Joe
@Joe
477 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Joe upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
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over 4 years ago
Facebook Could Help Journalism by Making News Easier to Find
Facebook announced on Monday that it was going to spend $100 million to help local news outlets during the coronavirus crisis. “It’s a moment where getting accurate news about the coronavirus is vital for all us,” says Campbell Brown, the former television news anchor and...continued
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over 4 years ago
Technology Trends to Follow in 2020 – Infographic
A brand new year and brand new business strategies. In this highly competitive market environment, it has become inevitable to stay consistently updated. If your business lacks in a certain aspect, it is bound to fall behind in the prevailing competition. Here are the tec...continued
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Cameron
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over 4 years ago
Popcorn Time Is Back to Help You Stream Movies and TV Shows
Screenshot : Brendan HesseFor those who are healthy-yet-stuck-inside due to the oronavirus restrictions, it’s sort of like the universe gave us an excuse to binge-watch our favorite movies and TV shows (or catch up on our gaming backlogs). Most of us will probably fire up...continued
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Eleanora
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over 4 years ago
Biometrics security technology developer BioCatch raises $145 million
BioCatch, a developer of biometrics security technology, said it has raised $145 million in its latest round of funding.The company’s technology tracks user behavior on websites to determine if a customer is real or a fraudster, according to a statement. Its technology is...continued
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Marlon
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over 4 years ago
Technology Companies and the New Recession
Listen and subscribe to this podcast via Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSSThe world is facing an economic crisis never seen before, says equity analyst Pierre Ferragu. Consumer demand remains strong and supply infrastructure is still healthy, but both are in lockdown...continued
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Rex
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over 4 years ago
Former Uber exec raises $31M for his Jakarta-based logistics startup Kargo, announces relief fund...
Kargo, a Jakarta-based logistics startup co-founded by veteran Uber Asia executive Tiger Fang, has raised $31 million to scale its business and help firms in the Southeast Asian nation fight the coronavirus.Silicon Valley-based Tenaya Capital, Sequoia India, Mirae Asset M...continued
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over 4 years ago
Apple and Google partner on COVID-19 contact tracing technology
Across the world, governments and health authorities are working together to find solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic, to protect people and get society back up and running. Software developers are contributing by crafting technical tools to help combat the virus and save ...continued
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over 4 years ago
Coronavirus conspiracies like that bogus 5G claim are racing across the internet
As the U.S. and much of the world hunkers down to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, some virus-related conspiracy theories are having a heyday. Specifically, a conspiratorial false claim that 5G technology is linked to COVID-19 gained ground, accelerating from obs...continued
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Kari
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over 4 years ago
Fast-changing regulations give virtual care startups a chance to seize the moment
For more than two decades, virtual care has slowly made inroads into American medicine.A somewhat nebulous and overwhelming term, “virtual care” refers to the integration of products like telehealth, remote patient monitoring, prescription delivery and even behavioral coa...continued
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over 4 years ago
Yelp Will Cut or Furlough of a Third of Its Staff as Coronavirus Crushes Local Businesses
Screenshot : Yelp.comOn the same day jobless claims in the U.S. surpassed 16 million, business review and recommendation mainstay Yelp announced it would be downsizing—by a lot—citing the economic downturn amid the global coronavirus pandemic.AdvertisementLocal restaurant...continued
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Pablo
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over 4 years ago
Index raises $1.2B growth fund and $800M to invest in emerging startups
It’s not quite business as usual in the world of business, but in tech, there is still a significant amount of money being raised and invested, both to help sustain the most promising startups, and to help find those emerging despite (or because of) the wider economic and...continued
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Kraig
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over 4 years ago
How Many of Quibi's Paltry Launch Day Downloads Were Rage Downloads?
Image : QuibiQuibi, the (mostly) mobile- only streaming service that launched this week, doesn’t appear to have had a spectacular response straight out of the gate—in fact, the response was rather abysmal. According to one preliminary estimate, Quibi’s launch-day download...continued
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over 4 years ago
How to Strengthen Lock Screen Security on Your Pixel 4
Photo : ShutterstockAndroid’s April 2020 security patch includes an essential improvement for the Pixel 4's facial recognition feature. It’s simple, but important upgrade to your phone’s security: A person’s eyes must now be open to unlock the phone via the Pixel’s facial...continued
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Joe
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over 4 years ago
Jack Dorsey Pledges $1 Billion To Fight COVID-19: A Number Of Other CEOs Have Stepped Up By Takin...
Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg © 2017 Bloomberg Finance LPWith rising wealth inequality over the last decade, we’ve seen imperial corporate CEOs act in a self-serving manner. They’ve focused on enriching themselves without much concern for their employees and stake...continued
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Ismael
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over 4 years ago
Building an Email List? This $12 Scraper Might Be Exactly What You Need.
Email marketing is easier than ever with EmailScraper.co.April 7, 2020 2 min readDisclosure: Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you'll find interesting and useful. If you purchase them, Entrepreneur may get a small share of the revenue from the sal...continued
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Bart
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over 4 years ago
5 Effective Low-Budget Marketing Strategies for Startups
Go back to basics with these proven methods of effective marketing.Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.Startups operate under extremely tight budgets, which makes it almost impossible for them to set aside a marketing budget. With their tight bud...continued
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Rahsaan
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over 4 years ago
'Artemis Fowl' will debut on Disney+
Artemis Fowl, based on the first book of the Artemis Fowl series by author Eoin Colfer, was originally supposed to be out in theaters in August 2019. Its release got pushed back to 2020 even before COVID-19 became a global issue.Disney didn't explain why it'll no longer g...continued
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Geovany
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over 4 years ago
Vericool raises $19.1 million for its plant-based packaging replacement for plastic coolers
Vericool, a Livermore, Calif.-based startup that’s replacing plastic coolers and packaging with plant-based products, has raised $19.1 million in a new round of financing.The company’s stated goal is to replace traditional packaging materials like polystyrene with plant-b...continued
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Leda
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over 4 years ago
New guidance on SBA loans means most startups are still excluded from $349 billion stimulus
Under new guidance issued by the Small Business Administration it seems non-profits and faith-based groups can apply for the Paycheck Protection Program loans designed to keep small business afloat during the COVID-19 epidemic, but most venture-backed companies are still ...continued
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Rahsaan
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over 4 years ago
Olive, a startup developing an automation tool for healthcare administration, raises $51 million
Time is money, as the old adage goes, and this is doubly true in healthcare systems operating with thin margins now made even thinner thanks to the loss of revenue caused by a freeze on elective procedures.Stepping in with a technology that automates much of the time-cons...continued
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Joe
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over 4 years ago
Sources: Bulls start search to hire top executive
Adrian Wojnarowski reports that the Chicago Bulls have requested to interview GMs Arturas Karnisovas and Bobby Webster to fill a top executive role for the organization. (0:57)The Chicago Bulls have embarked on a formal search process to hire a new top executive with full...continued
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Bart
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over 4 years ago
Longtime VC Neil Sequeira: funding founders without in-person meetings is ‘quite difficult’
Neil Sequeira was a managing director with General Catalyst for more than 13 years before co-founding early-stage firm Defy several years ago with another veteran of the industry, Trae Vassallo, who’d spent the dozen years prior with Kleiner Perkins.We caught up with Sequ...continued
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Cynthia
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over 4 years ago
A Brief History of the Census—and How Covid-19 Could Change It
The United States is currently undertaking its population census, the once-a-decade effort to count every single person living here. More than 150 other countries will join in this world census round—the 10-year period centered on 2020, and around 90 percent of the world’...continued
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Bobby
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over 4 years ago
Coronavirus: LA county gun shops to reopen as 'essential' business
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Customers queue outside a LA county gun shopLos Angeles County is reopening gun shops to the public after a federal memo listed them as "essential" businesses.Sheriff Alex Villanueva closed shops last week, but reversed course on...continued
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Patrick
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over 4 years ago
Build Cities for Bikes, Buses, and Feet—Not Cars
The Parisian version of Octavia, it turns out, isn't all he'd hoped. “We screwed this one up,” Tumlin says. “The island is too narrow, so the outside lanes are too wide.” Traffic pours off the still extant part of the old freeway toward the park, and some cars use the out...continued
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