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Amazon notably has its own pet food brand called Wag, named after Wag.
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The pet-centric branch of Amazon's private-label product line will be called Wag, named after Wag.
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For example, at 23A, the clue "Witty British judge?" turns out to be POWDERED WIG WAG, which conjoins POWDERED WIG with WAG.
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A Harlem-based Wag walker named Lexi says that during her onboarding with Wag last year, she inquired about accident coverage for workers.
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Even some Wag investors have soured on the company; one Wag investor said they had already marked their stake in the company as a zero.
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They've recruited at least a few former Wag employees and their website notably touts their ability to raise nearly $400 million in capital at Wag.
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While competitor Wag has become a juggernaut, there seems to be room for both a second player and the potential to outmaneuver Wag even with its massive influx of capital.
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Last year, Wag, a start-up in Los Angeles, introduced the mobile app that includes a live map that shows the pet owner the route of the Wag walker and pooch.
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" The Times attributed the line to "a Washington wag.
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One wag calling for a Donald Trump inspired wall policy.
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What terms Wag is seeking could not be immediately learned.
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Wag would certainly qualify as one of SoftBank's riskier ones.
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I was happy with Wag and recommended it to friends.
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If your feet smell okay, it will wag its tail.
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Nick claims he than sent the receipts in to Wag!
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That has been the extent of our contact with Wag!
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The packaged deal came with other sites such as Wag.
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"They tried to create a winner in Wag," Murphy said.
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In September, Wag added a prompt for rating the experience.
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Now Wag has a big cash advantage over its competitor.
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ProsConsBuy the Wobble Wag Giggle Ball on Amazon for $11.99
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That makes Wag a potentially useful fount of location data.
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"I love being a WAG and a superfan," Rapinoe says.
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CW: Where do Coleen and Rebekah fall in WAG hierarchy?
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Wag had raised a total of $361 million, per Pitchbook.
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"They wag their tails when they are happy," she said.
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SoftBank is selling back its nearly 50% stake in Wag.
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Wag has struggled to hold onto customers in recent months.
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When they wag their tails with a bias to the left, they're not happy about a situation; when they wag their tails with a bias to the right, that's a sign of affection and happiness.
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Puppy players will often bark, wag and wiggle like a pup.
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Click here to read her bio on the Wag & Walks website.
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Dog at Wag event on Tuesday, August 7, 2018 in Washington.
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Classic finger wag is becoming the latest Olympic sport … #phelps pic.twitter.
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Because that's the moment the tail began to wag the dog.
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On-demand services even exist for your pets, such as Wag!
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Nick says the response he and Sara got said that Wag!
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He and hundreds of other dogs are taking part in Wag!
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Unlike Uber ratings, Wag users can't see their dog's walk score.
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Dog-walking service Wag raised $300 million from SoftBank last year.
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Lucky pups in New York City get free treats too: Wag!
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That brand is called Wag, and it's made by Amazon itself.
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"Silenzio!" he warns Primo, with a threatening wag of the finger.
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Wag laid off 182 employees and lost its CEO last year
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Wag founders ditch dogs for bikes with $37 million in funding
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They wag their fingers as the women cruise down the street.
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She says Wag was initially helpful in the search for Norman.
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"It was really basic, bare-bones training," Lexi says of Wag.
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Many have long suspected her of being the writer behind the Sun's "Secret WAG" column, which covers football gossip from an anonymous WAG, which would solidify the link between Vardy and the Sun's coverage of Rooney.
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The board is able to tell the difference between a normal tail wag and a so-called happy tail wag, so it won't just take pictures all day if your dog's tail is perpetually in motion.
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Wag has gone through multiple rounds of layoffs, endured management changes, and shuttered its customer service hub in the Hollywood Hills, according to interviews with 22018 former employees who've recently left Wag, some as part of layoffs.
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Most people would say: no, dogs wag their tails, cats do not.
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To nominate a Top Dog Mom of the Year, go to Wag!
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Even so, Wag has been entering new markets at a regular pace.
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Wag founders Jonathan and Joshua Viner are leaving dogs behind for bikes.
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Dog lovers probably already know, but for the rest of you ... Wag!
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Nick, who readily admits that he previously had good experiences with Wag!
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Because I don't wag my tail and am not a stray dog?
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LiLou is part of SFO's "Wag Brigade," which also includes several dogs.
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The winner of the competition gets to choose the next city Wag!
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The writers of "Wag the Dog" couldn't have written a better script.
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Sixth, is there a bit of "Wag the Dog" to all this?
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Witness the likes of dog walking startups Rover and Wag, for example.
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SoftBank is also selling its stake in Wag back to the company.
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Almost two years ago, SoftBank agreed to invest $300 million in Wag.
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Above all, I would recommend dog owners consider installing the Wag app.
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During busy times, Clingman says she's spent $200 a month on Wag.
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Wag is looking into ways it can further differentiate its walking service.
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In darker days, we would use the phrase WAG: Wild-Ass Guess.
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With apps like Wag and Rover, dog walking is more streamlined than ever.
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The couple began using Wag several months ago, usually multiple times per week.
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Nothing beats that look in their eyes, that little tail wag, my heart.
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Chris Sullivan thinks that's simple: the Wag was a nightclub, not a discotheque.
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Chris Sullivan Presents the Wag is released on June 10th by Harmless Records.
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Its stakes here stretch from Fanatics, an online sports-merchandise retailer, to Wag!
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They can rock back and forth like a pendulum, stretch, twist, and wag.
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But beyond all of those painful details, there was that adorable tail wag.
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Services that aren't necessarily obvious on-demand candidates will also be infiltrated. Wag!
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The team, known as the "Wag Brigade," was formed approximately three years ago.
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Who are we now to wag our fingers at rappers like Trinidad James?
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Bloomberg reported on Monday that Wag now is trying to find a buyer.
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And wag that tail so hard, I swear it might just fall off.
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Back to King's finger wag, and Americans' collective sense that it was deserved.
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Their dog is with a walker whom they hired through the app Wag.
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The Vision Fund did not say much about what it sees in Wag.
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And Wag itself does not have an unblemished record for safeguarding users' information.
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But, a number of these SoftBank-backed startups, including OYO, Wag and Fair.
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Even with SoftBank's substantial backing, Wag struggled to keep up with the competition.
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Both our management and our investors see an amazing future ahead for Wag!
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Your arms gently wag, greased by pints of sweat flooding from your armpits.
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Where Wag truly shines is the experience of connecting you with a walker.
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That's why men sometimes say they don't dare mentor women; tongues will wag.
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By the time of the SoftBank deal, Wag had reached 22015 US cities.
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A press officer said they had no on-the-record statement at present but directed us to a story on the Sun website entitled "WAG WARS: Coleen Rooney accuses Rebekah Vardy of 'leaking stories about her' – before fellow WAG hits back".
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She is the newest member of SFO's "Wag Brigade," an Animal Assisted Therapy program.
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Check out the gallery to see which squad wins in the hot WAG department.
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Justin Davidson compared it to a bus crash, another online wag summed it up
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Wag told BuzzFeed News that incidents like this are "extremely rare" and always investigated.
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We banned cameras in the Wag, and that wasn't to protect celebrities or anything.
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Right after she hung up with me she received a call from a Wag!
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After declining this offer, Nick claims he and Sara did not hear from Wag!
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Wag, which launched back in 2015, offers on-demand walking and boarding for pups.
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One of the easiest ways to get started pounding the pavement is with Wag!
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When you think of dog daycare, Wag Hotels and Rover likely come to mind.
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Wag the Dog applies more accurately to today's White House than Matthews' misremembered version.
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So I don't feel the need to wag my finger and say 'Bad From.
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Here's what else is happening: It's days like today that make our tails wag.
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Ms. Vogel, a bit of a wag, shouted up into the air, "Aim better!"
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SoftBank is backing out of its investment in struggling dog-walking start-up Wag.
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Wag failed to accumulate value and was struck by scandal, leading to SoftBank's exit.
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Lilacs bloom in every yard; irises wag their pink and purple tongues at him.
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Another wag imagined him responding to traffic or overcrowded hospitals with an F-15.
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More than a year and a half later, SoftBank and Wag have fallen short.
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Wag has Softbank's landmark $100 billion fund to thank for its latest $300 million.
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In 2017, Wag slapped a family with a cease-and-desist letter demanding they take down angry Facebook posts about the company losing their Long Island Lab-beagle mix; Wag also reportedly offered the family $2,500 to stop talking to the press.
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And last year, Amazon launched Wag, a line of kibble available exclusively to Prime members.
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We've reached out to Wag comment and will update the story when we hear back.
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Saturn's finger-wag cautions against extremes, especially if they could damage your reputation or relationships.
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Speaking of ethics, Sunday's full moon in Virgo brings another finger wag from the stars.
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This time, it's investing $300 million in on-demand walking and dog care startup Wag .
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Indeed, the President has turned the 1997 film "Wag the Dog" right on its head.
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No one will yell or interrupt, no fingers will wag, no lectures will be given.
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He is on the board of the dog-walking app Wag and travel startup GetYourGuide.
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To make it into the Wag Brigade, animals must be housebroken and have good manners.
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If you need a little tail wag in your life, you can preorder yours now.
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Wag is in more than 100 cities in the U.S. but has no international footprint.
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Wag functions as a marketplace that pairs dog owners with available walkers in their neighborhood.
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November, he will need to do more than wag his finger at Graham for becoming
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SoftBank recently attracted scrutiny for its investments in WeWork, Uber and dog walking startup Wag.
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SoftBank gives up on Wag, selling its stake back to the company at a loss.
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We went from "murderer" to "wag the dog" in the space of a few days.
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We spent a fair amount of time debating the timing, the "wag the dog" thing.
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Finally, Rover is similar to the dog-walker-summoning app Wag — except rough to use.
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The Wag Brigade at San Francisco International Airport features dogs and a pig named LiLou.
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A couple months later, Wag began terminating employees in the Los Angeles customer service department.
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The convenience factor — Wag and Rover's true, if not wholly original, innovation — is winning out.
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Notable investments from the first three funds include Intercom, Patreon, Narvar, Digit, Wag, Betterup and Airtable.
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Good news for customers and fans (including their pups!) of on-demand dog walking service Wag!
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Recode reported last month that Wag was pitching investors on a $100 million round of financing.
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Wag earlier this year picked up $300 million in a massive funding round led by SoftBank.
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It'll also wag and curl the tail on its own, via an accelerometer in the pillow.
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Axios also asked Caviar, which said "tens of thousands" and Wag, which declined to provide data.
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What I found was Wag, a kind of gig-economy-reliant app for booking dog walkers.
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Uagadou (Wag-a-doo), the major African school, is hewn into the side of a mountain.
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Recode first reported in December that Wag was preparing to accept only $100 million in funding.
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So knowing all this, why do many health experts continue to wag their fingers about obesity?
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"The Milanese do love their fake snow," said one wag as he hastened to the exit.
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And you'll receive moving-related offers from companies like Airbnb, Wag, Common, Sonder and Home Chef.
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EP: Coleen Rooney has grown in celebrity status over the years to reach peak WAG royalty.
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Wag, which was funded by SoftBank, has laid off about 180 employees in the past year.
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And SoftBank also announced plans to abandon a $300 million investment in dog-walking startup Wag.
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Just two weeks ago, Wag named Smallwood its new CEO as Schneider left to run Shutterfly.
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We've all seen a happy puppy quickly wag their tail when excited to see their owner.
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It can walk, run, and even wag its tail, but it was made entirely by hand.
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Wag entertained deal talks with Rover and with Petco, the pet supply company, the people said.
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The Wag app includes the ability to follow the walk in real time on a map.
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"The founders of Wag reached out -- and it was like, 'What an incredible opportunity,'" said Schneider.
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" In a lengthy statement in response to a detailed list of questions from CNN Business, a Wag spokesperson said its "senior leadership is highly intentional with its direction of Wag, using a data-driven approach to guide strategy and growth, while also improving the customer experience.
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Don't be surprised if Wag shows up in Whole Foods sometime in the near future as well.
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The greatest move in figure skating is Adam Rippon giving the Mutombo finger wag to the judges.
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Now that Benny is home safe and sound, Sophie and Max are determined to hold Wag accountable.
