Thasos Group seemed to be doing everything right. Part of the booming $7 billion alternative data industry, the company collects location data from cellphones to help hedge funds make money. Founded in 2011, Thasos was worth $42 million, had ties to MIT, and boasted a blue-chip CEO whose prior company Sense Networks was once named […]
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The Amazon rainforest is burning to the ground at an unprecedented rate, but don’t despair. With just one “like” on Instagram, you can donate $1; for a follow or repost, you can plant a tree. Making a difference is as easy as tapping your thumb — or so a vast network of scammers on the
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One of the favorite tropes of the serial jerkery The Macalope covers is the repeated insistence that any one event taken in isolation from everything else will doom Apple forever. Writing for the Forbes contributor network and Carnival Barker Academy, Gordon Kelly says “Apple Just Gave 1.4 Billion iPad, iPhone Users A Reason To Leave.”
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Backed by military aircraft, Brazilian troops on Saturday were deploying in the Amazon to fight fires that have swept the region and prompted anti-government protests as well as an international outcry. President Jair Bolsonaro also tried to temper global concern, saying that previously deforested areas had burned and that intact rainforest was spared. Even so,
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Amid global concern about raging Amazon fires, Brazil on Thursday said it was the target of a smear campaign by critics who contend President Jair Bolsonaro is not doing enough to curb widespread deforestation. The growing threat to what some call “the lungs of the planet” has ignited a bitter dispute about who is to
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Infrared images from the weather satellite GOES show the Camp Fire spreading during the four hours after ignition on Nov. 8, 2018, during which time it burned through the town of Paradise. Such images, downloaded quickly, could be used to alert fire, police and residents of developing wildland fires. (Image courtesy of Jeff Chambers) April
Infrared images from the weather satellite GOES show the Camp Fire spreading during the four hours after ignition on Nov. 8, 2018, during which time it burned through the town of Paradise. Such images, downloaded quickly, could be used to alert fire, police and residents of developing wildland fires. (Image courtesy of Jeff Chambers) While
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Kate Middleton’s family business might be in trouble. According to Stephen Moyes and Carri-Ann Taylor, journalists from the Sun, the Duchess of Cambridge’s mom fired half of the staff of Party Pieces earlier this week. A fourth worker was also told that his job was on the line. Among those who lost their jobs were the company’s
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Kate Middleton’s family business might be in trouble. According to Stephen Moyes and Carri-Ann Taylor, journalists from the Sun, the Duchess of Cambridge’s mom fired half of the staff of Party Pieces earlier this week. A fourth worker was also told that his job was on the line. Among those who lost their jobs were the company’s
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The white screen of death. Your hosting company pulls your blog. Your prime income stream dries up. What do you do? Follow this piece of advice to handle blogging fires. Slow Down Your Thinking The first chapter of my eBook on blogging lessons I learned in Bali discusses an oft ignored blogging concept; what to
