Minnie
@Minnie
425 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Minnie upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Alexandro
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almost 5 years ago
A sweet idea that created a $40m business
A sweet idea that created a $40m businessThe BBC's weekly The Boss series profiles different business leaders from around the world. This week we speak to Tara Bosch, the founder and chief executive of low-sugar sweets business Smart Sweets.Tara Bosch describes herself as...continued
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Minnie
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almost 5 years ago
Niners 7-0 for second time as Bosa, Coleman star
7:29 PM ETSANTA CLARA, Calif. -- On a day when the San Francisco 49ers moved to 7-0 for only the second time in franchise history, it was rookie defensive end Nick Bosa and veteran running back Tevin Coleman who made some history of their own.With their 51-13 domination o...continued
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Elaina
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almost 5 years ago
Your Roku Is an Ad Factory
Your Roku Is an Ad FactoryEverybody loves a Roku. Starting at $30, these little widgets turn any TV into a smart TV and offer pretty much any streaming channels you’d ever want in one place. You’ll also see a lot of ads thanks to your Roku device. If you have a TV running...continued
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Minnie upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Grayce
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almost 5 years ago
Twitch snags chief marketing officer Doug Scott from Zynga
Twitch snags chief marketing officer Doug Scott from ZyngaTwitch is announcing today that former Zynga chief marketing officer Doug Scott is joining Amazon’s livestreaming service as its new CMO. He will be based in Twitch’s San Francisco office.The move shows that Twitch...continued
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Clarissa
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almost 5 years ago
Learn to Drive Growth and Sales Online with These 9 Courses
Learn to Drive Growth and Sales Online with These 9 CoursesDisclosure: Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you'll find interesting and useful. If you purchase them, Entrepreneur may get a small share of the revenue from the sale from our commerce pa...continued
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Arvid
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almost 5 years ago
Oops, Trump's Commerce Secretary Did the Hillary Email Thing
Wilbur Ross Is Latest Trump Goon to Face Private Email InquiryThe veritable parade of Trump administration officials facing scrutiny of their use of personal email for official business continues, this time with Commerce secretary and walking corruption scandal Wilbur Ros...continued
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Emmie
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almost 5 years ago
Elon Musk predicts Tesla energy could be ‘bigger’ than its EV business
Elon Musk predicts Tesla energy could be ‘bigger’ than its EV business – TechCrunchTesla CEO Elon Musk forecast that the company’s energy business will eventually be the same size as — or even bigger than — its automotive sector, the latest sign that the company plans to ...continued
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Minnie
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almost 5 years ago
Founder-investor Natalie Massenet on how new brands win
Founder-investor Natalie Massenet on how new brands win – TechCrunchNatalie Massenet, the fashion entrepreneur who founded the designer fashion portal Net-a-Porter, chaired the British Fashion Council for four years and today runs Imaginary Ventures, a venture firm that’s...continued
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Garnet
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almost 5 years ago
Evolution of Speech Recognition Technology
Communication plays an essential role in our lives. Humans started with signs, symbols, and then made progress to a stage, where they began communicating with languages. Later computing and communication technologies came. Machines began communicating with humans and in s...continued
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Giles
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almost 5 years ago
Databricks announces $400M round on $6.2B valuation as analytics platform continues to grow
Databricks announces $400M round on $6.2B valuation as analytics platform continues to grow – TechCrunchDatabricks is a SaaS business built on top of a bunch of open-source tools, and apparently it’s been going pretty well on the business side of things. In fact, the comp...continued
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Hank
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almost 5 years ago
3 Marketing Lessons from Bed Bath & Beyond's 'Offline Shopping' Ad
3 Marketing Lessons from Bed Bath & Beyond's 'Offline Shopping' AdI was recently in the market for a new vacuum cleaner and was doing my usual shopping routine -- i.e. browsing on Amazon and reading reviews to get more information on the various brands before I made m...continued
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Casper
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almost 5 years ago
Will the Sprint and T-Mobile merger create competition?