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"Our walking business is growing phenomenally," said Easterly, explaining he wasn't concerned about taking on startup Wag.
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SoftBank backed out of its investment in struggling dog care app Wag at the end of 2019.
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There are several brands today operated by the company, each focusing on a particular vertical — like Wag.
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The law has been a deterrent to potential buyers during the Wag sales process, a source said.
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Dog walking apps like Wag are a great way to add some extra income on your terms.
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For example, the cat will learn to wag its tail and eventually drink milk from a bottle.
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A wagging tail is only one sign, although a wag doesn't always necessarily indicate a happy dog.
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With a Calvinist finger-wag, they urge governments to mind their own yard before seeking common solutions.
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ANNOUNCES $300 MILLION INVESTMENT FROM THE SOFTBANK VISION FUND AND FOUNDERS RECRUIT HILARY SCHNEIDER AS CEO * WAG!
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It lets the owner know that because of their dog, the walker has quit working for Wag!
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" Jones responded thusly: "Wag your finger at me and this is going to get bigger and bigger.
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Wag had previously raised $68 million from Battery Ventures, General Catalyst, Sherpa Capital, Freestyle Capital and others.
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Fund size tails will wag check size dogs, no matter how often VCs tell themselves they won't.
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Then came the downward spiral of other portfolio companies, including Wag, Oyo and the robot pizzeria Zume.
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As for me, my last name is pretty simple: WAG-ner, not VOG-ner, as in German.
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Though restrained, the women do not lack independence, and they wag their tongues as defiantly as ever.
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Those layoffs follow major cuts in the fourth quarter at companies including WeWork, Uber, Wag, and Fair.
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So you've got a dog whose tail is quivering like this, that is not a happy wag.
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Most dog owners should consider installing Wag on their phones just to have as a backup option.
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Wag&aposs old CEO Hilary Schneider recently left the company, to lead Housenbold&aposs old company Shutterfly.
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STYLIST: Noemi Bonazzi CLOTHING, BEAR: The Paw Wag Company blue sweatsuit; Moncler x Poldo jacket; Zara chain.
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STYLIST: Noemi Bonazzi CLOTHING, BEAR: The Paw Wag Company blue sweatsuit; Moncler x Poldo jacket; Zara chain.
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Additionally, both Wag and Rover have paid upset pet owners settlements in exchange for signing nondisclosure agreements.
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The Wag Brigade's main mission is to roam the halls of the airport giving comfort to stressed passengers.
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When dogs wag their tails, it's a sort of energy indicator, like a rev-counter in a car.
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So right now, because the mustache is against me, the others kind of wag their tails, like bitches.
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When I see his tail wag as I show him the masterpiece he's created gives me such joy.
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KEY RATING DRIVERS Since Walgreen Co. (WAG) completed its merger with Alliance Boots to form WBA on Dec.
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Wag has become something of a punchline in venture capital circles for embodying some of SoftBank's investment excesses.
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They wag their pudgy arms, stare cautiously at new faces, and they absolutely LOVE being held and hugged.
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There are 12 addressable actions that include individual moves like sitting and combos like tail wag and bark.
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Lucy, Bear, and Leo, the furry pooches of Olympic gold medalist ski racer Lindsey Vonn, will judge Wag!
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The Vision Fund's more recently announced investments have been in consumer-facing marketplaces like Uber, DoorDash and Wag.
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The Viner brothers departed dog-walking startup Wag last year to start a fund focused on consumer startups.
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The departures came after Josh Viner was replaced as Wag CEO by Hilary Schneider, a former Yahoo executive.
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"We do not manage to temporary P/E ratios — the tail should not wag the dog," Dimon wrote.
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"The tax tail should never wag the dog," says Justin Porter, certified financial planner with Porter Wealth Management.
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Wag Hotels, on the other hand, is geared toward people who need to board their dogs all day.
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One Hollywood wag later said that had Nancy married him earlier, he would have won an Academy Award.
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In early December, Oliver questioned Hoffman about the allegations during a 20th anniversary screening of Wag the Dog.
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He doesn't get to stand outside, wag his finger, roll the blame downhill and call it a day.
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Additionally, the walk has been refunded and the walker, an independent contractor, has been removed from the Wag!
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SoftBank has made news in recent months as a series of investments, from WeWork to Uber to Wag.
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Wag will be laying off "a significant amount of the remainder of its workforce," according to the report.
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That's how Jonathan Viner described the lead-up to founding Wag in a podcast interview published last fall.
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With Wag, their aim was to help dog owners access its vetted local dog walkers at any time.
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Last fall, employees were notified in an email that Wag would be opening a Phoenix customer care operations.
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Having said that, a wag might also point out that a 94% failure rate does, in fact, represent progress.
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The company carefully vets its walkers and says it only invites the most trustworthy individuals to its platform. Wag!
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The owner of the dog-walking app WAG buys a house and does not smile once during the process.
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Or to quote Dustin Hoffman's obnoxiously optimistic movie producer character from the brilliant Wag the Dog: This is nothing!
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The Wag line passes ingredients test, with the primary protein source and meat meal as the top two ingredients.
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Berlin does not like to wag its finger directly at other members of the club, in public at least.
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Sometimes illness isn't all bad, as it can bring around new fashion trends that will make your tail wag.
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One wag even started a Twitter feed dubbed Check out this video to hear a husky-throated Donald Trump
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Editor's Note: The above dog is Sebastian Thrun's puppy, which, while unrelated to Wag, is a very good dog.
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She 'reads' the kitten and figures out when to look at it, wag her tail or move her head.
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Representatives from Wag and General Catalyst declined to comment, while representatives from Sherpa did not reply to our request.
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But at the 92nd Street Y Wag the Dog panel on Monday night, Oliver questioned the Oscar-winner's statement.
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Today, the Wall Street Journal reported that Wag inadvertently exposed web pages revealing customers' information, including their home addresses.
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"Given our investigation to date, we have no reason to believe this information was misused," a Wag spokesperson said.
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In the statement, the CEO says this work includes a review of the company's customer service systems and Wag!
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"I ain't here to chin-wag about politics," Falcone confesses with real venom when he and Bruce are alone.
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As Kristina and Evan walked Slick to the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Monument, his tail began to wag joyously.
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The driver's creative attempt to fashion an improvised child booster seat earned more than a wag of the finger.
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"Roy's probably calling Evan right now, asking if his old firm is hiring," one Republican wag joked to another.
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"I don't know about you," said a seasoned fashion wag seated alongside this reporter in the Fendi front row.
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Don't let this malignant narcissist wag the dog and drag our young women and men into his killing fields.
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The dog-walking startup Wag just lost its latest CEO and appointed a 29-year-old to take charge.
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But it will be gratifying and rewarding work, as we come together as a team to secure for Wag!
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In the words of one union wag, Mr Stewart had been handed a "get-out-of-jail-free card".
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SoftBank did not give Wag the entire $300 million it had agreed to invest, one of the people said.
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SoftBank is selling back its stake in embattled dog-walking startup Wag, amid the company&aposs &apospainful&apos layoffs.
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He says he's heard of Wag but hasn't investigated the platform since he's happy with his current work situation.
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It turns out that plenty of dogs have been lost, hurt, or killed while in Wag and Rover's care.
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Her death has been especially difficult for the pair, because Winnie did not die from a health issue or old age — both heart-breaking goodbyes in their own right — but from being hit by car while on a walk with a dog walker arranged through the on-demand dog-walking app Wag!. Wag!
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A wag quipped that the sacked official would soon get another job, as coach of the national synchronised-swimming team.
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Last week one wag argued that the lesson from PISA is that the rest of the world should use chopsticks.
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In addition, the star attended the 20th-anniversary Screening of Wag The Dog, wearing a black strapless Zac Posen dress.
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Wag has also approached its primary competitor in the pet services industry, Rover, about a possible deal, one person said.
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SoftBank invested $300 million into Wag almost two years ago and took a larger-than-normal percentage of the company.
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If she's into it, the two start making "chucking" noises at each other and she'll lift and wag her tail.
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While it's easy to lump Wag, DogVacay and Rover together, there are some key differences in the way they operate.
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Dog-walking startup Wag has raised $300 million from SoftBank Vision Fund, confirming the talks Axios first reported in December.
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It also said that former LifeLock CEO Hillary Schneider is taking over as CEO from Wag co-founder Josh Viner.
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Terry: The DJ at The Wag was, I believe, the legendary Horace Carter and the night was called Black Market.
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And that's okay as long as the tail can wag the dog and then eventually, you know what I mean?
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The sponsors include Banfield Pet Hospital, Camp Bow Wow, WAG Hotels, Pet Food Express, Woodrow Wear and Hanks Dog Stuff.
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Wag, however, has received some heavy criticism for, you know, losing dogs and fighting with customers, Bloomberg reported in October.
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In the U.S. pet care market, Rover primarily competes with the dog-walking app Wag, which is backed by SoftBank.
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The former N.B.A. center Dikembe Mutombo was known to wag his finger at an opposing player after blocking his shot.
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The Los Angeles-based dog-walking startup Wag announced Tuesday that the firm CEO Hilary Schneider was leaving the company.
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It may seem like a "Wag the Dog" scenario — but this one's actually dangerous and not manufactured as a distraction.
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Last month, the dog-walking service Wag underwent several rounds of layoffs before SoftBank sold its shares at a loss.
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You can sign up to be a dog walker, sitter, or boarder through a host of services, like Rover, Wag!
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Ann Eliopulos, a veterinarian and adviser for Wag, told Insider that giving bones to dogs is actually a health risk.
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Instead they shake their heads, wag their fingers, look at the camera and tell us to "Shut Up." Because, journalism.
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Schneider says Wag is better equipped to "understand the needs of pet parents," while Easterly says Rover offers "richer" services.
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It isn't just the public's willingness to forgive and forget that indicates Wag and Rover are destined for further success.
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But what makes this worse is the sect of try-hards who live to wag their fingers at your cellphone use.
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Intuitively named Wag, the food comes in several different varieties, with primarily protein sources including chicken, beef, salmon, lamb, and turkey.
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Battery, which does not list Wag under its "List of All Companies" in its portfolio on its website, declined to comment.
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The process to healing is easy: just give it a good pat and watch the cushion's tail wag softly in response.
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There'd been experimental hippy bashes and Northern Soul all-nighters, but the Wag, Sullivan argues, was where things really took shape.
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In the Unicorn context, there is a worry that the tail may wag the horn, so to speak, on valuation disclosures.
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We had heard a bit ago that Wag was looking to raise around $100 million, which the Recode report also suggests.
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Wag said that it is notifying customers whose information was included in the breach, which it attributed to a software glitch.
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Kelly Kinnard is Vice President of Talent at Battery Ventures, where she's worked with startups like Wag, Coupa, Fastly, and Gainsight.
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Wheels was founded in early 2019 by Jonathan and Joshua Viner, brothers who also founded the popular dog-walking app Wag.
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In December, SoftBank sold its interest in the dog-walking start-up Wag at a loss after it laid off workers.
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Wheels, the startup founded by Wag founders Jonathan and Joshua Viner, just announced a $50 million round led by DBL Partners.
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Every applicant must pass an online test covering dog safety, equipment, and handling knowledge before we allow them on the Wag!
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One such eyebrow-raising deal was a $300 million investment in Wag, a dog-walking service built around a smartphone app.
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Two popular platforms, Wag and Rover, for example, allow customers to use their phones to request the services of trained walkers.
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Walsh added that he is no longer close to Wag since the Viners' departure and doesn't have knowledge into Schneider's thinking.
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On-demand dog walking from both Rover and Wag costs $20 for a 30-minute walk or $30 for 60 minutes.
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When it comes to user acquisition, Wag and Rover are both fishing in the same pond and using the same tools.
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Wag also has a brilliant marketing strategy: the walker takes a picture of Gordo during the walk, which the app then prompted me to share via social media, which I of course did because Gordo is a beautiful boy: People asked about Wag when I shared the images, which of course led to me recommending the app.
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The attack brings to mind some of the "Wag the Dog" questions that arose when President Bill Clinton used missiles in the middle of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, with "Wag the Dog" a reference to the film with Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman where an administration manufactured a war to distract attention from a scandal.
