Month: February 2020
Google wants to sell you a printed photos subscription service
Google is trialling a monthly subscription service that makes physical prints of your best photos and delivers them directly to your door – a way of preserving your “best memories” in a way that you can hang on the wall or stick on the fridge. As spotted by 9to5Google, the…
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Startups Weekly: One Medical IPO raises unicorn hopes
Everybody’s talking about revenues after WeWork, but maybe you still don’t need to have all the right numbers in place to achieve a strong IPO? That’s the initial takeaway Alex Wilhelm has after One Medical’s successful debut this week. One might think it looks like a tech-enabled unicorn, that doesn’t…
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Justin Kan opens up (Part 1)
‘I’ve always liked engaging in social media for my own entertainment’ Greg Epstein 10 hours Greg Epstein Contributor Greg M. Epstein is the Humanist Chaplain at Harvard and MIT, and the author of The New York Times bestselling book “Good Without God.” Described as a “godfather to the [humanist] movement”…
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What Nutanix got right (and wrong) in its IPO roadshow
Back in 2016, Nutanix decided to take the big step of going public. Part of that process was creating a pitch deck and presenting it during its roadshow, a coming-out party when a company goes on tour prior to its IPO and pitches itself to investors of all stripes. It’s…
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The Amazon Echo Show’s latest trick is scanning barcodes for your shopping
The Echo Show can tell you what the weather’s going to do, show you movies on Amazon Prime Video, bring up your schedule… and now it’ll also scan barcodes on items you want to buy online, apparently. As spotted by VentureBeat, the new feature can be activated by saying “Alexa,…
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Save on Amazon’s 4K Fire TV devices, the Pixel 4, and more
This story is part of a group of stories called Only the best deals on Verge-approved gadgets get the Verge Deals stamp of approval, so if you’re looking for a deal on your next gadget or gift from major retailers like Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, Target, and more, this is…
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