Will the Sprint and T-Mobile merger create competition?This week for our interview series on The Vergecast, host and Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks to Gigi Sohn, a distinguished fellow at Georgetown Law’s Institute for Technology Law and Policy. We’ve had Gigi on...continued
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Jeffrey
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almost 5 years ago
Facebook will spend $1 billion to address California’s affordable housing crisis
Facebook will spend $1 billion to address California’s affordable housing crisisFacebook today announced a pledge of $1 billion and a partnership with the state of California to help build more affordable housing, after the company contributed for over a decade to an infl...continued
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Rahsaan
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almost 5 years ago
Learn how to win customers and influence consumers at Disrupt Berlin
Learn how to win customers and influence consumers at Disrupt Berlin – TechCrunchEvery startup is a story and every startup’s success depends — on some level — on how well they can either tell that story or get that story told.The best stories are the ones that create an ...continued
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Minnie
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almost 5 years ago
Top draft picks at a crossroads: What went wrong for Winston and Mariota
1:54 PM ETJenna LaineCloseESPN Staff WriterCovered the Buccaneers since 2009 Joined ESPN in 2016Turron DavenportCloseESPN Covered Eagles for USA Today Covered the Ravens for Baltimore Times Played college football at Cheyney UniversityIn 2015, Jameis Winston and Marcus...continued
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Minnie upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Manley
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almost 5 years ago
Squarespace acquires social media authoring startup Unfold
Squarespace acquires social media authoring startup Unfold – TechCrunchOver the past year or two, Squarespace has been expanding beyond website-building with new products like email marketing and its first acquisition (of an online scheduling tool) .Today, it’s announcing...continued
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Cynthia
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almost 5 years ago
MIT Confirms a Bridge Leonardo da Vinci Designed 500 Years Ago Was an Ancient Engineering Marvel
MIT Confirms a Da Vinci Bridge Was Brilliantly EngineeredSome 500 years after his death, researchers are still discovering just how talented and brilliant Leonardo da Vinci was. Architects and civil engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology used a 3D printer ...continued
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Erik
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almost 5 years ago
Action Blocks: one tap to make technology more accessible
one tap to make technology more accessibleThink about the last time you did something seemingly simple on your phone, like booking a rideshare. To do this, you had to unlock your phone, find the right app, and type in your pickup location. The process required you to read...continued
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Cyril
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almost 5 years ago
Facebook buys startup working on technology that lets you control computers with your mind - CNET
Facebook buys startup working on technology that lets you control computers with your mindFacebook said Monday it's acquiring CTRL-labs, a neurotechnology startup, as part of efforts to develop a wristband for controlling smartphones, computers and other digital devices w...continued
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Grayce
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almost 5 years ago
Android users can test out Microsoft’s xCloud game streaming next month
Microsoft launching public xCloud streaming test on Android in OctoberRoughly one year after announcing plans for its Project xCloud game streaming service, Microsoft will roll out a public test of xCloud next month for Android users in the United States, United Kingdom, ...continued
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Wilmer
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almost 5 years ago
Why Elon Musk is wrong about LiDAR technology
Why Elon Musk is wrong about LiDAR technologyEarlier this year, at one of Tesla’s events, the company’s famous founder, Elon Muskproclaimed that, “LiDAR is a fool’s errand,” and “Anyone relying on LiDAR is doomed. Doomed.”We’re all big fans of Elon at my company and we’ve...continued
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Marjory
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almost 5 years ago
Spot, Boston Dynamic's Robot Dog, Is Finally Available For Sale
Spot, Boston Dynamic's Robot Dog, Is Finally Available For SaleAfter debuting just shy of two years ago, Boston Dynamics has finally made its Spot robotic dog available for sale, but don’t expect to find a great Black Friday deal on this bot at Best Buy come Thanksgiving....continued
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Minnie
@Minnie -
almost 5 years ago
U.S. Military Will Stop Using Floppy Discs to Operate Its Nuclear Weapons System
Military to Stop Using Floppy Disks to Operate Its Nuclear Weapons SystemThe systems used to control the United States arsenal of nuclear weapons rely on outdated computers. But the Department of Defense is updating at least one part of the archaic technology—the floppy d...continued
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Nestor
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almost 5 years ago
From Kraft Foods To CBD: A Chat With Kadenwood Brands CEO Erick Dickens
From Kraft Foods To CBD: A Chat With Kadenwood Brands CEO Erick DickensThe booming U.S. CBD market is estimated to exceed $20 billion by 2024, according to BDS Analytics — a substantial jump from $1.9 billion in 2018. As CBD becomes mainstream, companies operating in the...continued
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Minnie upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Hank
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almost 5 years ago
Those Superfast Nike Shoes Are Creating a Problem
Those Superfast Nike Shoes Are Creating a ProblemLast weekend’s extraordinary marathon performances — 1 hour 59 minutes 40 seconds by Eliud Kipchoge in Vienna and 2:14:04 by Brigid Kosgei in Chicago — have focused attention on an already simmering question: Does the Inter...continued
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