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How Ryan Reynolds and Mint Mobile worked without becoming the joke

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Maximum Effort was founded to help promote the actor’s first Deadpool film. The film raked in $783.1 million at the box office — a record for an R-rated film that held until the 2019 release of Joker. Reynolds and Dewey had come up with several low-budget spots to get people excited about an R-rated comic book movie.

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Sequoia picks its horse in the consumer carbon offset market, leading a $2.5 million round for Joro

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The Princeton undergraduate saw the film in 2011, and it started her on the journey that would lead her to launch Joro , the Sequoia-backed startup that monitors consumer spending to offer tips on how to offset and reduce a user’s carbon footprint. . I wasn’t a technology person. “Systems are made of people.

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AI touches everything, everywhere all at once at Disrupt

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In the past six months alone, TechCrunch has written nearly 600 articles focused on the impact of AI technology in our lives across industries as varied as film , healthcare , marketing and supply chains to name but a few. Like it or not, AI is part of our lives from here on out — for better or worse.

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Today’s real story: The Facebook monopoly

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Daniel Liss is the founder and CEO of Dispo , the digital disposable camera social network. District Court for the District of Columbia put it in his recent decision , “No one who hears the title of the 2010 film ‘The Social Network’ wonders which company it is about.” Daniel Liss. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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Rapchat tunes into $2.3M as its music-making app hits 7M users

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YouTube, Snapchat, Twitter, TikTok and Facebook’s Instagram have upended the film and TV industries, with a new wave of cinematographers, directors and actors leveraging innovations in technology to create new work and connect directly with billions of consumers to see it. ” COVID-19 is driving demand for low-code apps.

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Tencent Cloud partners with S.M.A.R.T Entrepreneurship Club to build smart businesses with AI Digital Human solution

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At the recent 2024 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit, Tencent Cloud, the cloud business of the global leading technology company Tencent, announced a strategic partnership with the S.M.A.R.T This technology is widely applied in scenarios such as online classes with educators, news anchoring, customer service, and voice assistance. “We

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Contact, a platform for creatives backed by Maisie Williams, raises $1.9M seed led by Founders Fund

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But while modeling talent can be charged as much as a 20-40% commission fee, social media has been gradually displacing traditional agencies by reducing the barriers to entry and making talent more accessible. However, as everyone knows, social media is nowhere near a place anyone can manage their career. Image Credits: Contact.

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