This year has seen unprecedented interest in Southeast Asia’s startups from Chinese tech firms, and today we can add another deal to the pile. JD.com, the close rival to Alibaba, has led a $19 million investment in Bangkok-headquartered online fashion brand Pomelo. The deal, which is the largest Series B for a Thai startup to date, is co-led by Indonesia’s Provident Capital… Read More
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Apple learns to feed the hype for its iPhone X launch—and snubs a lot of important people
Even before John Gruber started his one-man Apple-centric media operation, Daring Fireball, he knew he wanted to “be opinionated.”
Those opinions are often reserved for Apple items and other consumer technology topics, so it’d make sense for devotees…
4 lessons ‘Bob’s Burgers’ can teach entrepreneurs
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One of the most entrepreneurial TV families also happens to be an animated one. For seven seasons on the series “Bob’s Burgers,” we’ve watched The Belcher family run a restaurant in a small, seaside community. The eatery is named after Bob, the family patriarch and owner, who operates the business alongside his wife Linda and their three children Gene, Tina, and Louise.
When a small business is depicted on TV, it’s generally done in a quaint and lowkey manner. Details like the daily lack of customers in a clothing shop or employees taking frequent breaks don’t seem to affect the company’s bottom line. Bob’s Burgers, on the other hand, keeps the trials and tribulations of running a storefront in check because the burger joint is practically one of the main characters. Read more…
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4 lessons ‘Bob’s Burgers’ can teach entrepreneurs
One of the most entrepreneurial TV families also happens to be an animated one. For seven seasons on the series “Bob’s Burgers,” we’ve watched The Belcher family run a restaurant in a small, seaside community. The eatery is named after Bob, the family patriarch and owner, who operates the business alongside his wife Linda and their three children Gene, Tina, and Louise.
When a small business is depicted on TV, it’s generally done in a quaint and lowkey manner. Details like the daily lack of customers in a clothing shop or employees taking frequent breaks don’t seem to affect the company’s bottom line. Bob’s Burgers, on the other hand, keeps the trials and tribulations of running a storefront in check because the burger joint is practically one of the main characters. Read more…
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Yes, Laura Ingraham, Trump loyalists, and everybody else are living on separate planets
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You have to hand it to Laura Ingraham. When she’s right, she’s right.
Ingraham, a longtime conservative commentator who has firmly attached herself to the pro-Trump cause, on Monday offered her perspective on the indictments of former Donald Trump campaign advisor Paul Manafort and Manafort’s business partner Rick Gates, as well as the surprise guilty plea from a Trump campaign foreign policy advisor.
“And the idea that this is a bad day for Trump because it in any way alludes to a collusion with Russia, you’ve got to be living on another planet if you think that,” Ingraham said on her radio show. Read more…
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Yes, Laura Ingraham, Trump loyalists, and everybody else are living on separate planets
You have to hand it to Laura Ingraham. When she’s right, she’s right.
Ingraham, a longtime conservative commentator who has firmly attached herself to the pro-Trump cause, on Monday offered her perspective on the indictments of former Donald Trump campaign advisor Paul Manafort and Manafort’s business partner Rick Gates, as well as the surprise guilty plea from a Trump campaign foreign policy advisor.
“And the idea that this is a bad day for Trump because it in any way alludes to a collusion with Russia, you’ve got to be living on another planet if you think that,” Ingraham said on her radio show. Read more…
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Ta-Nehisi Coates dismantles John Kelly’s alternative Civil War ‘facts’
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White House Chief of Staff John Kelly went on Fox (“news”) News last night and announced his support for Confederate monuments, even saying, “I would tell you that Robert E. Lee was an honorable man.”
After his praise of the Confederate general, who is known for having tortured slaves, Kelly went on to profess his belief that “the lack of an ability to compromise led to the Civil War.”
There are a number of willful misinterpretations buried within that statement, so author and national correspondent for The Atlantic Ta-Nehisi Coates broke down the facts on his Twitter feed in response. Read more…
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View More Ta-Nehisi Coates dismantles John Kelly’s alternative Civil War ‘facts’Gawker founder Nick Denton: Gossip helped take down Harvey Weinstein and many more
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Hardly a day has gone by in the past week in which another major figure in media, politics, or entertainment has not become the subject of a sexual harassment scandal.
And almost all of those stories were on Gawker years ago.
“Gossip, though it draws those motivated by envy and resentment, is also a tool of the powerless. It’s a mechanism for coordination,” wrote Gawker founder Nick Denton in a blog post on Monday.
The post is notable because Denton has recently kept a low profile recently. Once a fixture of the New York media scene, he’s been under the radar since Gawker declared bankruptcy and was sold to Univision. Read more…
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Startup for Economic Growth for Business
According to Merriam Webster dictionary, the act of setting an operation or the fledging business enterprise is called startups. The primary purpose of startup is…
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