Rex
@Rex
473 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Rex upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Angus @Angus - over 3 years ago
Grover raises $71M to grow its consumer electronics subscription business
A startup tapping into the concept of the circular economy, where people don’t buy items outright but pay an incremental amount to use them temporarily, has raised some funding to scale its business in Europe and beyond. Grover, a Berlin-based startup that runs a subscrip...continued
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Elody @Elody - over 3 years ago
From pickup basketball to market domination: My wild ride with Coupang
A month ago, Coupang arrived on Wall Street with a bang. The South Korean e-commerce giant — buoyed by $12 billion in 2020 revenue — raised $4.55 billion in its IPO and hit a valuation as high as $109 billion. It is the biggest U.S. IPO of the year so far, and the largest...continued
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Eleanora @Eleanora - over 3 years ago
GM marketing spend will return to normal levels post pandemic-chief marketing officer - Reuters UK
DETROIT (Reuters) -General Motors Co’s marketing and promotional spending will return to normal levels after the COVID-19 pandemic caused that budget to drop last year, the U.S. automaker’s top marketing officer said on Monday.FILE PHOTO: The new GM logo is seen on the fa...continued
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Pablo @Pablo - over 3 years ago
Biden’s cybersecurity dream team takes shape
President Biden has named two former National Security Agency veterans to senior government cybersecurity positions, including the first national cyber director.The appointments, announced Monday, land after the discovery of two cyberattacks linked to foreign governments ...continued
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Patrick @Patrick - over 3 years ago
Daily Crunch: The Supreme Court sides with Google in Oracle suit
Daily Crunch: The Supreme Court sides with Google in Oracle Supreme Court announces several tech-related rulings, LG will shut down its smartphone business and we take a deep dive into the story of StockX. This is your Daily Crunch for April 5, 2021.The big story: The Su...continued
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Josiah @Josiah - over 3 years ago
Hyundai IONIQ 5 will be Motional and Lyft’s first robotaxi
Hyundai IONIQ 5 will be Motional and Lyft’s first will integrate its driverless technology into Hyundai’s new all-electric SUV to create the company’s first robotaxi. At the start of 2023, customers in certain markets will be able to book the fully electric, fully autono...continued
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Cyril @Cyril - over 3 years ago
Digital banking solutions provider Meniga closes additional €10M investment
Digital banking solutions provider Meniga closes additional €10M the London fintech that provides digital banking technology to leading banks, has closed €10 million in additional funding.The round is led by Velocity Capital and Frumtak Ventures. Also participating are I...continued
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Alexandro @Alexandro - over 3 years ago
Building the right team for a billion-dollar startup
Building the right team for a billion-dollar startup Bain Capital Ventures' Sarah Smith on hiring, diversity and creating building out Facebook’s first office in Austin to putting together most of Quora’s team, Bain Capital Ventures managing director Sarah Smith has do...continued
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Americo @Americo - over 3 years ago
The New Cancel Culture Capitalism
An M.L.B. source described what many within the league saw as an untenable scenario for the sport: A number of players would refuse to participate in the game. The remainder would have been asked — over and over again — about their positions on the voting law. The game — ...continued
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Rex @Rex - over 3 years ago
Loyal robot dogs learn to follow their humans using prototype scanning technology
In a proof-of-concept collaboration, Piaggio Fast Forward (PFF) and Trimble have developed a prototype module called ‘PFFtag’ that allows swarms of robots to follow humans. The module is equipped onto a Boston Dynamics 'Spot' and is controlled using Trimble’s positioning ...continued
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Izaiah @Izaiah - over 3 years ago
How to Pet-Proof Your Garden This Spring
Pets and gardens don’t always get along. If you have both, it’s important to keep them out of each other’s business so everyone stays happy and healthy.How to pet-proof your gardenOf course, this is a lot easier said than done. Dogs love to dig, and cats love to find new ...continued
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Rex @Rex - over 3 years ago
Loyal robot dogs learn to follow their humans using prototype scanning technology
In a proof-of-concept collaboration, Piaggio Fast Forward (PFF) and Trimble have developed a prototype module called ‘PFFtag’ that allows swarms of robots to follow humans. The module is equipped onto a Boston Dynamics 'Spot' and is controlled using Trimble’s…
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Priscilla @Priscilla - over 3 years ago
Norway’s Kolonial rebrands as Oda, bags $265M on a $900M valuation to grow its online grocery del...
