Eleanora
@Eleanora
406 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Eleanora
@Eleanora -
almost 5 years ago
Jumping on a trampoline suspended in the air
Jumping on a trampoline suspended 100 ft in the airChat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds.Source: CNNPowered by NewsAPI.orgKeywords:Trampoline • Facebook Messenger • Pearl River (band) •
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Eleanora upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
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almost 5 years ago
Nest Hubs will use ultrasonic sensing to display reminders and appointments
Nest Hubs will use ultrasonic sensing to display reminders and appointmentsLast month Google updated the Nest Hub and Nest Hub Max so that they could use ultrasonic sensing to tell when a person is nearby. While the Hub Max includes a camera that it could already use to s...continued
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Gregoria
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almost 5 years ago
Korean e-commerce leader Coupang hires Alberto Fornaro as its new chief financial officer
Korean e-commerce leader Coupang hires Alberto Fornaro as its new chief financial officer – TechCrunchKorean e-commerce giant Coupang has a new chief financial officer. The company announced today that it has hired Alberto Fornaro, who previously served the same role at I...continued
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Assunta
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almost 5 years ago
How the Kardashian-Jenner family built their business empire
How the Kardashian-Jenner family built their business empireFrom the O.J. Simpson trial to brand ambassadors, here's how the Kardashian-Jenner family have maintained their stardom and turned it into a business.Source: CNNPowered by NewsAPI.orgKeywords:Kim Kardashian • Cai...continued
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Myles
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almost 5 years ago
These new data sources are creating high-impact tools for investors
These new data sources are creating high-impact tools for investors – TechCrunchVenture capitalists tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most of us are using the same infrastructure tools we’ve used for the past 20+ years — Excel and recent college grads ...continued
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Minnie
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almost 5 years ago
Progressive VCs and private equity are using tech and analytics to revolutionize investing
Progressive VCs and private equity are using tech and analytics to revolutionize investing – TechCrunchPrivate equity and venture capital investors are copying our counterparts in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job.When I was single, I register...continued
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Madalyn
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almost 5 years ago
Podcorn connects advertisers with podcasters and manages sponsored messages in podcasts
Podcorn connects advertisers with podcasters and manages sponsored messages in podcasts – TechCrunchPodcorn, the service that connects brands with podcasters to acquire in-broadcast sponsored time (not pre- or post-roll advertising), is officially launching its services t...continued
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almost 5 years ago
Facebook expands its efforts against ad discrimination
Facebook expands its efforts against ad discrimination – TechCrunchUnder the terms of a settlement with the ACLU and other civil rights groups earlier this year, Facebook has been taking steps to prevent discriminatory ad targeting.Specifically, the company says ads in th...continued
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Jeffrey
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almost 5 years ago
The tech of giving back: an interview with Salesforce’s Chief Philanthropy Officer
An interview with Salesforce’s Chief Philanthropy Officer – TechCrunchSince its founding two decades ago, Salesforce has pioneered the Pledge 1% model of giving back one percent of equity, product, profit, and employee time to charity.As EVP, Marketing and Chief Philanthr...continued
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Alvah
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almost 5 years ago
Juno shuts down its operations in NYC as owner Gett signs strategic partnership with Lyft
Juno shuts down its operations in NYC as owner Gett signs strategic partnership with Lyft – TechCrunchGett, the ridesharing company backed by Volkswagen and valued at around $1.5 billion, is putting the brakes on a major part of its growth strategy. Today, the company ann...continued
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Eleanora
@Eleanora -
almost 5 years ago
Want to help animals? Here’s where to donate your money.
