Meggie
@Meggie
449 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Meggie
@Meggie -
over 3 years ago
Target pauses sales of popular sports cards
7:36 PM ETRetail store Target released a statement this week stating it will temporarily pause sales of NFL, NBA, MLB and Pokémon cards out of caution for its employees and customers.The increase in demand for trading cards has caused issues for the retailer in its stores...continued
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Meggie
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over 3 years ago
The Asus Zenfone 8 Is an Affordable, Compelling Option If You Love Small Phones
Compact phones have fallen out of fashion in favor of bigger and bigger screens, but the new Asus Zenfone 8 has arrived with outsized performance in a small package.Read more...
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Cynthia
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over 3 years ago
Huma, which uses AI and biomarkers to monitor patients and for medical research, raises $130M
While much of the world eagerly watches to see if the vaccination rollout helps curb and eventually stamp out Covid-19, one of the companies that has been helping to manage the spread of the virus is announcing a big round of funding on the heels for strong demand for its...continued
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Rex
@Rex -
over 3 years ago
Zencargo raises $42M to expand its digital-first freight forwarding platform internationally
While consumers and businesses continue to use their purchasing power to spin the wheels of the globalized economy, one of the companies that’s built a technology platform to help that economy operate more smoothly is announcing an investment to double down on growth.Zenc...continued
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Jessika
@Jessika -
over 3 years ago
SightCall raises $42M for its AR-based visual assistance platform
Long before Covid-19 precipitated “digital transformation” across the world of work, customer services and support was built to run online and virtually. Yet it too is undergoing an evolution supercharged by technology.Today, a startup called SightCall, which has built an...continued
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Meggie
@Meggie -
over 3 years ago
Popular Apple accessory vendors removed from Amazon following fake reviews scam
Amazon is seemingly taking action against a handful of technology accessory makers after a data breach exposed a fake reviews scam. As first reported by SafetyDetectives, a myriad of Amazon vendors were found to offer free products in exchange for positive fa…
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Meggie
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over 3 years ago
TE who wanted salary in Bitcoin cut by Chiefs
5:07 PM ETKANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Sean Culkin won't be converting his NFL salary to Bitcoin after all. At least not a salary that Culkin would draw from the Kansas City Chiefs.Culkin, who recently attracted attention for his plan to be the first NFL player to convert 100% of ...continued
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Gregoria
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over 3 years ago
Apple is giving a laser company that builds some of its AR tech $410 million
Apple has announced that it’s awarding Pennsylvania-based optical technology company II-VI with $410 million from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund. Apple CEO Tim Cook tweeted that the company’s tech helps power Apple’s FaceID, Memoji, and Portrait Mode. The company also m...continued
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Marlon
@Marlon -
over 3 years ago
AI is ready to take on a massive healthcare challenge
AI is ready to take on a massive healthcare Metzer is CEO and co-founder of Emedgene, a leading precision medicine intelligence company. Which disease results in the highest total economic burden per annum? If you guessed diabetes, cancer, heart disease or even obesity...continued
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Arvid
@Arvid -
over 3 years ago
Uber’s mixed Q1 earnings portray an evolving business
Uber’s mixed Q1 earnings portray an evolving Uber followed Lyft in reporting its Q1 2021 earnings this week. And like its rival, its results take a little bit of work to understand. So, this afternoon, we’re going to parse them as a pair so that we both understand what’s...continued
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Dayton
@Dayton -
over 3 years ago
HTC will reportedly unveil Vive Focus 3 Business Edition and Pro 2 at Vivecon
HTC is gearing up to launch two new enterprise virtual reality headsets at Vivecon this month, according to Protocol. The publication has spotted mentions of a Vive Focus 3 Business Edition standalone headset and a high—end Vive Pro 2 PC-VR headset in company documents. I...continued
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Rex
@Rex -
over 3 years ago
Sprout.ai raises $11m Series A led by Octopus Ventures to apply AI to insurance claims
Sprout.ai raises $11m Series A led by Octopus Ventures to apply AI to insurance was way back in 2018 that Omni:us appeared to disrupt the insurance market by applying AI to this most legacy of all industries. It has now gone on to raise $44.1 million. In a similar vein, ...continued
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Josiah
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over 3 years ago
Business Updates: The Fight Between Epic and Apple
