Meggie
@Meggie
449 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Meggie
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over 4 years ago
Uber Lays Off 14 Percent of Its Staff as Pandemic Pummels Ride-Share Business
Photo : GettyUber announced this week that it’s cutting 3,700 roles as the coronavirus crisis pummels its ride-share business and that of its competitor Lyft.AdvertisementAn Uber spokesperson confirmed to Gizmodo that the layoffs will affect roughly 14 percent of the comp...continued
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over 4 years ago
Volvo to use Luminar’s lidar in production vehicles to unlock automated driving on highways
Volvo to use Luminar’s lidar in production vehicles to unlock automated driving on highways Starting in 2022 with the XC90Volvo Cars will start producing vehicles in 2022 that are equipped with lidar and a perception stack — technology developed by Silicon Valley startup ...continued
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over 4 years ago
The 3 subconscious states of mind driving customer behavior
There are five levels to the Hierarchy of Needs and your potential customer’s motivation falls somewhere between them. When you can successfully identify where your customer’s motivation is coming from, you can determine anything from the pricing structure you should use ...continued
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Cynthia
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over 4 years ago
Resources to help optimize your business
Online content and media consumption behaviors are continuously evolving. If you'd like to optimize your online business and help improve your AdSense performance, it's important to follow and adapt to the trends. We'd like to provide some resources to help you successful...continued
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over 4 years ago
How to Get Free Email Forwarding from Mozilla
Photo : ShutterstockBurner emails are the best invention since Hotmail. And permanent burner emails—fake addresses you give out when signing up for services that forward to your actual email address—are even better, because they give you a little spigot for turning off a ...continued
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over 4 years ago
CTA asks the US government for tariff exemptions on robotics, drones and 3D printers
The Consumer Technology Association penned an open letter alongside a number of other industry representatives asking the U.S. Trade Representative’s Office to loosen tariffs on a number of tech categories manufactured in China.The parties seek to widen current COVID-19-r...continued
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Clarissa
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over 4 years ago
Microsoft to slowly reveal Xbox Series X details through a monthly video series
With E3 cancelled for the first time ever, game publishers and console makers are resorting to online presentations to show off their latest creations. Microsoft isn’t just streaming one event, though -- the company will detail its upcoming Xbox Series X console, new game...continued
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over 4 years ago
Learn how to turn your brilliant idea into an actual business endeavor
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: If you need help figuring out how to bring your great ideas to life, check out the Essential Guide to Star...continued
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over 4 years ago
3 Tips for Marketing a Service Business
May 5, 2020 4 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.a product and a service are very similar in some ways: You have to identify your customers and their needs, and then craft your pitch to speak to their pain points. Apart from that, howeve...continued
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over 4 years ago
Eight great sites that offer online classes
If you’ve already streamed your favorite series for the third time, and you’ve hit a wall with your latest game, what should you do while you’re sheltering at home? Well, maybe pick up a new skill or hobby by taking a class.There is a huge number of courses available onli...continued
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over 4 years ago
Google announces a Journalism Emergency Relief Fund for local newsrooms
Google is offering financial support to local newsrooms hit by the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, as part of its Google News Initiative.The company isn’t disclosing the size of what it’s calling its Journalism Emergency Relief Fund, but in a blog post, Google ...continued
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over 4 years ago
Amid a Pandemic, Magic Spoon Eats Cake
Birthdays in quarantine have mostly been bittersweet, lonesome affairs. On Instagram, those who celebrated in April blew out candles in solitude or posted photos of their living rooms, filled with number-shaped balloons but absent any guests. There’s not much fun on a bir...continued
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over 4 years ago
Classplus raises $9M to grow its Shopify-like platform for teachers and coaching centers in India
An India-based startup that has built a Shopify -like platform for coaching centers to accept fees digitally from students, and deliver classes and study material online has received the nod — and capital — from a number of high-profile investors.The business-to-business ...continued
