Ryleigh
@Ryleigh
433 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Ryleigh upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Marie
@Marie -
over 3 years ago
Facebook warns of ‘headwinds’ to its ad business from regulators and Apple
Facebook posted its second quarter earnings Wednesday, beating expectations with $29 billion in revenue.The world’s biggest social media company was expected to report $27.8 billion in revenue for the quarter, a 50% increase from the same period in 2020. Facebook reported...continued
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Torey
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over 3 years ago
Ivorian fintech Julaya raises $2M to digitize business payments in Francophone Africa
There are over 1 billion mobile money accounts globally. Africa leads the way in transaction value and volume thanks to M-Pesa, largely used in East Africa. Other regions across the continent are also growing fast.In 2019, West Africa reported the most live mobile money s...continued
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Ryleigh upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
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Jany
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over 3 years ago
Sweden's Klarna buys influencer marketing platform APPRL - Reuters
A smartphone displays a Klarna logo in this illustration taken January 6, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File PhotoSTOCKHOLM, July 27 (Reuters) - Swedish payments firm Klarna said on Tuesday it had acquired influencer marketing software firm APPRL as it looked to t...continued
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Roger
@Roger -
over 3 years ago
China's escalating crackdown on business is moving stocks
A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. London CNN Business — The whims of regulators in Beijing have always posed a risk to investors looking to tap ...continued
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Ryleigh
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over 3 years ago
Shares of protein discovery platform Absci pop in market debut
Absci Corp., a Vancouver company behind a multifaceted drug development platform, went public on Thursday. It’s another sign of snowballing interest in new approaches to drug development — a traditionally risky business. Absci focuses on speeding drug development in the p...continued
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Ryleigh
@Ryleigh -
over 3 years ago
Shares of protein discovery platform Absci pop in market debut
Absci Corp., a Vancouver company behind a multi-faceted drug development platform, went public on Thursday. It’s another sign of snowballing interest in new approaches to drug development – a traditionally risky business. Absci focuses on speeding drug devel…
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Elvie
@Elvie -
over 3 years ago
3 critical lessons I learned while scaling RingCentral’s customer support team
3 critical lessons I learned while scaling RingCentral’s customer support Spivak is the senior director of Global Customer Support at RingCentral, a global leader in communication and call center software provider. There are many things I wish I knew when starting out ...continued
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Ryleigh
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over 3 years ago
Andreessen Horowitz funds Vitally’s $9M round for customer experience software
Customer success company Vitally raised $9 million in Series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz to continue developing its SaaS platform automating customer experiences.
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Sandrine
@Sandrine -
over 3 years ago
Directed marketing
If those ten people were aware of what you do, trusted you and were enrolled in the journey of change you seek to make…They might each encourage ten people to join in.And that group of 100 people might be able and willing to help you improve your work, or to introduce you...continued
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Geovany
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over 3 years ago
Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital reports ‘post-pandemic rebound’ in economy
Sir Martin Sorrell’s advertising and marketing company, S4 Capital, has reported booming business amid what it described as a “post-pandemic rebound” in the global economy, as it prepares for expansion.S4 said like-for-like gross profits and revenues were both at levels “...continued
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Jarod
@Jarod -
over 3 years ago
Moving Back to Brooklyn and Upgrading
When Matthew Tanner decided to move back to New York this summer after two years away, he found the hunting process far trickier than it was the last time he looked for a place.For much of the pandemic he had been living with his parents in Coral Gables, Fla., and missing...continued
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Monserrat
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over 3 years ago
Zoom acquires an AI company building real-time translation
Zoom has announced that it’s acquiring a company known as Kites (short for Karlsruhe Information Technology Solutions), which has worked on creating real-time translation and transcription software. Zoom says the acquisition is a move to help it make communicating with pe...continued
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Kari
@Kari -
over 3 years ago
Extra Crunch roundup: Think like a VC, CockroachDB EC-1, handle your stock options
Ants and camels are famously resilient, but when it was time to select a name for a startup that offers open-source, cloud-based distributed database architecture, you can imagine why “Cockroach Labs” was the final candidate.Database technology is fundamental infrastructu...continued
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Ryleigh
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over 3 years ago
EU COVID passports debut, but airlines fear chaos - Reuters
The EU's digital COVID travel certificates came into use on Thursday, enabling travel for vaccinated people. But airports are worried the system could cause chaos. Julian Satterthwaite reports.
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Jerrold
@Jerrold -
over 3 years ago
WellSaid attracts $10M A round for higher quality synthetic speech
WellSaid Labs, whose tools create synthetic speech that could be mistaken for the real thing, has raised a $10M Series A to grow the business. The company’s home-baked text-to-speech engine works faster than real time and produces natural-sounding clips of pretty much any...continued
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Ryleigh upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Elalaoui
@raysim2009 -
over 3 years ago
Get money for free
A repository of machine learning, data science, and artificial intelligence (AI) terms for business and analytical professionals of all skill levels.Whether you are just getting started with machine learning, need a refresher on the basics, or want to explore new concepts...continued
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Devin
@Devin -
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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Hannah
@Hannah -
over 3 years ago
LG Chem will invest $5.2B in battery materials through 2025
LG Chem will invest $5.2B in battery materials through Korea’s LG Chem has earmarked ₩6 trillion ($5.2 billion) over the next four years to build out its battery materials business. The investment comes as automakers and state regulators set targets to transition away fr...continued
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Cyril
@Cyril -
over 3 years ago
Aidoc raises over $66M for AI radiology analysis technology
Aidoc, an artificial intelligence company that develops triage and analysis software, is about to double its funding. On Tuesday, the company announced a round of $66 million. Before that the company had raised about $67 million in its five-year lifetime. Aidoc develops “...continued
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Grayce
@Grayce -
over 3 years ago
Emergence Capital’s Doug Landis explains how to identify (and tell) your startup story
Emergence Capital’s Doug Landis explains how to identify (and tell) your startup do you go beyond the names and numbers with your startup pitch deck? For Doug Landis, the answer is one simple compound gerund: storytelling. It’s a word that gets thrown around a lot of lat...continued
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Ryleigh
@Ryleigh -
over 3 years ago
Black faces in high places: how Simon Woolley revolutionised British politics
He set up Operation Black Vote in 1996, vastly increasing the number of Black MPs - and later this year becomes the first Black man to head an Oxbridge collegeIn the mid-90s, Simon Woolley believed British politics was largely indifferent to minority communit…
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Ryleigh
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over 3 years ago
NFL funds study to prevent hamstring injuries
11:11 AM ETAssociated Press The NFL is funding a study that will investigate the prevention and treatment of hamstring injuries.They are the most common NFL injuries, and nearly 75% of them result in missed time.The league's Scientific Advisory Board announced a four-year...continued
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Emmie
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over 3 years ago
Volkswagen’s new business strategy puts software and autonomous driving front and center
Volkswagen will ramp up its software, mobility as a service and battery tech to stay competitive in the coming decades, as it and other automakers prepare for the largest transition in personal mobility since the invention of the car.Laying out the company strategy Tuesda...continued
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Hulda
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over 3 years ago
Johnson & Johnson to Pay New York $230 Million to Settle Opioid Case
The funds will be distributed to the counties subject to an allocation agreement with the state that is currently being finalized, according to Jayne Conroy, lawyer with Simmons Hanly Conroy, who is representing Suffolk County in the case.The sprawling opioid case about t...continued
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Ryleigh
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over 3 years ago
American builders’ productivity has plunged by half since the late 1960s
American builders’ productivity has plunged by half since the late 1960s | Business
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