Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 22, 2013

Caltech’s small size makes its faculty and students incredibly agile when it comes to understanding a broad array of fields: there is a need here to be able to explain your work, and to understand the work of others. That’s the Caltech advantage! I want to advocate for “giving the sleeves off your vest” strategy!

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Campuswire is now used at more than 300 universities among 200,000 students, Oyerinde tells me. Microsoft Teams and Google Hangouts filled in the gap for classrooms that couldn’t afford fancy licenses. Campuswire’s key monetization strategy, which was selling pro licenses for its online class software, felt threatened by alternatives.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

I have a gift for you. Lime and Lyft appear to have secured a license that will allow the companies to exclusively operate scooter and bike share services in Denver. The city’s Department of Transportation & Infrastructure said it is moving two licensing agreements through the Denver City Council approval process.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

At the time, Mark Zuckerberg was at Harvard University, and he developed it with his fellow students and friends, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. students at Stanford University. The origins of what became Google began as a research project. Ashley Madison.

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 14, 2021

One of our long-time students wrote in: “We’re 74% of the way to our revenue budget and we’re not quite halfway through our fiscal year and are up 322% year over year (last year we raised almost $770K) How are we doing it? Far too many of them will view this as a license to abandon direct mail. Make no mistake. They rose 19.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

I think there’s more young people every day who are just taking this and turning it into something that is — from my perspective — a gift back to me because that’s how I feel about basketball. Do you want to give that directly to parents and students? MK: As all good memes should be, it’s authentic, right? This has a life of its own.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 5, 2025

But a more meaningful driver is what scholars call the intergenerational transmission chain that is, the role that gifts and inheritance play in wealth generation. Madeleine Lewis is a doctoral student at the Department of Human and Organizational Development at Vanderbilt University. Read the original article.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

It is a gift t o our adversaries, particularly China and Russia. Even if these investigations are ultimately closed without action, the mere fact of opening themand the implicit threat to the news stations license to operatecan have the effect of deterring the press from news coverage that the administration dislikes.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 4, 2025

This love of learning history continued into my years as a graduate student of history, when I would spend hours at the Smithsonian Institutions National Air and Space Museum learning about the history of human flight and ballooning. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

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