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Teach yourself growth marketing: How to boot up an email marketing campaign
In this third part of my five-part series, we’ll examine how to set up email marketing to push consumers through your funnel and drive conversions.
Teach yourself growth marketing: How to boot up an email marketing campaign by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch
Smores is a music discovery app with a TikTok-like feed
Music streaming platforms all claim to use both artificial intelligence and manual curation to find new songs from emerging artists. But users often have to listen to many songs just to find some likable tracks — that’s because they don’t have any control over the recommendation algorithm. Romanian developer duo Alex Ruber and Andrei Patru […]
Smores is a music discovery app with a TikTok-like feed by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch
Amazon ends charity donation program AmazonSmile
Just a few days after announcing a significant round of layoffs that will impact 18,000 employees, Amazon is trying to find money wherever it can as the company announced that it would end AmazonSmile. AmazonSmile is a donation program that redirects 0.5% of the cost of all eligible products toward charities. It is a separate […]
Amazon ends charity donation program AmazonSmile by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch
India’s top court rejects Google plea to block Android antitrust ruling
Google has been dealt a significant blow in one of its key overseas markets. India’s Supreme Court on Thursday declined to block an antitrust order that requires the Android-maker to make a series of changes that could topple its financial viability. India’s apex court rejected to block the ruling against Google by the nation’s antitrust […]
India’s top court rejects Google plea to block Android antitrust ruling by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch
Finding a new life for old batteries
Outrider raises $73M to brings its autonomous electric yard trucks into the mainstream
Autonomous vehicle technology may no longer be the fuel powering the hype machine. But companies applying the technology to agriculture, commercial and logistics applications are still attracting venture capital. Take Outrider, a Golden, Colorado startup developing autonomous electric yard trucks, for example. Distribution yards are the nerve center of the supply chain. Its where all […]
Outrider raises $73M to brings its autonomous electric yard trucks into the mainstream by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch
These scientists used CRISPR to put an alligator gene into catfish
Next up for CRISPR: Gene editing for the masses?
German teens went crazy for this ‘compliments’ app, and now VCs are backing its next phase
The teenage market for apps is a tough nut to crack and stay relevant in. Just ask Snapchat. Equally, teens are going through a stage in life where almost every social interaction seems to carry portent of some kind of other. This would explain in part why apps like SendIt, NGL, and Nocapp (some are […]
German teens went crazy for this ‘compliments’ app, and now VCs are backing its next phase by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch