Nelson
@Nelson
453 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Nelson upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Devin
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over 3 years ago
SPACs keep rolling as autonomous vehicle startup Aurora targets blank-check debut with $13B valua...
Aurora Innovation, the autonomous vehicle startup that acquired Uber’s self-driving unit in December, is going public via a merger with special purpose acquisition company Reinvent Technology Partners Y.The deal announced Thursday confirms TechCrunch’s reporting in June t...continued
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over 3 years ago
At Wimbledon, Men’s Final Takes a Back Seat to England vs. Italy
In London, Novak Djokovic’s attempt at a 20th Grand Slam title on Sunday is but an opening act for the European Championship match starring England and Italy.
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over 3 years ago
Here's What's in Joe Biden's Sweeping Executive Order on Competition in Big Tech
On Friday, President Joe Biden signed an executive order aiming to encourage competition in the economy—specifically targeting some business practices popular with massive tech firms.Titled the Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy, the sweeping...continued
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Nelson upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
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over 3 years ago
Growth marketing roundup: cool SaaS, marketing lies, VR ads and more
Growth marketing roundup: cool SaaS, marketing lies, VR ads and might think that a short week due to a U.S. holiday calls for a short weekly recap, but we have plenty to share about growth marketing from our coverage over the week. With the help of your recommendations, ...continued
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over 3 years ago
Halo will launch a remotely operated car service powered by 5G in Las Vegas
Halo will launch a remotely operated car service powered by 5G in Las technology has generated a lot of hype for its potential to power driverless cars using a remote operator, but for the past few years that’s all it’s been — hype. Las Vegas-based startup Halo and telec...continued
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over 3 years ago
5 Quick Tips to a Smarter Dog
Keeping a canine intellectually invigorated is significant. In the event that we don't give sufficient consideration to our canines' brains, they regularly become exhausted or begin getting rowdy, and their psychological wellness can rapidly disintegrate. To stay away fro...continued
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over 3 years ago
Navigating ad fraud and consumer privacy abuse in programmatic advertising
Jalal Nasir is the founder and CEO of Pixalate, a global ad fraud intelligence and marketing compliance platform. Previously, he was one of the early engineers on Amazon’s fraud prevention and risk management team and held various product leadership roles building adtech ...continued
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over 3 years ago
The Open: Kevin Na replaced by Martin Kaymer at Royal St George's because of Covid-19 restrictions
Kevin Na will be replaced by Martin Kaymer at The Open with the American becoming the fourth player to pull out because of Covid-19 travel restrictions.
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over 3 years ago
Indigenous Canadian lawmaker at center of Trudeau ethics scandal to quit politics - Reuters
Canada's lawmaker who served as the first indigenous justice minister until she clashed with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and sparked a high-profile ethics scandal said on Thursday that she was not planning on running for re-election./cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuters/35VGODKMS5MCBCWN3PIYD5VPBY.jpg)
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Liliane
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over 3 years ago
Citi Ventures head honcho Arvind Purushotham is coming to TC Early Stage
Citi Ventures head honcho Arvind Purushotham is coming to TC Early venture capital used to get a bad rap. The money flowed from corporations into startups when times were good, and quickly disappeared when the market turned.But startups and corporations discovered someth...continued
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Faiz
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over 3 years ago
prostate
Enlarged Prostate and Urination Problems: New Data Method to help support a healthy prostateThe prostate is both an accessory gland of the male reproductive system and a muscle-driven mechanical switch between urination and ejaculation. It is found only in some mammals. I...continued
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over 3 years ago
Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving arm, raises $2.5B in second external investment round
Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving arm, raises $2.5B in second external investment Google’s former self-driving project that is now a business unit under Alphabet, said Wednesday it raised $2.5 billion in its second outside funding round. The company said in a blog post it w...continued
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over 3 years ago
Bringg nabs $100M at a $1B valuation for a last-mile delivery platform for retailers
With many consumers making the switch to online shopping in the last year due to Covid-19 and largely staying active on those platforms even after physical shops and the freedom to move about them have been restored, companies that are enabling those services…
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over 3 years ago
How REvil Ransomware Took Out Thousands of Business at Once
A massive chain reaction on Friday infected at least hundreds and likely thousands of businesses worldwide with ransomware, including a railway, pharmacy chain, and hundreds of storefronts of Sweden's Coop grocery store brand. Carried out by the notorious Russia-based REv...continued
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Faiz
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over 3 years ago
Be Extraordinary!
