Marlon
@Marlon
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Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Marlon upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Rex @Rex - over 4 years ago
Velo3D, a supplier of 3D printers to SpaceX, raises $28 million
Despite fundraising in the middle of a worldwide pandemic that has managed to shut down a significant chunk of global manufacturing, the developer of a metal composite 3D printing technology, Velo3D, has managed to raise $28 million in funding.Over the past fifteen months...continued
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Ryleigh @Ryleigh - over 4 years ago
Alphabet grew more than expected in Q1, but its ad business saw “significant slowdown” in March
Alphabet grew more than expected in Q1, but its ad business saw ‘significant slowdown’ in MarchToday after the bell, Alphabet, parent company of Google, reported its Q1 2020 performance. The company’s $41.16 billion in revenue for the three-month period came in ahead of e...continued
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Jessika @Jessika - 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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Monserrat @Monserrat - over 4 years ago
Smart contact lens startup Mojo Vision raises $51M
Mojo Vision’s technology still felt early-stage when we met with them back at CES. But the demos we did see were enough to convince us that there really could be something to the California startup’s smart contact lens technology.Clearly we weren’t alone in that. The comp...continued
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Marlon @Marlon - over 4 years ago
As Uber reportedly contemplates layoffs, a look back at its post-IPO financial performance
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.Yesterday news broke that Uber’s CTO Thuan Pham would leave the company (confirmed), and that the American technology giant is contemplating a huge staffi...continued
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Bart @Bart - 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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deyner1984 @deyner1984 - over 4 years ago
Life in embargoed countries: the Cuban case.
Do you know how is to live in an embargoed country? Inventiveness and creative minds shake hands trying to help people to survive.Let´s check the latest article at Coil explaining the Cuban case!!#Cuba #creativeminds #embargoSource: https://cli.re/yZeQRk
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Zetta @Zetta - over 4 years ago
Apple and Google Are Teaming Up to Build Coronavirus-Tracking Tech. Hold Your Applause.
Image : GettyAs the global coronavirus pandemic continues to spread and testing remains criminally limited, Apple and Google have announced a partnership to roll out contact-tracing technology to track the spread of covid-19. And Apple is promising that privacy is baked i...continued
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Cameron @Cameron - 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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Nelson @Nelson - over 4 years ago
The 10 Biggest Graphic Design Mistakes You Can Make in Your Marketing Pieces
April 15, 2020 5 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.The following excerpt is from Robert W. Bly’s The Content Marketing Handbook. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes & NobleDesign plays an important role in the success of your content. L...continued
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Angus @Angus - over 4 years ago
Could You Be Doing Better with Email Marketing? This Tool Helps.
April 8, 2020 2 min readDisclosure: 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 partners.There are 3.9 billion email ...continued
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Alexandro @Alexandro - over 4 years ago
NASA Is Using Red and Blue 3D Glasses to Safely Drive the Mars Rover While Working From Home
Photo : Andrew Liszewski ( Gizmodo ) , NASAThe next time you complain about having to put on a clean shirt for a video call, consider the challenges others have to deal with while working from home. Without access to their powerful NASA computers, the team responsible for...continued
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Abbie @Abbie - over 4 years ago
This Office Noise Simulator Makes Working From Home Less Soul-Crushingly Lonely
Screenshot : Alice BradleyThe cutely designed microsite Reichenbergerstr 121 simulates office noise— handy if you’re working from home and you miss the sounds of working in an office, or coffee shop, or anywhere where other humans work alongside you.AdvertisementPrimary-c...continued
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Sandrine @Sandrine - over 4 years ago
Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 105 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements
Apple today released a new update for Safari Technology Preview, the experimental browser Apple first introduced four years ago in March 2016. Apple designed the Safari Technology Preview to test features that may be introduced into future release versions of Safari.Safar...continued
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Marjory @Marjory - over 4 years ago
Virgin Orbit announces new plans for first Asian spaceport in Oita, Japan
Virgin Orbit may be focusing its production efforts right now on making ventilators to support healthcare workers battling COVID-19, but it’s also still making moves to build out the infrastructure that will underpin its small satellite launch business. To that end, the n...continued
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Wilmer @Wilmer - over 4 years ago
Fascinating Discovery Suggests Neanderthals Invented String
The Neanderthal cord fragment. Image : C2RMFScientists working in the south of France have discovered a small Neanderthal cord fragment dating back to over 41,000 years ago. It’s now the oldest evidence of fiber technology in the archaeological record, and further testame...continued
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Jerrold @Jerrold - over 4 years ago
5 Startup Marketing Ideas That Actually Work
Are you new to the startup game, and even newer to the content marketing game? With all the work that goes into starting a business, there's little time to think about marketing strategies that prove successful and are feasible for a startup's teams to execute.If you find...continued
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Cynthia @Cynthia - over 4 years ago
Google is slashing its marketing budget by about 50% for the second half of 2020, with hiring fre...
Google is slashing its marketing budget by as much as half for the second half of 2020, it has been reported. It also has implemented a hiring freeze in certain areas of the company.The freeze will affect both full-time employees and contractors, but it's unclear how wide...continued
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Kraig @Kraig - over 4 years ago
Valorant's wild success on Twitch wasn't an accident
Lewis used to be the head of marketing for League of Legends, and she helped enact that game’s Partner Program, which rewards video-focused influencers with in-game perks, developer access, promotional support and the opportunity to participate in reveals. Other AAA studi...continued
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Ericka @Ericka - over 4 years ago
Twitter Cracks Down on 5G Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories That Have Inspired Dozens of Cell Tower...
Photo : GettyTwitter is expanding its crackdown on misinformation that may influence people to “engage in harmful activity” to include a conspiracy theory that 5G technology is somehow behind the spread of the novel coronavirus causing the current covid-19 pandemic.Advert...continued
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Devin @Devin - over 4 years ago
Coronavirus could push consumers away from influencers and toward streaming TV
As the nation struggles with a pandemic and economic uncertainty, fundamental shifts in consumer habits are leading marketers to rethink existing strategies and budgets allocated to influencers and streaming TV.These significant shifts are nothing new; just as the dot-com...continued
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Devin @Devin - over 4 years ago
Apple and Google will release COVID-19 contact-tracing tools next week
Apple and Google’s COVID-19 contact tracking technology will be released to developers on April 28th, weeks before the companies initially said it would arrive. Tim Cook revealed the information to European commissioner Thierry Breton after the two met by video conference...continued
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Leda @Leda - over 4 years ago
UK’s BBI puts $12M into Startup Funding Club for early stage startups
SFC (formerly known as Startup Funding Club – a UK a seed stage investor – has received £10 million from British Business Investments (the commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank), to deploy a total of £40 million across more than 100 early-stage startups in th...continued
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Marlon @Marlon - over 4 years ago
Navigating the web while observing hijab
In elementary school, my Islamic studies teacher told us to protect our gaze. I never understood what it really meant until I grew older and became more comfortable navigating the internet. In Islam, we maintain hijab proactively, not reactively. For example, for a man no...continued
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Marie @Marie - over 4 years ago
Senate passes new $484 billion relief bill to replenish small business loans, fund hospitals and ...
A new federal aid package designed to provide economic relief to businesses still immobilized by the coronavirus just passed in the Senate.The $484 billion in total aid passed after two weeks of negotiations between Republicans, who wanted to press additional small busine...continued
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