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The challenge for Wag will be to grow from primarily the dog-walking market into the much more substantial pet market, which Wag pegs at $70 billion in the U.S. SoftBank is placing a series of bets on automation, and envisions a company that is well beyond merely connecting dog owners with available walkers in their neighborhood.
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"We can all wag our fingers and blame the mom for the kid falling in the gorilla pen," one Twitter user wrote.
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The Wag Brigade recruits very good dogs, cats and other tactilely satisfying animals to roam the airport and comfort stressed-out travelers.
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Firing an employee makes tongues wag; parents talk to each other, and it can make the school look unstable to have turnover.
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Other SoftBank-funded company layoffs include Zume Pizza (80% of staff laid off), Wag (80%), Getaround (25%), Rappi (6%) and Oyo (5%).
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It's an area where Wag has faced a lot of criticism following a major Bloomberg report regarding poor service (and losing dogs).
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ACCORDING TO ONE wag, Medway Magistrates Court in Chatham is "probably the only place in the town centre doing a brisk business".
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The Wag was a fucker to get into due to the head doorman Winston — think Panorama bar tough entry then double it.
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Last year, Wag was reportedly in talks with a handful of investors, including NEA and Kleiner Perkins, The Information reported last week.
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As if losing the Super Bowl wasn't bad enough, the ATL Falcons just got the FINGER WAG OF SHAME from Dikembe Mutombo.
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That doesn't mean a dog won't wag its tail and look happy when you say, "You stinky mess" in a happy voice.
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The company's new rate-your-walk feature could be a salve, helping walkers alert Wag to issues before something goes really wrong.
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I wag my finger at you, like a grandmother at a mischievous child, and I clear the way for conversation to continue.
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"And so, to Donald Trump I say: " — here, she imitated Shakira's tongue wag from her performance at the Super Bowl halftime show.
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Wag, which pairs dog owners with available walkers in their neighborhood, landed its first investment from SoftBank's Vision Fund in January 2018.
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The company was founded earlier this year by Jonathan and Joshua Viner, brothers who also founded the popular dog-walking app Wag.
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Smallwood only became the Wag&aposs CEO last month, after the company&aposs former CEO Hilary Schneider left to join another firm.
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But poor performance by WeWork, as well as other unsteady investments like Uber and Wag, have hurt the hand that fed them.
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I turned to the end-of-life scale and was able to see how poorly she was doing, despite the tail wag.
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Correa then went on to wag his tongue in what might have been a wink and a nod to Señor Lengua himself.
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The PIF has contributed $45 billion to SoftBank Group's Vision Fund, which has invested in start-ups like Flipkart, DoorDash, Wag and WeWork.
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Gizmodo has reached out to Wag and the dog owner in question for comment, and we'll update this post if we hear back.
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Check out more of the sexiest humans who are best friends to dogs and make tails wag while our hearts skip a beat.
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She was recently spotted out and about with the pup and revealed she uses on-demand dog walking app, WAG, while she's traveling.
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And by delivering each order with a friendly face and a wag of a tail, we know they'll leave you begging for more.
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Puppies bark and wag their tails as they follow a gray-haired woman through a hillside compound that shelters more than 200 dogs.
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"War Machine" might yearn to be "Wag the Dog" in terms of focusing a jaundiced eye on 21st-century U.S. military adventures abroad.
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Ahead of the vote, Erdogan has launched a "wag-the-dog" military campaign that looks like an effort to bolster his patriotic support.
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Other investors pointed that SoftBank doesn't always back the market leader—dog-walking startup Wag, for example, was much smaller than rival Rover.
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Splayed across an illusory black-and-white backdrop, animatronic limbs wiggle and wag, creating an unsettling combination of the real and the synthetic.
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It has put hundreds of millions of dollars into each of its internet investments in the United States, including DoorDash, Wag and Slack.
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The Vision Fund's investment is several times the $68 million in total funding that Wag has raised since it was founded in 2015.
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SoftBank Vision Fund is bailing on Wag, the dog-walking and dog-sitting company in which it invested $300 million in early 2018.
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In December, SoftBank abandoned its investment in dog walking company Wag, a $300 million bet that many had questioned in the first place.
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The combination of the two announcements made it appear that Wag was set to be one of the tech industry's next big companies.
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Nor does the continual drop of Wag, which received $300 million from the Vision Fund and looks to be going through tough challenges.
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SoftBank&aposs Vision Fund is giving up its nearly 50% stake in the dog-walking startup Wag, as the company continues to struggle.
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SoftBank offloaded its $300 million Wag Labs stake well below last year's roughly $650 million valuation, the Wall Street Journal reported this week.
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In the video, Opal sticks her nose in the air and begins to wag her tail as Forrest gets out of his truck.
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Nor, he said, were his prosecutors seeking to wag their fingers, serve as "morality cops" or demand that officials be free of vice.
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In 2015, a pug-Chihuahua mix from Brooklyn named Duckie was hit by a car and killed while out with a Wag walker.
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Both Wag and Rover say they work hard to prevent these situations, and point to their 24-hour live support hotlines as proof.
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When asked about dogs that have gone missing or been killed under their care, both Wag and Rover maintain such incidents are rare.
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What Wag offers to distinguish itself is essentially similar to an Uber for dogs, which has attracted the service a fair amount of scrutiny.
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As has happened across numerous companies backed by the Vision Fund, including Wag and more recently WeWork, it also meant an executive shake-up.
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Both DogVacay and Rover had a very similar model and eventually merged in an all-stock deal, creating a more substantial competitor for Wag.
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The Vision Fund era overvalued Uber, funded its competitors, fired too much money into Wag (whose growth has been called into question) and more.
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Leah is in some respects the stereotypical "WAG" – she has no real life of her own, her existence largely revolving around her footballer husband.
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When I first signed up for Wag, it sent me a lockbox for a set of keys I could keep outside my apartment building.
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The kingdom contributed $45 billion to the SoftBank Vision Fund, which has invested in American tech companies like Doordash, Wag, WeWork, Slack, and Uber.
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LiLou, a 5-year-old Juliana pig, is part of the airport's Wag Brigade, which brings therapy animals into departure areas, according to Reuters.
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Wag, an app that lets you book a dog walker on demand, is testing a new app feature that lets walkers rate their experience.
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In television shows like "Those Who Can't" and "Teachers," the schoolteacher as clueless wag or inappropriate role model is getting another workout this spring.
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It has also put significant money into a long list of start-ups that includes Wag, DoorDash, WeWork, Plenty, Cruise, Katerra, Nvidia and Slack.
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For the past nine years, Mandolin Noir has taken care of other people's pets around Seattle, often working through companies like Rover and Wag.
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In 2019, layoffs reached a number of companies that the SoftBank -backed capital machine had invested in, including Uber, Wag, WeWork, Fair and Katerra.
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SoftBank's flawed investment strategy extends to other companies in its Vision Fund portfolio, from food delivery (DoorDash) to construction (Katerra) to dog-walking (Wag).
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In short, many are accusing Trump of a "wag the dog" effort of sorts, which would not be uncommon for the Twitter-obsessed president.
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This was done by lightly grasping the salt in an upturned palm, then letting it shower down with a flowing wag of the wrist.
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Wag announced Tuesday that CEO Hilary Schneider is exiting in pursuit of "a new opportunity" less than two years after taking the top job.
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This week, The WSJ reported that SoftBank had tossed in the towel on Wag, selling off its massive "nearly 50% stake" in the startup.
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Some former employees looked back fondly on the early days, describing a love for dogs and a sense of mission to build up Wag.
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A veteran leader takes the reins Before joining Wag, Schneider had most recently led LifeLock through its $2.3 billion acquisition by Symantec in 2016.
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Wag did not directly respond to or dispute this and other claims included in the list of questions CNN Business provided to its spokesperson.
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Wag and Rover are fighting each other for dominance while simultaneously embroiled in a different, messier kind of feud — one with pet owners themselves.
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The U.S. pet services industry grew to be an estimated $69 billion market in 2017 (and $180 billion globally), experiencing "unprecedented growth" according to Wag!
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LiLou is a small, spotted Juliana pig and breakout member of the Wag Brigade, a group of therapy animals that roam the terminals of SFO.
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The onerous terms of the deal suggest Wag does not have significant leverage in fundraising negotiations, perhaps a sign of troubled finances at the company.
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According to the couple, one of them typically would schedule a walk with Wag, which would then inform them who was assigned to their walk.
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They say that they still haven't received an apology or explanation from Wag, and haven't spoken to them since their call with security last week.
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She spent five months posting fake stories to her Instagram account, limiting the audience for those stories to a single person — fellow WAG Rebekah Vardy.
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The dog-walking and pet-sitting startup Wag has been exploring a sale to potential buyers, such as the pet giant Petco, Recode has learned.
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But there is also something more universal going on with the Rooney-Vardy feud that's pulling in even people totally unfamiliar with British WAG culture.
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"What we were doing at the Wag became a clarion call to the world," Sullivan told me over a coffee on a gorgeous spring afternoon.
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Wag lets me know that my preferred walker will be walking a neighbor's dog and they can walk mine right after for a 73% discount.
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Wag will, of course, face a lot of competition going forward and raising a lot of capital can help it get ahead of that competition.
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It's easy to wag our fingers as we wait to see how these narratives unfold, but here's the truth: due diligence only goes so far.
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So on December 10, when Nick realized he had a lunch meeting that would keep him from walking Winnie, the Moores had not used Wag!
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In the past few days, I've been pushing her around my parents' neighborhood, and she's done nothing but wag her tail and bark at butterflies.
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Her coal eyes flashed when she was asked to identify the anonymous wag who had told a reporter her run had come to an end.
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Then Lilly King directed a much-discussed finger wag at one of her competitors, Yulia Efimova of Russia, who had failed a test for meldonium.
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Some wag observed the party was now an endangered species and perhaps faced extinction, given it had been reduced to but a single breeding pair.
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A daily tea dance brings visitors together at the Boatslip Beach Club to sip on potent cocktails, disco and wag their fingers at each other.
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SoftBank has been in talks to invest as much as $300 million in the dog-walking app Wag, according to people familiar with the conversations.
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One person said Wag had already received an investment offer from a top venture capital firm on the $100 million round before SoftBank came in.
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The pair agree to set up a short-term promotion, providing discounts to Ollie customers if they set up a Wag account and vice versa.
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SoftBank is raising a successor to the Vision Fund, a $97 billion venture fund that has backed companies such as Uber, Slack, WeWork, and Wag.
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Aside from being a social media mastermind who has since been dubbed "WAGatha Christie" for her brilliant amateur detective skills, Rooney is British WAG royalty.
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So in addition to looking at the ears and the eyes and the body posture, ask yourself, what kind of wag is this dog doing?
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Hey, maybe Jose is sensitive about the finger wag ... since he accidentally shot off his own finger in a gun cleaning accident back in 2014.
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SoftBank is selling back its nearly 50% stake in Wag to the embattled dog-walking startup, while the startup struggles to turn around its performance.
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With SoftBank's backing, and the appointment of a veteran CEO around the same time, Wag looked primed to become a global pet care services leader.
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"We invented on-demand dog walking in 2015 in Los Angeles and remain committed to our Los Angeles headquarters location," according to a Wag spokesperson.
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"Le Bonheur" was criticized, including by those who wanted Varda to wag her finger at patriarchy and female oppression, doing the audience's work for it.
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Update, May 15th, 2018 at 12:30pm ET: In a statement, a Wag spokesperson contested the Post's reporting that the company claims it "extensively trains" workers.
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Yulia Efimova is speaking out again about American swimmer Lilly King, who delivered a finger-wag diss at Efimova following last Sunday's 100-meter breastroke heats.
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In this case, a spokesperson said, it appears the suspect was able to access notes about Benny's care through a notes portion of the Wag app.
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They go to class, give handshakes in the hallways, and wag tails in the courtyard outside the cafeteria as teens flood in and out for lunch.
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What's less pleasing is Grizabella's fancy-feast makeover, which, in the words of one wag, gives her the look of an anchorwoman for Cat News Network.
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Brandless shut down, Zume is a husk of its former self, and the fund sold back the shares it owned in Wag, reportedly at a loss.
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For thousands of people, the Wag was that club, and those memories will remain in circulation until the last member takes their card to the grave.
