Amanda Lai
@amandalai
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Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories. -L. Anderson. @Marketing_Mag Top 30 Under 30. Formerly @Wattpad. 🍎
Toronto, ON
Joined April 2009
Great to be with the Toronto team for MacBook Pro and Mac mini availability! Definitely feeling the 🇨🇦 spirit!
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Over the moon for my Wattpad family 🌝💕 Storytelling incubator Wattpad is getting bought for over half a billion dollars
theverge.com
Netflix, Hulu and others found their stories on this social publishing platform
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Into it 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
50 years in the making. Isaac Asimov’s epic Sci-Fi universe comes to Apple TV+ 2021: https://t.co/SbImWPSSoR
#Foundation
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Black booksellers are doing their very best processing our orders. The books are coming. Thank you for supporting them. via @NYTimes
nytimes.com
“We are running as fast as we can,” a Boston shop told customers who are clamoring for antiracism books that are soaring in popularity but hard to keep in stock.
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Margaret Atwood, Jesse Thistle and Cherie Dimaline have the #1 Canadian books this week!
cbc.ca
Bestseller lists are compiled by Bookmanager using weekly sales stats from over 260 Canadian independent stores.
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To those who are reluctant to see #KnivesOut because they have PTSD from Murder on the Orient Express (2017): see it - it's so much fun.
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"People say it's divisive. Where I come from that's a good thing." @TaikaWaititi opens up about the making of his unconventional war movie #JoJoRabbit
hollywoodreporter.com
Nobody wanted to make the film about a boy and his imaginary friend the Führer: "People say it’s divisive. Where I come from that’s a good thing."
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Good advice from Sonos’ Patrick Spence: don’t let big tech distract you from what you’re good at. Build the right things for your customers. #collisionconf
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“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” — Laura Miele, Electronic Arts #collisionconf
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Fun fact: @kfc opens a new restaurant every 6 hours. Also I’m starving. #collisionconf 🐔
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Just heard from Hulu’s Jaya Kolhatkar on how binge watching should be rewarded. Can’t disagree. 😂#collisionconf
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'Crazy Rich Asians' exceeds expectations, takes top spot at box office 🎉✌🏼 https://t.co/2VTBY1n82u
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A great story on how an Atlantic Canada aquaculture company saved millions of dollars a year using iPad / iPhone and Ottawa-based @ProntoForms to reduce paperwork and increase efficiencies.
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Thanks to the students and faculty of Lane Tech for being our gracious hosts. Rich with history and forward-thinking — we couldn't ask for a better place to talk about the future of education. @ChiPubSchools
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Legitimately creeped myself out while working on this story! Read The Night It Came, inspired by Paramount Pictures' #AQuietPlace.
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Retailers and restaurants turn to Apple hardware to improve store sales:
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Businesses with Apple and Cisco products may now pay less for cybersecurity insurance:
techcrunch.com
Apple and Cisco announced this morning a new deal with insurer Allianz that will allow businesses with their technology products to receive better terms
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LCBO to use Shopify for online and in-store marijuana sales:
theglobeandmail.com
The Ontario Cannabis Retail Corp. will use the Ottawa-based company’s online store software for its online and mobile sales portal
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