GeekWire

JANUARY 22, 2021

million Series A round in 2018 but shut down in August 2019. However, the company’s website is still up, with a message noting that its IP portfolio and tech are available for license. The pandemic has helped put mixed reality back into the spotlight as people look for ways to connect in a socially-distanced world.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

They allegedly used alcohol orders as an excuse to scan users’ driver’s licenses. Court documents outline a complicated fraud scheme involving bots, GPS spoofing, social security numbers bought on dark web sites, and driver’s licenses copied from unwitting app users.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

posted revenue of $816 million for 2020, a 24% increase from 2019. D&D saw a 33% boost in sales over 2019; Magic’s sales grew by 23%. This continues an upward swing for Dungeons & Dragons in particular, which had its previous best year ever in 2019. Oh, and there's a new Wizards of the Coast company logo!

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The Page Transparency tab — which shows some history of the page, who it is managed by, and whether it runs ads — says the page was created on July 28th, 2019 to represent a “Kizito Gavin,” which is the reversed name of soccer player Gavin Kizito. Verification is a challenge for big social media platforms.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

There’s a lot of chatter these days about Web3 — a decentralized version of the internet that operates outside the confines and grips of social media and technology giants. Evernym raised an $8 million round of funding in 2019, with backers including Barclays Ventures and Medici Ventures.

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The Verge

AUGUST 3, 2020

Snapchat will soon let you add music to the videos you record, making it the latest social app to take on TikTok by offering the ability to embed popular songs. Snap was reported to be in discussions to license music as far back as May 2019 , around the same time that TikTok turned “Old Town Road” into a hit.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Snap still won’t have a feed like TikTok that pushes viral music content, like dances or memes, to users and is instead focused on its partnerships with big publishers and tighter social webs between users. Instagram introduced music stickers for Stories in 2019 and rolled out its direct TikTok competitor, Reels , in August.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the Microsoft Build developer conference in Seattle in May 2019. While Microsoft was an early pioneer in personal computing, it missed the mobile and search waves, didn’t participate in the consumer social networking wave, and was coming from behind on cloud. This Sunday, Feb.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

But companies licensed to operate AVs on public roads in California still logged nearly 2 million miles of testing, with two of the top operators, Waymo and Cruise, comprising the bulk of those miles thanks to what some safety drivers allege was a lax attitude toward safety. million miles it drove in 2019.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

Now, headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks, and data breaches pour into social media feeds as steady as a river flows. First American Financial Corporation data breach (2019). What was compromised: Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses, and in some cases driver license numbers and credit card information.

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2020

A December 2019 National Institute of Standards and Technology study found “empirical evidence for the existence of a wide range of accuracy across demographic differences in the majority of the current face recognition algorithms that were evaluated,” for example.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The Joon Care app connects customers to a licensed youth-focused therapist. Joon Care is riding another pandemic trend as social distancing has accelerated demand for remote healthcare options. Now that problem is exacerbated by the pandemic, which has forced social isolation and other issues. The Seattle startup just landed $3.5

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The Verge

AUGUST 16, 2021

The feature will allow users to verify their identities by uploading documentation; in Japan, where the feature has been live since 2019, a passport or license is typically used, but that may vary from place to place.

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The Verge

APRIL 12, 2021

Nuance has licensed this tech for many services and applications, including, most famously, Apple’s digital assistant Siri. In 2019 , they announced a “strategic partnership” to use Nuance’s software to digitize health records for Microsoft’s clients. The deal includes Nuance’s net debt. Last month, the company completed its $7.5

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Now headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks and data breaches pour into social media feeds at a steady drumbeat. First American Financial Corporation data breach (2019). What was compromised: Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses, and in some cases drivers' license numbers and credit card information.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 30, 2021

The personal information includes name, address, date of birth, driver's license information, and Social Security numbers. In 2019, T-Mobile "discovered and shutdown" unauthorized access to data of its customers. The company claims to know who was behind the attack and how they were able to illegally gain access to servers.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The funds will go toward charitable causes and WT.Social, a donation-backed social network that Wales launched in 2019. Wales’ WT.social platform is an experiment in paid social networking, but not in the style of systems like Friends With Benefits that restrict access with high-priced cryptocurrency tokens.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2020

He’ll also be overseeing “music, gaming, Helo,” — a social media app that’s big in India — plus “emerging businesses” and helping to scale TikTok even more than the social media app already has in the last three years. TikTok saw a 97 percent growth in users within the United States in 2019, going from 18.8 million to 37.2

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Trends in the Living Networks

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Lloyds TSB pilots social media | Main | BRW Digital Edition: new-style journalism and some insights into Web 2.0 » Will libraries disappear in 2019? It might not be around in 2019.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Rob Grant, senior vice president of government affairs and social impact, said the permit “brings [Cruise] one step closer to achieving our mission to make transportation safer, better, and more affordable in cities with our fleet of all-electric, self-driving and shared vehicles.”. California is ground zero for AV testing in the US.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 24, 2022

