Meggie
@Meggie
449 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Meggie upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Webster
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over 3 years ago
Free of Protesters, Paris Theaters Reopen With Little Imagination
The best scenes actually come when Laura, Amanda’s fragile daughter, is left alone with Jim, her old high-school crush. Cyril Gueï makes a kind, gentle Jim, and van Hove’s choice of a Black actor for the role reinforces the racial dynamics implicit in Amanda’s rose-tinted...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
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over 3 years ago
AWS is buying encrypted messaging service Wickr
Amazon’s cloud services giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) is getting into the encrypted messaging business. The company has just announced that it has acquired secure communications service Wickr — a messaging app that has geared itself towards providing services to governm...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Devin
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over 3 years ago
Why Every Entrepreneur Should Build Their Own Marketing Agency
June 17, 2021 5 min Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their does more than just boost a company’s sales and entice customers to buy products or services. Through marketing, a business can build and maintain its reputation...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Cynthia
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over 3 years ago
Make the Most Out of Instagram's So-Called Vanity Features
This marketing expert reveals two of the most effective ways to attract more followers on your business's Instagram Savings: 60% Off of Our Social Media Books Use code SOCIAL2021 through 5/27/21 to get these books, for less. Save 60% 2017 ...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Devin
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over 3 years ago
Dell Technologies, UserTesting, Movile, Pilot and oVice to offer mini masterclasses at TC Early S...
Dell Technologies, UserTesting, Movile, Pilot and oVice to offer mini master classes at TC Early Stage you there — early-stage founders. Yes, you. TC Early Stage 2021: Marketing Fundraising, our mini master class in entrepreneurship, is right around the proverbial corne...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Eleanora
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over 3 years ago
Merlyn Mind emerges from stealth with $29M and a hardware and software solution to help teachers ...
We’ve chronicled, in great detail, the many layers of technology, services and solutions that have been wrapped around the world of education in recent years — and especially in the last year, which became a high watermark for digital learning tools because of COVID-19. T...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Monserrat
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over 3 years ago
Apple’s App Store facilitated $643 billion in commerce, up 24% from last year
In its antitrust trial with Epic Games, which has just adjourned, Apple argued it doesn’t evaluate its App Store profit and loss as a standalone business. But today, the company put out new figures that indicate it does have a good understanding of the money that flows th...continued
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Meggie
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over 3 years ago
It’s Not Your Imagination: MLB Players Are Getting Hurt a Lot
Even accounting for virus-related stints, trips to the injured list are up as the sport lags behind others in injury prevention.
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Meggie
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over 3 years ago
Frances Stein, a Fashion Force at Several Companies, Dies at 83
Halston hired her to design his first collections. She worked with Calvin Klein. And she helped make Chanel newly relevant when it was floundering in the 1970s.
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Kari
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over 3 years ago
Daily Crunch: Google’s first retail location opened today in NYC
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here.Welcome back to the Daily Crunch for Thursday, June 17. Thank you to Walter Thompson and the Extra Crunch staff for taking the reins I took ...continued
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Meggie
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over 3 years ago
Baseball Reference Adds Negro League Stats
M.L.B. is still working to incorporate Negro league statistics, but a popular website lets fans put some of the numbers in context.
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Elvie
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over 3 years ago
What is the Phexxi Birth Control Method, and Who Owns It?
She spent afternoons playing Skat, a card game, with her mother and her mother’s friends, who taught her aphorisms such as “if someone shows you who they are, you should believe them” or “there’s nothing a hard drink can’t fix.”“I was 12,” Ms. Pelletier said. “They were s...continued
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Allene
@Allene -
over 3 years ago
Final 2 days for early-bird savings to TC Early Stage 2021: Marketing & Fundraising
Listen up, all you budget-conscious early-stage founders. That sound you hear is the countdown clock for serious savings to TC Early Stage 2021: Marketing Fundraising on July 8-9. You have just two days left to score early-bird savings and keep $100 in your wallet. Want ...continued
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Madalyn
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over 3 years ago
Extend raises $260M on a $1.6B valuation to expand its warranty and protection plan services
A company that has built a new approach to the business of extended warranties — providing a cost-effective and efficient way for retailers or brands to offer them; and an easy way for consumers to buy and file claims against them — is today announcing a huge round of fun...continued
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Meggie
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over 3 years ago
If You're Using These Marketing Tactics, You're Hurting Your Brand's Credibility
You'll need good marketing to increase sales in your business, so have a solid strategy.
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Meggie
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over 3 years ago
Google hires former SiriusXM CPO/CTO to lead its Maps team
Almost exactly a year ago, Google announced a couple of leadership changes that saw Prabhakar Raghavan, who joined the company back in 2012, take over the lead of Search, Assistant and Maps. Now, sources familiar with the hiring tell us, the company has hired…
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Elliott
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over 3 years ago
Score 75% off Udacity's career-boosting online courses
All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers.If you buy something through links on our site, Mashable may earn an affiliate commission.Save 75%: Through June 8, Udacity's Nanodegree online courses are on sale for 75% off sitewide with t...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Elian
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over 3 years ago
Biden Expands Trump-Era Ban on Investment in Chinese Firms Linked to Military
The new executive order is another case in which the Biden administration is building on a Trump-era China initiative. Mr. Biden has also kept tariffs on Chinese goods in place, as leverage in negotiations. In this case, Biden administration officials say they were acting...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Americo
@Americo -
over 3 years ago
UK PM Boris Johnson’s Tories guilty of spamming voters
The Party had also switched bulk email provider — during which unsubscribe records were apparently lost. But ofc that’s not an excuse for breaking the law. (Indeed, record-keeping is a core requirement of U.K. data protection law, especially since the EU General Data Prot...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Priscilla
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over 3 years ago
Joby Aviation targets parking garages for its aerial ridesharing network
Joby Aviation targets parking garages for its aerial ridesharing Aviation is partnering with one of the country’s largest parking garage operators and a real estate acquisition company to build out its network of vertiports, with an initial focus on Los Angeles, Miami, N...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Americo
@Americo -
over 3 years ago
Google's speedier internet standard is now an actual standard
One of Google's numerous efforts to speed up the internet is now available to everyone. CNET reports that the Internet Engineering Task Force has published Google's QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections) as an official internet standard, signalling that the faster data tra...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Jessika
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over 3 years ago
Taipei-based computer vision startup eYs3D gets $7M Series A
EYs3D Microelectronics, a fabless design house that focuses on end-to-end software and hardware systems for computer vision technology, has raised a $7 million Series A. Participants included ARM IoT Capital, WI Harper and Marubun Corporation, which will each serve as str...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Rose
@Rose -
over 3 years ago
Blockchain startup Propy plans first-ever auction of a real apartment as a collectible NFT
We previously wrote about Propy using blockchain technology to smooth real-world real estate sales by introducing the concept of smart contracts. Propy was the first blockchain startup to make that work. Now the company is pushing the boundaries again, by auctioning a rea...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Assunta
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over 3 years ago
Summertime … and the Sloganeering Is a Little Awkward
They are the opening lines of a reopening: entreaties by cities, states and nations seeking to draw a wary public by evoking a sense of togetherness, normalcy and — lest anyone forget — fun.As if a summer reprieve from wearing masks and being subjected to virtual (in many...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Giles
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over 3 years ago
Raising a round? AngelList Venture CEO Avlok Kohli will share insights at TC Early Stage
Raising a round? AngelList Venture CEO Avlok Kohli will share insights at TC Early it like raising a round in 2021? How has it changed over the last few months, as some glimmer of normalcy seems, at least, within reach? What do early-stage founders (and investors!) need ...continued
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