The best charities for helping animalsIf you care about animals and want to reduce their suffering, but aren’t sure exactly how, Animal Charity Evaluators has you covered.Just in time for Giving Tuesday, the day when millions of people donate to causes they care about, th...continued
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Clarissa
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almost 5 years ago
Where top VCs are investing in real estate and proptech (Part 2 of 2)
Where top VCs are investing in real estate and proptech (Part 2 of 2) – TechCrunchIn part two of our survey that asked top VCs about the most exciting investment areas in real estate, we dig into responses from 10 leading real estate-focused investors at firms that span e...continued
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Arvid
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almost 5 years ago
Freshworks raises $150M Series H on $3.5B valuation
Freshworks raises $150M Series H on $3.5B valuation – TechCrunchFreshworks, a company that makes a variety of business software tools, from CRM to help-desk software, announced a $150 million Series H investment today from Sequoia Capital, CapitalG (formerly Google Capita...continued
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Kari
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almost 5 years ago
NYC city council votes to ban non-tobacco flavored e-cigarettes
NYC city council votes to ban non-tobacco flavored e-cigarettesThe move is designed to curb teen vaping. New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot noted recently that there's evidence of kids as young as 11 using e-cigarettes. Around 1 in 15 middle school studen...continued
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Eleanora
@Eleanora -
almost 5 years ago
Holiday Travel, AIDS, Sea Snakes: Your Weekend Briefing
Holiday Travel, AIDS, Sea Snakes: Your Weekend Briefing1. Travelers headed home after Thanksgiving are likely to faceflight delays and treacherous roads on one of the busiest travel days of the year.A winter storm, which had formed as a “bomb cyclone” in the Northwest, is...continued
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Eleanora
@Eleanora -
almost 5 years ago
Lions place QB Driskel (hamstring) on IR
3:47 PM ETThe Detroit Lions have placed quarterback Jeff Driskel on injured reserve and signed quarterback Kyle Sloter off Arizona's practice squad -- another signal-caller move for a team that has been rotating quarterbacks behind Matthew Stafford since the end of last s...continued
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Oren
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almost 5 years ago
Rossum raises $4.5M to make OCR-like data entry many times more accurate
Rossum raises $4.5M to make OCR-like data entry many times more accurate – TechCrunchEvery day, people slog over inputting date from invoices and other forms. So instead of using traditional Optical Character Recognition (OCR) extraction software, you could apply a new fo...continued
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Marie
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almost 5 years ago
Intel says Qualcomm’s business practices drove it out of the modem chip market
Intel says Qualcomm’s business practices drove it out of the modem chip market – TechCrunchIt’s not like this wasn’t among the reasons everywhere suspected when Apple suddenly announced it was buying Intel’s modem business, but now the chipmaker has filed a brief in suppo...continued
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Adelia
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almost 5 years ago
GoCardless partners with TransferWise to bring low cost currency conversion to recurring payments
GoCardless partners with TransferWise to bring low-cost currency conversion to recurring payments – TechCrunchGoCardless, the London fintech that makes it easy for businesses to offer recurring bank payments, has partnered with TransferWise for its currency exchange.The m...continued
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Ezequiel
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almost 5 years ago
Will the future of work be ethical? Founder perspectives
Will the future of work be ethical? Founder perspectives – TechCrunchIn June, TechCrunch Ethicist in Residence Greg M. Epstein attended EmTech Next, a conference organized by the MIT Technology Review. The conference, which took place at MIT’s famous Media Lab, examined h...continued
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Eleanora upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Immanuel
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almost 5 years ago
Gordon Sondland: US ambassador to EU accused of sexual misconduct
Gordon Sondland: US ambassador to EU accused of sexual misconductGordon Sondland, the US ambassador to the EU, has been accused by three women of sexual misconduct.The allegations, published by Portland Monthly magazine and ProPublica, date back to before he became an amb...continued
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Eleanora upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Nelson
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almost 5 years ago
Emissions, Impeachment, Butterball Turkey: Your Tuesday Evening Briefing
Emissions, Impeachment, Butterball Turkey: Your Tuesday Evening Briefing1. Thanksgiving travel might be a little complicated this year.More than 55 million peopleare expected to be heading to holiday gatherings by car or plane, and the weather isn’t going to make it easy....continued
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Roger
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almost 5 years ago
Tab's on Baldwin - Business Mirror
Tab's on BaldwinBEST Filipino college coach and best foreign coach in the land? Aldin Ayo of University of Santo Tomas (UST) and Tab Baldwin of Ateneo are.The Blue Eagles scaled the mountaintop when they clinched their third straight title on Wednesday.Baldwin put everyth...continued
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Arvid
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almost 5 years ago
Taiwan’s Appier raises $80M for AI-based marketing technology
Taiwan’s Appier raises $80M for AI-based marketing technology – TechCrunchArtificial intelligence continues to be the theme of the moment in enterprise software, and today a company out of Asia that has built a suite of AI-powered marketing and ad tools is announcing a ro...continued
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Alan
@Alan -
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FDA warns 15 companies for illegally selling CBD products
FDA warns 15 companies for illegally selling CBD productsThe US Food and Drug Administration sent a warning to 15 companies that have illegally sold cannabidiol products, better known as CBD, by adding it to food or marketing it as a dietary supplement.consumer update abo...continued
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