Dunlap, who coined her company name after saving $100,000 by the age of 25, has been dispensing her wisdom through in-person and online classes since 2019. She’s attracted a huge audience doing it, with a massive following on social media, a top-rated podcast, website, newsletter and first book in the works.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Kinney founded Place in 2019 with Chris Suarez of Portland, who owns multiple Keller Williams real estate franchises. ” Kinney previously acquired ActiveRain , a social network for real estate agents, from Zillow in 2015 as part of a larger rollup of real estate ventures under the Ben Kinney Companies umbrella.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 17, 2022

Pramila Jayapal at the 2019 GeekWire Summit. to come out firmly for the TRIPS [intellectual property] waivers so that we could license these vaccines around the globe, wherever there was capacity, and make sure that we could produce them in other countries. It requires a complete change of the way social media companies operate.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Back in 2019, photo storage service Flickr changed its previous policy of offering 1TB of free storage to its users, limiting free storage to 1,000 photos instead. It offers pros a place to store, exhibit, and license their work. Photo by Vlad Savov / The Verge. There was, as you could imagine, a great outcry from Flickr members.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

billion in deal value) is almost four times the size it was in 2019 ($3.9 Indirect revenue” in the games industry is a $100 billion market, which encompasses esports, coaching services, IP licensing, and collaborations with brands outside video games, such as Rec Room ’s recent crossover with Masters of the Universe.

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The Verge

JULY 21, 2021

Put another way, Netflix wants to be more like social apps than other streaming services. And while Netflix plans to experiment with its approach to gaming, Peters said it will include licensing opportunities, games that build on its existing IP, and standalone games. Its main competitor in the space, according to Netflix, is itself.

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Trends in the Living Networks

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

to organizations | Main | Will libraries disappear in 2019? » Lloyds TSB pilots social media Ross Dawson, February 26, 2008 7:30 PM US PT James Gardner, head of innovation at Lloyds TSB, writes consistently on his blog Bankervision , disclosing some of the key issues involved in innovating in a major bank.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

In 2019, Remote Energy traveled to Kenya to train women in solar photovoltaic installation in partnership with a nonprofit called Women in Sustainable Energy and Entrepreneurship, which works with women in Eastern Africa. The state also requires that installers earn an electrician’s license. Photo courtesy of Katie G.

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Vox

APRIL 25, 2022

Which is one of the reasons the company stopped reporting its monthly user numbers back in 2019.) And don’t bother arguing that there is a horde of conservative/free thinker users who will flood back to Twitter if Elon makes it more inviting for them: If there were, Donald Trump’s Truth Social would be booming, not a ghost town.).

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GeekWire

AUGUST 5, 2020

“Whether you are working on a document, keeping up on your social media feed or simply staying connected with family and friends, everything is accessible in one place, so your flow is never broken,” Microsoft exec Yusuf Mehdi wrote in a blog post. — Marc Saltzman (@marc_saltzman) August 5, 2020.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Their marketing team could then use GPT-3’s capability to produce original content and help them brainstorm ideas for social media or blog posts and engage with fans more quickly.”. In 2019, Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI and became its sole cloud provider (a vital relationship in the compute-intensive world of AI research).

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GeekWire

JANUARY 2, 2021

How will this year’s events — the pandemic, social justice movements, economic recession — affect the technology industry in 2021? Ideas such as “conscious capitalism,” which seek to align social responsibility with business growth, will get more attention. And I’ll earn my A-class license on iRacing…. The tech backlash is real.

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Vox

APRIL 22, 2024

It gave Hatcher a taste of independence he’d never known, introduced him to kayaking, and started him on a journey that would make him one of the youngest licensed guides working multiday trips on this wild river. But during the first week of July in 2019, I was so excited to finally introduce Hollis to the river.

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Galido

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

In one study, it was found that 60% of businesses were victims of insider attacks in 2019. Make sure that you have the proper license as well. You also have to monitor with whom executives communicate with – and how – across social media platforms. 70% reported that these attacks were becoming more frequent. “

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 17, 2022

We spoke with Williams to discuss Wizards’ year to date, a recent social media controversy, diversity, and the company’s ongoing expansion into developing video games in-house, among other topics. Going to my first E3 in 2019 was when I really understood what it means to have fans. The interview was edited for clarity.

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Phil Windley

MAY 11, 2021

In 2019, Truu conducted a pilot with the NHS where the General Medical Council (GMC) issued “license to practice” credentials to SSI wallets controlled by medical staff. Medical staff could present that credential to Blackpool Teaching Hospitals.

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Kitaboo

MARCH 23, 2021

In this case, once you upload your digital textbooks, you will get the option to add DRM encryption, Social DRM, or digital watermarking. You can create a web store and license your eBooks to educational institutions who can in-turn distribute them to learners and instructors. Digital Publishing / September 5, 2019.

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