Cynthia
@Cynthia
441 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Cynthia upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Hank @Hank - almost 5 years ago
Scammers peddling Islamophobic clickbait is business as usual at Facebook
Scammers peddling Islamophobic clickbait is business as usual at Facebook – TechCrunchA network of scammers used a ring of established right-wing Facebook pages to stoke Islamophobia and make a quick buck in the process, a new report from the Guardian reveals. But it’s le...continued
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Alvah @Alvah - almost 5 years ago
This Pocket-Size Device Makes Color Matching Easy Wherever You Are
This Pocket-Size Device Makes Color Matching Easy Wherever You AreDisclosure: 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 comm...continued
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Nestor @Nestor - almost 5 years ago
Digital Marketing Jobs in the Government Sector
Digital Marketing Job in (India) Government SectorA government job is a dream come true for the average working-class people in India. Digital marketing moves ahead because all the sectors depend on it. Digital marketing can extend beyond internet marketing, which uses in...continued
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Maureen @Maureen - almost 5 years ago
Book of the Week: 'The Direct Mail Revolution'
'The Direct Mail Revolution'Create direct-mail marketing campaigns that can earn you an ROI as high as 1,300 percent.This book has been selected for the Entrepreneur Press® Book of the Week, a weekly email newsletter that delivers heaping discounts to the books you love. ...continued
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Kraig @Kraig - almost 5 years ago
Einride to launch commercial pilot of driverless electric pods with Coca-Cola European Partners
Einride to launch commercial pilot of driverless electric pods with Coca-Cola European Partners – TechCrunchAutonomous robotic road-riding cargo pod startup Einride has signed a new partner for a commercial pilot on Sweden’s roads, which should be a great test of the comp...continued
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Kraig @Kraig - almost 5 years ago
Rocket Lab readies Electron for its first launch with rocket recovery systems on board
Rocket Lab readies Electron for its first launch with rocket recovery systems on board – TechCrunchUpdate: Running Out of Fingers has launched successfully! We’ll know more about the results of the recovery system study soon.Rocket Lab is getting ready to fly its tenth mi...continued
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George @George - almost 5 years ago
Your Kid's School Is Probably Collecting Tons of Data on Them
Your Kid's School Is Probably Collecting Tons of Data on ThemWe’re living in a time when cyber-bulling, self-harm, suicide and school shootings are all things that parents and educators need to worry about. And as technology became more prevalent in the classroom, an obvi...continued
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Assunta @Assunta - almost 5 years ago
How the Kardashian-Jenner family built their business empire
How the Kardashian-Jenner family built their business empireFrom the O.J. Simpson trial to brand ambassadors, here's how the Kardashian-Jenner family have maintained their stardom and turned it into a business.Source: CNNPowered by NewsAPI.orgKeywords:Kim Kardashian • Cai...continued
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Manley @Manley - almost 5 years ago
Nest Hubs will use ultrasonic sensing to display reminders and appointments
Nest Hubs will use ultrasonic sensing to display reminders and appointmentsLast month Google updated the Nest Hub and Nest Hub Max so that they could use ultrasonic sensing to tell when a person is nearby. While the Hub Max includes a camera that it could already use to s...continued
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Myles @Myles - almost 5 years ago
These new data sources are creating high-impact tools for investors
These new data sources are creating high-impact tools for investors – TechCrunchVenture capitalists tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most of us are using the same infrastructure tools we’ve used for the past 20+ years — Excel and recent college grads ...continued
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Gregoria @Gregoria - almost 5 years ago
Korean e-commerce leader Coupang hires Alberto Fornaro as its new chief financial officer
Korean e-commerce leader Coupang hires Alberto Fornaro as its new chief financial officer – TechCrunchKorean e-commerce giant Coupang has a new chief financial officer. The company announced today that it has hired Alberto Fornaro, who previously served the same role at I...continued
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Cynthia @Cynthia - almost 5 years ago
The Nuclear Taboo | History Today
Why did the US not use nuclear weapons in Vietnam? We often assume that it was the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction that kept both superpowers from ever using them. But intelligence reports from the period paint a more nuanced picture, one where global abhorrence ...continued
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Joe @Joe - almost 5 years ago
