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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

So I noticed from stories on social media, I guess, that countries that were using masks a lot, seem to be getting better outcomes than countries that didn't at like hundreds of times better, which is exactly the evidence which a lot of medical folks tend to ignore because it's so imperfect. How that data came into your awareness.

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[Asia] Socialbakers Opens Asia Pacific HQ In Singapore

YoungUpstarts

Global social media analytics and optimization company Socialbakers has announced the opening of its new Asia-Pacific headquarters based in Singapore. ”By 2017, Asia-Pacific will have the largest social network population worldwide. .

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Eastern European Champions & the 4 V’s of Big Data

Cracking the Code

Skype is probably the most famous of them, but there are a lot of other examples including Game Insights, Kaspersky and Parallels in Russia, LogMeIn and Prezi in Hungary and Avast and AVG in the Czech Republic. Why Eastern Europe?

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Global Multichannel Consumer Behaviour (Research/Purchase) Analysis

Occam's Razor

I’m really not interested in running my social life online and I am worried about data privacy and security. And to think you've been pimping social media on every company you can find. :). Let's compare USA and Czech Republic … 9% of the roughly 17 million cars sold in the US were purchased online.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I love social media, and helping business owners discover how to leverage Facebook for their unique goals. After the Velvet Revolution in the Czech Republic, the idea of being an entrepreneur was new. Now, I have over 50k followers on social media, a business that I’m proud of and customers that keep coming back.

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5 ways to build company culture with a virtual team

The Next Web

While companies like Google instill a company culture through a giant, all-encompassing campus, that’s not so practical when you need to hire a designer in the Czech Republic and a social media expert in Chicago.

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Alfred Jorgensen Laboratory

crowdSPRING Blog

AJL supply these yeasts to breweries in the UK, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, France, Spain, Brazil, Chile, USA, Canada, Australia, the Philippines, Korea, India, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Russia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Greece, Belgium, Holland, Vi etnam, Germany and many other countries.