Dayton
@Dayton
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Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Dayton upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Ariel @Ariel - almost 5 years ago
In a victory over Amazon, Microsoft wins $10B Pentagon JEDI cloud contract
In a victory over Amazon, Microsoft wins $10B Pentagon JEDI cloud contract – TechCrunchThe U.S. Department of Defense today announced that Microsoft has won its Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract, worth up to $10 billion over a period of 10 year...continued
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Wilmer @Wilmer - almost 5 years ago
Juul Gradually Weening Itself Off Employees
Juul to Cut 500 Jobs Amid Vaping FearsE-cigarette company Juul billed itself as an evolution in smoking cessation and has largely been recast in the court of public opinion as a wildly effective new tool for addicting kids to nicotine. The Wall Street Journal today report...continued
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Rex @Rex - 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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Casper @Casper - almost 5 years ago
Why do billions of people still not have glasses?
Why do billions of people still not have glasses?Making spacecraft is not a job in which you can afford to be slapdash.At Lockheed Martin, for example, it used to take a technician two painstaking days to measure 309 locations for certain fasteners on a particular curved ...continued
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Kraig @Kraig - almost 5 years ago
Vouch raises $45M led by YC Continuity for business insurance that targets startups
Vouch raises $45M led by YC Continuity for business insurance that targets startups – TechCrunch“Move fast and break things” is a term we usually associate with Facebook (at least, until 2014) and the general startup ethos of being disruptive. Now in true entrepreneurial ...continued
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Hannah @Hannah - almost 5 years ago
5 Ways to Dominate Social Media Marketing in 2020
5 Ways to Dominate Social Media Marketing in 2020While social media continues to play a huge role in Americans’ lives in both a personal and professional sense, there’s also a growing wariness that marketers need to be aware of. For example, a 2018 Pew Research Center stu...continued
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Dayton @Dayton - almost 5 years ago
Why Lamar Jackson and John Harbaugh needed each other, and football needed them together
6:45 AM ETOWINGS MILLS, Md. -- John Harbaugh stood in the middle of a practice field cut out of the suburban Baltimore woods, talking above the roar of the two CH-47 Chinooks and one UH-60 Blackhawk waiting to take his team on a joyride above the city.The Baltimore Ravens...continued
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Mariano @Mariano - almost 5 years ago
California Is Suing Juul for Allegedly Targeting Kids With Its Bad Marketing
California Is Suing Juul for Allegedly Targeting Kids With Its Bad MarketingJuul is staring down yet another lawsuit.California officials announced Monday that the state has a lawsuit filed alleging that Juul marketed its products to teens and youth through, among other t...continued
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Josiah @Josiah - almost 5 years ago
From the NBA to Sequoia to TikTok and more, a week of national security concerns with China
From the NBA to Sequoia to TikTok and more, a week of national security concerns with China – TechCrunchIt has been a tough week for China-U.S. relations. Vice President Mike Pence ratcheted up the administration’s rhetoric yesterday, calling the NBA “a wholly owned subsi...continued
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Alvah @Alvah - almost 5 years ago
Africa: more gazelles at home than unicorn IPOs abroad
Africa can list more gazelles at home than unicorn IPOs abroad – TechCrunchAt the recent TechCrunch Disrupt SF, Senegalese VC investor Marieme Diop suggested that Silicon Valley’s unicorn IPO model might not be right for African startups.The is largely because the contine...continued
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Assunta @Assunta - almost 5 years ago
DJI announces the smallest Mavic drone yet
DJI announces the smallest Mavic drone yet – TechCrunchThe Mavic Pro was a revelation when DJI announced it a little over three years ago. The foldable drone was precisely the shot in the arm the industry needed to help make the technology more accessible for the masses.I...continued
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Immanuel @Immanuel - almost 5 years ago
Amperity acquires Custora to improve its customer data platform
Amperity acquires Custora to improve its customer data platform – TechCrunchAmperity announced today that it’s acquiring another company in the customer data business, Custora.Amperity co-founder and CEO Kabir Shahani told me that Custora’s technology complements what Amp...continued
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Hank @Hank - almost 5 years ago
Oklahoma judge reduces Johnson & Johnson payout in opioid case to $465 million
Oklahoma judge reduces Johnson & Johnson opioid payout to $465 million(Reuters) - An Oklahoma judge on Friday said Johnson & Johnson must pay that state $465 million for fueling the opioid epidemic through the deceptive marketing of painkillers, down from his orig...continued
