“We don’t have product market fit.” The board room fell silent. How could a rapidly growing company with a $50 million revenue in a hot category not have product market fit? Yet having invested over $100 million, we as the board had just realized that […]
Day: May 20, 2020
Scribd announces a perks program, giving its subscribers access to Pandora Plus, TuneIn Premium and more
E-book and audiobook subscrition service Scribd has been actively embracing and experimenting with bundling over the past couple years, creating joint offers with The New York Times and with Spotify and Hulu. Today it announced a slightly different take on the idea with Scribd Perks. These […]
Sheriff: Statesville man charged in Rowan gambling operation
The sheriff's office reported it was being operated as an arcade but was a video-based gambling operation with the machines allowing betting of more …
Keeping the fantasy of travel alive: WiT Watch on destination marketing: Greece, Singapore …
Here's a round-up of destinations doing their bit to keep dreaming alive. Visit Greece: #greecefromhome … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #travel #tours
One Good Thing: Thanking nursing home volunteers
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A local nursing home took time to thank the volunteers who help them do what they do. Emmanuel Hospice in Grand …
Intel Tiger Lake CPUs will deliver twice the graphics performance of Ice Lake
Intel’s incoming 11th-generation Tiger Lake-U mobile processors will offer twice the graphics performance of 10th-gen Ice Lake chips, according to leaked benchmarks. Notebookcheck got its hands on 3DMark Fire Strike Results which reveal that Intel Xe Gen12 graphics, integrated into Intel’s incoming Tiger Lake-U processors, […]
À l’aéroport de Nice, qui sont ces “oubliés de l’État?”
Avec ses 14 millions de passagers par an, en temps normal, l'aéroport Nice Côte d'Azur est en termes de trafic commercial, le deuxième de France. Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #wired
Tesla drops lawsuit against Alameda County over Fremont factory reopening
Tesla has officially dismissed a lawsuit filed earlier this month against Alameda County that sought to force the reopening of its factory in Fremont, California. The dismissal, which was granted Wednesday, closes the loop on a battle between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and county health and […]
Volvo’s new cars now top out at 112MPH to limit speeding accidents
Volvo has followed through on its promise to limit the top speed of its upcoming cars to 180 kilometers per hour (112 miles per hour). Little more than a year ago, the company said it would introduce the cap in an attempt to limit speeding-related injuries and […]
Coronavirus Lombardia, oltre 800 guariti in un giorno. Soltanto 8 nuovi casi a Milano città
In Lombardia, dall’inizio dell’epidemia di coronavirus, sono risultate positive al Sars-CoV-19 85.775 persone (+294 rispetto a ieri, quando i casi positivi segnalati erano 85.481 e l’aumento sul giorno precedente era stato di +462). I dati sono stati forniti dalla Regione Lombardia. Di queste, sono decedute […]