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There are cases where a tail wag can be a warning, especially if it's slow and deliberate, and mainly to the left instead of the right.
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I feed the ninja cat and my 10-year-old, 100-pound German shepherd and schedule a dog walker on Wag because I'm running hella late.
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Wag launched in San Francisco in 2015 but has since launched a big list of cities that include Houston, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh.
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As a result, Wag operates more like Uber or Lyft than Airbnb, both in terms of its screening process for walkers and expansion into new markets.
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The last time we wrote about Wag, just about two years ago, the company had just launched its on-demand dog-walking service in San Francisco.
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Wag told the Wall Street Journal it is communicating with affected customers, but I haven't heard from it yet, which hopefully simply means I wasn't affected.
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Dikembe Mutombo loves Joel Embiid so damn much, he wants the young star to carry on his legendary finger wag ... so he's offering up personal lessons!
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From the looks of this clip, it seems she also loves to wag her tail, cuddle, and deliver the most perfect soft smile we've ever seen.
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SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son indicated in his company's recent earnings call that there are other problematic start-ups in the portfolio, including dog-walking provider Wag.
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The feature comes at a time when Wag is fighting to gain the trust of users as it loses market share to its biggest competitor, Rover.
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"If he wants to do a wag the dog in Syria, let us be careful of the timing of this is all I'm saying," Behar warned.
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Wag said on Tuesday that Hilary Schneider, an experienced executive who most recently led LifeLock, would replace the company's co-founder, Josh Viner, as its CEO.
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SoftBank wanted Wag to bring in an experienced CEO, and was unsure whether it would do the deal if the company did not, the person said.
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The walls in the first gallery of the exhibition, true to this mission, are covered with pages from "The Funk & Wag from A to Z "(2012).
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Wealth Matters Talk to a tax expert long enough and you're likely to hear some variant on this phrase: Don't let the tail wag the dog.
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The Japanese investor has had several high-profile issues in recent months with companies in its first Vision Fund portfolio, including WeWork, Wag, Zume, and Fair.
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But Ms. Beckham has been desperate to wriggle out of her WAG chrysalis for some time now and take flight as a businesswoman and fashion mogul.
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The report focuses on one partner, Jeff Housenbold, who invested in dog-walking startup Wag and blamed the #metoo movement for the firm&aposs poor performance.
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The idea that the Prime Minister would intentionally create a "wag the dog" situation and take Israel to war as a distraction and diversion is remote.
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New Wag CEO Garrett Smallwood informed staffers on Monday that the company was "amicably parting ways with SoftBank," according to the email obtained by CNN Business.
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Suddenly, the film's outlandish premise felt all too real and "Wag the Dog" had become a metonym for political theater at its most craven and mendacious.
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"We are amicably parting ways with SoftBank and SoftBank will no longer have Board representation," Wag CEO Garrett Smallwood said in the internal memo to employees.
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New York (CNN Business)After raising hundreds of millions of dollars to unleash growth, dog-walking startup Wag has struggled to keep up with the competition.
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In Schneider's place, Garrett Smallwood, who previously served as VP of product, partnerships, and corporate development at Wag, will become CEO, according to the press release.
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He then deflected blame on the #MeToo movement, suggesting that it "limited his ability to maneuver" away from the Wag deal, according to a Bloomberg report.
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Capitalizing on the popularity of animals on social media, Wag uses its social platforms to post irresistible photos of dogs taken by walkers on the job.
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Cofounder Jason Meltzer, who stayed on after the Viners, told CNN Business he is also no longer at Wag but did not state when he left.
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In mid-2018, Wag opened up a call center in the Philippines, which infuriated some customers calling under the belief they'd be speaking to someone local.
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Schneider says Wag has been thinking about the full life cycle of a dog, from purchasing and adoption through puppy life up to the very end.
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A wag might suggest that flyers boarding at Minneapolis should now be forced to stow laptops and iPads in the hold until security at the airport improves.
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SoftBank reportedly employed similarly heavy-handed tactics when it was looking to invest in the dog-walking service Wag, into which it sunk $300 million in January.
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Everyone went about their business, not expecting any change in the norm, and hoped this wag of the finger would be enough to teach them a lesson.
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But then, amid fundraising troubles, the Japanese giant SoftBank — which is on a funding rampage in the U.S. tech sector — and Wag entered talks to triple that.
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Wag serves as a marketplace for dog owners and dog walkers, but has encountered fierce competition from Rover, another venture-backed company that offers a similar service.
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BURGER KING TREATING TERMINALLY ILL DOG TO FREE CHEESEBURGERS Buddy continues to poke his nose in the couch as his tail seems to wag faster and faster.
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Sometimes cats will wag their tails when they're stalking something—it's a sort of twitch, which indicates that the cat is interested in or concentrating on something.
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They also launched a social media campaign, even getting the attention of actor Olivia Munn, a spokesperson for Wag who is known for her animal rights activism.
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The values it's assigning companies seem to be way ahead of where VCs would value them, taking the dog-walking company Wag as the most recent example.
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Wag the Dog works as satire because of a political world that keeps running the same plays on the media—who, in turn, keep falling for them.
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"I am quite interested in exploring characters who have some kind of stereotype around them, and the WAG is the biggest stereotype of the lot," he explains.
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Now he and his surrogates are making it a more definitive wag of the finger — so much so that Trump equated the allegations to a conspiracy theory.
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Even though their only interaction with humans had been negative and abusive, some of them would just look at you through matted fur and wag their tails.
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I explained that I had felt close to tears when the grandmother and the dog received the letter in Heaven and it made the dog's tail wag.
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Wag the Dog isn't about using war as a distraction, but rather about the political uses of fake news and blurring the line between reality and fiction.
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The insanely hot male model hit up Muscle Beach for a summer workout that will make your tongue wag ... we're talking pull ups, dips and some rings.
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Collectively, Zume, Wag, Oyo, Rappi, Getaround, and more have laid off thousands of workers, and some of those firms have dramatically scaled back or shifted their businesses.
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Tuesday: The dog-walking and pet-sitting startup Wag announced that its CEO is leaving — even as reports indicate that the company is hunting for a buyer.
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Even dog-walking app Wag is up for sale, according to Recode, and could fetch less than the $650 million price at which the Vision Fund invested.
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The Japanese conglomerate is selling its stake in Wag back to the company, according to people familiar with the matter and an internal memo viewed by CNBC.
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Instead, they have been given a variety of anodyne, disposable names like Spotted Zebra (kids clothes), Good Brief (men's underwear), Wag (dog food) and Rivet (home furnishings).
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"We do millions of walks a year and we're fortunate to have very few incidents relative to the volume of walks we complete," says Schneider of Wag.
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Going into an anniversary celebration of his 1997 film Wag the Dog, Dustin Hoffman probably didn't expect to get asked about the allegations of sexual harassment against him.
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"Don't let the tax tail wag the dog," said Gatien of D.A. Davidson & Co. , noting that tax savings can easily be wiped out by a bad investment decision.
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Wag had already received a $100 million investment offer from a top venture capital firm before SoftBank arrived, a person familiar with the conversations told Recode last December.
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Nicholas DodmanProfessor Emeritus, Clinical Sciences, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts UniversityIt's strange question in a way, because you can ask: Do cats even wag their tails?
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North Carolina believes that the Justice Department can't wag the proverbial congressional dog and replace an ambiguity with a legal certainty -- especially when the issue is this controversial.
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SoftBank's Vision Fund invested $300 million into dog walking app Wag earlier this year, and a new deal on the other side of the world is evoking similarities.
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RL: We're an earlier investor in Wag and we see SoftBank as a great partner and complementary resource for companies that have the potential to become category kings.
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P.W. Botha (no relation), who led the country from 1978 to 1989, would wag a finger—both temper and voice rising—when challenged over the immorality of apartheid.
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Two weeks later, the dog was able to drag its hind legs, and after the third week it was able to walk, grab objects, and wag its tail.
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This feeling became more intense when Sara realized that, after following the first part of Winnie's walk on the app, she never received the customary message from Wag!
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Director Cary Fukunaga, most recently of the Netflix movie, Beasts of No Nation, caused the Internet's tongues to wag when he accepted his Emmy with two luscious braids.
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It's got the material for a bleak, black-comedy riff on Wag The Dog, but it settles for Delta Farce-level "hapless Americans in a foreign country" camp.
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I also apply to be a Wag dog walker and an Instashopper online to see if I can make a little extra cash during the upcoming school year.
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His critics compared the moment to the 1997 film "Wag the Dog," in which an administration manufactured a fake war to divert attention from a president's sex scandal.
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A wag might suggest, though, that if this was their idea of a movie, they might want to change directors, or at least get a new check list.
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He cannot saber-rattle like he did in 2017 (unless he wants to wag the dog, which he would prefer to do with Iran rather than North Korea).
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Amazon's top in-house brands in 2018, which are "making a significant impact on the market," include Mama Bear, Basic Care, Presto, Solimo and Wag, according to Todd.
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Joshua Viner, chief executive of Wag, said the map allows pet owners to verify that their dog is getting the amount of exercise the owner is paying for.
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There's no reason to wag your finger at a womxn or reprimand them for asking questions about things you have been in the press for just last week.
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Wag was originally looking to raise $100 million in this latest round, the sources tell Recode, but it ballooned to the $300 million neighborhood when SoftBank expressed interest.
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Mr. Turnbull is "now inviting them to lunch in Canberra once a year so he can wag his finger at them," Bill Shorten, the party's leader, told reporters.
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Fun for dogs of all ages, the Wobble Wag Giggle Ball is an obvious choice for pet owners looking for a versatile, durable, and affordable interactive dog toy.
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I asked Uber, Wag, DoorDash, Katerra, WeWork, Slack and Plenty if there was any aspect of Saudi Arabia's conduct in Mr. Khashoggi's apparent murder that the company disavowed.
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And maybe even Mr. Trump sees promise in a "wag the dog" strategy in the run-up to the 2020 election, rallying his supporters around a "wartime" president.
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A federal appeals court on Monday handed a partial victory to WAG Acquisition LLC, a patent holding company engaged in litigation against companies in the adult entertainment industry.
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By the end of March, it had paid $214 billion for stakes in 230 companies ranging from ride-hailing service Uber Technologies to dog-walking app Wag Labs.
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Although SoftBank has long been a superstar in the tech world, lately it has come under scrutiny for investments in WeWork, Uber (UBER) and dog walking startup Wag.
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Wag CEO Garrret Smallwood circulated a memo around the company on Monday, informing employees that it was cutting jobs and it was was "amicably parting ways" with SoftBank.
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The high-tech pooch is equipped with sensors all over its body, allowing it to respond to its name, sense different types of touch, and wag its tail.
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Norman the Chihuahua had gone missing during a walk facilitated by a pet care startup called Wag, and his owner Nicole DiCarlo was determined to get him home.
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Every year around this time, Uber drivers, Wag dog walkers, Bird scooter chargers, social media influencers and other gig economy workers face the unsightly challenge of paying their taxes.
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A Golden Retriever seemed like he couldn't wag his tail fast enough after finding out that his human, Army pilot Zack Vohaska, was home once again after serving overseas.
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In response to the incident, a spokesperson for Wag said they worked directly with the Tropers and law enforcement on the investigation, saying they were "distraught" about what happened.
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Barr filed a declaration that the Justice Department officials' recollections were "incorrect" and that Cappuccio did not wag his finger at Delrahim or make reference to Hoffa or Comey.
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Perhaps worst of all, Trump's abandonment of the Kurds to an Ottoman slaughter amounted to a shameful "wag the dog"-style distraction from the enormous scandal engulfing his presidency.
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Disick and Khloé have always had a very close friendship which has in the past caused tongues to wag and some fans to suggest that they were romantically involved.
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When she's not at her 9-to-5 job, Byrne picks up extra cash from a few dog walks each week, courtesy of apps such as Rover and Wag.
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Despite the potentially huge funding round, Wag has been in the middle of some intense criticism following a big story from Bloomberg which identified some issues with the company.
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In dozens of cities, Wag will have to aggressively spend to acquire new customers, whether that's through digital advertising like Facebook or Google ads or traditional advertising like billboards.
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Journalists often wag their fingers when tech companies copy one another — but if Twitter wants to lift this idea wholesale, I promise to limit myself to a respectful nod.
