Jessika
@Jessika
397 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Jessika
@Jessika -
over 4 years ago
With governments limiting non-essential travel, what's essential travel?
(CNN) — Freedom of movement at the world's longest land border diminished on Wednesday when President Donald Trump announced restrictions on travel between the United States and Canada."We will be, by mutual consent, temporarily closing our Northern Border with Canada to ...continued
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Jessika
@Jessika -
over 4 years ago
Yelp is adding a 'contact-free' delivery option to its apps
In addition, Yelp is committing $25 million to help small restaurants and bars that are struggling financially due to the public's social distancing. The funding will come "primarily" in the form of free advertising, products and services, however, rather than pure cash. ...continued
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Torey
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over 4 years ago
To Combat Sexual Assault, Women Are Resorting to Electric Shock Underwear
Ekaterina Romanovskaya froze. It was a warm and sunny day in late May 2000, and the 25-year-old interpreter had just dropped her 3-year-old daughter off at kindergarten in their hometown of Volograd, a city in southwestern Russia, when a man she had never seen before appe...continued
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Casper
@Casper -
over 4 years ago
Steam Game Festival lets you play indies that would've been at GDC
You'll be able to check out demos of the games. We don't know all the studios taking part just yet, but we'll update this article with some of the featured games when the event starts later today at 1PM ET / 10AM PT. That said, we do know the event will run until March 23...continued
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Jessika
@Jessika -
over 4 years ago
NFL free-agency winners and losers: Why Dak, Kyler and Browns fans are happy
6:00 PM ETThe 2020 NFL free-agent market officially opened Wednesday amid one of the more unusual weeks in league history. With the rest of the sports world shut down this week due to the coronavirus outbreak, all eyes were on the NFL's annual frenzy of player movement. A...continued
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Hannah
@Hannah -
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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Sandrine
@Sandrine -
over 4 years ago
Deepgram raises $12M for enterprise speech recognition
Deepgram, a startup focused on high-quality, real-time speech recognition, announced a $12 million Series A this morning.The startup, founded a half decade ago, according to Crunchbase data, with just a few million in raised capital, is interesting, as its success to date...continued
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Madalyn
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over 4 years ago
5 Surefire Growth Strategies for E-Commerce Entrepreneurs
From Facebook updates to email marketing, supercharge your business with these proven tactics.March 18, 2020 5 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.I dropped out of college to pursue entrepreneurship full-time. My first breakthrough came t...continued
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Joe
@Joe -
over 4 years ago
YouTube warns of increased video removals during COVID-19 crisis
YouTube today warned its creator community that video removals may increase during the COVID-19 pandemic. The company said its systems today rely on a combination of technology followed by human review. But the current health crisis is leading to reduced in-office staffin...continued
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Giles
@Giles -
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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Jaydon
@Jaydon -
over 4 years ago
Uber Eats waives delivery fees for over 100,000 independent restaurants
Uber Eats is also launching daily marketing campaigns to promote delivery from local restaurants, especially those that are new to the app. It will allow restaurants of all sizes to opt into daily payments on all Uber Eats orders, rather than weekly billing, and it has co...continued
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Maureen
@Maureen -
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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Zackery
@Zackery -
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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Allene
@Allene -
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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Jessika
@Jessika -
over 4 years ago
What a shot! 24 amazing sports photos
St. Louis' Sammy Blais, left, checks Chicago's Nick Seeler during an NHL game in Chicago on Sunday, March 8. The NHL suspended its season later in the week, as did many other sports leagues, because of the coronavirus pandemic. Mike Dinovo/USA Today SportsOregon basketbal...continued
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Arvid
@Arvid -
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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Ezequiel
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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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Joe
@Joe -
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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Elaina
@Elaina -
over 4 years ago
How to Convert Someone to Your Cause in 5 Simple Steps
Phillip Stutts discusses the branding and marketing lessons he's learned from working in politics for the past two decades.March 14, 2020 1 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.Phillip Stutts, founder of Go Big Media and Win Big Media and ...continued
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Ericka
@Ericka -
over 4 years ago
Bill Gates leaves Microsoft’s board
Bill Gates has stepped down from the board of Microsoft to spend more time on his philanthropic endeavors, the company announced Friday afternoon. Though he will remain technology advisor to CEO Satya Nadella, this move reduces his involvement with the company to the lowe...continued
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Patrick
@Patrick -
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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Jimmy
@Jimmy -
over 4 years ago
Taipei-based TNL Media Group acquires adtech startup Ad2iction
TNL Media Group, the Taipei-based media and journalism company, announced it has acquired mobile ad technology startup Ad2iction. In addition to digital advertising and data analytics, Ad2iction also operates verticals like Agent Movie, a film site, and its brands will re...continued
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Ericka
@Ericka -
over 4 years ago
The charter jet business is booming
(CNN) — So your flight's canceled, but you need to get home or to that important business meeting ASAP. Perhaps you're just nervous about transiting through a busy airport with other passengers.Most of us are handling coronavirus-related disruption by staying put, but for...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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Pablo
@Pablo -
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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