Ericka
@Ericka
421 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Ericka upvoted the following post about 3 years ago:
Cynthia
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about 3 years ago
Google Calendar can show how much of your time is taken up by meetings
Most of us have had meetings that simply could have been an email. Google Calendar will soon provide insights on how you spend your work day, including how long you spend in meetings, so you can find out just how much time you could be saving if your bosses sent memos ins...continued
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Ericka upvoted the following post about 3 years ago:
Gregoria
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about 3 years ago
Eight Sleep raises $86M as its smart mattress and ‘sleep fitness’ technology approach $500M valua...
The venture world is — quite literally — waking up to the potential of applying artificial intelligence to a wider variety of real-world, consumer-driven problems, and today comes the latest development on that front: Eight Sleep, which makes “smart” mattresses and mattre...continued
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Ericka upvoted the following post about 3 years ago:
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about 3 years ago
Forbes jumps into hot media liquidity summer with a SPAC combo
Forbes jumps into hot media liquidity summer with a SPAC a busy week in the world of media liquidity.That’s a sentence you don’t get to write often. Regardless, news broke this week that Axel Springer is buying U.S. political journalism outfit POLITICO. The transaction w...continued
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Ericka upvoted the following post about 3 years ago:
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about 3 years ago
Europe’s quick-commerce startups are overhyped: Lessons from China
Alexander than 10 companies currently compete across Europe with an instant grocery delivery business model. Half of them were established in 2020, the year of the pandemic. These companies have raised more than $2 billion to date.Existing and well-funded online food-del...continued
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Ericka upvoted the following post about 3 years ago:
Bart
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about 3 years ago
Atheneum nabs $150M to build out its “research as a service” platform for virtual surveys and int...
Data is the new oil, as the saying goes, and today a startup that is helping companies mine for it is announcing a major funding round to expand its business on the back of strong growth.Atheneum, which provides a platform for companies to conduct and analyze research sou...continued
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Ericka upvoted the following post about 3 years ago:
Devin
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about 3 years ago
Fika Ventures nearly triples its assets under management: “It’s definitely a crazy time”
Fika Ventures is a five-year-old, LA-based seed-stage fund that has been funding mostly business-to-business startups, as well as fintech companies and a sprinkling of healthcare IT startups — as long as they don’t involve hardware or FDA approval.The firm’s investors app...continued
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Ericka upvoted the following post about 3 years ago:
Devin
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about 3 years ago
A New Chip Cluster Will Make Massive AI Models Possible
When it comes to the neural networks that power today’s artificial intelligence, sometimes the bigger they are, the smarter they are too. Recent leaps in machine understanding of language, for example, have hinged on building some of the most enormous AI models ever and s...continued
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Ericka upvoted the following post about 3 years ago:
Pablo
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about 3 years ago
ForgeRock files for IPO as identity and access management business grows
ForgeRock filed its form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this morning as the identity management provider takes the next step toward its IPO.The company did not provide initial pricing for its shares, which will trade on the New York Stock Exchange u...continued
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Ericka upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Cynthia
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over 3 years ago
Plentific cements $100M to expand its property management SaaS
London based Plentific, which operates a marketplace SaaS platform targeting the property management space, has closed a $100 million Series C. The funding round is led by new investors Highland Europe and Brookfield Technology Partners — the VC arm of the eponymous real ...continued
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Ericka upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Angus
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over 3 years ago
Givz raises $3M in seed funding to make donations a marketing tool for businesses
Givz, which has developed an API-powered platform that gives brands a way to convert discounts into donations, has raised $3 million in seed funding.Eniac and Accomplice co-led the financing for the New York-based startup. Additional investors include Supernode Ventures, ...continued
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Ericka upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Nestor
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over 3 years ago
A 5-Step Business Approach to Dating
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.In business, we typically create an ideal client avatar as part of our company’s marketing strategy. The avatar helps everyone in the company know the types of people ideally suited to the company’s products or...continued
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Ericka
@Ericka -
over 3 years ago
Whose Authority? | History Today
How did the idea of a European secular society come about? In this startlingly original book, David Lloyd Dusenbury argues that the separation of politics and religion, of ‘church and state’, can be attributed to a thread of Christian thought rooted in the Gospel accounts...continued
