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| May 7, 2020 | Names Matter: Exposure Alerting vs. Digital Contact Tracing | The post was originally published on the blog Feld Thoughts.
Most people, unless you work either for the government or an infectious disease “organization” (non-profit, hospital, health care system) probably had not heard the phrase “conta... |
| Apr 23, 2020 | Donate Your Computer To Digitally Excluded Students | A few Cracow-based companies initiated a campaign that aims to provide children and teachers with computers and laptops, enabling online education for them.
#DajżeKompa starts in Cracow but is looking to scale up to other Polish cities.
If ... |
| Apr 15, 2020 | Covering Nose And Mouth Is Mandatory In Poland | The Ministry of Health in Poland made the face-covering mandatory due to the spreading COVID-19 infection.
Cover your face with a mask, or any other homemade piece of fabric/other material.
Covering mouth and nose is also obligatory in moto... |
| Apr 10, 2020 | Touchless Economy And Its Post-Pandemic Future | The full potential of touchless economy is yet to be discovered.
Despite the fast-growing tech solutions to tackle COVID-19, EdTech and MedTech still require improvement.
Personal interactions cannot be replaced. At least that’s what the ex... |
| Apr 10, 2020 | Play Extends To New Territories As Crisis Forces More People Online | The local authorities of Cieszyn banned the establishment of the network station because ‘it didn’t fit there’.
Play found the way to please the government and finally provide LTE coverage for the inhabitants.
As more enterprises around th... |
| Nov 2, 2019 | PE/VC Conference in Prague – The Lasting Intellectual Aftertaste | Over 150 high-profile decision-makers and professionals in the CEE private equity and venture capital industry assembled on the 16th of October 2019 for 0100 Conferences Prague.
Event website: When: Where: PE&VC Conference by 0100 Conf... |
| Oct 6, 2019 | Private Equity & Venture Capital Movers and Shakers to Convene in Prague | Over 150 high-profile decision-makers and professionals in the CEE private equity and venture capital industry will meet on the 16th of October 2019 for 0100 Conferences Prague. The event wouldn’t be as impressive as it is now without the f... |
| Mar 7, 2019 | 10 can't-miss events at SXSW featuring Houston speakers | Plenty of Houstonians, SXSW badge in hand, will be headed to Austin to network, learn, and share the stage with the rest of the festivals attendees. While InnovationMap has highlighted a few of the faces to be on the lookout for this weeken... |
| Aug 23, 2018 | A new avenue for diet pill makers? UC San Diego researchers uncover root of leptin resistance | Let’s be honest, the market for weight loss drugs has mostly been bust. While the industry has moved on from the fen-phen fiasco of decades past, newer diet pills like Belviq and Qsymia have still failed to deliver big sales. In ... |
| Jan 13, 2017 | 8 paid iPhone apps on sale for free today | You did it! You survived another week! There’s no better way than to celebrate the end of yet another long week than by downloading a bunch of hot premium iPhone and iPad apps that are all on sale for free. Today’s list includes a bunch of ... |
| Sep 18, 2016 | Genomics event moves to San Diego | A major conference on genomics has moved its West Coast location to San Diego, a leading hub of genomic technology.
The Festival of Genomics California runs Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 20-21 at the San Diego Convention Center The festival ... |
| Sep 6, 2016 | Uspaah Raises over £270K in Funding | Uspaah, a London, UK-based personal spa concierge marketplace-type app, raised over £270K in funding.
143 individual investors participated in the round.
