It’s time to put an end to these dumb automatic customer support calls that ask you to press 1, then press 4, then press 2, then say “yes”… CallDesk is working on a virtual agent for customer support calls. Think something like Siri for customer calls. Point Nine Capital and EQT Ventures are investing in today’s funding round of $2.5 million (€2.1 million). There… Read More
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Nokia brand licensee HMD Global is doubling down on the tech nostalgia card it pulled out back in February, by announcing a 3G version of the colorful candybar Nokia 3310Â — now with support for a handful of apps. Read More
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MacOS High Sierra is here. These tips will help you prepare your Mac for Apple’s new operating system.
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Unfortunately, most funding networks are often old boys’ clubs. But more women-led investor firms like BB Ventures, Kapor Capital and Backstage Capital in the U.S. and Allbright in the U.K. are demonstrating to the VC world that you can bring real business AND be intentional about funding diverse ventures, at the same time. Who knew?
AllBright – the collective for working women… Read More
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Naspers, the South African media and internet giant, has upped its stake in Delivery Hero, the Berlin based food-delivery giant that went public earlier this year and has a market cap of $6.8 billion. Naspers has acquired another 13 percent of the company, 22.4 million shares, equivalent to about €660 million ($775 million), from Rocket Internet. Naspers now owns 26.3 percent of the… Read More
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Two lucky CNET readers can take home the newest flagship phone from Samsung. This giveaway ends Oct. 8, 2017.
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Horner’s hoaxes were often repeated by political figures and news outlets that failed to fact-check his claims.
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Amazon reveals its high-end Echo, MIT’s CSAIL developed a robot that can wear different exoskeletons, Ford and Lyft tie the knot and Delta gives people free messaging on WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and iMessage on flights. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
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When, where and how to get your nostalgia fix.
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Magic Leap very well could be one giant, well-funded performance art piece.
Today, the augmented reality company (which, again, has yet to launch a product or share any details of a product despite raising absurd amounts of dough) launched a new website.
The website is nice. It’s modern, pretty bare bones, it has a new red version of their logo and a sign-up page to “keep in… Read More
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