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SaaS-focused Acceleprise rebrands, raises $30M in new capital

TechCrunch has covered Acceleprise several times over the years, including a look at its mid-2020 accelerator startup batch from its three accelerators. The firm has long focused on business-to-busine

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4G Clinical’s clinical trial management software attracts over $200M in new funding

The pandemic significantly changed how we do medical research, and now companies are trying to figure out what trends will stay and which ones will go. One that 4G Clinical is hoping will survive the

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Demand Curve: Email marketing tactics that convert subscribers into customers

Email has the highest return on investment of any other marketing channel. On average, email earns you $40 for every $1 spent. And the best part is that email is an owned channel, which means you can

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City watchdog bans major cryptocurrency exchange Binance from UK operations

The FCA, which has not given reasons, required all firms offering cryptocurrency-related services to register from January.

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Blinken visit to pope will reset U.S-Vatican ties after Trump years

The last time a U.S. secretary of state visited the Vatican, the diplomatic sparks flew and Pope Francis declined to receive Mike Pompeo.When Antony Blinken meets the p

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'F9' to smash pandemic-era box office record in North America

Universal's action film F9: The Fast Saga is on track to smash pandemic-era weekend box office record in North America with an estimated 66 million U.S. dollars 3-day opening, according to The Hol

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Do tech mafias need a modern refresh?

Rumor has it, if you whisper mafia to a venture capitalist or tech reporter, a seed investment and headline appears within minutes. That process quickly turns into seconds if the mafia reference inclu

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APD | BRI is a ray of hope for developing nations

Author: Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan, Sinologist (ex-Diplomat), Editor, Analyst, Non-Resident Fellow of CCG (Center for China and Globalization), National University o

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To sustain diversity, investors must tune into their unconscious biases

When the pandemic struck last year, the fundraising world turned upside down. Due to shifting priorities, investors had to commit to taking care of their portfolio companies, the majority of which wer

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SmartAsset rethinks financial advisory, and becomes a unicorn in the process

SmartAsset, a marketplace that connects consumers to financial advisors, announced today that it has raised $110 million in a Series D round of funding.The financing values New York-based SmartAsset a

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JW Player raises $100M to build subscriptions and other monetization tools around its video software

JW Player, a very early mover in the market for online video technology — it powered YouTube’s first video player, before Google acquired it and it built its own — has long been prof

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Foreign diplomats watch play marking victory

Diplomats from 55 countries, including Russia, Australia and Germany, stationed in Beijing were invited to view a Chinese play The Night at the Fragrant Hills, at the Beijing People's Art Theater

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Xi Jinping: China welcomes closer 'Belt and Road' partnerships

China is willing to work with all parties to build a closer "Belt and Road" partnership, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday in a written address to the Asia and Pacific High-level Confere

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Putin Warns of Degrading European Security System, Growing Risk of New Arms Race

Vladimir Putin has written a major article for the German newspaper Die Zeit, marking the 80th anniversary of the Nazi attack on the Soviet Union, in which he made a wa

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Musical spotlights stories of four Beijing women

Beijing Story, a Chinese musical centering on four middle-aged Beijing women living in hutong, premiered in the capital on June 19.Directed by Guo Zhen, a professor of the China Conservatory of Music,

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International youth delegation to experience red culture in E China

A delegation of international youth in China who joined the 2021 Global Young Leaders Dialogue (GYLD) is going to visit the land where the red culture bears unique significance in modern Chinese histo

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America Dems Botched Voting Rights; They Need a New Bill

The For the People Act was written years before an American president attempted to steal an election, only to tell voters it was stolen from him. Democrats insist H.R.