Geovany
@Geovany
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Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Geovany
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over 4 years ago
The Great Rabbit Hoax | History Today
On a Friday two weeks before Christmas 1726 news reached Exeter of a curious theatrical performance which had taken place in London the previous Saturday night, on 10 December. An Exeter newspaper reported that, at the end of the main play at the Lincoln’s Inn Fields thea...continued
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over 4 years ago
Amazon opens its first cashierless grocery store
Today Amazon is opening its first grocery store to pilot the use of the retailer’s cashierless “Just Walk Out” technology that has previously powered 25 Amazon Go convenience stores in a handful of major U.S. metros. Based in Amazon’s hometown of Seattle, the new Amazon G...continued
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over 4 years ago
Intuit confirms that it is buying Credit Karma for $7.1B in cash and stock
The week is kicking off with a major piece of M&A in the world of financial technology startups. Today Intuit — the accounting, tax filing and financial planning software giant behind QuickBooks, TurboTax and Mint, confirmed that it plans to acquire Credit Karma — the...continued
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over 4 years ago
Samsung’s Galaxy S20 lineup is first to get USB certification for new fast charging tech
Samsung’s Galaxy S20 device lineup has become the first to receive USB certification for their support of the Programmable Power Supply (PPS) and USB Power Delivery (USB PD) 3.0 standards, the USB Implementers Forum announced today. It means that the phones should have no...continued
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over 4 years ago
For investors, late-stage fintech startups are a lucrative bet
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.Over the past three months, a number of financial events have occurred in the fintech and finservices world that have caught our eye. Between two rounds a...continued
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over 4 years ago
A boom, a bust, a reckoning, a race: four takes on today’s startup market
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.Today let’s try to figure out where the startup and private markets stand, as there are a few different takes out there that I can’t reconcile. Our effort...continued
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over 4 years ago
Google searches are showing rival business directories in Europe
The company appeared to have tested this in Germany before rolling it out to a wider audience that includes the UK.There's no certainty this will prevent another antitrust case against Google. The competing directories are clearly visible, but they're ultimately dwarfed b...continued
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over 4 years ago
Karius raises $165 million for its liquid biopsy technology identifying diseases in a drop of blood
“What Karius is good at is identifying those novel microbes before they become an outbreak like coronavirus,” says Mickey Kertesz, a chief executive whose life sciences startup just hauled in $165 million in new funding.While the new money may have been raised under the l...continued
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over 4 years ago
Los Angeles-based ‘deep tech’ investment firm Riot Ventures is raising a $75M fund
Riot Ventures, the Los Angeles-based, early-stage and deep technology investment firm is going out to market to raise a $75 million second fund to finance the development of startups in LA and beyond, according to fundraising documents viewed by TechCrunch.The firm has la...continued
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over 4 years ago
Loon and SoftBank’s HAPSMobile team with Airbus, China Telecom and more on stratospheric cell net...
