Casper
@Casper
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Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Casper
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over 3 years ago
Congratulations to Xiang Jing Zhang for winning the Asymchem Open Singles.
August 19, 2021 (Courtesy of Edges and Nets)Congratulations to Xiang Jing Zhang for winning the Asymchem Open Singles. Watch the Asymchem Open Finals here:[embedded content]More results are shown in the table below. Click the title of an event for more detailed res...continued
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over 3 years ago
Why Local Marketing is a Startup’s Best Friend
Marketing is tough for new startups, especially those that have an absence of experienced marketing-related leadership. You’re already juggling dozens of important priorities and trying to maintain a grip on your fragile customer base; on top of that; you have to review y...continued
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Meggie
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over 3 years ago
Silicon Valley should fight its stigma against military work
Dr. Phil Wagner is the founder and CEO of Sparta Science. After receiving his medical degree from USC, he was frustrated by the lack of evidence-based approaches to performance and injury prevention within sports, the military and occupational health, inspiring him to cre...continued
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Roger
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over 3 years ago
Jury decides Apple should pay $300 million in patent dispute
Apple must pay $300 million in royalties following a retrial in a patent dispute, a Texas jury determined Friday. As reported by Reuters, the jury found that Apple should pay patent company Optis Wireless Technology and its related companies because the technology Apple u...continued
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Hulda
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over 3 years ago
How one founder bucked the data-driven trend and created a startup based on inspiration
How one founder bucked the data-driven trend and created a startup based on Oleg Stavitsky and his co-founders started Endel, they didn’t necessarily expect for it to become a venture-backed business with the likes of Amazon’s Alexa Fund as investors. Stavitsky and his f...continued
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Anderson
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over 3 years ago
Instagram tests ads in its Shop tab
Instagram is further investing in its e-commerce business, Instagram Shops, with the launch of a new advertising product, Ads in Instagram Shop. The company says it’s currently testing the new format, which includes both single images and the option for an image carousel,...continued
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Giovanni
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over 3 years ago
Growth roundup: Storytelling for startups, early-stage influencers, retail media spend
“I like to think of successful brand-building as creating a company that customers would be upset to separate from their identity,” growth marketing expert Julian Shapiro told us earlier this week. “For example, they’d cease to be the man with Slack stickers all over his ...continued
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over 3 years ago
Building a growth community in India with Ayush Srivastava of Growth Folks
Indian startups of all sizes are raising record amounts of investment funding this year and getting public exits, as we’ve been covering in recent months. To hear more about the growth behind the numbers we caught up with Ayush Srivastava, a co-founder of growth marketing...continued
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over 3 years ago
3 Ways to Avoid Productivity Burnout
It's easy to feel overwhelmed when there's a lot of work to be done. Here's how to make it manageable.
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over 3 years ago
Daily Crunch: Bangalore-based UpGrad becomes India’s newest unicorn with $185M funding round
Daily Crunch: Bangalore-based UpGrad becomes India’s newest unicorn with $185M funding get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here.Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for August 9, 2021. W...continued
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over 3 years ago
Can technology help authors write a book?
Instead of just giving the readers words on a page, its four apps - Chapters, Scream, Spotlight and Kiss - add animation, music, sound effects and even game play to digital books - whereby the reader can decide what a character does.Source: BBC NewsPowered by NewsAPI.org
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over 3 years ago
Walmart to sell its e-commerce technologies to other retailers
Walmart’s investments in software and retail technologies it used to transform its business from a brick-and-mortar to one that combines both in-person and online shopping will now be made available to other retailers for the first time, the company announced today. Throu...continued
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Felicita
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over 3 years ago
Microsoft in talks to back India’s Oyo
Indian budget hotel chain Oyo may have lost a significant portion of its business to the pandemic, but it is inching closer to finding a new investor: Microsoft.Microsoft is in advanced stages of talks to invest in Oyo, valuing the Indian startup at about $9 billion, acco...continued
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Casper
@Casper -
over 3 years ago
Can technology help authors write a book?
Writing a novel is notoriously difficult, but technology may give the writer a helping hand.
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over 3 years ago
US takes 16th men's basketball gold, rain threatens baseball - Reuters
The United States won its 16th Olympic gold medal in men's basketball on Saturday, avenging a first-round loss, while the U.S. men's…/cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuters/5GZLJV5OZRNWRGYGT2P33D7UNU.jpg)
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Casper
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over 3 years ago
Mixon 'ready to roll' after injury-marred season
2:27 PM ETCINCINNATI -- Bengals running back Joe Mixon had plenty of reasons to smile on Friday.After missing the last 10 games of the 2020 season with an undisclosed foot injury, Mixon said he feels great as he prepares for his fifth year with the franchise."Y'all see me...continued
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Kari
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over 3 years ago
Homebase raises $71M for a team management platform aimed at SMBs and their hourly workers
Small and medium enterprises have become a big opportunity in the world of B2B technology in the last several years, and today a startup that’s building tools aimed at helping them manage their teams of workers is announcing some funding that underscores the state of that...continued
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Nestor
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over 3 years ago
Class, a Zoom-only virtual classroom, nears unicorn status after SoftBank check
Class, a virtual classroom that integrates exclusively with Zoom, announced today that it has raised $105 million in a financing led by SoftBank Vision Fund II. The 10-month-old startup has now raised a total of $146 million in known venture funding to date, which eclipse...continued
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Marie
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over 3 years ago
Facebook warns of ‘headwinds’ to its ad business from regulators and Apple
Facebook posted its second quarter earnings Wednesday, beating expectations with $29 billion in revenue.The world’s biggest social media company was expected to report $27.8 billion in revenue for the quarter, a 50% increase from the same period in 2020. Facebook reported...continued
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Ezequiel
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over 3 years ago
American Horror Story Teases Its Return With Maybe Its Most Nightmarish Promo Ever
That’s obviously a bold claim to make about American Horror Story, a series known for marketing each new season as creepily and, often, cryptically as possible. (That campaign for AHS: Cult involving holes—so many holes—must’ve awakened countless latent cases of trypophob...continued
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Iva
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over 3 years ago
Facebook’s business is doing better than ever
If you pay even the slightest attention to tech news, you’ve probably recently seen nonstop criticism of Facebook’s handling of COVID-19 misinformation, along with a barrage of negative headlines tied to a new book about the company called An Ugly Truth.These headlines ge...continued
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over 3 years ago
Are Bone Conduction Headphones Worth the Hype?
Would you try a pair of headphones that rests on your cheekbones and sends audio to your ears through your bones? This is possible through a technology called “bone conduction,” and it’s most used in consumer headphones. These products aren’t too expensive and may be a go...continued
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PV Realty Advisors
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over 3 years ago
Perfect Residential Home Appraisers in Toronto
PV Realty Advisors is the main among the Residential Home Appraisers associations. The private land assessments are the norm for the moneylender's obligation of resources for the borrowers. We understand the meaning of courses of occasions and plans for credit application...continued
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Roger
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over 3 years ago
China's escalating crackdown on business is moving stocks
A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. London CNN Business — The whims of regulators in Beijing have always posed a risk to investors looking to tap ...continued
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over 3 years ago
‘Weird and unfair’: Usain Bolt criticises advances in spike technology
Usain Bolt said that advances in spike technology that could help wipe out his world records are laughable and that the new shoes also give an unfair advantage over any athletes not wearing them.After athletes ripped through the record books in distance running with carbo...continued
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