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Per Diem raises $2.3M to help local businesses build subscription programs

It might be time for neighborhood restaurants and coffee shops to start thinking about a subscription business — at least according to a new Y Combinator-backed startup called Per Diem. The company is

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Cadillac’s all-electric Lyriq flagship to start just below $60,000

The Cadillac Lyriq, the all-electric crossover and flagship of GM’s luxury brand, will start at a skosh under $60,000 when it comes to the U.S. market in early 2022.The price, which doesn’

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Expert on financial challenges facing China's carbon neutrality goal

Chimneys at a Sinopec refinery in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China, February 9, 2014. /Reuters Carbon neutrality has been a hot topic for this year's Boao Forum for Asia. As China aims to rea

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The new iPad Pro features Apple’s M1 chip

The big news from today’s Spring Loaded event is, as anticipated, a new version of Apple’s high-end tablet. The new iPad Pro is the first in the line to adopt the M1 chip introduced on the

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14 PL clubs "unanimously and vigorously" reject Super League plans

A general view of the pitch before a past Premier League match at Goodison Park, Liverpool. /VCG 14 clubs in English Premier League, alongside the FA, on Tuesday "unanimously and vigorously re

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Spanish court tells UEFA, FIFA not to interfere in Super League plans

UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin during a press conference following the UEFA Executive Committee meeting at the UEFA headquarters, The House of European Football on June 17, 2020 in Nyon, Switz

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Scale AI founder and CEO Alexandr Wang will join us at TC Sessions: Mobility on June 9

Last week, Scale AI announced a massive $325 million Series E. Led by Dragoneer, Greenoaks Capital and Tiger Global, the raise gives the San Francisco data labeling startup a $7 billion valuation.Alex

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What to expect from Apple’s Spring Loaded event

Surprise! It’s another Apple Event. Gone are the days of getting a few weeks’ notice before these events now that they’re entirely virtual (at least until 2022, most likely). Instead, the compan

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Facebook is expanding Spotify partnership with new ‘Boombox’ project

Facebook is deepening its relationship with music company Spotify and will allow users to listen to music hosted on Spotify while browsing through its apps as part of a new initiative called “Pr

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Detroit VCs weigh in on fundraising and building startups in Michigan and the Midwest

TechCrunch just hosted a small virtual meetup with Detroit startups and venture capitals. Like the one we held last month in Miami, the event was a blast and featured a talk with two local VCs on wh

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Apple Music streaming revenue detailed in letter to artists

Streaming revenue has been a longtime concern for musicians, especially those scraping by in the wake of an industry-wide implosion of record labels. Of course, a year that has made touring an impossi

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RMB internationalization not an attempt to replace the dollar

02:18 The internationalization of the renminbi (RMB) has been developing steadily, and has received wide global market attention in recent years. China's central bank has rolled out tr

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Man United, Arsenal, Roma, Villarreal ease into Europa League semis

Players of Manchester United celebrate during the Eurapa League quarter-final match against Granada in Manchester, UK, April 15, 2021. /CFP Manchester United reached the Europa League semi-fin

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Autodesk acquires Upchain

Autodesk, the publicly-traded software company best known for its CAD and 3D modeling tools, today announced that it has acquired Upchain, a Toronto-based startup that offers a cloud-based product lif

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Flipkart to acquire online travel firm Cleartrip

Flipkart said on Thursday it has agreed to acquire online travel and hotel ticketing firm Cleartrip as the Walmart-owned e-commerce firm looks to expand its offerings in the world’s second large

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Expert: China's Biosecurity Law aims to safeguard national security

A researcher conducts PCR tests in a laboratory in Enshi, central China's Hubei Province, July 28, 2020. /CFP China's Biosecurity Law is aimed at safeguarding national security from the risk o

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Binance Labs leads $1.6M seed round in DeFi startup MOUND, the developer of Pancake Bunny

Decentralized finance startup MOUND, known for its yield farming aggregator Pancake Bunny, has raised $1.6 million in seed funding led by Binance Labs. Other participants included IDEO CoLab, SparkLab