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Shareholders approve Bird-SPAC merger, stock promptly falls

TechCrunch LA

However, Bird has shaken up its model in recent quarters, leveraging a partner network to handle scooter deployment, which has generated more attractive results. For example, Bird had gross margins that were negative in 2018, 2019 and 2020. Other figures are looking up, too. Other figures are looking up, too.

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Best Network Setups for Media Content Delivery

Southern California Edison Blog

Users trying to stream video originating from a low latency network are likely to become frustrated as the media becomes slow to load and its quality becomes choppy. Media and content creation businesses expanding their services to meet future content needs require a network that can support growing media content demands. Dark Fiber.

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Nothing negative about Positive Food’s meal expansion plan after $7M investment

TechCrunch LA

In 2018, co-founders Schuyler Deerman and James Chan started selling healthy meals at WeWork offices around Los Angeles out of giant Yeti coolers, standing around the kitchens during lunch time. Positive Food’s vertical integration technology is mainly done in-house, including production and a cold-chain logistics network.

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Location-based virtual reality is increasing its footprint in the U.S.

TechCrunch LA

million head mounted displays sold in 2018, according to data from Canalys. By 2018, New York was home to at least seven virtual reality spaces where users could experience the technology, according to The New York Times. A producer with MTV Networks, the founder of the collaborative game development platform Squarepushers Inc.

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Origin wants to make accessible physical therapy women’s new normal

TechCrunch LA

Gender bias in medicine is systemic,” says Carine Carmy, the fast-talking CEO and co-founder of Origin , during a condensed chat about her startup mission to make physical therapy for women and mothers accessible and affordable across the US, both online and through a network of physical clinics.

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