In 2018, Americans were hit with 26.3 billion robocalls — a whopping 46% increase compared to 2017, according to The Wall Street Journal. 44.6% of total calls are projected to be mobile scam calls this year.
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Shopify (NYSE: SHOP) agreed to buy 6 River Systems, a Waltham, Mass.-based provider of warehouse fulfillment robotics, for $450 million in cash and stock (60/40 split).
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Voyage, an autonomous ride-hail startup focused on retirement communities, raised $31 million in Series B funding. Franklin Templeton led, and was joined by Khosla Ventures, Chevron Technology Ventures, and the VC arm of Jaguar Land Rover.
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Amazon is reportedly testing a biometric scanner for payments, according to the New York Post. Amazon hopes to roll out the system, codenamed "Orville," to select Whole Foods locations in the coming months.
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According to the Recording Industry Association of America’s mid-year report revenues are up 18% to $5.4 billion and streaming accounts for 80% of that revenue.
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Admittedly I've answered this question many times as, "Around 6 months." While this is true, that's a vague answer for someone in data analytics. So I did some research.
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I'm sure WeWork CEO Adam Neumann will write a book on this shortly but I'll do him a favor and draft the abstract.
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Le Tote, a San Francisco-based clothing rental subscription company, agreed to buy the operations of Lord & Taylor from Hudson’s Bay Co. for around $100 million (including $75m in upfront cash).
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Sometimes, with all the craziness in this world, you just need a reminder that people are awesome.
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Between this story and the one from a few weeks back about 16-year-old Kyle "Bugha" taking home $3 million after 6 rounds of Fortnite, your kid's obsession with games might be a better career choice than your finance degree.
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Connected fitness company Peloton yesterday filed for a $500 million IPO, and reported a $196 million net loss on $915 million in revenue for the year ending June 30, 2019.
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You ever have one of those days where you're firing on all cylinders, feeling unstoppable, like you're just winning effortlessly?
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The B2B chat app, Drift, is widely regarded as a pioneer in modern marketing, and their Vice President of Marketing Dave Gerhardt has been instrumental in establishing this reputation.
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The most egregious line item is WeWork paying founder and CEO Adam Neumann $5.9 million for the “We” trademark when it formally changed its name to “The We Company.”
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Toptal, a platform that matches businesses with software engineers, is at the top of its game: The company has grown at a rate of 30% for several years and did $200m in revenue last year.
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A new update to Google Home is sure to take your "Top Friends" to "No Friends" in one week. After an upcoming update, Google Assistant will be able to send reminders to friends and family to accomplish a specific task.
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For the last few months our engineering team here at Malartu has been hard at work developing the next generation of the Malartu platform. We built this platform from the ground up, taking everything we've learned about how the best advisors serve their clients and laying the foundation for what will become the #1 business analytics tool on the planet.
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If GE was one of your blue chips, I am sorry. This week forensic accountant Harry Markopolos alleged accounting fraud in the company’s legacy long-term care insurance business.
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Back in the early 2000's the internet was as diverse as ever. Our blogs illustrated the depths of our personality with tiled versions of today's profile pictures as full-page backgrounds, font colors that seemingly blended with their backdrop, and your "Top friends" listed as if to say, "🖕" to literally everyone else.
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