Kristina
@Kristina
465 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Kristina upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Oren
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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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Kristina upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Adelia
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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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Kristina upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Ezequiel
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almost 5 years ago
Will the future of work be ethical? Founder perspectives
Will the future of work be ethical? Founder perspectives – TechCrunchIn June, TechCrunch Ethicist in Residence Greg M. Epstein attended EmTech Next, a conference organized by the MIT Technology Review. The conference, which took place at MIT’s famous Media Lab, examined h...continued
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Kristina upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Cameron
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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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Kristina upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Ericka
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almost 5 years ago
Giuliani Pursued Business in Ukraine While Pushing for Inquiries for Trump
Giuliani Pursued Business in Ukraine While Pushing for Inquiries for TrumpAs Rudolph W. Giuliani waged a public campaign this year to unearth damaging information in Ukraine about President Trump’s political rivals, he privately pursued hundreds of thousands of dollars in...continued
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Kristina upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Immanuel
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almost 5 years ago
Gordon Sondland: US ambassador to EU accused of sexual misconduct
Gordon Sondland: US ambassador to EU accused of sexual misconductGordon Sondland, the US ambassador to the EU, has been accused by three women of sexual misconduct.The allegations, published by Portland Monthly magazine and ProPublica, date back to before he became an amb...continued
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Kristina upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Kristina
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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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Kristina upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Nelson
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almost 5 years ago
Emissions, Impeachment, Butterball Turkey: Your Tuesday Evening Briefing
Emissions, Impeachment, Butterball Turkey: Your Tuesday Evening Briefing1. Thanksgiving travel might be a little complicated this year.More than 55 million peopleare expected to be heading to holiday gatherings by car or plane, and the weather isn’t going to make it easy....continued
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Kristina
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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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Kristina upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Jarod
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almost 5 years ago
Is the End of the Year Really a Good Time to Buy a Car?
Is the End of the Year Really a Good Time to Buy a Car?Every business you can think of is having a Black Friday sale, including car dealerships. Sure, maybe you weren’t thinking of putting a vehicle on your holiday shopping list, but the end of the year is often rumored t...continued
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Kristina upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Madalyn
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almost 5 years ago
VW's factory race teams will exclusively drive electric cars
VW's factory race teams will exclusively drive electric carsOn top of the ID.R, VW expects to rely on cars using its electric-oriented MEB platform for future competition.You could see this coming when VW has increasingly touted the ID.R as its flagship race car. It's als...continued
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Kristina upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Patrick
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almost 5 years ago
These bite-sized book summaries will make you well-read fast for $19
Get lifetime access to bite-sized business book summaries for $19We're using cookies to improve your experience. Click Here to find out more.Source: MashablePowered by NewsAPI.orgKeywords:Lifetime (TV network) •
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Kristina upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Elvie
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almost 5 years ago
Someone is putting VR headsets on cows, and we want to know why
Someone is putting VR headsets on cows, and we want to know whyLet’s just be up front here: yes, these pictures seem to show a cow wearing a virtual reality headset, and no, we don’t really know what’s going on here.You may have seen these images floating around social me...continued
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Kristina upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Arvid
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almost 5 years ago
Taiwan’s Appier raises $80M for AI-based marketing technology
Taiwan’s Appier raises $80M for AI-based marketing technology – TechCrunchArtificial intelligence continues to be the theme of the moment in enterprise software, and today a company out of Asia that has built a suite of AI-powered marketing and ad tools is announcing a ro...continued
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Kristina upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Nestor
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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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Kristina
@Kristina -
almost 5 years ago
Kim Kardashian West On Her Decade Of Multi-Platform Fame
Kim Kardashian West on Her Decade of Multi-Platform FameAs the decade began, there were reasons to be optimistic: America had elected its first black president, and despite a global recession just two years earlier, the world hadn’t cascaded into total financial collapse...continued
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Kristina
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almost 5 years ago
Unravelling the History of Wool
In this historical travelogue, Esther Rutter follows a tradition established by the first historian of the fisherman’s Guernsey, Gladys Thompson. In Patterns for Guernseys, Jerseys & Arans (1955), the otherwise patrician Thompson spent an afternoon working as a toilet...continued
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Kristina upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Cameron
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almost 5 years ago
Pogos are taxable - Business Mirror
Everybody cannot help but notice the sudden influx of Chinese nationals in the country. My barber is happy since his business is doing good. He has more hair to trim. Condominium owners are enjoying an easy return of their investments. They are paid in cash for a one-year...continued
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Kristina upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Zackery
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almost 5 years ago
It's a big week for retail. The stakes just got higher
Premarket stocks: It's a big week for retail. The stakes just got higherLondon (CNN Business)Happy Wednesday. A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business' Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up righthere.The story of the retail industry h...continued
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Kristina upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Manley
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almost 5 years ago
TikTok Owner Reportedly Expanding Its Empire Into Music Subscriptions
TikTok Reportedly Getting Into the Music Subscription BusinessTikTok owner ByteDance, the Beijing-based behemoth that answers to no man (or at least U.S. senator) is reportedly crafting plans to fulfill its destiny, i.e., its foray into the subscription music business.Acc...continued
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Kristina upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Allene
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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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Kristina upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Kristina
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almost 5 years ago
How to Add Two-Factor Authentication to Your Twitter Account
How to Add Two-Factor Authentication to Your Twitter AccountUsing two-factor authentication (2FA) is a smart, simple tactic to add a little extra data security in your life. For those unaware, 2FA is when you use a secondary authentication method—like code generator apps ...continued
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Kristina
@Kristina -
almost 5 years ago
How to Add Two-Factor Authentication to Your Twitter Account
How to Add Two-Factor Authentication to Your Twitter AccountUsing two-factor authentication (2FA) is a smart, simple tactic to add a little extra data security in your life. For those unaware, 2FA is when you use a secondary authentication method—like code generator apps ...continued
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Kristina upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
George
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almost 5 years ago
Artificial eyes: How robots will see in the future
Artificial eyes: How robots will see in the futureIt's never good when a giant of the technology business describes your product as "a fool's errand".But that's how Tesla's chief executive Elon Musk branded the laser scanning system Lidar, which is being touted as the bes...continued
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Kristina upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Rex
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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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