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Hopper raises $170M and partners with Capital One on a new cardholder travel booking portal

TechCrunch

Also, does it really leverage tech in a way that is differentiated? That characterization mostly comes from Hopper’s ability to offer customers financial flexibility around their travel bookings. We allow you to come in and hold the price of a booking for between two hours and 14 days. Now, with the U.S.

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Use radical objectivity to create and retain an inclusive workforce

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James Nash is CEO and founder of inbeta , a tech-enabled talent specialist using data, social listening and human science to help corporations overcome bias. Today, the age of corporate social justice is dawning. Technology and data analysis can help you here, providing robust insights on the messages you’re sending.

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20 Simple Business Ideas For Programmers

The Crazy Programmer

You can develop your own products, websites, and help out other people who are in trouble with their tech. Blogging About Technology. You could go two ways: one is to create a blog of your own and promote or review various tech products and the other is to write reviews for other blogs – it’s called guest posts.

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Do you need another app to discover beautiful places when you travel?

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But Backdrop is not unlike other global social media platforms that allow users to take ephemeral photos, flex their lifestyle on disappearing stories or discover millions of personalized short videos. Social media and travel. Other users review the posts before listing on the platform, either by upvotes or downvotes.

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Live video shopping startup Talkshoplive brings in another $6M

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million raised to date and enables it to scale its product management and technical teams. Talkshoplive CEO Bryan Moore said he founded the company with his sister Tina in 2018, after he led social media efforts at Twentieth Television (previously known as Twentieth Century Fox) and CBS Television. “We

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Why Are There So Few Women in Computer Science?

The Crazy Programmer

This could be due to the “male geek” concept. Many women could feel unwanted and discouraged due to a lack of senior responsibilities. The issue does not seem to be about corporate social responsibility but a diverse range of thinking. Few women pursue careers in CS. The IT field is extremely punishing for employees.

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Meet the newest crypto builders from web3 accelerator Alliance DAO’s demo day

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Oftentimes these events are filled with traditional seed-stage tech companies based in Silicon Valley. The cohort’s theses focused on market-driven DeFi, client-driven social protocols, tokens-as-coordination mechanisms, decentralization of all layers, consumer products unbundling, DAOs as risk-pooling mechanisms and so on.