Facebook expands its efforts against ad discrimination
Facebook expands its efforts against ad discrimination – TechCrunchUnder the terms of a settlement with the ACLU and other civil rights groups earlier this year, Facebook has been taking steps to prevent discriminatory ad targeting.Specifically, the company says ads in th...continued
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Elvie @Elvie - almost 5 years ago
Where top VCs are investing in real estate and proptech (Part 1 of 2)
Where top VCs are investing in real estate and proptech (Part 1 of 2) – TechCrunchThe multi-trillion dollar global real estate market is getting flipped on its head.Business model innovation, data accessibility and the proliferation of mobile, SaaS and other cloud-native ...continued
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Hannah @Hannah - almost 5 years ago
Fulcrum, which provides freelance placement opportunities for technical projects, raises $1 million
Fulcrum, which provides freelance placement opportunities for technical projects, raises $1 million – TechCrunchLa Jolla, Calif.-basedFulcrum, a job-placement company for technical projects, has raised $1 million in a seed round of funding, led by local technology investm...continued
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Alvah @Alvah - almost 5 years ago
Juno shuts down its operations in NYC as owner Gett signs strategic partnership with Lyft
Juno shuts down its operations in NYC as owner Gett signs strategic partnership with Lyft – TechCrunchGett, the ridesharing company backed by Volkswagen and valued at around $1.5 billion, is putting the brakes on a major part of its growth strategy. Today, the company ann...continued
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Cynthia @Cynthia - almost 5 years ago
The 17 most memorable college basketball players of the decade
Best, most memorable college basketball players of the 2010sThe latest in a long line of Duke villains, Grayson Allen was as much a star in the eyes of the Blue Devil faithful as he was a terror to the rest of the college basketball world. He broke onto the scene with a n...continued
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Jeffrey @Jeffrey - almost 5 years ago
The tech of giving back: an interview with Salesforce’s Chief Philanthropy Officer
An interview with Salesforce’s Chief Philanthropy Officer – TechCrunchSince its founding two decades ago, Salesforce has pioneered the Pledge 1% model of giving back one percent of equity, product, profit, and employee time to charity.As EVP, Marketing and Chief Philanthr...continued
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Elaina @Elaina - almost 5 years ago
A Review of Instagram Marketing by Matthew Lucas
A Review of Instagram Marketing by Matthew LucasKristin Johnson is the author of AIN'T "U" GOT NO MANNERS, winner of three 2019 Dan Poynter Global eBook Awards (Silver-Best eBook Cover, Bronze-Technology and Engineering, Honorable Mention-Self Help) and "the Bible for Soc...continued
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Kari @Kari - almost 5 years ago
NYC city council votes to ban non-tobacco flavored e-cigarettes
NYC city council votes to ban non-tobacco flavored e-cigarettesThe move is designed to curb teen vaping. New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot noted recently that there's evidence of kids as young as 11 using e-cigarettes. Around 1 in 15 middle school studen...continued
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Jerrold @Jerrold - almost 5 years ago
Instagram to test hiding Like counts in the US next week
Instagram to test hiding Like counts in US, which could hurt influencers – TechCrunch“We will make decisions that hurt the business if they help people’s well-being and health,” says Instagram’s CEO Adam Mosseri. To that end, next week Instagram will expand to some users ...continued
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Hannah @Hannah - almost 5 years ago
Los Angeles-based Boulevard has raised $11 million for its software to manage salons and spas
Los Angeles-based Boulevard has raised $11 million for its software to manage salons and spas – TechCrunchBarbershops and salons in the U.S. represent a $315 billion industry, counting nearly 3 million small businesses and 4 million independent aestheticians among their r...continued
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Teagan @Teagan - almost 5 years ago
Apple reportedly plans 2022 release for first AR headset, followed by AR glasses in 2023
Apple reportedly plans release for first AR headset, followed by AR glassesApple plans to release its first augmented reality headset in 2022, followed by a smaller device — a pair of AR glasses — in 2023, according to a new report from The Information.Apple’s entry into ...continued
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Cynthia @Cynthia - almost 5 years ago
How a Divided Left Is Losing the Battle on Abortion
How a Divided Left Is Losing the Battle on AbortionBut unlike support for same-sex marriage, which rose drastically before it was legalized nationwide, Americans’ views on abortion have remained relatively consistent since 1975. A majority of Americans believe the proced...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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