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Former acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell will swear in Texas Republican Rep. John Ratcliffe to serve as President Donald Trump’s permanent DNI on Tuesday. Though he led the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) for just…
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Activists will welcome this fall in fossil fuels production, but we must bear in mind that a low intensity energy crisis could also hamper our ability to carry out an efficient energy transition.
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Don’t play their game. Play yours. The post 3 Sneaky Strategies Abusers Use to Seize Control in Romantic Relationships (And How to Fight It!) appeared first on The Good Men Project.
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A stone tablet dating back to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) has been discovered in north China's Hebei Province, local authorities said Wednesday.
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<ol><li>Fate of World T20, IPL could be decided today  Hindustan Times </li><li>ICC threatens to move 2021 T20 World Cup out of India  ESPNcricinfo </li><li>Exclusive: T20 World Cup 2020 to be rescheduled to 2022, IPL likely in Oct-Nov if Covid-19 situation…
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Examining the bones of Allosaurus, researchers find bite marks suggesting scavenging behavior and, possibly, cannibalism.
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Money conversations can feel stressful—how to make them a little less so.
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As she put her long legs on full display, Irina Shayk accessorized her fiery look with a cropped houndstooth jacket, which featured the Rolling Stones' logo.
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Workout with these product designs to come out of this quarantine healthier than ever!I truly believe there are 2 types of people in this world – the first one who workout diligently and let nothing stand in the way...
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[spicy] | By Anonymous
5/28/20 at 12:29pm
Today, my boyfriend dumped me out of nowhere, supposedly because I act like he's nothing but a sex doll. We've been dating 6 weeks and have had sex twice. FML
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It’s more than a job
5/28/20 at 12:29pm
ife as Mary Roskilly knows it would be dramatically different without Tuck-Hinton Architecture & Design. She’s spent the entirety of her professional career at the firm, dating back 26 years. She married her co-worker Chuck Miller, who started at the firm th…
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The staffers are being asked to sign a letter in solidarity against the "unfounded attacks," claiming a "smear campaign" had been launched against the secretary of state.
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The staffers are being asked to sign a letter in solidarity against the “unfounded attacks,” claiming a “smear campaign” had been launched against the Secretary of State.
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Welcome back to this week's Influencer Dashboard newsletter! As always, this is Amanda Perelli (from home) with a weekly update on what's new in the business of influencers and creators. This week, my colleague Dan Whateley and I published four influencer med…
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — Sweden coach Janne Andersson has signed a contract extension through to the European Championship in 2024.
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Biotech Startup Aims to Make Use of Humanity’s Genetic Outliers  BloombergQuint
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The developer of popular Mac utility Carbon Copy Cloner says that either macOS 10.15.5 has a bug that prevents the creation of bootable backups, or Apple has made a ‘reprehensible’ security decision … more… The post macOS 10.15.5 has a trivial bug or a ‘repr…
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Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: Payment card services startup Marqeta raises $150M from an undisclosed firm at a $4.3B valuation, up from a $2B valuation last May  —  This could have been Marqeta's year to list as a public company on a major American stock exc…
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On May 27, 2020, the National Payment Corporation of India launched Artificial Intelligence based chatbot called Pai. The Chatbot aims to increase financial inclusion in India. Highlights The PAI can be accessed 24/7. It provides information about NPCI produc…
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With Narendra Modi’s ‘vocal for local’ initiative, several startups are working on Indian versions of popular apps such as Zoom, WhatsApp, TikTok, among others. Meet three TikTok's India rivals -- Mitron, Bolo Indya and Roposo.
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Avoiding design tropes of the eco sector, and designing for a tiny canvas, the agency has created a bold, graphic visual world for the pioneering startup.
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OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Marqeta, the global modern card issuing platform, announced today that it has raised an additional $150 million in new capital from a leading institutional investor, valuing the company at $4.3 billion. This latest financing …
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Here's what you need to know before the markets open. 1. Global stocks bounce as investors shrug off approval of China's new draconian law on Hong Kong, and look to 'galactic' coronavirus stimulus. In Europe and Japan, investors cheered the proposal of  major…
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The startup has already raised tens of millions and features active Louisville projects.