After watching this, your brain will not be the same | Lara Boyd | TEDxVancouverhttps://bit.ly/3ynT9FfHuman brainThe human brain is the central organ of the human nervous system, and the spinal cord makes up the central nervous system. The brain consists of the cerebrum, ...continued
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Jimmy
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over 3 years ago
Welcome to hot due diligence summer
Wow, that headline worked?A recent board fight at a digital health unicorn is a reminder to entrepreneurs that it’s important to set boundaries, even amid the dizzying volume and velocity of this summer’s deal frenzy.This week I published a scoop about how Bessemer Ventur...continued
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Cyril
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over 3 years ago
This week in growth marketing on TechCrunch
TechCrunch is trying to help you find the best growth marketer to work with through founder recommendations that we get in this survey. We’re sharing a few of our favorites so far, below.We’re using your recommendations to find top experts to interview and have them write...continued
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over 3 years ago
In Case Against Trump’s Company, Echoes of His Father’s Tactics on Taxes
The indictment announced on Thursday accuses the Trump Organization of a new series of off-the-books maneuvers that, in some respects, resemble an updated version of Fred Trump’s model. In Mr. Weisselberg’s case, rather than simply receiving a higher salary, his base pay ...continued
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Nelson upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
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over 3 years ago
Daily Crunch: Insecure server exposes Byju’s students’ names, phone numbers, emails and more
Daily Crunch: Insecure server exposes Byju’s students’ names, phone numbers, emails and 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 June 30, 2021. I...continued
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over 3 years ago
A ranch is running out of water in the West's historic drought
(CNN) T.J. Atkin's family has been in the cattle ranching business for nearly a century. In that time, he says, a drought has never hit their operations this hard."Everyone else I've talked to says in 85 years, it has not been this bad," Atkin told CNN. "We have 85 years'...continued
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over 3 years ago
AWS is buying encrypted messaging service Wickr
Amazon’s cloud services giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) is getting into the encrypted messaging business. The company has just announced that it has acquired secure communications service Wickr — a messaging app that has geared itself towards providing services to governm...continued
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over 3 years ago
ResQ raises $7.5 million to make back of the house, top of mind
Entrepreneur Kuljeev Singh has had a three-course meal in the restaurant business. He was an angel investor in ChefHero, a part-time owner in an Australian-style meat pie shop and, now, is the founder of ResQ, a startup that helps restaurants repair and service their equi...continued
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over 3 years ago
Pledge 1% is asking VCs to help unlock billions in corporate philanthropy
The corporate philanthropy organization Pledge 1% has, since its launch in 2014, asked founders to donate 1% of their companies’ equity, product or employees’ time starting on their first day of business.While the Bay Area-based outfit has found meaningful support from co...continued
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over 3 years ago
JW Player raises $100M to build subscriptions and other monetization tools around its video software
JW Player, a very early mover in the market for online video technology — it powered YouTube’s first video player, before Google acquired it and it built its own — has long been profitable through a business model of providing one-to-many video streaming tool…
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Nelson upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Devin
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over 3 years ago
How Amazon-owned Zoox designed its self-driving vehicles to prevent crashes and protect if they do
The hubbub surrounding the autonomous vehicle industry often focuses on venture capital rounds, speculation about IPOs and acquisitions. But the industry’s future also hinges on the high-stakes task of proving the technology can operate safer than human drivers do today a...continued
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