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Well, sources tell us that over the past two years Wag, another player in the dog-walking space, raised two rounds of funding to support expansion into new markets.
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All you WAG aficionados are already well aware of Dustin Johnson's Hall of Fame-worthy fiancee Paulina Gretzky ... who leads the charge for this year's batch of beautiful ladies.
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Though she rarely responds to tabloid rumors, this is one of the few times the animal lover, who is also the creative strategist for the dog walking app Wag!
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The squeaker is somewhat hard to find, so it keeps her busy, and when she does find it, it's very quiet and delicate, but still makes her tail wag.
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Last year — four years after Menlo's investment — SoftBank invested $300 million in its competitor Wag, even though Rover was still the "clear market leader" in the space, Murphy said.
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In a 2016 Facebook post, Kalanick campaigned for Yobu to be named the president of Wag, an on-demand dog-walking app that's now worth more than $600 million.
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San Francisco International Airport has added a 5-year-old Juliana pig named LiLou to its Wag Brigade, a group of therapy animals tasked with easing anxiety among passengers.
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Vaurus was reportedly barred from the Wag app, and KTVU reported that Vaurus was charged with misdemeanor animal cruelty last week by the Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office.
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Wag has had a number of public relations issues in the last year relating to dogs under the care of its walkers, including multiple reports of walkers losing them.
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The dog-walking company Wag is replacing its CEO as it prepares to accept an investment from SoftBank that would offer the Japanese investor substantial control in the startup.
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Here's an example of a hypothetical partnership born out of Wove: A dog-walking startup like Wag logs onto Wove and is matched with Ollie, a dog food startup.
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Silva slapping on a double collar tie and faking a knee, only to have Sakuraba give a 'not this time' finger wag to a good chuckle was heart warming.
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Throughout the preparations, she stayed her sweet self, absorbing the love as she always had, radiating back her boundless devotion, rewarding us with a soft wag of her tail.
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Wag said that the problem was the result of a software glitch, and that it had no indication that hackers or thieves had gained access to the customer data.
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"We don't want to wag our finger at them, knowing this will be countereffective," said Camiel Verhey, who is in charge of the campaign at the ad agency WaveMaker.
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Wag had struggled to keep up with the competition and endured some layoffs -- according to a previous CNN Business investigation -- even before SoftBank sold its stake in the company.
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Whenever we gleefully write about these temperate days, some of our readers write in, wag their fingers and remind us that not everyone shares our taste in mild weather.
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Hong Kong (CNN Business)SoftBank's decision to abandon its $27 million investment in dog-walking startup Wag has raised more questions about the strategy of its mega tech fund.
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Also trending was "Wag the Dog," the 1997 movie that conjured up the notion of a president trying to distract from a scandal by spreading news of overseas conflict.
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While testing Wag and DogVacay, I found the pet GPS tracker Whistle to be a useful tool for making sure dog walkers and sitters were actually doing their jobs.
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In an interview, Mr. Pickering compared Mr. Trump's move to the film "Wag the Dog," in which a president fabricates a war to distract attention from a sex scandal.
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An office wag said Sally Rooney's fiction was Y.A. for adults, but I ended up liking "Conversations With Friends" a fair amount, mostly because Sally Rooney is really smart.
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The finger wag celebration is BACK ... 'cause NBA rookie Mfiondu Kabengele says he got approval from his Hall of Fame uncle Dikembe Mutombo to use his signature block celebration!!!
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It expanded into sitting and boarding in 2016, and according to transactional data provided to Vox by the analytics company Earnest Research, Wag is growing far faster than Rover.
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A cat who is hunting or playing may crouch down and wag her tail back and forth—this happens just before the cat pounces towards her prey or a toy.
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A couple whose dog was stolen by a dog walker employed by the app Wag are calling on other pet parents to boycott the company until "serious changes" are made.
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The Tropers want Wag to publicly apologize, give them a "full debrief" on how the incident happened, and change security measures to ensure it won't happen to other pet parents.
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Wag founders ditch dogs for bikes with $37 million in funding Wheels will join the likes of Uber's Jump, Lyft's Motivate and others in competing for the bike-share market.
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Then there are newer deals such as a $300 million investment in dog walking service Wag and a $560 million deal with Germany's Auto1 which both closed after January 1.
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If it is Petco that buys Wag, it would give the brick-and-mortar retailer a stronger digital footprint and would build relationships with a younger generation of dog owners.
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" But in the new documents, Heard's lawyers call those claims "categorically false" and accused Depp's team of "wag[ing] a malicious war against Amber in the Court of Public Opinion.
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In contrast, Wag offers more of an on-demand experience where the company pre-screens walkers and sends whoever is available to walk a dog when a request comes in.
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Or because our tongues wag as we try to stay cool by slipping in and out of pools and keeping a gallon jug of margaritas on hand at all times?
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SoftBank has an enormous $98 billion "vision fund" that it invests in speculative ventures ranging from Uber to a dog-walking startup called Wag to a construction company called Katerra.
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I've never even used apps like Wag and Rover because, frankly, I don't need to—plus, they all take a cut of your earnings, which isn't worth it to me.
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"You don't want to let the rewards tail wag the debt dog," said Reed Fraasa, a certified financial planner and managing director of Highland Financial Advisors in Wayne, New Jersey.
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The military acts as a moderating force, providing a check on government overreach, rather than using the armed forces as a "wag the dog" distraction or as an authoritarian crutch.
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The best dog toysWe've tested some of the most popular dog toys on the market and scoured reviews to come up with our top pick, the Wobble Wag Giggle Ball.
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"Wag is a community of people who love dogs — walkers, pet parents, and the employees who work here," said Rothenberg, Wag's vice president of corporate affairs and trust and safety.
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The prospect of a scandal-plagued president launching a military attack on a distant land has pundits reaching for the handiest film cliche, the 1997 political satire Wag the Dog.
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Viner's departure as CEO comes as Wag accepts $300 million in an unusual deal that is expected to give the SoftBank Vision Fund a 45 percent stake in the company.
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The company's founder, Josh Viner, and his brother, Jon Viner, have modest early-stage startup experience, but have not grown a global business like what SoftBank wants Wag to become.
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It's a pot that keeps getting stirred: Every so often, some wag will take to social media and whine about the lengthy stories that sometimes accompany recipes on food blogs.
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A few months after being taken private, the company installed a new chief executive, Hilary Schneider, who left the top job at dog-walking service Wag after about a year.
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Wag went through multiple rounds of layoffs, endured management changes, and shuttered its customer service hub in the Hollywood Hills, according to a CNN Business investigation published in late September.
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But its investment model has come under increasing scrutiny over its large and sometimes quixotic bets on loss-making companies like Uber and the on-demand dog walking company Wag.
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Vargo said the dogs -- a black one named Fluffy and a white one with no known name -- bark and wag their tails when they meet people and look pretty happy.
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While Wag started as a dog-walking startup, Rover launched four years earlier as a boarding service for canines -- a more costly but typically less frequent need for pet owners.
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Wag faced all the usual pain points of an on-demand startup relying on contract workers, including questions about its background checks and its ability to thoroughly train its workers.
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Local publications across the country have chronicled a long list of concerning incidents including lost dogs and even some dogs dying in the care of Wag, and competitor Rover's, service.
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She added that Wag fell into a slim category of companies that would give her the ability to work on building a consumer brand and doing good for the world.
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This is partially a result of Rover being in business for more than double the time Wag has been, and because Rover acquired the competing boarding startup DogVacay in 2017.
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Ever since Norman's story was published by the New York Post, several pet owners have reached out to DiCarlo to share how their pets were lost by Wag and Rover.
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In the experiment, she had owners ignore their dogs, giving attention to either a pop-up book or a robotic stuffed dog toy that could bark and wag its tail.
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It's easier to wag a finger at her for seeming to enjoy the Golden Globes than to address the complex possibility that Harding could be both an abuser and a victim.
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What if Mark Zuckerberg's Internet-famous Puli, Beast, could fit in the palm of your hand and only bark or wag his adorable little tail when you get a Facebook like?
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We learned Friday that SoftBank could be looking for an uncommonly large 45 percent stake in dog-walking app Wag in return for investing up to $300 million in the company.
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" His other movie credits include 1973's "The Way We Were," 1983's "To Be or Not to Be," 1994's "Vanya on 42nd Street" and 1997's "Wag the Dog.
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Sticking to the later-stage markets, Alex dug into the problems at Wag, which is struggling and looking for a sale despite raising a castle of cash from the Vision Fund.
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Enter: SoftBank Last month, ParkJockey secured an investment from SoftBank's Vision Fund, perhaps the world's most prolific tech investor with stakes in everything from Uber to WeWork, Nvidia, Wag, and more.
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And then this month, we shared that the expected deal terms would give SoftBank enormous influence at Wag, given that the company was only valued at $650 million in the transaction.
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It's unlikely that Mr. Mamet will pull any punches when it comes to criticizing the movie industry — he certainly didn't in his Oscar-nominated screenplay for "Wag the Dog" in 1997.
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Trouble at these companies has knock-on effects since many work with contractors, such as the people that walk dogs for Wag, who enjoy fewer labor protections than full-time employees.
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SoftBank's Masayoshi Son seemed to express concern about Wag in his latest investor presentation, as he referred to a dog-walking company as one of the Vision Fund's more troubled investments.
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For SoftBank, the failed Wag investment is just the latest shadow cast over its nearly $100 billion technology investment fund, which has pumped vast amounts of capital into flashy tech startups.
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In addition to vibrating softly to mimic purring and wagging its tail in reaction to a user's touch, Petit Qoobo will also wag its stubby little tail in response to sounds.
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Latin American delivery app Rappi reportedly laid off 6% of its workforce earlier this month, while dog-walking startup Wag parted ways with SoftBank in December after multiple rounds of layoffs.
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Others argue the President may try to draw attention from his domestic troubles by making a splash on the global stage, though few see a "wag the dog" scenario of war.
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Some feared a wag-the-dog effect, in which the pension fund would keep losing money and sucking more and more cash away from the co-op as more people retired.
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And when the Vision Fund invested in the dog-walking app Wag in 2018, it brought on Hilary Schneider, an experienced internet-business operator to replace the company&aposs two cofounders.
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In recent weeks, the struggling dog-walking service Wag bought back its shares that were held by the Japanese conglomerate, laid off numerous workers, and saw the departure of its CEO.
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But, being the relative of one of the all-time greats -- with an equally great trademark celly -- we had to ask if he's gotten Dikembe's approval to use the signature wag.
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Oliver and Hoffman were sharing the stage at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, where they had gathered for a panel at the 20-year anniversary screening of Wag the Dog.
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A discombobulated White House might take its eye off hotspots like the South China Sea -- or it could be tempted into military adventurism abroad -- perhaps with Iran -- to wag the dog.
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He did not respond to a list of questions sent over about his time at Wag but said he plans to write a book about the early days at some point.
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As of June 2018, Rover's sales were increasing at a rate of 30 percent year over year; Wag sales were increasing at a rate of 165 percent during that same time.
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They said that they weren't able to speak to a security official at Wag until Benny was back home, and they are left with "serious unanswered questions" about how the incident happened.
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Petco and Wag, which is almost majority owned by the investment firm SoftBank, have had talks over the last few weeks about a possible deal, according to people familiar with the matter.
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How Wag fares will prove to be another reflection on the SoftBank Vision Fund, which is on the ropes after the spectacular downfall of WeWork, a saga that ended in SoftBank Corp.
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During Oliver's panel discussion with Hoffman about the 20th anniversary of 1997's Wag the Dog, Oliver asked the actor about the sexual misconduct allegations that had been leveled at the time.
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Photo: GettyA data breach at the dog-walking app Wag left addresses and lockbox codes publicly exposed online, an incident that could have led to break-ins or, more troublingly, dog-nappings.
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So we in the commentariat can wag our fingers and shake our heads if we want, but if we don't grasp how attractive Trump's rhetorical style is, we're dumber than we look.
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If she tries to take the high road and wag her finger at Trump too hard, she'll fall into another trap — seeming like the derogatory "angry feminist" who can't take a joke.
