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Daily Crunch: Former Apple employee pleads guilty to stealing autonomous vehicle design details

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Facetime : While Mark Zuckerberg is promising better metaverse avatars, Estonia-based Ready Player Me is delivering. million in seed funding led by Thiel Capital to connect women to the hormonal phases of their menstrual cycle for physical and emotional gain. Then get your tickets and book your flights — it’s gonna be awesome.

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Dear Sophie: How can I present a strong O-1A or EB-1A application?

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Dear Sophie, A few years ago, I moved my startup’s headquarters to New York from Estonia on an E-2 investor visa. All the best in the next phase of growing your startup! Extra Crunch members receive access to weekly “Dear Sophie” columns; use promo code ALCORN to purchase a one- or two-year subscription for 50% off. Ask it here.

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Little Penguins, Big Drama: Lessons on How to Go Viral from the National Aquarium of New Zealand

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This month-long campaign was launched in October 2018 on social media and our website, driving people from around the world to our website for the first phase of voting (voting for their finalist), giving us the opportunity to get additional brand exposure. Votes increased from the previous year reaching over 12,000.

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Localyze, a SaaS for staff relocation, gets $35M as it gears up for US launch

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While in Europe she points to veteran Estonia-based startup Jobbatical — which has refocused on relocation in recent years. ” But she agrees the next growth phase will “definitely” entail more competition — adding: “That will be interesting for us.”

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6 investors and founders spotlight SaaS, B2B and medtech as Wroclaw’s hot startup sectors

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London and Berlin usually top the lists of European startup hubs, but Central and Eastern European countries like the Czech Republic, Estonia, Croatia and Poland have claimed a growing portion of the startup pie in the past few years. Those people might become investors, but they don’t trust in high-risk investments.

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ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

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July 13, 2023 The FTC is reportedly investigating OpenAI The FTC is reportedly in at least the exploratory phase of investigation over whether OpenAI’s flagship ChatGPT conversational AI made “false, misleading, disparaging or harmful” statements about people.

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