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

TechCrunch LA

The cuts, which amount to around one-third of Glossier’s corporate workforce, will primarily impact the company’s technology team. “[W]e W]e are shifting our technology strategy to leverage external partners for parts of our platform that we’re currently maintaining internally,” Weiss wrote in the email announcing the layoffs to staff.

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Blippar, Backed by Qualcomm Ventures, Calls It Quits

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UK-based augmented reality technology developer Blippar , which had been backed by Qualcomm Ventures, has gone into administration in the UK--their equivalent of bankruptcy--after failing to obtain new funding for the company. READ MORE>>.

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5 Strategies To Capitalize On Hard Times In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

She describes a new generation of entrepreneurs that is highly collaborative, quick and alert when it comes to new technologies, and hell-bent on changing the world in general. It's far less expensive to nail down repeat business from your existing customers than it is to land new ones. Focus on your core competency.

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5 Key Recovery Strategies Counter Economic Downturns

Startup Professionals Musings

She describes a new generation of entrepreneurs that is highly collaborative, quick and alert when it comes to new technologies, and hell-bent on changing the world in general. It's far less expensive to nail down repeat business from your existing customers than it is to land new ones. Focus on your core competency.

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Manufacturing startup Divergent 3D reduces staff by one-third

TechCrunch LA

1 priority was to ensure long-term financial stability and secure the core team, technology development and customer programs no matter what the scenario, Czinger said, adding that there is still enormous uncertainty surrounding the real impact and duration of the COVID-19 pandemic. Divergent 3D has two global OEMs as customers.

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Latest Post-COVID Trends in the Telecom Sector

Southern California Edison Blog

Telecom carriers looking to stay competitive should continue strengthening their network infrastructure and adding greater flexibility to their service offerings to provide reliable and high-performance connectivity for their customers. Post-Pandemic Consumer Trends In The Telecom Industry. Increase Consumer Targeting.

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Interview with Minnie Ingersoll, TenOneTen Ventures

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We all have backgrounds in technology, and it's what we understand the best. Sometimes what I say, is if brand is your moat, and you're a direct-to-consumer company, versus where you really have some technology, and you have some IP, that's the side of the spectrum we play on. Minnie Ingersoll: So much was hard. We had ups and down.