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Barry Levinson, who won a Best Director Oscar for Rain Man and also helmed the terribly-underrated political farce Wag the Dog, among others, is also on board to direct the film.
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Ryden has peopled Ratmansky's stage with furry animals that look like fairground prizes, a gum-ball lady resembling a blastula, and various creatures that slither on the floor and wag their ears.
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That stance isn't quite so upright as it used to be, and Myers' bat-wag now syncs with a reasonable knee-bend/heel-tap combination he picked up somewhere along the line.
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Both Schneider and SoftBank see the market as big enough to host both a Wag and a Rover — and that there is not yet a preeminent global brand for the dog industry.
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Practice the wrist wag to get used to the way the salt falls from your hands; experience the illicit thrill of using so much of something we've all been taught to fear.
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SoftBank&aposs Masayoshi Son seemed to express concern about Wag in his latest investor presentation, as he referred to a dog-walking company as one of Vision Fund&aposs more troubled investments.
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Using his trademark wag of the finger, Sanders railed against "unfettered capitalism," called for a "political revolution," and gave a robust defense of Medicare for All during a lengthy back-and-forth.
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When LA-based Wag closed its $300 million raise from SoftBank at the beginning of 2018, plenty of people wondered why on earth a dog-walking startup needed that kind of money.
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Launched in 22019 at the height of the on-demand boom, Wag was founded by brothers Joshua and Jonathan Viner, along with Jason Meltzer, who previously ran a traditional dog walking business.
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After the SoftBank deal, which rocketed Wag's valuation to north of $20183 million according to Prime Unicorn Index, which tracks valuations of privately-held companies, Wag was gaining market-share over Rover.
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Mike Walsh, a general partner at Structure Capital, which was an early investor in Wag, described the brothers to CNN Business as "so smart" that it's "almost difficult to communicate" with them.
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"A neighbor saw one of the fliers that had been posted and notified the Wag tip line that Teddy had made his way back to the front of his building," the rep said.
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"Serena Williams is 22017 weeks pregnant which means she won the Australian Open during pregnancy and didn't drop a single set," one Instagram user wrote on a photo of Williams' famous finger-wag.
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Vision Fund was set up to invest in companies employing emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and connected devices, with companies from office-sharing firm WeWork to dog walking app Wag receiving funds.
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Although his body was broken and 50% of his mass and muscle had disappeared, he was able to wag his tail when they pulled him from the rubble, the group said on Facebook.
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The dog-walking startup Wag raised $300 million from SoftBank, has also endured layoffs and management changes, and has failed to protect the safety of its pets, per this great report from CNN.
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Chris Sullivan opened the Wag Club in 1982, back when that square mile of city center just on the edges of London's Soho neighborhood was still the beating artistic heart of the capitol.
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It looks like Wag may get another huge injection of cash following a big financing round earlier this year, according to a report by Recode, and also based on what we are hearing.
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While Pruitt did receive a stern wag of the finger from White House chief of staff John Kelly for his profligate travel spending, Pruitt's isn't anywhere near the most outlandish in the Cabinet.
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John Oliver may not have thought his confrontation with Dustin Hoffman at the 20th anniversary Wag the Dog screening was a success, but the exchange certainly resonated with seven of the actors' accusers.
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That money comes on top of the $2.4 million in seed funding Wag raised from investors that include Freestyle Capital, CrunchFund, Greylock, Ludlow Ventures, RRE Ventures, Slow Ventures, Social Leverage and Structure Capital.
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"This whole, like, WAG thing and there being a hierarchy to the whole system thing, it just...I'm not a big fan of it," Halcro said in one confessional interview on the show.
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They did one-offs at clubs such as The Limelight, Wag, The 22015 Club, as well as warehouse parties in parts of London that nobody ever knew existed such as Dalston and Shoreditch.
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The Wag Brigade, which launched in 2013, carefully selects animals like LiLou for their "temperament and airport suitability," and all wear vests that read "Pet Me!" to cue passengers into the courtesy cuteness.
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Why it's a big deal: Because this reflects how some deep-pocketed investors aren't succumbing to the shock-and-awe investment strategy of SoftBank, which recently plugged $300 million into Rover rival Wag.
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Only this time, there are cute animated pets trapped on the blocks, and when you successfully match the blocks, you set the pets free and they wag their tails or bounce around gratefully.
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Maybe an action hero who leaps around the country saving people from public schools or financial oversight, while occasionally stopping to wag his powder-puff tail in the direction of the vice president.
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The dispute is already reviving the topic of "WAG" culture — the shorthand given to the circus atmosphere that used to surround the wives and girlfriends of the players on the English national team.
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"If you wag the dog you have to do it in early September… the President… is simply reacting to the fact that he can't be seen in his eyes to be weak." pic.twitter.
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Websites like Infowars are calling the chemical attack that drew United States fire a "false flag" operation, while liberal blogs have pointed to the strike as evidence of "wag the dog" diversion tactics.
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Wag has cut 80% of its staff in an effort to streamline the business, said a person with knowledge of the matter who asked not to be named because the details are confidential.
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High-profile startups like the dog-walking app Wag and the online retailer Brandless have recently struggled, causing SoftBank to either sell back its stake in the company or withdraw funding the company.
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Multiple sources invoked the 1997 movie "Wag the Dog," a comedy about a president who concocts a phony war in Albania to distract the public from a sex scandal right before an election.
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SoftBank could acquire as much as 45 percent of Wag, the dog-walking app startup that is in talks to accept $300 million in funding despite originally only seeking one third as much money.
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Oliver, host of a weekly show on HBO that analyzes and satirizes the news, discussed Hoffman's statement while moderating a panel to mark the 20th anniversary of the film "Wag the Dog," starring Hoffman.
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Some of them drive cars for Uber and Lyft, deliver groceries for Instacart and Doordash, walk dogs for Wag and Rover, clean houses through Task Rabbit and Handy, and manage apartment properties on Airbnb.
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Veronika won't be the only WAG stuntin' at the Super Bowl ... tons of BOTH Rams and Patriots wives hit up Leah to get their own one-of-a-kind gear made for the game.
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"We're thrilled to have a strategic partner in SoftBank, and welcome their experience scaling leading technology companies through their global vision and operating expertise," Wag co-founder Joshua Viner said in a press release.
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The Wall Street Journal estimates that the PIF is the single largest source of venture capital for U.S. tech startups, with significant stakes in Uber, WeWork, the dog-walking app Wag, Tesla and Slack.
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Given his domestic troubles, and a defiant Democratic majority in the House of Representatives, he may well choose to pursue a classic "wag the dog" policy so as divert attention from his domestic travails.
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Wag, an app that lets you book a dog walker on demand, is testing an app feature that lets walkers rate their dog-walking experience on a scale of one to five paw prints.
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Commensurate with its massive ownership stake in the company, SoftBank is taking two board seats at Wag, one of which will go to SoftBank investor Jeff Housenbold, who will become chair of the board.
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"Chuck, I'll be the first to admit that some of the things this administration is doing make me want to shake my head vigorously, and wag my finger once — perhaps twice," Strong's Collins says.
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Rover and Wag are for emergency dog walking or pet sitting, and my current obsession is HUJI, a camera app that will make all your photos look as if they were taken in 1998.
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Prior to the decision to sell its stake, SoftBank had been exploring a number of options for the startup, including selling Wag to a strategic investor, according to a source familiar with the matter.
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These are just the Vision Fund portfolio companies to announce layoffs this week, in the past several months we've already seen restructurings at Fair, Wag, Katerra, Opendoor, Ola, Brandless, Uber and, of course, WeWork.
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It's still a worthy wag of the finger, although it's difficult not to wish that more of those hours had been spent telling a really good story instead of tweaking tech and shiny breasts.
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Customer service workers were tasked with calling local shops around town "hoping someone would see the dog," but weren't supposed to reveal that Wag was calling, according to one former employee in the department.
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Customer service woes No department at Wag has seen more change, or had more questions, since the SoftBank deal than its customer service operation, a vital unit for a company dealing with family pets.
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Among other recent deals that have landed him on the board of directors: SoftBank's investments in the dog-walking service Wag, the delivery service DoorDash, the construction company Katerra, and the e-commerce company Brandless.
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As seen in Evans' video, Dodger's welcoming tail wag and excited displays of affection — licking his soon-to-be new dad's hand and "giving paw" — leave no doubt that this pair was meant to be.
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Peart shared the dog's story with an aquatic wellness center for pets in Atlanta called Wag 'N Swim, and they gave her the best gift ever: water therapy free of charge to help her heal.
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The Wall Street Journal said it observed more than 50 cases in which Wag exposed customers' address as well as the codes to their lockboxes, which, again, hold the keys to their buildings and apartments.
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Smith said that the report was written as a "finger-wag" to politicians, to ensure they knew exactly what a future that relied on negative emissions technology looked like, and how disruptive it could be.
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He lives in a no-harm, no-foul, consequence-free world where even the most awful villains smile wryly at his quips, and the authentic heroes who disapprove of his methods just wag their fingers.
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American swimmer Lilly King, also swimming in the 100-meter breaststroke, was watching Efimova's heat while awaiting her own and gave the Russian swimmer a Dikembe Mutombo finger wag when Efimova appeared on a monitor.
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Yet while Wheeler was quick to wag his crooked finger at enemies both real and perceived, what Wheeler did not do is to take any responsibility for this toxic political stalemate upon his own shoulders.
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After receiving a sassy finger wag from American swimmer Lilly King, Efimova was booed by the crowd as she took her place on the podium to collect her silver medal for the 100-meter breaststroke.
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From high-end Lug totes to some of the hottest beauty products and even ice cream (yes, ice scream!), everyone who attends the SAG Awards will walk away with a bag full of serious wag.
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And as the men slowed to a jog post-sprint, Bolt gave his friend a hand gesture that has become all too familiar at these Olympic Games – the Katie Ledecky (and Michael Phelps!) finger wag.
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Rochelle adds, Narwhal's been checked by a vet and she's been told there is no reason to remove the tail -- it doesn't wag and has no bone structure -- so it would be a cosmetic surgery.
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Sheriff Trump also has a right to wag his finger at football players who take the knee in protest of police brutality; as provisional Americans they have to show proper respect for the national anthem.
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If Trump decides the situation warrants war, he is sure to face questions about whether it is a "wag the dog" scenario, a war calculated for political reasons to stoke patriotic support for the government.
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"There's no way to cheat the system," said Julien LoPresti, who works in sales and operations for a technology company in New York and has used Wag to find walkers for Reptar, his Labrador mix.
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In the 6s you might equate club culture with clubs like The Wag and The Blitz that were fairly pioneering musically and socially where young creative people went to have fun, connect and express themselves.
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But publicly, Saudi Arabia is a rising power-player in Silicon Valley, pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into startups and venture capital funds like Softbank's Vision Fund, which funded WeWork, Slack, Wag, and Doordash.
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The SoftBank Vision Fund, a nearly $100 billion pot managed by the Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son, is investing $300 million in Wag, a start-up based in Los Angeles whose app lets users summon dogwalkers.
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Though none have been quite as dramatic in scale as WeWork, layoffs have also plagued dog-walking startup Wag, car subscription startup Fair, construction company Katerra and, just yesterday, reportedly, at food robotics startup Zume.
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Trump's recent decision to participate in coalition airstrikes against Syrian despot Bashar Al-Assad — a response to Assad again using chemical weapons on his own people — are being viewed in a "wag the dog"context.
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If the DUP's tail won't wag, it seems the hardline Brexiteers will keep their teeth firmly sunk in May's leg, holding her back from the kind of compromise Trimble might have made 20 years ago.
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Most recently, SoftBank confirmed it was selling its stake in Wag, the dog-walking business back to the company, nearly two years after funneling a whopping $41.573 million in the then-three-year-old startup.
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After the Viners left, there were a slew of departures of early Wag employees, and Schneider started appointing new leadership in the Bay Area, where she lives, some of whom have already departed the company.
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Although the companies have similar funding figures — Rover has $310.9 million in venture capital investment, Wag has $361.5 million — Rover is a much bigger business, with a valuation of $970 million to Wag's $650 million.
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However, given that there's nothing approaching a centralized database on dog-walking mishaps in New York, the question of whether Wag is in the aggregate safer or not than hiring any rando is a little unclear.
