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SPONSORED JOBS: Email marketing has been around just about as long as email itself has. Ever since there has been an inbox,...
Get your marketing emails into customer inboxes with Kirim Email
SPONSORED JOBS: Email marketing has been around just about as long as email itself has. Ever since there has been an inbox,...
Sonic the Hedgehog marks 30th birthday with an encyclo-speed-ia and other merch
Sonic the Hedgehog is celebrating his 30th birthday next year, with 2021 marking the milestone anniversary of his 1991 debut for...
Idriverplus raises over $14.6 million for autonomous street cleaners and cars
Beijing-based self-driving startup Idriverplus raised $14.6 million in funding to further develop its autonomous robot and...
Boston Dynamics CEO talks profitability and the company’s next robots
Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter discusses profitability; Spot, Pick, Handle, and Atlas; the company's broader roadmap,...
Nvidia researchers detail AI-powered clinical speech transcription system
In a new paper, Nvidia researchers describe a system that automatically transcribes speech from clinical patients and maps it to...
August 2020 NPD: Madden and UFC supercharge U.S. game sales
Consumers spent $3.3 billion on video game hardware, software, and accessories in August, according to industry-tracking firm...
The promise of voice AI in game development
AI voices are sounding more realistic today than ever before in the history of synthetic voice technology -- and this could be a...
Conductive VC raises $150 million for (mostly) enterprise software and hardware startups
Conductive Ventures has raised $150 million for its second venture capital fund with a focus on funding enterprise software and...
Airtable raises $185 million to grow its low-code app platform
No-code development platform Airtable raised $185 million at a $2.5 billion valuation, which the startup plans to use to expand...
NPA News
Startups- Winners, Winners, Chicken dinners
The summer slow down clearly had an effect on our newsletter as we are a bit late this month.
In last month’s survey, we asked all of you whether your industry was improving/collapsing and we got a surprise: 58% of the respondents stated their industry is either slightly improving (~25%) or are literally overwhelmed (~33%) with new business!
Startups – Saving cash during tough times
This month, we’ve got a 500% ROI, some $6.9B investments in Boston startups, and flying cars hitting New Hampshire.
FAMGA spends >$2B on tech startups- is yours on the list?
Happy Summer all! FOMO is real and you might have missed this tidbit!
Getting back to normal
Are we there yet? Almost…we think. I am looking very much forward to being back in the (not home) office again this week, face to face meetings, more personalized engagements with our staff, customers and suppliers.
Feel the Squeeze yet?
Staggering numbers: The US unemployment rate going from 3.5% in February to 14.7% in April, 20M jobs lost just in April.I am certain, we all know someone by now that’s been economically affected, or worse, gotten sick by Covid-19.
WFHell
…what a rollercoaster it’s been the last few weeks!
WFH looked so GOOD, sleeping in, picking a home office location, all your favorite snacks close by, no annoying bosses/coworkers, afternoon workouts….
Nice funding round – $2.25B
It’s almost Spring and in case you didn’t know already, the month of March was named for the Roman god of war, Mars. Traditionally, this was the time of year to resume military campaigns that had been interrupted by winter.
Huge Funding Rounds
Happy February, 2020 is starting off great for a few startups as VC's are handing over boatloads of new cash. GoPuff , the online convenience store, secured $750M of fresh dough. Now go to their App and buy a pack of Skittles to get in on the sugar rush! On related...
Porsche Meets Star Wars
Happy New Year all, It's 2020 and Tesla's are so yesterday. Have you ordered your Porsche Starfighter yet? Star Wars and Porsche teamed up to create the new Tri-Wing S-91x Pegasus Starfighter featured in "The Rise of Skywalker". Transportation 2020 style. (Source:...
$50k Christmas Bonus
Hi there, hmm... It's our Boston quarterback's resume.....and suddenly your out of college resume doesn't look so bad anymore.... you're welcome. In all fairness, this was Tom's back-up plan in case he didn't make the NFL...but it's still entertaining to envision him...
