Angus
@Angus
465 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Angus upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Kristina
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almost 5 years ago
Ebury nabs £350M for foreign exchange and currency services for SMEs, Santander takes 50.1% stake
Ebury nabs £350M for foreign exchange and currency services for SMEs, Santander takes 50.1% stake – TechCrunchAs the UK continues on its slow march to leave the European Union, a London-based startup that enables companies to work internationally has raised a huge round o...continued
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Angus
@Angus -
almost 5 years ago
Microsoft launched Endpoint Manager to modernize device management
Microsoft launched Endpoint Manager to modernize device management – TechCrunchEver since the days of Windows NT, the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (better known as ConfigMgr) has allowed companies to manage the increasingly large number of devices they is...continued
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Angus upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Clarissa
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almost 5 years ago
Amazon now sells movie tickets in India
Amazon now sells movie tickets in India – TechCrunchAmazon has set its eye on the next business it wants to disrupt in its key overseas market India: online movie tickets. The e-commerce giant said Saturday it has partnered with local online movie ticketing giant BookMySh...continued
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Angus upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Cameron
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almost 5 years ago
How you react when your systems fail may define your business
How you react when your systems fail may define your business – TechCrunchJust around 9:45 a.m. Pacific Time on February 28, 2017, websites like Slack, Business Insider, Quora and other well-known destinations became inaccessible. For millions of people, the internet itse...continued
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Angus upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Marlon
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almost 5 years ago
How to Manually Enable RCS on Android Right Now
How to Manually Enable RCS on Android Right NowIt’s been a while since Google announced plans to push RCS adoption so that Android users could finally move on from the outdated SMS technology, but most users are stuck waiting for their mobile carriers to flip the switch a...continued
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Angus upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Adelia
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almost 5 years ago
Here are 20 online courses for professionals, each less than $20
Here are 20 online courses for professionals, each less than $20We're using cookies to improve your experience. Click Here to find out more.Source: MashablePowered by NewsAPI.org
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Angus upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Pablo
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almost 5 years ago
Who will own the future of transportation?
Who will own the future of transportation? – TechCrunchAutonomous vehicles are often painted as a utopian-like technology that will transform parking lots into parks and eliminate traffic fatalities — a number that reached 1.35 million globally in 2018.Even if, as many pr...continued
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Angus upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Marlon
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almost 5 years ago
Email Marketing vs. Social Media: Can They Intersect?
Email Marketing vs. Social MediaThis morning, I woke up to this email from Glossier in my inbox:After clicking on the email, I checked Glossier's Instagram and saw the same promotion, plus customer comments raving about the products, which convinced me to purchase.Ultimat...continued
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Angus upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Jeffrey
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almost 5 years ago
Uber Lays Off 350 More Employees in Latest Blood Sacrifice
Uber Lays Off 350 More Employees in Latest Blood SacrificeAccording to a letter sent by Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, about 350 more staffers at the not-a-cab company are being laid off across multiple departments, marking its third major round of layoffs in about as many m...continued
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Angus upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Leda
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almost 5 years ago
Sony could sell off PlayStation Vue to escape the TV streaming game
Sony could sell off PlayStation Vue to escape the TV streaming gameDespite multiple price increases, it appears Sony has yet to make money on the service. Just this past summer, the company raised the price of all its multi-channel plans by $5 per month. It did the same t...continued
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Angus upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Gregoria
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almost 5 years ago
Caffeine hopes celebrities and entertainment can help it beat Twitch
Caffeine hopes celebrities and entertainment can help it beat TwitchThe streaming wars are heating up: corporate content giants like Netflix, Amazon, and Disney are all playing their positions, strengthening their value propositions. The sheer number of upcoming streaming...continued
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Angus upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Emmie
@Emmie -
almost 5 years ago
Elon Musk predicts Tesla energy could be ‘bigger’ than its EV business
Elon Musk predicts Tesla energy could be ‘bigger’ than its EV business – TechCrunchTesla CEO Elon Musk forecast that the company’s energy business will eventually be the same size as — or even bigger than — its automotive sector, the latest sign that the company plans to ...continued
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Angus upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Casper
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almost 5 years ago
Will the Sprint and T-Mobile merger create competition?