The company intends to use the funds to accelerate customer acquisition, further tech ... |
| Jan 19, 2016 | Yes, Delhi, it worked | Delhi’s odd-even policy is over. (Illustration by: C R Sasikumar)
Written by Michael Greenstone, Santosh Harish, Anant Sudarshan and Rohini Pande
Delhi’s ambitious odd-even pilot experiment to reduce the number of cars on the road, and poll... |
| Dec 2, 2015 | With buyback help, Yahoo stock has soared under Mayer | By Rodrigo Campos
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors who made early bets on Marissa Mayer's ability to turn around Yahoo Inc YHOO.O were well rewarded for their faith: the share price has more than doubled and widely outperformed the... |
| Oct 22, 2015 |
Abu Dhabi Global Market on Al Maryah Island will help ‘turn the World UN blue’ in recognition of the United Nation’s 70th anniversary | Abu Dhabi: Abu Dhabi’s iconic Abu Dhabi Global Market Building on Al Maryah Island, home of the world’s newest international financial center, is set to provide a symbolic focus in the capital later this week, as the landmark lifestyle dest... |
| Jun 12, 2015 | Mais barato que táxi: Uber lança uberX no Brasil para competir com os táxis comuns | O polêmico serviço de transporte Uber lançou nesta sexta-feira (12) uma nova modalidade de serviço no Brasil: o uberX, com tarifa 30% menor que a do UberBlack. Com a novidade, o Uber passa a competir diretamente com os táxis comuns em preço... |
| May 21, 2015 | In Tanzania, Activists Worry a New Law Will Land Them in Jail for ‘Spam’ | The new Cybercrimes Act was signed by the Tanzanian president last week to put a stop to the electronic production of publication of "false" information, "illegal interception" of communications and sending "unsolic... |
| Jan 20, 2015 | 10 Brooklyn-made games we want to play | We’ve written about a lot of really fun-sounding games made by Brooklyn creators, but we haven’t gotten a chance to play all of them.
We also recently wrote about Scott Stedman and Mike Caprio’s new alpha-mode startup Listicles, and wanted ... |
| Dec 3, 2014 | Do we need a National Patient Safety Board? | Share your thoughts in the comments below, or send your story about medical errors and interoperability to [email protected].
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Joe Smith: Yo... |
| Apr 16, 2013 | Online community connects Marathon runners with shelter and support after explosions | Google created two docs: one for people offering help and one for people looking for it. Normally only 50 people can access a Google doc at one time, but the company lifted that rule for this tragedy.
Google also has a Person Finder page wh... |
| Feb 26, 2012 | Almost Three: A Brief History Of Foursquare Time (And A Look At Its Future) | Editor’s note: AJ Arora is a former Yahoo! product guy and one-time TechCrunch intern. He currently works on startups in local discovery and e-commerce. In anticipation of Foursquare’s three-year anniversary, AJ examines the success of Four... |
| Dec 24, 2010 | Facebook Lets You j.mp Again, After Massive Spam And Malware Concerns | As we reported yesterday, Facebook for a while blocked all j.mp short URLs provided by parent company bit.ly in status and page updates.
Asked for more information, Facebook said it was working with bit.ly to resolve the issue, and that mor... |
| Dec 23, 2010 | Facebook Appears To Be Blocking All (Bit.ly Operated) j.mp Links | William Albano checks in to tell us that Facebook is blocking all j.mp links in status and page updates (but not profiles). Sure enough, I tried to post a j.mp link in a status update just now, and I got an error notice saying:
“This messag... |
| Dec 7, 2010 | Google Chrome Apps: The Widget Economy Is Back | With all this talk of a cloud-based Chrome OS, it’s time to take a cold hard look at what “apps” in this brave new world will look like. I recall a time, not long ago, when Apple was about to change the world with Dashboards and before that... |
| Jan 18, 2010 | Data Centers Trading In Energy Markets | Earlier this month, Google filed a request to trade in the electricity market with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Given Google’s enormous power requirements for its data centers, it shouldn’t be too surprising that the com... |
| Jan 3, 2010 | Affiliate Marketing Undervalues The Link | Two days I posted about Gretchen Rubin's new book, The Happiness Project. When I linked to the book in the original post (and here too), I included an amazon affiliate code.