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Sophie and Max said during the investigation and search for Benny they felt totally "stonewalled" by Wag, who they said "made empty promises" about how much they could help and were not responsive during the investigation.
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"The Dream Songs," John Berryman And the tranquil hills, & gin, look like a drag / and somehow a dog / has taken itself & its tail considerably away / into the mountains or sea or sky, leaving / behind: me, wag.
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"My absolute favorite part is opening the crate door after their long flight, seeing their wiggling bodies, watching their tails wag out of excitement, and coming to me for a hug," Stundzia said of her rescues.
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SoftBank's investments this year include leading an $865 million investment in construction startup Katerra, a $300 million investment in dog-walking app Wag, and the closure of a deal to become Uber Technologies Inc's largest shareholder.
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The scandal du jour makes it easy to wag fingers and focus on the foibles of prominent helicopter parents, but perhaps we should be having a different discussion about how to level the educational playing field.
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"You should not let the tax tail wag the dog, but you should consider that capital losses can offset taxable capital gains from investments and reduce your tax bill," says Lorri Winkcompleck, president of Gap Financial.
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Still, as President Clinton demonstrated after launching cruise missiles against terrorism targets in Afghanistan and Sudan in 1998 at the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal investigation, "wag the dog" strategies only work for so long.
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Our top pick, the Wobble Wag Giggle Ball, is an afA good dog toy will amuse your dog for a little while, but a great dog toy will keep them busy for hours at a time.
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For example, the Vision Fund has been making big bets on start-ups like Uber, WeWork (shared workplaces) and Wag (on-demand dog care) that are known for burning through cash, not generating piles of it.
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As Alexis Madrigal writes in The Atlantic, we have no way to predict how the gig economy's services like Uber, Lyft, Instacart, Airbnb or even the dog-walking service Wag will respond to a coronavirus outbreak.
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Amidst all the booty shaking, Shakira's now-viral tongue wag, and a surprise appearance by Emme, J.Lo's adorable daughter (along with 60 other young girls), we naturally couldn't help but obsess over all the amazing costumes.
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"Wag the Dog" became a pop culture meme, and some of President Donald Trump's critics trotted it out to question the timing of the killing of Soleimani, who commanded Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Quds Force.
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Role at SoftBank: Housenbold managed the Vision Fund's investment in Wag, a dog-walking app that's facing some setbacks after CEO Hilary Schneider left last month and the startup has gone through multiple rounds of layoffs.
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SoftBank&aposs Vision Fund invested $300 million in Wag last year, an investment that has drawn close scrutiny lately after a series of high-profile investment flops, like WeWork&aposs implosion, have left the company reeling.
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Mothers and health workers in dusty villages nestled among the highlands of Amhara's Wag Himra zone told the Thomson Reuters Foundation that many families do not receive enough food aid to last until the next distribution.
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Wag is often referred to as "Uber for dogs," since it assigns on-demand walkers and sitters, similar to the way Uber's algorithm assigns drivers, though pet owners ultimately approve or decline the worker they're offered.
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Following its Norman coverage, the Post has continued to diligently cover dogs gone missing with Wag: a Chihuahua named Sweets, a goldendoodle named Simba, a Chihuahua-dachshund mix named Freddie, a black Jindo mix named Teddy.
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When Phelps took gold on Tuesday in the 103-meter butterfly (by 210/22016ths of a second!) he celebrated his victory with a gesture that has become very familiar at the 22016 Rio Games – the finger wag.
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The LA-based Wag, which pairs dog owners with available walkers in their neighborhood, was originally looking to raise $100 million in this latest round, but that ballooned to the $300 million neighborhood when SoftBank expressed interest.
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Marshall lunged after referees several times, shoving his own players and assistants out of the way, and eventually broke free to wag a menacing finger in one referee's face and then went nose-to-nose with another.
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Wag has had multiple rounds of layoffs recently, which affected an unknown number of people, and former employees have criticized Schneider for a failure to sufficiently grow the business, according to a CNN story earlier this fall.
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The winner of the Top Dog Mom of they Year contest will receive a prize package that includes $1,000 to donate to an animal welfare organization of the Top Dog Mom's choice, 15 free walks on Wag!
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I must confess that, when I put together a list of great movies from the fall of 2200 to revisit 21997 years later, I didn't anticipate the most controversial and difficult selection would be Wag the Dog.
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Hunt, who is seeking to become Britain's next prime minister, has made no attempt to correct his mistakes in talking about Hong Kong and has "continued to wag his tongue too freely" on the issue, Geng said.
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FBI Now Agrees That Russia Hacked the Election to Help Trump WinThe Federal Bureau of Investigation is supporting a CIA assessment that Russia intervened in United …Read more ReadBut Obama did wag his finger at the media.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden took aim at President Trump during a campaign stop in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Tuesday evening, saying: "Enough's enough, man," and accusing the president of "wag[ing] war on Twitter," reports CNN.
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In 28500, despite huge surpluses, the president moved off entitlement reform and was wary of international decisions that could be seen as wag-the-dog moves as he dealt with both Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.
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Visit Business Insider's homepage for more storiesSan Francisco International Airport became the first in the world to have a therapy pig when it added 5-year-old LiLou to its "Wag Brigade" therapy animal team, Reuters reported.
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Photo: Larry French (AP)The so-called Uber of dog-walking apps, Wag, has found itself in the dog house after one of its walkers appeared to physically assault a dog under his care in security footage.
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Jonathan and Joshua Viner, the founders of the SoftBank-backed dog walking startup Wag, launched Wheels this week, an electric bike-share startup with a $3003 million funding from Tenaya Capital, Bullpen Capital, Naval Ravikant and others.
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Juliet still perked up at the rattle of a leash, still licked every drop of peanut butter (string beans were now too hard to chew), and still rallied a tail-wag when we walked in the door.
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"We've been thinking that as the walls close in around Trump, we would have a 'Wag the Dog' scenario where he starts to lash out," said Derek H. Chollet, a top Pentagon official in the Obama administration.
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Tiffany took her pups -- and her pooch -- to the beach, setting up shop in some sexy swimwear, just steps away from the world famous Santa Monica Pier ... and these images are sure to make your tongue wag!!!
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It's unclear how many staffers in total will lose their jobs, but in a filing with the California Employment Development Department on Monday, Wag confirmed it is shuttering its West Hollywood office entirely in a mass layoff.
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Jeff Housenbold, one of the Vision Fund&aposs managing partners who&aposs responsible for the investment deal, reportedly argued at a portfolio meeting that his misplaced judgement on Wag stemmed from his attempt to back female CEOs.
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The tail doesn't have to wag the whole technology dog, but it is necessary that the country cooperate with the government when it is lawfully trying to carry out the functions that are really important to us.
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While the New England Patriots battle it out on the field for a spot in Super Bowl LI, their sexy significant others are battling it out off the field in the ultimate showdown ... the title of hottest WAG.
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With every tail wag and wet-nose kiss, he has spread love and happiness in a place that can feel desperate: Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, where kids are often confined to their hospital rooms for months on end.
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But overlaid with this is a clumsy attempt at a "Wag the Dog"-type satire in which cynical administration officials clash uncomprehendingly with the guys in uniform who naively think it is their job to win the war.
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Rover, interestingly, notes on its website that it "accepts less than 20% of potential sitters," perhaps a dig at the criticism for Wag or the space in general and as an attempt to soothe concerns from potential users.
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The two companies already struck a partnership deal just a few months ago, but Wag, last valued at $650 million, has reportedly stumbled with scaling its business and could be the latest company backed by SoftBank to struggle.
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He will just go schmooze, wag his tail, and lick anybody into submission until they finally give him some food, give him a shag, give him a bed, or give him a bone to go chew on, figuratively.
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"Your generation are losing the ability to communicate properly," he reckons, noting that the way the Wag was laid out, with defined bar and seating areas in addition to a dancefloor, led to a sensation of heightened pleasure.
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Mulder shares his phone number with a few other famous folks via GIPHY Mulder's phone number in the show, (800) 555-0199, has also popped up in Wag the Dog, The Insider, American Beauty and The Italian Job.
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Softbank, which already has a $100 billion investment vehicle known as Softbank Vision Fund, has made sizeable investments in ride-hailing firm Uber Technologies Inc , shared office provider WeWork, food delivery startup DoorDash and dog walking app Wag.
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Let's face it, Dikembe could read the phone book and it'd be entertaining, but when he's this psyched it's insanely fulfilling ... he even gives us a finger wag for good measure, though we're not sure who it's for.
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Most significantly: Saudis have invested about $45 billion in SoftBank's giant Vision Fund, which has in turn doused the tech landscape — $4.4 billion to WeWork, $250 million to Slack, and $300 million to the dog-walking app Wag.
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In addition to a petting-powered tail wag, the final version will sport a microphone to detect sound, as well as some haptic feedback for the occasional purr, to let you know the little cat is still kicking.
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Mr. Kinsley, as a member of one of the few demographics in America not facing existential threat because of Mr. Trump's policies, can sit back and wag his finger at all of us for our lack of kindness.
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The rescue mutt, named for a marine mammal with a single tusk that sticks out of its face, gained viral fame this week with his miniature tail flopping between his eyes (no, it doesn't wag on its own).
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Two other startups, India-based Oyo and construction tech company Katerra, have come under scrutiny this week, while dog walking startup Wag&aposs CEO announced her departure amid reports that the company is putting itself up for sale.
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SoftBank has already invested over $7 billion in Uber, mostly buying stock from existing shareholders, and has put hundreds of millions of dollars into dog-walking start-up Wag and food delivery provider DoorDash, an early Sequoia investment.
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Of the many pet products I tested, a few stood out: Wag, an app for hiring a dog walker; DogVacay, which is billed as an Airbnb for dog boarding; and Whistle, a tracker for monitoring your pet's location.
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Shift forward to the end of 2019, and startups that have relied on connecting contractor labor with phone-wielding consumers haven't proven to be as capable in shifting into profitability, with Wag seeming to be yet another example.
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SoftBank has made a series of recent investments in the on-demand economy, such as Uber, the dog-walking company Wag and now DoorDash, part of a fund thesis to invest in startups that improve convenience for consumers.
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"I got bit pretty bad by a dog and it made me question this whole model," says Sammy, an aspiring model who consistently earned five-star reviews during the two years he walked dogs for Wag and Rover.
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He was an agitator and a port in a storm, a wag and a songbag, a virtuoso without portfolio who played Scott Joplin on guitar and banjo in a Dixieland band—almost everything but much of a singer.
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I would never want to make a movie that would wag its finger at the audience or make them feel bad for the way that they live their lives because man, there's better ways to spend a Friday night.
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In addition to several incidents in which Wag-walked dogs were allegedly lost or harmed, the service was recently embroiled in reports it gave the personal information of a dog-walker who lost a canine to an irate customer.
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This is one of the reasons that when I was looking to expand my horizons as an entrepreneur (Munn is one of the original investors of Uber), I chose to work with a company that works with dogs. Wag!
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I'm not convinced people who need a reminder to spend fewer than eight hours on Facebook are capable of dealing with a self-imposed time limit, especially one that's more of a wag of the finger than anything else.
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Mr Clinton had admitted canoodling with Monica Lewinsky three days earlier—had he taken his cue from a recent Hollywood film, "Wag the Dog", in which a fictional president invents a war to shift attention from a sex scandal?
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In July 2018, Brandless announced that SoftBank Vision Fund — the Japanese conglomerate that has backed or bought Uber, Slack, WeWork, Wag, Zume, and more — had invested $240 million in the company at a valuation of more than $500 million.
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And that was all before the passage of AB 5, a law recently passed in California that's poised to require more companies to provide benefits to their contract workers and is expected to affect gig economy startups like Wag.
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In one (Syrmor's most-watched, with just under six million views at the time of writing), a young boy using a Kermit the Frog avatar discusses being bullied frankly and heart-rendingly, all while his Kermit arms wag about.
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Saudi backing for popular apps like Uber, Slack, and Wag offers proof that "the most idealistic companies on earth—in rhetoric—are very happy to take the dirtiest money on earth to grow and grow and grow," he said.
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The chiefs wag their heads and rummage through desks for musty reports and murmur, yes, yes, what a shame … Craig Reedie, the chief of the World Anti-Doping Agency, recently explained his regulatory approach to my colleague Rebecca Ruiz.
