Month: May 2020
Foxconn’s profits plunged nearly 90%, due to COVID-19 shutdown
As earnings season winds down, we’re getting a solid picture on just how profoundly the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted corporations’ bottomline. Taiwan-based manufacturing giant Foxconn is among those companies that were utterly walloped over the previous quarter. Plant shutdowns — particularly in China — lead to a 90% year-over-year drop…
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Every musician is basically a YouTuber now
Huddled inside a cluttered garage in Los Angeles, Grouplove tries to be itself. Keyboardist Hannah Hooper grins wide as she sings toward the smartphone, attempting to maintain some of the buoyant alt-rock band’s typical electricity, even as she’s squ… Source
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Microsoft Surface Go 2 review: don’t push it
Microsoft’s Surface Go 2 is easy to fall in love with but hard to live with. The small tablet has updates in it that go a long way toward addressing the problems with the original Surface Go, but not entirely. The screen is bigger, and there’s an option for a…
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Vollebak’s Metal Jacket Is Armor Against … Something
With its copper infused garment, the company is looking to provide disease resistant clothing—but has yet to actually test it. Source
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Apple’s 10.2-inch iPad is $250 at Amazon and Best Buy
If you missed the opportunity to pick up the 10.2-inch iPad when it was $250 earlier this month, Apple's entry-level tablet is once again on sale. This time around, both Amazon and Best Buy are selling the 32GB base model 10.2-inch iPad for $250. Tha… Source
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Hypnosis for health? Investors have placed a $1.1 million bet on Mindset Health that it can work
Chris and Alex Naoumidis came to hypnotherapy through dresses. As The New York Times reported last year, the two brothers initially started their careers as startup entrepreneurs with a peer-to-peer dress-sharing app for women. The Australian natives, overcome with doubt, about their ability to succeed in startupland and when apps…
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