Nelson
@Nelson
453 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Nelson upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
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over 4 years ago
Eight great sites that offer online classes
If you’ve already streamed your favorite series for the third time, and you’ve hit a wall with your latest game, what should you do while you’re sheltering at home? Well, maybe pick up a new skill or hobby by taking a class.There is a huge number of courses available onli...continued
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over 4 years ago
Learn how to turn your brilliant idea into an actual business endeavor
Products featured here are selected by our partners at StackCommerce.If you buy something through links on our site, Mashable may earn an affiliate commission.TL;DR: If you need help figuring out how to bring your great ideas to life, check out the Essential Guide to Star...continued
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over 4 years ago
Spin restarts scooter business in four markets
Spin, the electric scooter startup acquired by Ford in 2019 for nearly $100 million, has restarted operations in four U.S. markets as COVID-19-related closures begin to ease.The company has resumed operations in Orlando, Nashville, Columbus, Ohio and St. Louis. The ramp u...continued
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over 4 years ago
Sinch acquires SAP’s Digital Interconnect messaging business for $250M
M&A activity has generally slowed down in the weeks since the novel coronavirus took a grip on the world, but there have been some pockets of activity in the tech industry when the price is right or when the divestment/acquisition just makes sense.The world of messagi...continued
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over 4 years ago
Confused about delaying your mortgage payments? You're not alone
When Mark Miano's real estate business slowed following the coronavirus shutdown, he called his mortgage company to ask about delaying payments for his home in Los Gatos, California."All they offered was a 90-day forbearance and a balloon payment at the end," he said."How...continued
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over 4 years ago
How Adobe shifted a Las Vegas conference to executives’ living rooms in less than 30 days
How Adobe shifted a Las Vegas conference to executives’ living rooms in less than 30 days 'We actually got a lot of kudos for not trying to fake it and set up green screens with everyone in virtual situations'Adobe was scheduled to hold its annual conference in Las Vegas ...continued
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over 4 years ago
Los Angeles-based Frame launches mental health gateway for a pandemic-stricken generation
The story behind Frame, the startup aiming to be the nation’s gateway into the world of therapy and mental wellness, seems like a tailor-made story of American entrepreneurial success.Its co-founders, Kendall Bird and Sage Grazer, ran their first business in the Pacific P...continued
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over 4 years ago
Airbnb turns to private equity to raise $1 billion
Airbnb said Monday that it has raised $1 billion in debt and equity from private equity firms Silver Lake and Sixth Street Partners, even as the online rental marketplace has seen its business plummet due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. It’s...continued
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over 4 years ago
iPhone sales may be down, but business is booming for Apple Music and the App Store
Consumers aren't rushing to buy as many iPhones, iPads, or other Apple products as before the pandemic, but the company's services seem to be doing just fine.During Thursday's earnings call, Apple disclosed that its services category, which includes the App Store and Appl...continued
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over 4 years ago
Best VoIP for small business owners — whether you're WFH or not
All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers.If you buy something through links on our site, Mashable may earn an affiliate commission.Slightly jargon-heavy website aside, Intermedia Unite is a useful service for the majority of small c...continued
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over 4 years ago
Apple Has A Bright Future
Apple stores in the U.S. remain closed, but Apple is still making billions. Photo : Getty ImagesApple, a technology company you may remember from such hits as the iPhone, iPad, Mac, AirPods, and Apple Watch, has announced that it expects to remain in business through 2020...continued
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over 4 years ago
FDA authorizes a ventilator developed by NASA’s JPL for emergency use in COVID-19 treatment
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized for emergency use as outlined in the agency’s COVID-19 guidelines a new ventilator designed by engineers working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory . The ventilator, which has an acronym because this is NASA we’r...continued
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over 4 years ago
Meet the Man Behind Burger King's and Popeyes' Viral Marketing Campaigns
April 14, 2020 15 min readThis story appears in the April 2020 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »Burger King had a big announcement to make: It was removing artificial colors, flavors, and preservatives from its Whoppers. But the company was in a bind. The other burger ch...continued