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It would be naïve for the U.S. to think a peace regime could wag the dog toward a more stable peace if it is unaccompanied by a commitment to maintain the full strength of the U.S.-South Korea alliance.
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At SoftBank, he oversees real estate and consumer deals, and led the firm's investments in consumer startups like the dog-walking app Wag, the food-delivery company DoorDash, the e-commerce site Brandless, and the real-estate site OpenDoor.
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When the Vision Fund's interest makes life difficult: SoftBank's deliberations over whether to invest in Wag, a dog-walking app, have elbowed aside other investors, according to The Information — though it isn't clear whether Mr. Son will follow through.
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The newcomers are large, app-based pet-care businesses, with names like Wag and Rover, that operate in a similar style to Airbnb, enabling New Yorkers to open their apartments and dog beds as à la carte dog hostels.
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The theory being that, by using social media to publicize her own glamorous, flesh-and-diamond-filled life, Ms. Kardashian West was, in effect, playing with fire, and everyone could now wag a holier-than-thou finger at her.
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Dolley Madison, the show argues, turned it into a place of cross-partisan conversation and civility, and threw the doors open to the broader public in her famous "Wednesday night squeezes," as one wag of the time put it.
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On Sunday, King had some strong words for her Russian rival in the 100-meter breaststroke, Yuliya Efimova, noting that she wasn't a fan of swimmers who cheat and also mocking her with a Dikembe Mutombo-like finger wag.
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Similar concerns were raised by CBS News in 2017, when a Wag walker was reportedly captured in security footage lounging in a client's apartment for hours before allegedly taking the client's dog out for less than 10 minutes rather than 30.
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Screenshot: WagDog-walking service Wag, the subject of fairly numerous press reports in the tabloid media regarding lost canines, has come up again in NYC rag the New York Post in reference to yet another pup that slipped a leash.
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It means that they're thinking of something, and usually the something isn't particularly good—for the most part, it's along the lines of agitation, frustration, mild annoyance, thwarted opportunity, and so on, except for the gentle side-to-side wag.
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As one wag on Twitter put it: So now the Commons can 'take back control' by voting not to give itself a vote The logic, apparently, is that it would "undermine the government's negotiating position" if the deal faced parliamentary scrutiny.
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" Lawrence, 27, also demonstrated the icy glare and finger wag she gives people when she sees someone approach her table at a restaurant, adding that when people request selfies she is quick to shoot them down with a vehement "No!
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Why it matters: This is another deep-pocketed deal from SoftBank, which now owns 45% of Wag, according to Recode, but is a bit unusual in that none of the money was used to buy shares from early employees or investors.
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First seen by Co.Create, the Posting Tail is a camera-equipped vest you can put on your dog that will sense when it is happy—based on the speed of its tail wag— snap a picture and post it to Facebook.
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Because despite any exactitude of gesture and phonation—the open-hanging mouth, the tongue-thrust, the accent's glides, the nonrhotics, the shrugging and grimacing, the peeved shaken fist and wag of the finger—the true thing being impersonated goes unsaid.
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Here's Michael Jackson's daughter Paris Jackson flashing a peace sign in her blinding blonde 'do on social media recently (left) and Billy Ray Cyrus' daughter Miley Cyrus with her signature tongue wag and carbon copy pose back in 2013 (right).
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The SoftBank Vision Fund, a nearly $100 billion pot of money managed by the Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son, is investing $300 million in Wag, a start-up in Los Angeles whose app lets you summon someone to walk your dog.
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On television, radio and social networks, many Israelis wondered if the tunnels disclosure was a cynical ploy akin to the 1997 black comedy "Wag the Dog," in which a political candidate invents a war to distract from his personal predicament.
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Ms. Haney, like others, was skeptical of corporate interests but far more suspicious of the federal government and of outsiders coming to Appalachia to wag fingers at poor people for signing mineral leases that helped them hold on to their farms.
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But it has also made much more speculative bets that have left some people in Silicon Valley scratching their heads — from the co-working space firm WeWork to the indoor farming start-up Plenty to the dog-walking app Wag.
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The latest is another Softbank-funded company, joining Zume Pizza (80% of staff laid off), Wag (80%+), Fair (40%), Getaround (25%), Rappi (3.23%), and Oyo (5%) that have all cut staff to slow their burn rate and reduce their funding needs.
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My instinct is to wag a rhetorical finger and tell her how lucky she is to have parents who can trot her off to camp instead of having her ply her skills with a finicky Taco Bell fryer, as mine did.
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With SoftBank backing away from the company and seemingly no sale on the horizon, Wag is now cutting more jobs in an effort to "align our organization with the needs of our business," according to the CEO's email to staff.
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Undeterred by sleet, heat, wind, cold or work deadlines, they wag their tails and drool when we pull out our sneakers and do not mind (indeed prefer) that our shorts come from the dirty-laundry pile rather than a drawer.
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In December, SoftBank gave back its nearly 50 percent stake in Wag, a dog-walking "tech" startup, along with the two board seats it secured with a $300 million investment in the company that inflated Wag's valuation to $1003 million.
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The news was first reported by the Wall Street Journal&aposs Cara Lombardo,who wrote that SoftBank was selling the shares back at a price "well below" the $650 million valuation that Wag commanded when SoftBank bought the shares last year.
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Some of the former employees claim that Hilary Schneider, a veteran tech executive who joined Wag as CEO in January 22019, has yet to get a handle on fundamental issues facing the business -- including growth, safety of pets, and customer service.
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Pet owners can request a lockbox from Wag that allows dog walkers to let themselves into the home with a simple code to retrieve a dog for a 30-minute or 60-minute walk, or a 20-minute check-in.
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The current Wag and Rover onboarding processes involve a background check, a quiz about basic dog care, an online video lesson on the app's interface, and a harness test (Wag's harness test is in person, while Rover's is done online).
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Everything David's saying, and everything I'm talking about, is all about somebody creating his own world, which you really can't do when you are the president because there are just objective facts and everything can not be wag the dog.
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Double Feature: "Wag the Dog" (1997) Director Barry Levinson and screenwriter David Mamet's much more cynical, downright hilarious look at absurdist political machinations to contain a presidential sex scandal (Available to stream via rent or purchase on Amazon Prime, Fandango Now and Vudu).
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Total raised: $1.5 millionLast round: $1.5 million seed in November 2019Key investors: Cyan Banister (Affirm, ClassPass, Postmates), Ludlow Ventures (Honey, Scentbird, Wag), Secocha Ventures (Brigit, Eaze, ePayLater)Wardrobe is another peer-to-peer closet share app exclusively for New Yorkers, for now.
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Meanwhile, Coleen Rooney has long been royalty among football WAGs, once a part of the original queen WAG Victoria Beckham's crew in the mid-aughts and now most known for being a mother and loyal wife during her husband's various reported infidelities.
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The study, created by Ashish Singh and James Young, posited that a Roomba with a tail attached could communicate quickly and easily with a human — a fast, excited wag means things are going OK, while a slow side to side motion shows disdain.
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A members club located at 20013 Wardour Street—now the site of a branch of faux-Irish chain-bar O'Neils—the Wag revolutionized nightlife across the entire country, and shaped the face of club culture in the UK as we know it.
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But now Wag the Dog takes on a more sinister undercurrent; it is, after all, the story of a machine of enablers working to cover up the sexual misdeeds of an important man, and we've been hearing variations of that story all fall.
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After the third chorus, the band plays an extended outro: the guitar shifts into a faster, scratchier progression, and the keyboard plays a circular hook whose artificial cheer seems to wag its finger at you, reminding you to heed the song's advice.
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Since then, the company has sent more than a dozen promotional emails begging me to come back, and has texted me several times to let me know when there was a walker nearby, just in case I wanted to give Wag another shot.
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Now then: It irks me to have to wag a finger, but I'm going to do it, because there's a lurking strain of reactionary crudeness in this otherwise deeply enjoyable little book against which it should have been inoculated at the editing stage.
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All the evidence Krosnick adduced might lead us to bemoan, bewail and lament the irrationality of a few American voters, but in the end, all we could really do is shake our heads and wag our fingers at the foolish choices some make.
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There are ride-hail ventures like Uber, Lyft, and Via, food delivery platforms like Grubhub and Uber Eats, dog-walking services like Rover and Wag, and a shockingly diverse litany of electric scooter companies that have taken over every metropolitan sidewalk in America.
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I don't use Instacart or DoorDash for delivery (mostly on principle after pieces like this from my Times colleagues) or need a service like Wag for an on-demand dog walker, but those services are accessible to me, should I want them.
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We hear of dawn messages to staff, requests for heating in medieval chapels — did she ask why Windsor Castle was built so close to the airport, one wag reportedly asked — and a semi-transgressive attendance at a baby shower in New York City.
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Another piece, "A Wag A Wit A Witness," hangs about 10 feet long and is just as complicated a construction, with Seminole patchwork and Japanese sash all revolving around colors that devolve from a primary yellow into secondary hues of orange and green.
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Since 2007, Amazon has developed hundreds of private label brands, many of which don't carry the company's name — such as Wag, a dog food brand, and Crafted Collar, a line of button-down shirts — that it sells alongside other products on its site.
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It's part of a wag-the-dog plan to distract voters from the damaging news about how Frank manipulated the previous president and about Frank's involvement with (the ambitious and ultimately murdered) Zoe Barnes all the way back in Seasons 1 and 2.
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Wheels, founded by Wag co-founders Josh and Jonathan Viner, aims to differentiate itself from the likes of other bike-share startups with its modular design, which includes swappable parts and batteries (though, JUMP recently unveiled its vision for swappable batteries on bikes).
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Angry pet owners gripe that they can't get in touch with Wag over the phone to take care of issues like reimbursement, while others criticize Rover for not kicking irresponsible dog sitters off the platform, even after official complaints have been filed.
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"One of the problems with the coal conversation, is you can't wag your finger to a country that's still developing and say 'no coal,'" said Rachel Kyte, CEO of Sustainable Energy for All, a UN group, and special representative of the UN secretary-general.
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A Petco purchase would also give Wag, a startup that has struggled to gain market share and has come under heavy criticism for everything from runaway dogs to poor financial performance, a landing pad after taking $300 million from the SoftBank Vision Fund last year.
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Roles on the big screen would come, including Black Christmas (1974 & the 2006 remake), Wag the Dog (1997), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001), The Producers (2005), Little Italy (2018) and the two My Big Fat Greek Wedding films (in 2002 and 2016, respectively).
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Wag walkers are available in places like Austin, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Miami, New York, Orange County, Portland, San Diego, San Jose, Seattle and Washington, D.C. To support its regional expansion, the company has raised a couple of rounds of funding that had previously gone unannounced.
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During a screening and film panel to commemorate the 20th anniversary of 1997's Wag the Dog, in which Dustin Hoffman starred alongside Robert De Niro, John Oliver reportedly asked Hoffman some uncomfortable questions about the sexual harassment allegations that have been directed at him.
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The room-size installation "The Funk and Wag From A to Z" (2012) made from images cut from all 25 volumes of the Funk and Wagnall encyclopedia of 1953 through 1956, deals with the very nature of communal epistemology: how we know what we know.
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Welcome to Hollywood, where people love to wag self-righteous fingers — over the past year, awards shows have become a platform for industry bigwigs to rail against the Trump administration — but run for cover whenever the topic casts show business in an unflattering light.
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Born Coleen Mary McLouglin to working-class parents (her father was a bricklayer who ran a boxing club, and her mother was a cleaner) in Liverpool, the high-flying, mega rich life of a WAG may have seemed an impossibility to Coleen as a child.
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In their first six decades or so, the Proms presented only British orchestras and conductors, and even today a degree of flag-waving prevails, particularly during the final concert of the season, when audiences wag little Union Jacks to the national anthem at the end.
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The other, though debunked by a media student at Howard University, has grown legs and hands to wag a disappointed finger: A dollar's life span is 28 days in Asian communities, 19 days in Jewish communities and a mere six hours in black communities.
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LL: They would have had John Kerry, the OSTP ... They would have had everybody lined up ready to finger-wag and call it protectionism, and here you had the White House just clearly making a conscientious effort to stay silent and let that speak volumes.
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