Patrick
@Patrick
423 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Patrick upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Maida
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over 3 years ago
Maine’s facial recognition law shows bipartisan support for protecting privacy
Michael has joined a growing number of cities, counties and states that are rejecting dangerously biased surveillance technologies like facial recognition.The new law, which is the strongest statewide facial recognition law in the country, not only received broad, bipart...continued
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Patrick upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Patrick
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over 3 years ago
Sololearn raises $24M for its bite-sized, Duolingo-like mobile-first coding education app
Coding is not just for engineers and computer programmers anymore: The pace of technology and its growing ubiquity mean that even nontech roles will require workers to have some degree of knowledge to do their jobs in the future. Today a company called Sololearn — which h...continued
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Patrick
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over 3 years ago
YouTube to pilot test shopping from livestreams with select creators
YouTube will begin pilot testing a new feature that will allow viewers to shop for products directly from livestream videos. The feature will initially launch with just a handful of creators and brands, the company says, and is an expansion of the integrated …
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Patrick
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over 3 years ago
Sololearn raises $24M for its bite-sized, Duolingo-like mobile-first coding education app
Coding is not just for engineers and computer programmers anymore: the pace of technology and its growing ubiquity mean that even non-tech roles will require workers to have some degree of knowledge to do their jobs in the future. Today a company called Solol…
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Patrick upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Sandrine
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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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Allene
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over 3 years ago
The Essentials of an Effective Press Release Media Strategy
July 20, 2021 6 min Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their is a noisy digital world out there, but there are many ways to stand out — an often overlooked one press coverage. Your brand might well be a compelling news sto...continued
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Patrick upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Colin
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over 3 years ago
Square launches business bank accounts
One step at a time, Square is creating a new bank from scratch. Today, the company is launching a new product called Square Banking that combines a checking account, savings accounts, debit cards and loans under a single roof. With Square Banking, the company wants to con...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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Patrick upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Jarod
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over 3 years ago
Zoom is buying a cloud call center company for $14.7 billion
After experiencing enormous growth during the COVID-19 pandemic, Zoom has made its first major acquisition by purchasing cloud contact center company Five9 for $14.7 billion, it announced. The move will allow Zoom to expand into call center technology worth up to $24 bill...continued
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Patrick
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over 3 years ago
The Covid travel checklist: What to know before you go
While our suitcases have been gathering dust over the past 16 months, the travel industry has been rapidly adapting to cope with the demands of the new Covid era.
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Patrick
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over 3 years ago
Mother of Washington Football Team owner dies
10:00 AM ETThe mother of Washington Football Team owner Dan Snyder died earlier this month, according to a statement released by the team. There was no cause of death listed for Arlette Snyder, who owned 6.5% of the franchise."Mrs. Snyder was a kind, gentle and generous w...continued
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Giles
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over 3 years ago
How pitch training can help startups get their story right
When you hire a marketing consultant, you don’t necessarily expect to wind up discussing your life’s purpose. Yet, that is what Spanish marketing expert and entrepreneur Alex Barrera often ends up doing with startup founders who hire him to help improve their pitch. They ...continued
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Patrick upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Jerrold
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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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Priscilla
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over 3 years ago
Black teen barred from skating rink by inaccurate facial recognition
A facial recognition algorithm used by a local roller skating rink in Detroit wouldn’t let teen Lamya Robinson onto the premises, and accused her of previously getting into a fight at the establishment.But Robinson had never even been to the rink.The facial recognition sy...continued
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Hannah
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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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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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Patrick upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Raoul
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over 3 years ago
Khashoggi murder: US softens towards Saudi leader
Over the course of two days Prince Khalid bin Salman held meetings with the Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken; the president's National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan; the Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin; and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen Mark Milley. That list...continued
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Patrick
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over 3 years ago
Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Best Moment Is About the Horror of Mecha Warfare
Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway, the latest entry in the beloved mecha franchise, isn’t really a movie that’s focused on its action. It’s more interested in the politics of its world than it is the giant robots that have made Gundam a merchandising powerhouse fo…
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Juliet
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over 3 years ago
Lynn Hershman Leeson: The Artist Is Prescient
For me, and I suspect for many others, the pandemic has prompted much soul-searching about different aspects of my life. Foremost is my dependence on technology, which I found especially troubling over the past year. At a certain point, after months of social isolation pu...continued
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Patrick upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Grayce
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over 3 years ago
Circle is a good example of why SPACs can be useful
Circle is a good example of why SPACs can be the wake of Coinbase’s direct listing earlier this year, other crypto companies may be looking to go public sooner than later. That appears to be the case with Circle, a Boston-based technology company that provides API-delive...continued
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Patrick upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Monserrat
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over 3 years ago
Satellite operator Planet to go public in $2.8B SPAC merger
Satellite operator Planet to go public in $2.8B SPAC which operates a network of around 200 satellites that provides Earth imaging, as well as analytics of the data derived from that observation, is going public in a merger with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC)...continued
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Patrick upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Myles
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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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Patrick upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Jeffrey
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over 3 years ago
Here’s what’s happening tomorrow at TC Early Stage 2021: Marketing and Fundraising
Here’s what’s happening tomorrow at TC Early Stage 2021: Marketing and your bootstraps and get ready to wring every last ounce of education and opportunity out of TC Early Stage 2021: Marketing and Fundraising. Our two-day deep dive into the essential skills every early-...continued
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Patrick upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
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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Patrick upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Nelson
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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 are continui...continued
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