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Kari @Kari - almost 5 years ago
Why Salesforce is moving Marketing Cloud to Microsoft Azure
Why Salesforce is moving Marketing Cloud to Microsoft Azure – TechCrunchWhen Salesforce announced this week that it was moving Marketing Cloud to Microsoft Azure, it was easy to see this as another case of wacky enterprise partnerships. But there had to be sound business ...continued
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Ezequiel @Ezequiel - almost 5 years ago
Adidas backpedals on robotic shoe production with Speedfactory closures
Adidas backpedals on robotic shoe production with Speedfactory closures – TechCrunchAn expensive experiment in global distribution has been abandoned by Adidas, which has announced that will close its robotic “Speedfactories” in Atlanta and Ansbach, Germany, within 6 mont...continued
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Jany @Jany - almost 5 years ago
Valence launches a social network for black professionals
Valence launches a social network for black professionals – TechCrunchOver the past two years, as technology companies continued to struggle with diversifying their work forces, Los Angeles-based venture capitalist Kobie Fuller wrestled with how to solve the problem.As a ...continued
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Mariano @Mariano - almost 5 years ago
The Future of Banking Is … You're Broke
The Future of Banking Is … You're BrokeThe latest wave of tech-based financial start-ups have a new angle on the banking sector: They’ll assume that everyone is out of money, then try to monetize their broke-ness.So-called neo-banks, or challenger banks, have been all the...continued
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Maida @Maida - almost 5 years ago
Shroud joins Ninja in livestreaming exclusively on Mixer
Shroud joins Ninja in livestreaming exclusively on MixerShroud is moving to Mixer. Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek, a popular Twitch livestreamer, has made a deal to broadcast exclusively on Microsoft’s livestreaming platform. Shroud is a former Counter-Strike: Global Offensive...continued
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Joe @Joe - almost 5 years ago
The reigning queen of American reality TV
The reigning queen of American reality TVThe BBC's weekly The Boss series profiles different business leaders from around the world. This week we speak to entrepreneur and reality TV star Lisa Vanderpump.Lisa Vanderpump says she has appeared in more reality TV programmes ...continued
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Rex @Rex - almost 5 years ago
Disney is investing big in streaming. Here's why
Disney is investing big in streaming. Here's whyDisney+ has arrived to try and reshape the streaming landscape. CNN Business' Frank Pallotta explains how and what it all could mean for Disney's other businesses.Source: CNNPowered by NewsAPI.orgKeywords:The Walt Disney Com...continued
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Colin @Colin - almost 5 years ago
Max Q: International Astronautical Congress 2019 recap edition
International Astronautical Congress 2019 recap edition – TechCrunchOur weekly round-up of what’s going on in space technology is back, and it’s a big one (and a day late) because last week was the annual International Astronautical Congress. I was on the ground in Washin...continued
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Ariel @Ariel - almost 5 years ago
Why Multicultural Marketing Needs Machine Learning and Facial Tracking
Why Multicultural Marketing Needs Machine Learning and Facial TrackingMarketers in 2019 will find it hard to be successful without understanding the cultural transformation that’s happening in this country. Between 2012 and 2017, the US multicultural population – Hispanic...continued
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Pablo @Pablo - almost 5 years ago
Where are US fintech’s next billion-dollar startups?
Where are US fintech’s next billion-dollar startups? – TechCrunchAs fintech investments soar to new heights, investors are looking at the bottom and top levels of the services stack to find the next billion-dollar startups.That’s the word from seasoned investors like Andr...continued
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Assunta @Assunta - almost 5 years ago
How Lockheed Martin Ventures manages its early-stage $200M fund
How Lockheed Martin Ventures manages its early-stage $200M fund – TechCrunchIn niche markets like aerospace, where the traditional VC model might not yield an abundance of available funding, corporate venture funds can offer entrepreneurs an interesting alternative.Unlike...continued
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Kari @Kari - almost 5 years ago
Zuckerberg on Chinese censorship: Is that the internet we want?
Is that the internet we want? – TechCrunchChina is exporting its social values, political ads are an important part of free expression and the definition of dangerous speech must be kept in check, Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg argued today in a speech at Georgetown Unive...continued
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