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Qlearly.com - Startup World

Qlearly.com brings you the 'Startup World' podcast. Stay updated with what's happening in the tech industry with daily bite-size news read to you by our bot Alice! ✌️ Daily Episodes: In these episode Alice will be reading to you a curated list of news. Tips & Tools: In these episodes Alice will be sharing certain tips and tools to help you grow your business, improve your productivity and much more.

Episodes

HQ Trivia, WeWork, YouTube, Instacart, Blackberry, WhatsApp

Amazon Squeezes Instacart in Whole Foods Delivery Push. “There’s no longer room for Instacart at Whole Foods,” says Guru Hariharan, a former Amazon executive and CEO of Boomerang Commerce, which helps brand manufacturers sell to Amazon. “It’s only a matter of time before Instacart is edged out completely.” BlackBerry Limited, filed a lawsuit today against Facebook, alleging that the social network and its Whats App and Instagram subsidiaries infringe on BlackBerry messaging app patents. The core...

Mar 07, 2018•2 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Waze, Wordpress, Hyperloop, Jeff Bezos, Salesforce, Bitcoin, Ripple

Waze Carpool users can now choose who they ride with. You can pick based on star ratings and profile info or filter by gender or workplace. The folks at San Francisco-based Automattic have a good reason to celebrate this Monday: its WordPress content management system (CMS) now powers 30 percent of all sites on the web. Virgin Hyperloop One's CFO Callinicos Steps Down Instagram appears to be testing yet another new feature for its mobile applications. Just days after code emerged hinting at supp...

Mar 06, 2018•3 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Blockchain, ICO, Light Phone, Chris Hughes, Bugcrowd, Edgybee, UIPath

The light phone 2 is doing amazingly well on Indiegogo. It is currently at 270% of its original goal of $250,000 and still has 21 days to go. Over the past 14 months, blockchain and related startups have raised nearly $1.3 billion in traditional venture capital rounds worldwide. However, Crunch base has captured, nearly $4.5 billion was raised via ICOs. Chris Hughes one of Mark Zuckerberg's roommates and a Facebook cofounder released a book in late January. Hughes demonstrates the powerful role ...

Mar 05, 2018•2 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Warren Buffet, MoviePass, Nintendo

Warren Buffett doesn't recommend going into debt to buy stocks. So-called margin debt rose to a record in January. And Warren issued an alert warning that quote investors may underestimate the risks of trading on margin. There is simply no telling how far stocks can fall in a short period. Even if your borrowings are small and your positions aren't immediately threatened by the plunging market, your mind may well become rattled by scary headlines and breathless commentary. Borrowing money is a w...

Mar 04, 2018•3 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Snapchat, Instagram, TechCrunch, Slack

Snap is releasing the second generation of spectacles this year. They had previously announced a 40 million loss on version one. A high end version three with multiple cameras could also be in the works. Instagram could launch audio and video calling very soon. An inside peek into the app shows unused icons for calls and video calls. The icons were discovered and shared with Tech Crunch. The SEC has started to issue subpoenas to token sellers. And much more! Thank you for tuning in, we'll be bac...

Mar 03, 2018•3 min•Transcript available on Metacast

GitHub, DoorDash, Silicon Valley, TechCrunch, Magic Leap, Vero, Etsy, Box

Today's Featured Product: Vero is a new ad free Instagram is going viral. It briefly became the most popular free app in the app store. Vero describes itself as an ad-free Facebook. Social Networks: https://twitter.com/qlearlycom https://instagram.com/qlearly https://soundcloud.com/qlearlycom https://anchor.fm/qlearly https://producthunt.com/@qlearlycom https://medium.com/@qlearly

Mar 02, 2018•3 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Spotify, Twitter, Amazon, Google Hangouts Chat, Porche, Comcast

Spotify, the world’s largest music streaming service, has filed for an initial public offering today. The Sweden-based company has more than 71 million paying users as of December 2017. The company also enjoys an overall user base that includes ad-supported free listeners of 159 million, far outpacing the competition from Apple, Google, Tidal, and others. Spotify will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol SPOT. According to CNBC, the price of Spotify shares traded on private mark...

Mar 01, 2018•3 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Product Hunt, Poloniex, Circle, Galaxy S9, ZenBusiness, Acorn, Glassdoor

Thank you for tuning in to our third episode! Here are today's headline Product Hunt announced a new e book to recap the best product launches of 2017. It includes 400 of the most upvoted products. ZenBusiness raises $4.5m to help launch one million small businesses by 2023. The Samsung Galaxy S9 arrives March 16 for $720, with A R emojis, real-time translation and a better camera. Acorn, the financial management service for everyone else, adds three million users. $1 billion job review website ...

Mar 01, 2018•2 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Vitalik, Ethereum, Space X, Google ARCore, BofA, Ledger, Snapchat

Welcome to our second episode of Startup World brought to you by Qlearly.com Here are today's headline. Vitalik Buterin hints that Ethereum will soon test sharding to fix scaling issues. Bank of America admits Crypto currency is threatening its business SpaceX misses catching Falcon 9 rocket by missing the boat by just a few hundred meters, but did land intact in the water, at least. Ledger is working on new native apps for its crypto currency hardware wallet for all desktop and mobile platforms...

Mar 01, 2018•2 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Dropbox IPO, Airpods, AirBnB, Google ARCore & Spinlaunch

Welcome to the first episode of Startup World brought to you by Qlearly.com. Here are today's headline. The Dropbox IPO is confirmed. Dropbox had 1.1 billion in revenue last year. They are expecting to raise $500 million plus. It is the first Y C Company to go public. Spinlaunch is raising a 30 million series A to catapult cargo into space. It was secretly founded in 2014 by Jonathan Yaney, who built solar-powered drone startup Titan Aerospace and sold it to Google. Apple plans to release an upg...

Mar 01, 2018•1 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Tools - 20 Google Chrome Extensions you should try in 2018

20 Google Chrome Extensions you should try in 2018. Via medium: https://medium.com/@qlearly The list: 1 Loom - Useloom.com 2. Toby - GetToby.com 3. The Great Suspender - Github.com/deanoemcke/thegreatsuspender 4. SimilarWeb - SimilarWeb.com 5. WhatRuns - WhatRuns.com 6. Pay by Privacy.com - Privacy.com 7. OneTab - One-Tab.com 8. Hunter - Hunter.io 9. Honey - Joinhoney.com 10. LastPass - LastPass.com 11. Momentum - Momentumdash.com 12. Taskade - Taskade.com 13. Product Hunt - ProductHunt.com 14. ...

Mar 01, 2018•8 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Amazon, Ring, Coinbase, Facebook, Bill Gates, Apple, Uber, Apple

Thank you for tuning in to our fourth episode. Here are some of today's headline. Amazon is making its second-biggest acquisition ever the doorbell company Ring. Ring launched in 2012 and pitched on Shark Tank. Ring is now being bought for somewhere between $1.2 billion and $1.8 billion. Ford is bringing its self-driving cars to Miami. Netflix has 700, yes 700, originals coming out in 2018. Coinbase made 43 percent of its 2017 revenue in December alone. 50 Cent admits in bankruptcy document that...

Mar 01, 2018•3 min•Transcript available on Metacast