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Professor Scott Galloway just raised $30 million for an online school that upskills managers fast

Scott Galloway, the New York University professor, author, and tech entrepreneur, is taking the wraps off a $30 million Series A round for his newest company, Section4, a platform for business “

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The Department of Defense is establishing a working group to focus on climate change

The U.S. Department of Defense is setting up a working group to focus on climate change.The new group will be led by Joe Bryan, who was appointed as a special assistant to the Secretary of Defense foc

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Biden administration hires more critics of Big Tech

Lina Khan, a British-born legal scholar, is the latest accomplished academic touted for a federal role in the US.

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Could Valo Health become one of Flagship Pioneering’s biggest companies yet?

The investment firm Flagship Pioneering has incubated a lot of life sciences companies since it was founded in 2000. In fact, while a general partner with Flagship Pioneering over the last 15 years, D

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Bolsonaro to Brazilians: 'Enough fussing and whining"

00:41 Brazil has been hit hard by the pandemic with more than 260,000 dead.Yesterday, President Jair Bolsonaro yesterday told his people: "Enough fussing and whining. How much longer w

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Coursera is planning to file to go public tomorrow

Coursera, an online education platform that has seen its business grow amid the coronavirus pandemic, is planning to file paperwork tomorrow for its initial public offering, sources familiar with the

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Making sense of the $6.5B Okta-Auth0 deal

When Okta announced that it was acquiring Auth0 yesterday for $6.5 billion, the deal raised eyebrows. After all, it’s a substantial amount of money for one identity and access management (IAM) c

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First impressions of AppLovin’s IPO filing

AppLovin released its S-1 filing yesterday, bringing the Palo Alto-based mobile-app-focused software company a step closer to joining the public markets.The business results detailed in the document a

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Firms backed by Robert Downey Jr. and Bill Gates have funded an electric motor company that slashes energy consumption

Sometimes the smallest innovations can have the biggest impacts on the world’s efforts to stop global climate change. Arguably, one of the biggest contributors in the fight against climate chang

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Indonesian payments infra startup Xendit raises $64.6M in Accel-led Series B

Fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic, digital transformation is happening all over the world. And Southeast Asia is no exception.Indonesia’s Xendit, a startup focused on building digital payments infrastru

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France's AstraZeneca U-turn, Czechia's checkpoints : COVID-19 bulletin

TOP HEADLINES- France's government has decided that over-65s in France with existing health problems can now be given the Oxford University-AstraZeneca vaccine, a U-turn on its previous stance that t

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Salesforce delivers, Wall Street doubts as stock falls 6.3% post-earnings

Wall Street investors can be fickle beasts. Take Salesforce as an example. The CRM giant announced a $5.82 billion quarter when it reported earnings yesterday. Revenue was up 20% year over year. The c

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China shares experience on poverty reduction at UN

Su Guoxia, China's Director-General of General Affairs at the National Administration of Rural Revitalization delivered a speech at the meeting on poverty reduction at the 46th session of the United

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MyHeritage now lets you animate old family photos using deepfakery

AI-enabled synthetic media is being used as a tool for manipulating real emotions and capturing user data by genealogy service, MyHeritage, which has just launched a new feature — called ‘

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New Facebook ad campaign extols the benefits of personalized ads

Online advertising can be a “pretty dry topic,” as Facebook’s head of brand marketing Andrew Stirk acknowledged, but with a new campaign of its own, the social networking giant is lo

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Pittsburgh Steelers president: We want Ben Roethlisberger back

Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger of the Pittsburgh Steelers warms up before the game against the Cincinnati Bengals at Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S., December 21, 2020. /CFP The N

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Mozilla beefs up anti-cross-site tracking in Firefox, as Chrome still lags on privacy

Mozilla has further beefed up anti-tracking measures in its Firefox browser. In a blog post yesterday it announced that Firefox 86 has an extra layer of anti-cookie tracking built into the enhanced tr