Will the Sprint and T-Mobile merger create competition?This week for our interview series on The Vergecast, host and Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks to Gigi Sohn, a distinguished fellow at Georgetown Law’s Institute for Technology Law and Policy. We’ve had Gigi on...continued
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Angus upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Jeffrey
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almost 5 years ago
Facebook will spend $1 billion to address California’s affordable housing crisis
Facebook will spend $1 billion to address California’s affordable housing crisisFacebook today announced a pledge of $1 billion and a partnership with the state of California to help build more affordable housing, after the company contributed for over a decade to an infl...continued
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Angus upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Giles
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almost 5 years ago
Databricks announces $400M round on $6.2B valuation as analytics platform continues to grow
Databricks announces $400M round on $6.2B valuation as analytics platform continues to grow – TechCrunchDatabricks is a SaaS business built on top of a bunch of open-source tools, and apparently it’s been going pretty well on the business side of things. In fact, the comp...continued
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Angus upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Oren
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almost 5 years ago
How the Designer Behind the Original Mac Comes Up With New Ideas
How to Come Up With New Ideas According to Hartmut Esslinger, founder of Frog DesignMost people can’t really innovate, says Hartmut Esslinger, founder of frog design. He and his company (now celebrating fifty years in business) helped design Apple’s portable computers, So...continued
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Angus
@Angus -
almost 5 years ago
Trump Again Defends Doral Selection, Dismisses Constitution’s ‘Phony Emoluments Clause’
Trump Dismisses ‘Phony Emoluments Clause,’ Defending DoralWASHINGTON — President Trump may have reversed his decision to host world leaders at one of his own properties during next year’s Group of 7 summit at the urging of his fellow Republicans,but he hasn’t finished def...continued
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Angus
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almost 5 years ago
A Second British Revolution | History Today
On 9 September, as Black Rod entered the Commons to deliver the summons to attend the Lords as part of the prorogation ceremony, a number of MPs attempted to keep the Speaker, John Bercow, in his chair. This action, as the Labour MP Clive Lewis acknowledged, was an imitat...continued
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Angus upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Alexzander
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almost 5 years ago
Here’s how science fiction could save us from bad technology
Here's how science fiction could save us from bad technologyThe short film “Slaughterbots” depicts a near future in which swarms of micro drones assassinate thousands of people for their political beliefs. Released in November 2017 by academics and activists warning of th...continued
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Angus upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Grayce
@Grayce -
almost 5 years ago
Android users can test out Microsoft’s xCloud game streaming next month
Microsoft launching public xCloud streaming test on Android in OctoberRoughly one year after announcing plans for its Project xCloud game streaming service, Microsoft will roll out a public test of xCloud next month for Android users in the United States, United Kingdom, ...continued
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Angus upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Ryleigh
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almost 5 years ago
Timing Technology
Timing Technology: Lessons From The Media LabWhile reading “Funding Breakthrough Research: Promises and Challenges of the ‘ARPA Model’”, Azoulay et al 2018, on DARPA, I noticed an interesting comment:The two Goldstein & Kearney 2018 papers sounded interesting but alas...continued
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Angus upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Mariano
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almost 5 years ago
Uber lays off another ~350 across Eats, self-driving and other departments
Uber lays off another ~350 across Eats, self-driving and other departments – TechCrunchUber has just laid off around 350 employees across a variety of teams within the organization, marking what the company says is its third and final phase of layoffs of the process it be...continued
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Angus
@Angus -
almost 5 years ago
Exarchia: How Airbnb angered Greek anarchists
Exarchia: How Airbnb angered Greek anarchistsActivists in an Athens district known for its radical left-wing politics are confronting visitors who they say are causing the gentrification of their neighbourhood. But not everyone agrees that tourists - and the much-needed c...continued
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Angus
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almost 5 years ago
Facebook’s Libra Association has now lost a quarter of its original members
Facebook’s Libra Association has now lost a quarter of its original membersThe news seems to be going from bad to worse for Facebook’s cryptocurrency project, as online travel company Booking Holdings has stepped away from the nonprofit Libra Association. As Bloombergrepo...continued
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Angus upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Gregoria
@Gregoria -
about 5 years ago
a16z’s Andrew Chen on the opportunities today for consumer tech startups
a16z’s Andrew Chen on the opportunities today for consumer tech startups – TechCrunchAt TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco last week, Extra Crunch managing editor Eric Eldon sat down with Andrew Chen, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Andrew focuses on consumer tech...continued
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