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Punchbowl nabs $5M investment, acquires VidHug to add video to party planning platform

When the pandemic hit last year, Punchbowl, an online party planning service was left in the lurch with gatherings all but shut down, but instead of lamenting the situation, founder and CEO Matt Dougl

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European neobroker Scalable Capital raises $180M+ at a $1.4B valuation

Neobrokers — startups that are disrupting the investment industry by providing a platform for a wider range of consumers to partake in the stock market by offering them more incremental investme

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CISA launches platform to let hackers report security bugs to US federal agencies

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has launched a vulnerability disclosure program allowing ethical hackers to report security flaws to federal agencies.The platform, launched with t

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Thousands of men to benefit from new prostate cancer drug approved for use on NHS

So far enzalutamide has been used as a so-called "COVID-friendly" cancer drug as patients can take it at home.

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May: China's imports soar by 51.1%, fastest growth in a decade

China's imports in dollar terms soared by 51.1 percent to around $218.4 billion year on year in May, the fastest growth since January 2011, fueled by increasing price p

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YouTube expands TikTok rival Shorts to the UK, Canada, Latin America, lets users tap all of YouTube for tunes

One of Google’s strong advantages in the world of online video has been the sheer size of YouTube: currently, the site has more than 2.3 billion monthly active users and over 500 hours of conten

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Facebook buys studio behind Roblox-like Crayta gaming platform

Facebook has been making plenty of one-off virtual reality studio acquisitions lately, but today the company announced that they’re buying something with wider ambitions — a Roblox-like ga

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UK PM Boris Johnson’s Tories guilty of spamming voters

The governing party of the UK has been fined £10k by the national data protection watchdog for sending spam.The Information Commissioner’s (ICO) Office has sanctioned the Conservative Party foll

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Facebook opens its Messenger API for Instagram to all businesses

F8 Refresh, Facebook’s annual developer conference with a new twist — it’s more pared down than in years past, and virtual — is going to be kicking off later today, and ahead o

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7-Eleven to install 500 EV charging stations by the end of 2022

Convenience stores are ubiquitous – and they sell the vast majority of gas purchased by consumers in the United States. But as more Americans transition to electric vehicles, a major reason people vis

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British retail faces "tsunami of closures" without rent help

Britain's retail sector will endure a "tsunami of closures" if the government does not extend a moratorium on aggressive debt enforcement, industry lobby group the Brit

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UEFA Champions League Final Preview: Manchester City vs. Chelsea

The UEFA Champions League trophy, nicknamed Ol' Big Ears, and a winner's medal. /CFP This year, the biggest game in club football is also one of the strangest. The UEFA Champions League, being

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Middle East and Africa will reap benefits from Nuwa Capital’s newest fund

Nuwa Capital, a venture capital firm based in Dubai and Riyadh, announced the first close of its $100 million NVFI fund in February.The close was three-quarters of the target and was done in less than

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California prepares for intense wildfire season

02:58 California’s governor has announced an ambitious proposal for a$2 billion investment intowildfire preparednessas part of a wider $ 100billion recovery plan.The move comes after th

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Peloton and Echelon profile photo metadata exposed riders’ real-world locations

Security researchers say at-home exercise giant Peloton and its closest rival Echelon were not stripping user-uploaded profile photos of their metadata, in some cases exposing users’ real-world

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Salt Security lands $70M for tech to protect APIs from malicious abuse

APIs make the world go round in tech, but that also makes them a very key target for bad actors: as doorways into huge data troves and services, malicious hackers spent a lot of time looking for ways

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Israel May Have Dealt Hamas a Heavy Blow, but Islamist Militants Destined to Recover

The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the Islamic group that controls the Gaza Strip, still holds on Monday.Hamas stopped its indiscriminate rocket fire into Israeli