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AI-Service Accurately Isolates Vocals and Instruments
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Lockdown has created huge challenges for businesses and their founders, with a sudden fall of revenue, and for some, the closure of their premises. But rather than dwell on the frustrations, many have focused on the opportunities and used their enforced time …
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Ocular Technologies, a startup that has developed a device-enabled telemedicine platform powered by machine learning to improve accessibility to eye care, beat out seven finalists to win the Robert P. Goldberg $1…
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Ocular Technologies, a startup that has developed a device-enabled telemedicine platform powered by machine learning to improve accessibility to eye care, beat out seven finalists to win the Robert P. Goldberg $100,000 grand prize at the MIT $100K Entrepreneu…
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Over two lakh people have downloaded the BevQ mobile app within hours of its release on Google Play Store
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By gathering and analyzing data on your existing consumer base, you can better understand the types of individuals you want to appeal to when creating and marketing a product.
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Shares in Logitech International (LOGI) rose 3.5% in pre-market trading after the company announced a new, three-year share buyback program for up to $250 million of its common stock. The company’s board of directors also approved a proposal raise its fiscal …
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Although the transition to making your team remote may not be ideal, there are many ways to make sure things are running as smoothly as possible.
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Payment card issuing startup Marqeta has raised $150 million from a U.S. institutional investor, doubling its valuation to $4.3 billion, the company said on Thursday.
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A teaching moment
5/28/20 at 12:29pm
The strenuous work Amanda DoAmaral and her team invested into Fiveable the past two years – including her life's savings – prepared the education technology startup for the Covid-19 pandemic. With schools across the U.S. closed under Covid-19 restrictions, t…
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Leading global payment solution provider Checkout.com today announces the acquisition of Australian startup, Pin Payments.
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The pressure felt by Najib’s party, the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), was so immense that, just over a month before the election, the Malaysian government signed a deal to acquire a system that allowed it to gather information and analyze data o…
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Just a week after nabbing a $145 million series B round, rare disease biotech and former Fierce 15 winner Rallybio has grabbed ex-Alexion exec Róisín Armstrong to run the research work on its leading investigational med.
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<ol><li>Apple Buys Canadian Start-Up To Help Improve Machine-Learning And AI  Baystreet.ca </li><li>Apple buys Waterloo-based Inductiv to improve Siri data  BNNBloomberg.ca </li><li>Apple Acquires Waterloo-Based Startup Inductiv to Work on Siri, AI and More…
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iXceed said it is looking to help a organizations new and old, which want to expand in the Europe-India corridor.
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #Application--Fluree, a North Carolina-headquartered startup that provides a data-first technology stack, has announced the release of the Fluree JavaScript Library, a feature included in Fluree V0.13.0 that enables deve…
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Buckle up. Electric vehicle sales are expected to take a big hit this year amid the current health and economic crisis. Industry analysts say the long-term prospects for EVs remain strong, but the jury’s still out on how quickly the market will rebound.   Th…
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In 2019 alone, the Flashfood app saved Canadians more than $10 million on groceries and diverted nearly five million pounds of food from landfills
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The Taiwanese startup, known for its sleek electric scooters, is now venturing into e-bikes with two models called the Eeyo 1 and Eeyo 1S. They cost $3,899 and $4,599, respectively, and offer 40-55 miles of pedal-assist range. They come to the US, Europe, and…
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Companies like Facebook and Twitter expect many employees to work far from headquarters after the pandemic. That calls for a change in corporate cultures.
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D.C.-based workers compensation startup Pie Insurance has raised $127 million to grow its special brand of online insurance policies for small businesses. The funding includes $27 million that will go to the business itself and another $100 million to form a…
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When marketing your company, it can feel overwhelming to figure out where to begin, but this guide can help.
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A Calgary-based startup called Communo helped the ‘Jack Ryan’ star find post-production, social media, distribution, and GIF analytics partners for his “homemade” series.
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It was Kadion Preston’s mother who taught him never to take “no” for an answer as he watched her build her business from the ground up in his hometown of Kingston, Jamaica.  Today, he relies on the lessons from the woman he calls his hero more than ever as h…
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Pandemic pivot
5/28/20 at 12:29pm
Joy Zhang used to ride her bike to work every day at the startup accelerator in Palo Alto that served as headquarters for her fledgling company. There, she worked alongside a small team in a large room they shared with dozens of workers from a handful of othe…
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New CEO's big test
5/28/20 at 12:29pm
On April 30, the last day of the fiscal quarter, the sales team at Turbo Systems had their fingers crossed. It was six and a half weeks into the Bay Area’s Covid-19 lockdown, and everyone at the field service software company waited for news about a potential…
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All he has to do is embrace the consensus that’s waiting for him.
