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Virgin Orbit to go public via $3.2B SPAC deal

Virgin Orbit is set to go public via a merger with a special purpose acquisitions company (SPAC), the company has confirmed. The deal values the combined enterprise at $3.2 billion, and will provide V

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Exhibition in Beijing contemplates thriving with diversity

The fashion designer and artist Ma Ke believes the meaning of the Earth, beyond providing for the existence of humankind, lies in being the source and destiny of lives. A deep emotional attachment to

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Tencent in talks to lead funding in India’s Pocket FM

Tencent is in advanced stages of talks to lead an investment round in Gurgaon-headquartered Pocket FM, the latest in the Chinese giant’s push to broaden its consumer internet portfolio in the Indian m

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Matt Gaetz and his girlfriend Ginger Luckey eloped in California

US Rep. Matt Gaetz announced on Twitter that he and Ginger Luckey eloped to Southern California over the weekend, sharing a picture of the pair with the caption, "I lov

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Turkey installs militarized borders as G7 meeting planned for Tuesday

A group of evacuees before they boarded a flight at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. Mark Andries/U.S. Marine Corps via Reuters The Afghan crisis is being felt by most NATO member

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G7 to hold urgent talks on Afghanistan on Tuesday

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday that the leaders of the Group of Seven(G7) would meet on Tuesday to discuss the situation in Afghanistan."I will convene G7 leaders on Tuesday for urgen

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Y Combinator, 500 Startups, Plug and Play invest in Odiggo’s $2.2M seed round

Servicing one’s car personally is a time-consuming, expensive and painstaking process. It’s a cycle that can lead to more expensive repairs and safety issues down the line, and no car owne

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Afghans in UK worry about nation's future after Taliban takeover

02:41 As the world scrambles to react to the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan, millions of Afghans outside the country are watching events closely.One of the largest diaspora communiti

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Cardiomatics bags $3.2M for its ECG-reading AI

Poland-based healthtech AI startup Cardiomatics has announced a $3.2M seed raise to expand use of its electrocardiogram (ECG) reading automation technology.The round is led by Central and Eastern Euro

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Paladin publicly launches Knighthawk, a first response drone for cities

Emergency response is a time-sensitive business. When fires burn or a driver crashes their car, seconds can mean the difference between saving lives and watching a situation spiral rapidly out of cont

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Regology snares $8M Series A to help navigate maze of global regulations

Every country has its own bundle of laws, rules and regulations, and they change on a regular basis making it an enormous challenge to keep up with it all. That usually requires large staffs filling i

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Would the math work if Databricks were valued at $38B?

Databricks, the open-source data lake and data management powerhouse has been on quite a financial run lately. Today Bloomberg reported the company could be raising a new round worth at least $1.5 bil

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The hottest fintech market you aren’t paying attention to

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture-capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.For our Wednesday show this week, Natasha and Alex and Danny had collea

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B2B sales platform Accord adds $1M to seed round

Accord opened up its previously announced $6 million seed round to accept over $1 million from a group of CEOs and sales leads at companies they are working with to officially launch its business-to-b

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Indiana governor breaks with GOP peers, allows local mask mandates

Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb (R) broke with some of his Republican peers on Monday, telling reporters that schools implementing mask mandates are "making a wise decision w

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South Korean online secondhand marketplace Danggeun Market raises $162M at a $2.7B valuation

Danggeun Market, the publisher of South Korea’s hyperlocal community app Karrot, announced on 18 August it has raised $162 million in a Series D round of funding with a valuation of $2.7 billion. (By

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Fortnite adds a new mode that’s basically Among Us

Fortnite now boasts its own version of one of the pandemic’s hottest games.Fortnite-maker Epic just introduced into the game a new limited-time mode called Impostors; it follows the hit format t