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Miami edtech startup Nearpod acquired by Renaissance

Nearpod, the Miami-based edtech company, is being acquired by Renaissance Holding Corp., a group that develops education technology. While Nearpod isn’t announcing the news until later this month, the

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NBA highlights on Feb. 13: Suns put 76ers on two-loss-streak

Devin Booker #1 of the Phoenix Suns makes a layup in the game against the Philadelphia 76ers at Phoenix Suns Arena in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S., February 13, 2021. /CFP The Phoenix Suns defeated

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9 investors discuss hurdles, opportunities and the impact of cloud vendors in enterprise data lakes

About a decade ago, I remember having a conversation with a friend about big data. At the time, we both agreed that it was the purview of large companies like Facebook, Yahoo and Google, and not somet

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Podz turns podcasts into a personalized audio newsfeed

Podz is the latest startup trying to solve the problem of podcast discovery, with backing from investors like M13, Katie Couric and Paris Hilton.“Even though podcasts have gained a lot of moment

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Super Bowl draws 96.4 million viewers, lowest in 14 years

Tom Brady hoists the Lombardi Trophy after leading the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to win the Super Bowl LV game with a 31-9 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs in Tampa, U.S., February 7, 2021. /CFP

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Is the GameStop saga a war between retail traders and Wall Street?

03:58 The GameStop short squeeze has been described as a battle between retail investors and Wall Street professionals, but data shows that the retail traders were not the dominant pow

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The US paid Deloitte $44 million for a vaccine appointment system laden with glitches. Some states are scrambling for an alternative.

Americans eligible for coronavirus vaccines are still struggling to get appointments."Every clinic, every hospital has its own mechanism of communicating, recruiting, a

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APD | To Contain China, a mission impossible

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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Webull and Public remove restrictions on ‘memestocks’ after citing trade settlement firm as the cause

Two of the popular retail stock market trading apps that have hosted much of the activity related to the Wall Street Bets subreddit-spurred run on stocks including GameStop (GME) and AMC, among others

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Pinecone lands $10M seed for purpose-built machine learning database

Pinecone, a new startup from the folks who helped launch Amazon SageMaker, has built a vector database that generates data in a specialized format to help build machine learning applications faster, s

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Datastax acquires Kesque as it gets into data streaming

Datastax, the company best known for commercializing the open-source Apache Cassandra database, is moving beyond databases. As the company announced today, it has acquired Kesque, a cloud messaging se

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APD | Joe Biden-Administration's relations with India and its impact on China

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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Augmented reality and the next century of the web

Howdy friends, this is the web version of my Week in Review newsletter, it’s here to entice you to sign up and get it in your inbox every week.Last week, I showcased how Twitter was looking at t

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Hot IPOs hang onto gains as investors keep betting on tech

This morning, while checking the latest price for shares of recent IPO Poshmark, I noticed that they were down from their first-day results. The company’s pricing was more than strong, and its f

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APD | The next few days may be crucial in the U.S. politics

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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Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos have started a cyber consulting firm

Former U.S. cybersecurity official Chris Krebs and former Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos have founded a new cybersecurity consultancy firm, which already has its first client: SolarWinds

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APD | Indian belligerence is mere self-deception!

Editor's Note: The writer, Mr. I. Hussain Janjua is a senior media professional and analyst having experience of research & broadcast journalism in different organisati