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An Apple File System bug has been discovered in macOS Catalina 10.15.5 that can prevent users from making a bootable clone of their system drive, according to the creator of Carbon Copy Cloner. In a blog post on Wednesday, software developer Mike Bombich…
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Erin Anacker was at the new standing desk she’d just bought for her bedroom when the full weight of the coronavirus pandemic hit her. Her startup, WholeStory, was put in a death spiral. “I just had to sit down and kind of take it in,” said Anacker, 36, who c…
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Innovate2BeatCOVID, an initiative by Indian consumer goods billionaire Harsh Mariwala’s Marico Innovation Foundation, is calling for sustainable, affordable and “built for India” solutions to fight the coronavirus crisis.
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Apple is continuing its string of AI startup acquisitions, this time to improve Siri’s performance. The company has confirmed to Bloomberg that it recently acquired Inductiv, a Waterloo, Ontario, Canada-based company that uses AI to correct data — wh......
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COVID-19 has opened up a conversation about remote therapy, but online mental health care goes way beyond talking to a therapist over video chat. App analytics companies say downloads of mental health and wellness apps are up almost 30% since the pandemic beg…
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As the coronavirus pandemic wreaks havoc on American businesses, it's exposing a brutal reality about who is protected in this economic system and who's not. While big corporations are tightening their belts with the aim of emerging even stronger than before,…
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The next attempt to launch will be Saturday afternoon, after weather conditions forced a delay.
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For the second year in a row, female representation on the Forbes Next Billion Dollar Startup list lags that of men. It’s yet another sign of how much progress women still need to make.
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For the sixth year in a row, Forbes, in partnership with TrueBridge Capital Partners, has searched the country for the next unicorns. In a tough year, these 25 fast-growing companies stand out.
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Four years after HR outfit Zenefits blew up, its controversial founder is back with Rippling, another startup to automate human resources. It’s already worth $300 million and growing fast. Can Parker Conrad find redemption?
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Meet the six Forbes Under 30 founders of companies that could well be the next unicorns.
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Jack Dorsey stands by the company's decision to fact-check Trump's tweets, even as it has attracted blistering criticism from the president.
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Peloton isn’t the only home fitness equipment prospering in the coronavirus era. Brynn Putnam has redefined sweat equity with her interactive workout device that turns any room into an elite gym.
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Forbes Under 30 alum Sajith Wickramasekara scores an $850 million valuation for his biotech R&D startup Benchling. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the company is helping big biotech companies work on potential therapeutics and vaccines for Covid-19.
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This year's Next Billion-Dollar Startups list reflects the bright spots in a tough economy, notably healthcare.
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When language-learning app Duolingo surpassed the $1 billion valuation mark, becoming the fifth company on last year's Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startups list to do so. Here's how the other companies on the list have fared.
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As investors, entrepreneurs, and startups respond to the dramatic changes precipitated by the coronavirus pandemic, it’s become even more clear that disruption and adaptation will be the defining business trends of 2020.
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"A lot of VCs, historically, like to know people over meals and drinks, and coming in and spending whiteboarding sessions. Those things are really, really difficult to replicate on Zoom, but that doesn't mean that you still can't build trust, you just have to…
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Date: 25 June (Thursday)Time: 19:00Place: Online On 25th June Oguzhan Gencoglu will hold an online meetup, where he will tell about Privacy-Preserving AI. Current implementations of machine learning algorithms require access to data, often centralized, whic…
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Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman said that his Pershing Square Capital Management Ltd. has exited investments in Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, the Blackstone Group Inc. (BX) and Park Hotels & Resorts (PK).Pershing Square’s stock holding in Be…
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Connexity, a lead-gen platform for online retailers, has acquired Skimlinks, a UK platform for publishers to make money through affiliate links. Terms of the deal were undisclosed. According to Crunchbase, Skimlinks had raised a total of $25.5M and reached a …
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Boris Johnson's embattled chief aide Dominic Cummings may have broken the UK's coronavirus rules by driving to a castle town during lockdown, British police have concluded, heaping further pressure on the Prime Minister to change his position and sack his adv…
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Marqeta CEO Jason Gardner has led the company to double its revenue every year over the past four years. Timothy Archibald/The Forbes Collection. Oakland-based fintech startup Marqeta has raised $150 million in new funding from a single investor at a $4.3 bil…
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Despite the recent rally and macro developments boosting Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency came under fire by analysts at Goldman Sachs on Wednesday. In a May 27th client call entitled “Implications of Current Policies for Inflation, Gold, and Bitcoin,” two executi…
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As more people work from home, bug bounty programs are finding favor with investors and hackers alike.