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over 4 years ago
Apple’s Q2 earnings show flat year-over-year revenue growth due to pandemic
Apple delivered a rough Q2 earnings report Thursday, besting investor expectations but showing a significant growth slowdown as the coronavirus pandemic deeply impacted the company’s business with year-over-year declines in iPhone, iPad and Mac sales.Apple’s stock was lar...continued
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over 4 years ago
Report: Uber CTO Resigns Amid Plans to Slash Up to a Fifth of the Company's Employees
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi during a product launch in San Francisco in September 2019. Photo : Philip Pacheco ( AFP via Getty Images )Taxi-hailing service Uber, which has been hemorrhaging billions for years and in the last few months has been hammered hard by the coronav...continued
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over 4 years ago
Organic Social: Content Marketing Ideas From a Pro
Wondering if publishing organic social is worth your time? Looking for tips to improve your organic social content?To explore the power of organic content marketing, I interview Larry Kim on the Social Media Marketing Podcast.Larry Kim is the founder of WordStream and Mob...continued
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over 4 years ago
‘Artemis Fowl’ is skipping theaters for Disney+
With movie theaters largely closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Disney is pushing back its slate of upcoming films. And at least one movie won’t be making it into theaters at all, with “Artemis Fowl” heading straight to streaming instead.The company announced today that ...continued
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Abbie
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over 4 years ago
How Adobe shifted a Las Vegas conference to executives’ living rooms in less than 30 days
How Adobe shifted a Las Vegas conference to executives’ living rooms in less than 30 days 'We actually got a lot of kudos for not trying to fake it and set up green screens with everyone in virtual situations'Adobe was scheduled to hold its annual conference in Las Vegas ...continued
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over 4 years ago
Airbnb turns to private equity to raise $1 billion
Airbnb said Monday that it has raised $1 billion in debt and equity from private equity firms Silver Lake and Sixth Street Partners, even as the online rental marketplace has seen its business plummet due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. It’s...continued
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over 4 years ago
COVID-hit UK startups cry out for help, as UK gov trails Europe in its response
COVID-hit UK startups cry out for help, as UK gov trails Europe in its responseThe UK government is reportedly looking at a range of options to support the startup industry, possibly involving a co-investment model involving state-owned funds (via the British Business Ban...continued
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over 4 years ago
Kickstarter darling PicoBrew may soon go out of business
One of the original Kickstarter success stories, PicoBrew, is likely going out of business permanently, according to The Spoon. The company tried to make brewing beer at home as easy as making coffee, but recently went into receivership. Now, all its assets have reportedl...continued
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Clarissa
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over 4 years ago
Meet the Man Behind Burger King's and Popeyes' Viral Marketing Campaigns
April 14, 2020 15 min readThis story appears in the April 2020 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »Burger King had a big announcement to make: It was removing artificial colors, flavors, and preservatives from its Whoppers. But the company was in a bind. The other burger ch...continued
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over 4 years ago
How this startup built and exited to Twitter in 1,219 days
By the summer of 2016, Marie Outtier had spent eight years as a consultant advising media agencies and martech companies on marketing growth strategy.Pierre-Jean “PJ” Camillieri started as a music software engineer before joining one of Apple’s consumer electronics divisi...continued
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over 4 years ago
NASA Space Lasers Offer 'Fantastically Detailed' Look at the World's Ice Loss
Look at all this ice loss of the coast of western Antarctica. Gif : NASA GoddardThe ice sheets are melting, and a new study research relies on state-of-the-art technology to reveal where the biggest losses are happening. It’s pretty freaking cool even if the results are b...continued
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over 4 years ago
Apple Has A Bright Future
Apple stores in the U.S. remain closed, but Apple is still making billions. Photo : Getty ImagesApple, a technology company you may remember from such hits as the iPhone, iPad, Mac, AirPods, and Apple Watch, has announced that it expects to remain in business through 2020...continued
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