Food delivery startups, and specifically those focused on grocery delivery, continue to reap super-sized rounds of funding in Europe, buoyed by a year of pandemic living that has led many consumers to shift to shopping online. Today, the latest of these is coming out of N...continued
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George @George - over 3 years ago
Quiq acquires Snaps to create a combined customer messaging platform
At first glance, Quiq and Snaps might sound like similar startups — they both help businesses talk to their customers via text messaging and other messaging apps. But Snaps CEO Christian Brucculeri said “there’s almost no overlap in what we do” and that the companies are ...continued
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Iva @Iva - over 3 years ago
Tim Cook drops hints about autonomous tech and the Apple car
Apple CEO Tim Cook dropped a few hints in an interview released Monday about the direction of the much-anticipated Apple car, including that autonomous vehicle technology will likely be a key feature.“The autonomy itself is a core technology, in my view,” Cook told Kara S...continued
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Myles @Myles - over 3 years ago
Revolution Ventures backs Casted in B2B-focused podcast play
Historically, podcasts have been aimed at consumers. The value to be gained in the B2B world is something that has been largely untapped.For Lindsay Tjepkema — who has been entrenched in the world of B2B marketing for more than 15 years — the opportunity was massive. So i...continued
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Geovany @Geovany - over 3 years ago
Covid in Kenya: The woman who refuses to be defeated by the virus
"These people who live [on] under $2 a day, they know if you get sick, you're gonna get dead," says Kennedy Odede, a Kibera-born activist, and founder of the local Shining Hope charity.Source: BBC NewsPowered by NewsAPI.org
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Alexandro @Alexandro - over 3 years ago
Master Git and GitHub with this $25 e-learning bundle
This content is made possible by our sponsor; it is not written by and does not necessarily reflect the views of Engadget's editorial staff.Git and Github represent two of the most useful tools available to programmers: one for documenting and saving your work and the oth...continued
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Kraig @Kraig - over 3 years ago
Gillmor Gang: Grifters Paradise
VIDEOThe other day, I attended a celebration of one of the pioneers of collaboration technology, Ray Ozzie. The father of Lotus Notes, Ozzie left Lotus and his startup firm Iris after a hostile takeover by IBM, and eventually joined Microsoft when that company acquired hi...continued
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Adelia @Adelia - over 3 years ago
Earn IT Certifications in Cloud Computing, Project Management, Blockchain, and More With This Onl...
Get certified in cloud computing, digital marketing, Linux, and much Your Business, Not Your Inbox Stay informed and join our daily newsletter 2021 2 min Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you'll find interesting and ...continued
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Moises @Moises - over 3 years ago
Knowing when your startup should go all-in on business development
Knowing when your startup should go all-in on business Ghaffary is a general partner at Canvas Ventures, where he invests in innovation for consumers and software. Previously, he was a partner at Social Capital, co-founder and VP of Business Development of Stitcher, VP ...continued
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Zetta @Zetta - over 3 years ago
Airtel Africa receives additional $100M for its mobile money business from Mastercard
Two weeks ago, TPG’s Rise Fund invested $200 million in Airtel Mobile Commerce BV (AMC BV) — the mobile money business of telecom Airtel Africa. After closing the deal, the Bharti Airtel subsidiary noted that it was still in discussions to sell additional minority stake (...continued
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Cynthia @Cynthia - over 3 years ago
Datapeople announces $8M in raised capital as it works to make recruiting more equitable
Datapeople announces $8M in raised capital as it works to make recruiting more morning Datapeople, a startup that sells software designed to make recruiting more equitable, announced that it has raised $8 million across two funding events, including a $5 million round in...continued
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OneClick @robi21 - over 3 years ago
My Internet Business Success Formula For Novices - Your Proven Road to Success in 2021
By success, I mean earning your first $1 million online in less than a year as a beginner. I define a beginner as someone who is new to online business, has fewer than 10,000 followers, and has not yet made their first $10,000. If you're a beginner who wants to make it bi...continued
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Elian @Elian - over 3 years ago
Save 97% on this professional business analysis certification bundle
Products featured here are selected by our partners at StackCommerce.If you buy something through links on our site, Mashable may earn an affiliate commission.TL;DR: The Exclusive Business Analysis Certification Bundle is on sale for £25.44 as of March 31, saving you 97% ...continued
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