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NEW YORK, May 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Ogury, the creator of the first advertising engine driven by user choice, announced the appointment of Antoine Barbier as Senior Vice President, Product. In this role Barbier will be responsible for scaling Ogury's produ…
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Payment card issuing startup Marqeta has raised $150 million from a U.S. institutional investor, doubling its valuation to $4.3 billion, the company said on Thursday.
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Washington (AFP) May 25, 2020 Space Exploration Technologies Corp. - commonly known as SpaceX - is slated to send two astronauts into space on Wednesday. Despite not yet being 20 years old, the company has already developed a creation myth: on September 28,…
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HONG KONG (AP) - A national security law proposed by China could imperil Hong Kong's status as one of the world's best places to do business. The law, approved Thursday in Beijing, led Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to say Washington will no longer treat Ho…
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Coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccine latest update: Shares of Moderna Inc tumble over doubts over vaccine; Novavax Inc buys vaccine manufacturing plant from Serum Institute of India
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A security law proposed by China could imperil Hong Kong’s status as one of the world’s best places to do business
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The coronavirus is unlikely to halt the rapid advance of fintech firms in the emerging landscapes of Southeast Asia. Along the way, however, it is amplifying the gains of some startups while inflicting pain on many others.
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The U.S. Labor Department has announced that 2.12 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, bringing the total number of claims during the...
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New research may explain why we sometimes overvalue items we've acquired—to an irrational degree—irrespective of their market or sentimental value. This phenomenon is called the endowment effect, and researchers have long puzzled over why it occurs, and why t…
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Serbia's top soccer league has decided that no teams will be relegated this season as a result of the coronavirus pandemic
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A national security law proposed by China could imperil Hong Kong’s status as one of the world’s best places to do business. The law, approved Thursday in Beijing, led Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to say Washington will no longer treat Hong Kong, already re…
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Latest funding round brings total investment to $4 million in startup's bid to develop African games industry
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<ul> <li>Decibel, a startup which helps businesses better understand customers' digital experiences, has raised a $40 million funding round from Perwyn and existing investors Eight Roads Ventures and former General Catalyst partner John Simon, via his Venture…
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At a time when the automobile industry is facing a crisis the world over, electric vehicle startup Lucid Motors has managed to keep up with the establishment of its upcoming production centre. Based in the Arizona desert, the plant is expected to be roll out …
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London-based Greyparrot, which uses computer vision AI to scale efficient processing of recycling, has bagged £1.825 million (~$2.2M) in seed funding, topping up the $1.2M in pre-seed funding it had raised previously. The latest round is led by early stage Eu…
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According to a new report published late yesterday, Apple has acquired machine-learning startup Inductiv Inc.,...
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Jeffrey Ubben's 13F portfolio value decreased from $9.88B to $6.96B this quarter. ValueAct increased LKQ and Hawaiian Electric during the quarter. The top three
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Data: FactSet; Chart: Axios VisualsDespite the lack of live games, sports betting stocks have performed particularly well over the past month, highlighted by fantasy sports/betting platform, DraftKings, and gaming operator, Penn National.By the numbers: Since…
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CALGARY, Alberta--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #NAH--North American Helium Raises $39 Million and Signs Contract for Building Canada’s Largest Helium Purification Facility in Saskatchewan
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Three Ravens are named to NFL.com’s All-Under-25 Team. A healthy Tavon Young makes the Ravens’ loaded secondary even stronger. Gus Edwards is the Ravens’ most underrated player. Jadeveon Clowney reportedly rejects a big offer from the Cleveland Browns.
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SOUTH EASTON, Mass., May 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (OTCQB: PBIO) ("PBI" or the "Company"), a leader in the development and sale of broadly enabling, pressure-based instruments, consumables, and platform technology solutions to the wo…
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Two of India's biggest superstars strike up a conversation about Hyderabad, food and their concerns for sport in the time of a pandemic.
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HOUSTON, May 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- CNS Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: CNSP) ("CNS" or the "Company"), a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the development of novel treatments for primary and metastatic cancers of the brain and central nervous system…
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