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Ericka upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Monserrat
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over 3 years ago
Chinese insurance stocks tumble as Beijing targets the industry with tougher regulations
China Banking Regulatory Commission in Beijing.Thomson ReutersChinese insurance stocks fell on Thursday after Beijing moved to rein in the industry.Insurers were instructed to curb unethical marketing and pricing practices, and protect user privacy.Failure to comply would...continued
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Ericka upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Maureen
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over 3 years ago
How Personal Values Will Shape the Future of Marketing
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.Stewards, champions, advocates and builders. These are some of the new archetypes marketers are embodying. We’re doing far more than sales, promotion and brand building. We’re driving innovation, bolstering cap...continued
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Ericka upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Torey
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over 3 years ago
Insight Partners leads $30M round into Metabase, developing enterprise business intelligence tools
Insight Partners leads $30M round into Metabase, developing enterprise business intelligence business intelligence company Metabase announced Thursday a $30 million Series B round led by Insight Partners.Existing investors Expa and NEA joined in on the round, which gives...continued
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Ericka
@Ericka -
over 3 years ago
The plight of women helped justify war in Afghanistan. Now they have been abandoned | Samira Shackle
Female doctors, journalists, police officers and politicians face acute danger from the TalibanIt was one of the worst phone calls I’ve ever received: a friend in Kabul calling on Sunday afternoon to say that armed men had just visited her house. Her voice wa…
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Ericka upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Meggie
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over 3 years ago
Business Updates: Facebook Calls for ‘Fair Shot’ in Crypto Payments
Daily Business BriefingAug. 18, 2021Updated Aug. 19, 2021, 12:41 p.m. ETAug. 19, 2021, 12:41 p.m. ETVlad Tenev, right, and Baiju Bhatt, Robinhood’s founders, in New York last month.Credit...Sasha Maslov for The New York TimesSAN FRANCISCO — Robinhood, the stock trading ap...continued
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Ericka upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Cameron
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over 3 years ago
Business Updates: Stocks Fall as Investors Sense End of Stimulus
Daily Business BriefingAug. 19, 2021Updated Aug. 20, 2021, 11:28 a.m. ETAug. 20, 2021, 11:28 a.m. ETAlan Jackson at the 56th Academy of Country Music Awards in April. The academy’s leader said teaming up with Amazon would allow “fans to discover and stream music as they w...continued
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Ericka
@Ericka -
over 3 years ago
Crypto fashion, glacier collapse and turtles: Thursday’s best photos
The Guardian’s picture editors select photo highlights from around the world Continue reading...
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Ericka upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Abdelaziz benzini
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over 3 years ago
Soundcore by Anker Life P2 Mini True Wireless
Special offers are waiting for youoriginal product 100 /100Soundcore by Anker Life P2 Mini True Wireless Earbuds, 10mm Drivers with Big Bass, Custom EQ, Bluetooth 5.2, 32H PlaytimeFREE SHIPPINGBuy new Bluetooth headphones New offer Sale from 50% Welcome to you one day I...continued
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Ericka
@Ericka -
over 3 years ago
Bear down: OT Jenkins to have back surgery
10:28 AM ETChicago Bears rookie offensive tackle Teven Jenkins will undergo back surgery on Wednesday, coach Matt Nagy announced.Nagy said he hopes Jenkins, whom the Bears traded up to draft 39th overall in the second round, will be able to return this season."It's a comm...continued
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Ericka upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Rahsaan
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over 3 years ago
A Mirrored Mecca for K-Pop Dancers in Paris
PARIS — On a recent Saturday morning, Carla Kang, Audrey Kouamelan and Emma Letouche assembled in front of a squat glass building called CB3. It stands about 250 yards from the Grande Arche, the architectural marvel that is the signature structure of La Défense, a distric...continued
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Ericka upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Webster
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over 3 years ago
Aurora Propulsion Technologies will be sending up space junk removal tech on Rocket Lab’s Electro...
Aurora Propulsion Technologies will be sending up space junk removal tech on Rocket Lab’s Electron later this Propulsion Technologies, a Finnish company that develops thrusters and de-orbiting modules for small satellites, will be sending its technology to space for the ...continued
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Ericka upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Eleanora
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over 3 years ago
Can Technology Help Us Fight Climate Change?
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.Climate change is undeniably real. Largely caused by human activity, it has resulted in disastrous weather events, threatened the survival of animal species across the globe and put human lives at risk. That's ...continued
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Ericka
@Ericka -
over 3 years ago
Malala Yousafzai ‘deeply worried’ as Taliban take control in Afghanistan
Pakistani activist who was shot by group for championing education for girls calls on leaders to interveneAfghanistan live news: desperation as Afghans try to fleeThe Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Talib…
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