Here’s what you need to know:Credit...Doug Mills/The New York TimesTreasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen said higher interest rates might be needed to keep the economy from overheating given the large investments that the Biden administration is proposing to rebuild the nati...continued
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Cyril
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over 3 years ago
Sequoia’s Mike Vernal will share how to iterate with tempo at TC Early Stage in July
TC Early Stage is back in July and we have a fantastic lineup in store that’s laser-focused on marketing and fundraising. That includes, but is not limited to, Sequoia’s Mike Vernal, whose portfolio companies include Citizen, PicsArt, Whisper, Threads, Houseparty and more...continued
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Colin
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over 3 years ago
Rapchat tunes into $2.3M as its music-making app hits 7M users
YouTube, Snapchat, Twitter, TikTok and Facebook’s Instagram have upended the film and TV industries, with a new wave of cinematographers, directors and actors leveraging innovations in technology to create new work and connect directly with billions of consumers to see it...continued
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Immanuel
@Immanuel -
over 3 years ago
Only 48 hours left to save $100 on TC Early Stage 2021: Marketing and Fundraising
Only 48 hours left to save $100 on TC Early Stage 2021: Marketing and Early Stage 2021: Marketing and Fundraising, our next mini bootcamp for founders in the early innings of their startup journey, takes place July 8-9. It sure seems a long way off, right? But you have o...continued
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Roger
@Roger -
over 3 years ago
When Can a Resume Be More Than One Page?
When it comes to business etiquette, a few unwavering standards seem to exist, without any definitive rules explaining why—consider the expectation that you will always send a thank-you note after an interview. And while the choice of file format to use when emailing your...continued
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Rex
@Rex -
over 3 years ago
Atlassian launches a Jira for every team
Atlassian today announced a new edition of its Jira project management tool, Jira Work Management. The company has long been on a journey of bringing Jira to teams beyond the software development groups it started out with. With Jira Service Management, it is successfully...continued
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Rahsaan
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over 3 years ago
MessageBird acquires SparkPost for $600M using $800M Series C extension
MessageBird, a communications platform out of the Netherlands, had a busy day today, with two huge announcements. For starters, the company got an $800 million extension on its $200 million Series C round announced last October. It then applied $600 million of the extensi...continued
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Webster
@Webster -
over 3 years ago
Top 5 Marketing Tools to Grow Your Business
April 22, 2021 6 min Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their estimated that more than half of the global population has online access. That’s why, whether it’s a small business or a big corporation, any company should ser...continued
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Jaydon
@Jaydon -
over 3 years ago
Technology Could Turn You Into a Tiffany
The high end, however, also sees opportunities. Tiffany Company, for example, has used parametric design and additive manufacturing to create prototypes at its three-year-old Jewelry Design and Innovation Workshop (J.D.I.W.), a 17,000-square-foot facility around the corn...continued
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Jerrold
@Jerrold -
over 3 years ago
Puerto Rico Just Had Its ‘Worst Moment’ for Covid-19 Cases
SAN JUAN, P.R. — Throughout the pandemic, Dr. Víctor Ramos, a pediatrician, had not seen more than two Covid-19 patients hospitalized at the same time at San Jorge Children Women’s Hospital in San Juan, the Puerto Rican capital, where he works nights. When he left after ...continued
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Cameron
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over 3 years ago
Councilman Pleads Guilty to $82,000 Tax Fraud. He Has No Plans to Quit.
Rubén Díaz Sr., a councilman from the Bronx, had his committee dissolved after making homophobic comments in 2019. Kalman Yeger, a Brooklyn councilman, was removed from the immigration committee in 2019 after saying that Palestine did not exist.Last year, Mr. Deutsch, who...continued
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Muriel
@Muriel -
over 3 years ago
A CODA story: Why accessible technology matters
While technology has come a long way since then, there are still moments that remind me how much harder it can be for people like my parents to stay in touch and connect with the outside world. This past year, when staying close has been more difficult, accessibility has ...continued
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Jaydon
@Jaydon -
over 3 years ago
Deepfake tech takes on satellite maps
While the concept of “deepfakes,” or AI-generated synthetic imagery, has been decried primarily in connection with involuntary depictions of people, the technology is dangerous (and interesting) in other ways as well. For instance, researchers have shown that it can be us...continued
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