A new industry alliance led by Alphabet’s Loon high-altitude balloon technology company and SoftBank’s HAPSMobile stratospheric glider subsidiary aims to work together on standards and tech related to deploying network connectivity using high-altitude delivery mechanisms....continued
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over 4 years ago
Alphabet’s Loon and SoftBank’s HAPSMobile turn solar-powered drones into flying cell towers
Alphabet-owned Loon, the company that had been focused on delivering internet communications to remote areas via stratospheric balloons, has completed development work on a new payload for partner HAPSMobile, a subsidiary of SoftBank that’s building high-altitude solar-po...continued
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over 4 years ago
Here's what's wrong with the bra business
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over 4 years ago
EVANGELICALS: AFFINITY FOR FANTASY
Holiday season, 2019, one news item which struck me to my very core as well as dredged up a conflicting memory came from the news program, "Democracy Now!". Documentarian Michael Moore had a conversation with Amy Goodman. He predicted the 2020 election, "Trump will be ree...continued
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over 4 years ago
How to create engaging social media videos with zero experience (or talent)
Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.TL;DR: Elevate your marketing skills with the Design Wizard: Stock Video Bundle for $49, a 95% savings.In this algorithm-driven age, video is king. Not only does this typ...continued
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over 4 years ago
Voodoo Games thrives by upending conventional product design
Voodoo Games is one of the most interesting startups alive today. In mid-2018, it had 150 million MAUs and raised $200 million from Goldman Sachs, yet I’ve never heard anyone mention the company. That might be normal for an obscure enterprise SaaS play, but Voodoo is cons...continued
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over 4 years ago
Octi launches a social network built around augmented reality
Octi has created a new social network that uses augmented reality to connect the act of seeing your friends in real life with viewing digital content, like their favorite YouTube videos and Spotify songs.When I wrote about the startup in 2018, it was building AR technolog...continued
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over 4 years ago
Orbital debris startup Astroscale chosen by JAXA for its first space junk removal mission
Japanese orbital debris removal technology startup Astroscale is going to be working with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on the agency’s first mission to remove some of the junk that currently exists on orbit. They’ve been selected by the agency to particip...continued
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over 4 years ago
Localytics founders announce Demand Sage, a startup bringing marketing intelligence to small and ...
Just a couple days after mobile analytics and marketing company Localytics was acquired by Upland Software, two of its founders are announcing their new startup, Demand Sage.CEO Raj Aggarwal and CTO Henry Cipolla previously co-founded and served in the same roles at Local...continued
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over 4 years ago
Original Content podcast: Netflix’s ‘Cheer’ provides a gripping, painful look at competitive chee...
“Cheer,” a new documentary series on Netflix, may be singlehandedly changing the way many people think about cheerleading.The show follows the competitive cheerleading team at Navarro College in Texas as they prepare to compete once more in the national championships, and...continued
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over 4 years ago
Gartner forecast: 2020 to see 0.9% bump in global device shipments thanks to 5G, then 2 more year...
The analysts at Gartner have published their annual global device forecast, and while 2020 looks like it may be partly sunny, get ready for more showers and poor weather ahead. The analysts predict that a bump from new 5G technology will lead to total shipments of 2.16 bi...continued
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over 4 years ago
Bonnie Wright Raves About ‘Amazing’ Cast of ‘Harry Potter’
Better together! Bonnie Wright had nothing but praise when speaking about her former Harry Potter castmates. The English actress noted how she and her costar Evanna Lynch, in particular, have inspired each other through their shared interest of activism.“[We like] just su...continued
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over 4 years ago
LATTA Open Tournament, Feb. 22! Register Now!Congrats to Champions
February 15, 2020 Big Congrats to our Champions from LATTA Thanh Banh Memorial Open Jan. 25, 2020!!! Hello Table Tennis Enthusiasts, LATTA OPEN SAT, FEB. 22, 2020!!! New trophy style! Our trophies are the BEST and BIGGEST compared to all other Clubs! 2 feet tall...continued
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over 4 years ago
Coronavirus prompts Facebook to cancel marketing summit, reports say - CNET
Fears over a novel coronavirus, now officially named SARS-CoV-2, have prompted tech companies to cancel plans Friday for major events in San Francisco. Facebook canceled a marketing summit scheduled for early March, which was expected to draw 4,000 people. Additionally, I...continued
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Geovany
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over 4 years ago
EURO TOP 16 Recap: Boll On Top. When the dust settled in Montreaux
February 14, 2020 EURO TOP 16 Recap: Boll On Top (by Steve Hopkins/Photo by ITTF) When the dust settled in Montreaux, Switzerland, it was Timo Boll on top at the CCB 2020 Europe Top 16 Cup. The Euro Top 16 matches up the best players in Europe (maximum of 2 player...continued
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over 4 years ago
9 Ways Your Content Marketing Can Generate Leads and Close Sales
Find out how upping your content marketing game can close more deals.February 12, 2020 6 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.The following excerpt is from Robert W. Bly’s The Content Marketing Handbook. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes &am...continued
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