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It turns out fintech is worth as much as SaaS

TechCrunch

Toast, after seeing its shares rise sharply after starting to trade yesterday, sports a similar revenue multiple despite far weaker blended gross margins. million, giving the company a blended gross margin of just under 21%. In the second quarter of 2021, Toast reported revenues of $424.7 million and revenue costs of $336.3

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How we can fix online video advertising’s weakest links

The Next Web

AOL, Yahoo, YouTube, Netflix, and others have all professionally produced content according to its users’ tastes, pushing user generated content aside. Experience that blends intelligently with the video viewing experience. Interactivity or nothing at all. Native Ad units. Created automatically.

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Solo GP Nichole Wischoff raises $20M fund backed by Peter Thiel to invest in ‘unsexy businesses’

TechCrunch

Before becoming a solo GP, Wischooff was an early employee at lending platform Blend Labs, which went public in 2021 , and part of the founding team at One Finance, a neobank acquired by Walmart earlier this year. . “I know fintech well, but I don’t want to be pigeonholed into fintech,” she said.

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The Six Signs That Twitter Isn't For Your Nonprofit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you want to follow a specific space, consider finding the right people twittering about that space, and building a blended RSS feed in Yahoo Pipes , and adding that to your RSS reader , instead of using the Twitter interface itself. t just blurt out your podcast url. Why build a persona and add people if you???re

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Game Friday: Playing in Real-Time

Museum 2.0

I’m working on a game design project now that involves an interesting experiment: a blend of real-time and on-demand gaming. There are on-demand games, like chess, that are available in playing environments like Washington Square or Yahoo Games. What's more important: convenience or realism? What do I mean by on-demand and real-time?

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Facebook scammers want you to think Elon Musk can cure diabetes

Engadget

Most of these ads link to websites that attempt to spoof mainstream news sites like Fox News, CNN or Yahoo (Engadgets parent company). According to its label, it has a proprietary blend of ingredients like juniper berry powder and bitter melon extract.

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Hollywood’s obsession with AI-enabled ‘perfection’ is making movies less human

Fast Company Tech

It was used to blend the face of Anya Taylor-Joy with the actress playing a younger version of her, Alyla Browne, in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. In an interview with Yahoo Entertainment , Cage shared an anecdote about his recent cameo appearance as a version of Superman in the much-reviled 2023 superhero movie The Flash.

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