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Cobalt.io grabs $29M Series B to continue building out pentesting platform

The promise of SaaS has always been about taking tedious, expensive manual tasks and finding a way to build a platform to automate them. Cobalt.io is doing that with pentesting, the process of testing

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Airbnb files for IPO as short-term rental market rebounds

Short-term home rental company Airbnb Inc said on Wednesday it filed confidentially for an initial public offering with U.S. regulators, setting the stage for one of 2020's marquee U.S. stock market

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Wix unifies customer support channels with Wix Answers

Website-building platform Wix is expanding today with the launch of a customer support product (and new company) called Wix Answers.Joe Pollaro, the general manager of Wix’s U.S. business, said

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U.S. "underprepared" for "greatest public health crisis" in century: CDC director

The United States was "underprepared" for "the greatest public health crisis that hit this nation in a century," a senior U.S. health official has said, as America has been the hardest-hit nation

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US jobless claims fall below 1 million but remain high

The number of laid-off workers applying for unemployment aid fell below 1 million last week for the first time since the viral pandemic intensified five months ago, yet

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Parabola no-code platform raises $8M Series A as it focuses on eCommerce

Many workers today are still stuck doing a bushel of manual tasks, copying and pasting data into spreadsheets, sending out the same emails every morning and generally lacking any kind of automation be

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U.S. health officials are quitting or getting fired amid outbreak

(Top row from left) Former health officials Marty Fenstersheib, Terry Mason, Joseph Miner, (second row from left) Thomas Pristow, Trudy Raymundo and Mylynn Tufte. /AP Photo Vilified, threatene

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Survey sparks concern over PPE shortage in Australian hospitals

An Australian survey has found that 20 percent of doctors in public hospitals are forced to provide their own personal protective equipment (PPE), prompting calls for greater transparency into gover

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AI is 'white' - and this risks increasing racial inequality, say scientists

Researchers suggested machines have distinct racial identities and this perpetuates "real world" racial stereotypes.

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UK charity shops overwhelmed by donations but short of volunteer staff

02:52 UK charity shops are struggling to deal with an overwhelming swell of donations prompted by people clearing out their homes during lockdown.Staff at a superstore in Oxford belong

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The story behind Rent the Runway’s first check

When Rent the Runway co-founders Jennifer Fleiss and Jennifer Hyman got their first term sheet, it had an exploding clause in it: If they didn’t sign the offer in 24 hours, they would lose the d

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Global Business Daily: TikTok sale, BP crash, cinema's future

"These headline results have been driven by … the deliberate steps we have taken as we continue to reimagine energy and reinvent BP."That's BP's CEO Bernard Looney, in a statement following the lates

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'She economy' prospers as female-based shows gain popularity

03:05 An emerging trend of television shows centered on women and their issues have been gaining popularity in China as the country's movie industry struggles to shrug

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Pandemic-hit Dutch airline KLM announces massive layoffs

Pandemic-stricken Dutch airline KLM on Friday announced that it would cut 4,500 to 5,000 positions. "KLM is in the throes of a crisis of unprecedented magnitude," the

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Philippines to update COVID-19 strategy as cases surpass 100,000

The Philippines' health department vowed on Sunday to update its game plan against COVID-19 within a week and sought to beef up the healthcare workforce in the capital

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A number of universities are facing a pandemic-induced reckoning

Europe and U.S. colleges are facing a COVID-19 pandemic-induced reckoning. Their new semester's enrollments are down. Their budgets are being pounded, and their campuses are closed.The COVID-19 pa

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Self-driving startup Argo AI hits $7.5 billion valuation

Autonomous vehicle technology startup Argo AI is valued at $7.5 billion, just a little more than three years after the company burst on the scene with a $1 billion investment from Ford.The official v