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Kraftful raises $1M to help smart home companies make better apps

If a thousand companies make their own smart light bulb, do a thousand companies also have to design a light switch app to control them?Kraftful, a company out of Y Combinator’s Summer 2019 clas

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Los Angeles-based CREXi raises $29 million for its online real estate marketplace

Los Angeles is one of the most desirable locations for commercial real estate in the United States, so it’s little wonder that there’s something of a boom in investments in technology comp

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Goldman Sachs’ new board member diversity rule misses the mark

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon recently said the investment bank won’t take companies public that don’t have at least one board member from an underrepresented group. The main focus will

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Goldman Sachs to stop IPO help for companies without 'diverse' boards

U.S. bank Goldman Sachs says it will stop helping firms with their public flotations if they don't have diverse management boards.The bank underwrites Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) but CEO David So

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Sonos clarifies how unsupported devices will be treated

Smart speaker manufacturer Sonos clarified its stance when it comes to old devices that are no longer supported. The company faced some criticisms after its original announcement. Sonos now says that

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APD | Coordination between countries underscored; five-year old child yielded negative of novel corona virus

By APD writer Melo M. AcuñaMANILA, Jan. 24, (APD)-- Government health authorities confirmed several persons are under observation for probable cases of novel corona vir

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APD | South Korea's outbound shipments to rebound next month

By APD writer AliceSouth Korea's outbound shipments are expected to recover next month, Finance Minister Hong Nam-ki said.The country’s exports fell 0.2 percent to US$25.7 billion in the first 20

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Spain calls emergency meeting as Storm Gloria death toll hits 13

Residents walk on a bridge over the Onyar river during the storm "Gloria" in Girona, Spain, January 22, 2020. / Reuters photo Spain's government will hold an emergency meeting on Friday to dea

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Here are all 21 companies from Alchemist Accelerator’s latest batch

We’re down in Sunnyvale, CA today, where Alchemist Accelerator is hosting a demo day for its most recent batch of companies. This is the 23rd class to graduate from Alchemist, with notable alums

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Should there be a 21st century space race?

The original space race between Soviet Union and the U.S. seems like history. But similar competitions are still ongoing and expected to be scaled-up in the private sector in the next century.Is t

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Biggest problems can't be fixed without Sino-U.S. cooperation

02:48 The world's biggest and hardest problems, including tackling climate change, can be fixed or ameliorated substantially if the U.S. and China can find ways of working together, sa

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Rome airport marks China-Italy Year of Culture and Tourism

Rome's Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci Airport marked the China-Italy Year of Culture and Tourism with a public conference and a Tai-chi performance at its Terminal 3 departure area on Thursday. Organize

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2030 Agenda should become master plan for each country's development: UN chief

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said here on Thursday that the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which was adopted in 2015, should become a master plan for each country's de

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Somalia, UN agencies seek $1 billion to help 3 million people

Displaced people wait to receive for non-food items from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees at the Kabasa transit centre for the internally displaced people in Dollow town, along t

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Aki acquires Eyeview’s ad personalization tech

Video advertising company Eyeview shut down in December, but its technology will live on thanks to an acquisition by Aki Technologies.Aki CEO Scott Swanson told me that he’s anticipating serious

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Firefly Aerospace investigating a fire that resulted from a test of its Alpha rocket’s engines

Space launch startup Firefly Aerospace encountered a setback as it kicked off the first “hot” tests of its Alpha launch vehicle’s engines – a fire resulted from its first test engine

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It’s time for tech startups to get political

Between 2005 and 2018, the five biggest U.S. tech firms collectively spent more than half a billion dollars lobbying federal policymakers. But they shelled out even more in 2019: Facebook boosted its