How startups close their first big sales

Joe Procopio is a multi-exit, multi-failure entrepreneur. Joe is currently building Spiffy, and previously sold Automated Insights, sold ExitEvent and built Intrepid Media. More posts by this contributor No matter…

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2019: the year podcasting broke

Like any burgeoning art form, podcasts have a complicated relationship with corporate America. The form’s appeal has long been its accessibility; for years, it’s been open to anyone with an…

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Google explains the science behind the Pixel 4’s Portrait Mode

The new Portrait Mode for Pixel 4 leverages dual cameras and the dual-pixel auto-focus system to improve depth estimation, allowing users to take professional-looking shallow depth of field images both close-up and at a distance. Learn how it was done at https://t.co/Z0S9REj5ES pic.twitter.com/mF1btwQt5O— Google AI (@GoogleAI) December 16, 2019Portrait Mode takes images with a shallow…

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The Morning After: Cadillac’s 38-inch in-car OLED

Chip cards appear to be unaffected, but not all pumps support them yet.Visa warns that hackers are scraping card details from gas pumpsVisa's fraud disruption teams are investigating several incidents in which a hacking group known as Fin8 defrauded fuel dispenser merchants. In each case, the attackers gained access to the POS networks via malicious…

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Lime launches a weekly subscription for scooters and e-bikes

The company has been testing the subscription service since March in a pilot program and is now ready to roll it out to the general public. The exact price of a LimePass subscription varies by region, but a screenshot shows a price of $4.99 per week in San Fransisco. To tempt users to try the…

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