said on Tuesday it had acquired influencer marketing software firm APPRL as it looked to t...continued
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Garnet upvoted the following post almost 3 years ago:
Nelson
@Nelson -
almost 3 years ago
Element, a messaging app built on the decentralized Matrix protocol, raises $30M
After Element acquired Gitter last year to bring in more users and features into its own decentralized, Matrix-based messaging app, the startup is announcing some funding to invest in its growth.Element has picked up $30 million in a Series B round of funding. Some of the...continued
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Garnet upvoted the following post almost 3 years ago:
Jany
@Jany -
almost 3 years ago
Are Bone Conduction Headphones Worth the Hype?
Would you try a pair of headphones that rests on your cheekbones and sends audio to your ears through your bones? This is possible through a technology called “bone conduction,” and it’s most used in consumer headphones. These products aren’t too expensive and may be a go...continued
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Garnet upvoted the following post almost 3 years ago:
Kari
@Kari -
almost 3 years ago
Tesla’s solar and energy storage business rakes in $810M, finally exceeds cost of revenue
Tesla’s primary source of revenue comes from the sale of its electric vehicles, but its latest quarterly earnings report showed growth in its energy storage and solar business.The demand picture will get even sunnier for the division if the company can access enough chips...continued
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Garnet upvoted the following post about 3 years ago:
Giovanni
@Giovanni -
about 3 years ago
How to Make Your Business Stand Out From the Noise
Free Book Preview: Brand Renegades Discover how two entrepreneurs used unconventional business strategies to turn their startup into a multimillion-dollar 2021 2 min Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you'll find inte...continued
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Garnet upvoted the following post about 3 years ago:
Sandrine
@Sandrine -
about 3 years ago
Pegasus: the spyware technology that threatens democracy - video
Pegasus spyware is capable of bypassing your phone's security and gaining complete access to your device – including emails, messages, GPS location, photos, video and your phone's microphone. A Guardian investigation can now reveal widespread abuse of the Pegasus technolo...continued
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Garnet
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about 3 years ago
Olympics Tennis-Five to watch at the Tokyo Olympics - Reuters
Olympics Tennis-Five to watch at the Tokyo Olympics Reuters/cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuters/SCF4W4JX3RMQDOQ2M4UOH57DBE.jpg)
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Garnet upvoted the following post about 3 years ago:
Elaina
@Elaina -
about 3 years ago
I Launched a PR Agency Even Though I'd Never Wanted to Start a Business
July 22, 2021 7 min Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their a teenager, I tried everything: community theater, basketball, cross-country skiing, social work, hours and hours of piano lessons, Aikido, horseback riding. Thi...continued
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