Monserrat
@Monserrat
406 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Monserrat upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Clarissa @Clarissa - almost 5 years ago
Where top VCs are investing in real estate and proptech (Part 2 of 2)
Where top VCs are investing in real estate and proptech (Part 2 of 2) – TechCrunchIn part two of our survey that asked top VCs about the most exciting investment areas in real estate, we dig into responses from 10 leading real estate-focused investors at firms that span e...continued
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Monserrat @Monserrat - almost 5 years ago
Airlines Are Offering Travel Waivers For Some Flights Due to Winter Storm Ezekiel
Airlines Are Offering Travel Waivers For Some Flights Due to Winter Storm EzekielIf you’re planning on traveling home from your Thanksgiving festivities this weekend, you might run into trouble if those travel plans have you coming or going from the Northeast. Winter stor...continued
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Oren @Oren - almost 5 years ago
Rossum raises $4.5M to make OCR-like data entry many times more accurate
Rossum raises $4.5M to make OCR-like data entry many times more accurate – TechCrunchEvery day, people slog over inputting date from invoices and other forms. So instead of using traditional Optical Character Recognition (OCR) extraction software, you could apply a new fo...continued
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Marie @Marie - almost 5 years ago
Intel says Qualcomm’s business practices drove it out of the modem chip market
Intel says Qualcomm’s business practices drove it out of the modem chip market – TechCrunchIt’s not like this wasn’t among the reasons everywhere suspected when Apple suddenly announced it was buying Intel’s modem business, but now the chipmaker has filed a brief in suppo...continued
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Cameron @Cameron - almost 5 years ago
Gradeup raises $7M to expand its online exam preparation platform to smaller Indian cities and towns
Gradeup raises $7M to expand its online exam preparation platform to smaller Indian cities and towns – TechCrunchGradeup, an edtech startup in India that operates an exam preparation platform for undergraduate and postgraduate-level courses, has raised $7 million from Tim...continued
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Adelia @Adelia - almost 5 years ago
GoCardless partners with TransferWise to bring low cost currency conversion to recurring payments
GoCardless partners with TransferWise to bring low-cost currency conversion to recurring payments – TechCrunchGoCardless, the London fintech that makes it easy for businesses to offer recurring bank payments, has partnered with TransferWise for its currency exchange.The m...continued
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Priscilla @Priscilla - almost 5 years ago
Educating Investors, Consumers Alike: NorCal's CMO Talks Cannabis Marketing
Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) - Educating Investors, Consumers Alike: NorCal's CMO Talks Cannabis MarketingNorCal, a vertically integrated cannabis company focused on the California market, announced the release of a new corporate brand campaign Oct.16 that spans print, digital and...continued
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Kristina @Kristina - almost 5 years ago
Bloodsucking Prison Telecom Is Scamming Inmates With 'Free' Tablets
GTL Prison Telecom Scams Inmates With 'Free' TabletsWhen you get free technology, you can reasonably assume that you’re getting screwed. That’s infinitely truer if you’re in prison.As Reason first reported, the West Virginia Division of Corrections struck a deal in Februa...continued
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Hulda @Hulda - almost 5 years ago
If You Collect Doomed Technology, Valve Is Now Selling Off the Steam Controller For $5
If You Collect Doomed Technology, Valve Is Now Selling Off the Steam Controller For $5Valve’s Steam Box consoles weren’t the runaway success that the gaming giant hoped they’d be, but the accompanying Steam Controller still stands out as a truly innovative gamepad design....continued
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Nestor @Nestor - almost 5 years ago
Trump Gives U.S. Business the Ukraine Treatment
Trump Gives U.S. Business the Ukraine Treatment - The New York TimesAnd tariff policy isn’t the only area in which the administration seems to be using its power to punish corporations if they don’t show proper political fealty.Recently the Pentagon granted the huge Joint...continued
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Alan @Alan - almost 5 years ago
FDA warns 15 companies for illegally selling CBD products
FDA warns 15 companies for illegally selling CBD productsThe US Food and Drug Administration sent a warning to 15 companies that have illegally sold cannabidiol products, better known as CBD, by adding it to food or marketing it as a dietary supplement.consumer update abo...continued
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Kari @Kari - almost 5 years ago
Wow, Facebook Really Made a Facial Recognition App for Its Employees
Facebook Built a Facial Recognition App for Company EmployeesIn its latest privacy faux pas to come to light, Facebook confirmed it built a now-defunct app for its employees that used facial recognition technology to identify coworkers and their friends, CNET reported thi...continued
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Monserrat @Monserrat - almost 5 years ago