And here is the data two days later:
So, in two days, that blog po... |
| Dec 18, 2009 | CrunchDeals: Peek Pronto 50% off for 24 hours thanks to BlackBerry outage | In an effort to appeal to the nerd rage caused by the recent BlackBerry outage, Peek is offering 50% off the Peek Pronto for the next 24 hours. Use discount code BBOUTAGE5 at checkout. Full e-mail from Peek with more details below:
Dear Bla... |
| Dec 17, 2009 | Watch The Buzz On Bitly.TV | With more than two billion links a month passed through its link shortening service, bit.ly can see what is some of the most buzzed about and shared content on the Web. Today, it is exposing the most popular videos people share through bit.... |
| Nov 19, 2009 | Twitter finally enables geotagged tweets with new location API | Twitter finally rolled out its new application programming interface for tagging tweets with your location.
It won’t appear on Twitter.com, but it will be enabled for location-based services like Birdfeed, Seesmic Web, Foursquare, Gowalla, ... |
| Nov 19, 2009 | Twitter Turns On Location. Not For Twitter.com Just Yet. | Back in August, Twitter announced that it was getting ready to roll out an ambitious new project: Geolocation. The idea was to be able to attach a location to every tweet. Today, the API for the feature has been officially turned on, but lo... |
| Nov 19, 2009 | Twitter finally enables geotagged tweets with new location API | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Twitter finally rolled out its new application pr... |
| Nov 2, 2009 | Tweetie 2.1 Coming Soon With Retweet, Geolocation, And Some List Support | By now, Tweetie 2 has probably stormed your iPhone. If not, you should check it out; in our opinion, it’s the best Twitter iPhone app out there (and yes, definitely worth the $3 [iTunes link]). But developer Loren Brichter isn’t resting on ... |
| Sep 4, 2009 | bit.ly launches even shorter URL shortener j.mp | Name-shortening service bit.ly is Twitter’s default service for scrunching long Web addresses into short ones that leave more room for text in users’ tweets. Twitter switched from previous provider TinyURL.com in May. At the time, a New Yor... |
| Sep 4, 2009 | Bit.ly Scores a Shorter & Better URL | URL shortener and social media analytics service Bit.ly just announced the availability of a new domain for shortening URLs, J.mp. J.mp offers all the same features Bit.ly does, but we believe it has two advantages.
Not only is it shorter, ... |
| Online community connects Marathon runners with shelter and support after explosions | We have an apartment in #brookline for any #bostonmarathon people who need a safe place. We have a car, wifi, anything u need#bostonhelp
— Sara Cody (@SaraCody) April 16, 2013
Google created two docs: one for people offering help and one fo... |
| Police in Missouri say teens used Pokemon Go to rob victims | O’FALLON, Mo. » Police in Missouri say four teens robbed victims after luring them to a specific location using the new Pokemon Go smartphone game.
Police said today that four teens used the game to draw victims to a spot in O’Fallon, just ... |
| Quatro encurtadores de URL engraçadinhos que talvez você não conheça | Desde a invenção do Twitter e sua limitação a 140 caracteres por post, os serviços que reduzem longos endereços da web se popularizaram. TinyURL, Bit.ly, Migre.me… Todos eles são atualmente usados com diversos microblogs, não só no Twitter.... |
| Do we need a National Patient Safety Board? | To mark the anniversary of the Institute of Medicine’s watershed report “To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System,” the West Health Institute’s West Wire blog is running a series of interviews between its chief science and medical of... |
| Target Partners and HTGF provide multimillion financing for Quobyte
Data Center Paradigm Shift
Completely Fault-Tolerant System
About Target Partners
About High-Tech Gruenderfonds
About Quobyte: | Boston/Berlin-based startup develops new software-defined storage systems
Munich / Bonn / Boston (USA) / Berlin, September 16, 2014: Target Partners (www.targetpartners.de) and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) have invested a seven-figure Eur... |
| 8 paid iPhone apps on sale for free today | You did it! You survived another week! There’s no better way than to celebrate the end of yet another long week than by downloading a bunch of hot premium iPhone and iPad apps that are all on sale for free. Today’s list includes a bunch of ... |