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Travel Perk Rises $160M in Equity and Debt After a Year of Derailed Business Trips
The epidemic has hit the travel sector for the past 12 months, so you’ll be forgiven for feeling somewhat pre-Kavid-19 in this news: Business travel…
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Taster Grabs $37 Million for its Native Online Restaurants
French startup tester has raised $37 million in Series B funding from Octopus Ventures, Battery Ventures, LocalGlobe, HeartCore, Rakuten, GFC and Founder Futures. The company…
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Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire and Vise’s Samir Vasavada will talk about success in fintech on Extra Crunch Live
Over the past few weeks, we’ve heard discussions about the biggest opportunities at fifth-place Brendan Walls and Hippo’s Assaf Wand Prop Tech, why Scale AI’s…
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Jim Belushi is Chasing the Magic in Cannabis
Jim Belushi doesn’t seem to be over much when we talk to zoom this week. Instead of a joint, he was suffocating on a cigar, but…
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Investment in Construction Automation is Essential to Rebuilding US Infrastructure
As the United States moves forward with massive infrastructure investments, much of the discussion has focused on creating jobs and new green industries for the…
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Instagram Live Takes on Clubhouse with Options to Mute and Turn off the Video
In addition to its experiments with Facebook’s Clubhouse competitor and a Q&A platform like a Clubhouse on the Web, the company is now using one of…
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Google to Offer 40,000 Developer Scholarships in Africa; Continues Accelerator Program
Google today announced the launch of 40,000 new developer scholarships in Africa. The scholarships, created in partnership with Pluralsight and Andela, will be offered to…
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Scientists Mapped the Electronic States in an Exotic Superconductor
The electronic states of a compound containing iron, tellurium, and selenium were studied to see how they change with local chemical concentrations. They discovered that…
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Detected a Natural Radio Signal in Venus’ Atmosphere
During a brief flyby of Venus, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe detected a natural radio signal indicating that the spacecraft had passed through the planet’s upper…
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Silicon could be a Powerful Materials for Photonic Informational Manipulation
A fortunate coincidence has revealed that silicon is a powerful material for use in light manipulation. According to new research, silicon could be one of…
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