Anxiety forced Eagles RG Brooks out of game
10:38 AM ETPHILADELPHIA - Eagles standout right guard Brandon Brooks was forced out of Sunday's game against the Seattle Seahawks due to an illness related to anxiety.Brooks, who has been open about his dealings with anxiety, took to social media Monday to address what ha...continued
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Allene @Allene - almost 5 years ago
Crunchbase raises $30M more to double down on its ambition to be a ‘LinkedIn for company data’
Crunchbase raises $30M more to double down on its ambition to be a ‘LinkedIn for company data’ – TechCrunchThe internet and search engines like Google have made the world our oyster when it comes to sourcing information, but in the world of business, there remains a persi...continued
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Erik @Erik - almost 5 years ago
2,400 WeWork Employees Didn't Deserve This
WeWork Lays Off 2,400 Workers After Failed IPO Exposes It for What It IsThe stupendously long and expensive con of WeWork, a real estate subleaser disguised as a workplace technology ecosystem, came crashing down months ago. Of course, the company’s workers are the ones n...continued
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Rex @Rex - almost 5 years ago
Late Night Is Tickled by Gordon Sondland’s Impeachment Testimony
Late Night Is Tickled by Gordon Sondland’s Impeachment Testimony“You know what these hearings could use? A guy who paid a million dollars for his ambassadorship.” — SAMANTHA BEE“Not only did Sondland leave Trump’s defense in tatters, he also implicated Mick Mulvaney, Mike...continued
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Monserrat @Monserrat - almost 5 years ago
Ask The Experts: Shahin Akhlaghpasand, No. 294 Austin Table Tennis Club
November 21, 2019 Ask The Experts: Shahin Akhlaghpasand, No. 294 Butterfly Table Tennis Question and Answer Question: I am a 63 y.o attacking player (1600 USATT) with a wide range of strokes – loop, drive, smash, flick and push. I am very mobile for my age and stea...continued
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Casper @Casper - almost 5 years ago
Why do billions of people still not have glasses?
Why do billions of people still not have glasses?Making spacecraft is not a job in which you can afford to be slapdash.At Lockheed Martin, for example, it used to take a technician two painstaking days to measure 309 locations for certain fasteners on a particular curved ...continued
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Sandrine @Sandrine - almost 5 years ago
Woman Who Survived Las Vegas Shooting Dies
Woman Injured in Las Vegas Shooting Dies 2 Years LaterTwo years after a horrific attack at a Las Vegas hotel became the deadliest shooting in modern American history, a California woman who was shot and paralyzed that night has died.The woman, Kim Gervais, 57, was a count...continued
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Clarissa @Clarissa - almost 5 years ago
Plot to Steal Florida Hurricane Aid Leads to Indictments
Plot to Steal Florida Hurricane Aid Leads to IndictmentsTwo former city officials in Lynn Haven, Fla. and three business executives have been indicted on charges that they conspired to fraudulently take $5 million meant for hurricane disaster aid from the federal governme...continued
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Hannah @Hannah - almost 5 years ago
5 Ways to Dominate Social Media Marketing in 2020
5 Ways to Dominate Social Media Marketing in 2020While social media continues to play a huge role in Americans’ lives in both a personal and professional sense, there’s also a growing wariness that marketers need to be aware of. For example, a 2018 Pew Research Center stu...continued
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Monserrat @Monserrat - almost 5 years ago
The best basketball movies on Disney Plus, according to Disney Plus’ bizarre search function
Disney Plus weird search tool insists Avatar is a great basketball movieDisney Plus boasts an immense back catalogue, from beloved animated classes to some kooky forgotten live-action movies, from nostalgic DCOMs to newly-acquired Fox staples like The Simpsons. Amidst all...continued
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Hannah @Hannah - almost 5 years ago
Opinion: AI For Good is Often Bad
Opinion: AI For Good Is Often BadAfter speaking at an MIT conference on emerging AI technology earlier this year, I entered a lobby full of industry vendors and noticed an open doorway leading to tall grass and shrubbery recreating a slice of the African plains. I had stu...continued
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Bart @Bart - almost 5 years ago
7 Podcasts for the Movie Buff
7 Podcasts for the Movie BuffFall is both the best and busiest time to be a movie fan, as we enter awards season — that thrilling period when the studios (and increasingly the streaming services) trot out their best hopes for Oscar glory. This year’s entries also arrive d...continued
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Muriel @Muriel - almost 5 years ago
Samsung ramps up its B2B partner and developer efforts
Samsung ramps up its B2B partner and developer efforts – TechCrunchChances are you mostly think of Samsung as a consumer-focused electronics company, but it actually has a very sizable B2B business as well, which serves more than 15,000 large enterprises and hundreds of t...continued
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