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over 4 years ago
Free Webinar | June 8: Franchise Bible: Marketing for the New Normal
April 30, 2020 1 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.This webinar will focus on how is changing and new ways and platforms for sending your marketing messages to your customer and target markets. We will also focus on what is important to...continued
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Nelson upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
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over 4 years ago
Microsoft shares rise after the tech giant posts 15% growth
Today Microsoft reported its third-quarter, fiscal 2020 quarter earnings, the period of time corresponding to Q1 2020 on the regular calendar.The technology giant generated $35 billion in revenue, up 15% from the year-ago period. That top line led to $13 billion in operat...continued
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over 4 years ago
Puppet names former Cloud Foundry Foundation executive director Abbey Kearns as CTO
Puppet, the Portland-based infrastructure automation company, today announced that it has named former Cloud Foundry Foundation executive director Abby Kearns as its new CTO.Current Puppet CTO Deepak Giridharagopal will remain in his role and focus on R&D and leading ...continued
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over 4 years ago
Thuan Pham, who fled Vietnam as a child and became Uber’s CTO in 2013, is leaving the company
Thuan Pham, who fled Vietnam as a child and became Uber’s CTO in 2013, is leaving the companyThuan Pham, hired as Uber’s chief technology officer by former CEO Travis Kalanick back in 2013, is leaving the company in three weeks, the ride-share giant revealed today in an S...continued
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Nelson
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over 4 years ago
Coronavirus: Europe grapples with lifting limits on travel
Image copyright AFP Image caption The transport system in Paris is gearing up for a gradual return to trains, buses and the metro next monthHalf a million masks were being handed out on Wednesday in stations around Paris, with France set to ease public transport restricti...continued
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Nelson
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over 4 years ago
In conversation with Sasha Astafyeva, Atomico’s new consumer-focused investment partner
European VC firm Atomico announced this week that it has hired Sasha Astafyeva as a new investment partner.Astafyeva previously spent three years as a principal at Felix Capital . In her new role, she’ll lead “sourcing, due diligence, and management” of consumer tech comp...continued
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Nelson
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over 4 years ago
German Soccer Fans Are Putting Cardboard Cutouts of Themselves in the Stands to Avoid Games in ‘E...
The future of sports is as uncertain as ever during the COVID-19 pandemic. A Japanese medical expert said on Tuesday that the Tokyo Olympics, which have already been delayed a year, might not go off as planned unless a vaccination is available; the head of the Tokyo organ...continued
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over 4 years ago
Telemedicine: This pandemic could make video chatting with your doctor the new normal
Telemedicine technology isn't new, but the coronavirus pandemic has brought an explosion of new users to its platforms. The question is, will this newfound popularity last in a post-pandemic world?Source: CNNPowered by NewsAPI.org
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Nelson
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over 4 years ago
The problem with COBOL
It’s been two weeks since Verge politics reporter Makena Kelly dove into the IT tangle that has taken down unemployment insurance systems across the country. Since then, another 4.4 million people have filed claims — bringing the total to more than 20 million people since...continued
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over 4 years ago
Why You Must Follow These 6 Basic Marketing Rules
April 28, 2020 6 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.The following excerpt is from Dan S. Kennedy and Kim Walsh Phillips's No B.S. Guide to Direct Response Social Media Marketing, Second Edition. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes & Nobl...continued
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over 4 years ago
There’s a reason Trader Joe’s won’t let you order groceries for pickup or delivery
Photo : Alexi Rosenfeld ( Getty Images )As both a crowd control measure and a safety precaution for essential employees, many grocery stores have begun offering grocery pickup and/or delivery during nationwide stay-at-home orders. Online ordering forms make it simple to s...continued
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over 4 years ago
Cleo Capital’s Sarah Kunst launches a fellowship for laid-off workers
Sarah Kunst graduated from college in 2008 and went straight into the luxury marketing world with a job at Chanel.Then, the stock market collapsed and Kunst was laid off. It was that layoff, Kunst says, that brought her to the world of startups and eventually to founding ...continued
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