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Glossier just laid off one-third of its corporate employees, mostly in tech

TechCrunch LA

Glossier, the popular beauty brand led by former blogger Emily Weiss, let go of 80 of its corporate employees today, according to an internal email obtained by Modern Retail. The company laid off its entire retail staff and closed all its physical locations, including its flagship New York City store, in August 2020.

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Monzo: What do you need to know?

Tech.Co

Without physical branches, it’s a digital-only service, with assistance and support available via live chat, as well as phone and email. In January 2020, Monzo announced that the Monzo Beta cards would now offer contactless functionality, with original cards that don’t support this to be replaced. How does Monzo work? Monzo in the USA.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. But the masses didn’t want to blog.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. We had email, instant messaging, group calendars, discussion boards, etc. They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs.