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Accounting platform Synder raises $2M to automate e-commerce bookkeeping

As Synder’s two co-founders Michael Astreiko and Ilya Kisel wrap up their time at Y Combinator, they also announced their seed round of $2 million from TMT Investments.Though the round was acquired be

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YC grad Buoyant wants to solve middle-mile delivery with cargo airships

A number of companies have emerged in recent years aiming to resurrect the airship, an early technology that was abandoned in favor of airplanes and helicopters.Flying Whales in France, Hybrid Air Veh

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Documentary records memories of China's veterans

Director Song Kunru's new documentary film, Remembering 1950, pieces together the memories of 26 Chinese military veterans. In the documentary, the veterans, now mostly over 80 years old, share th

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Tim Cook paid $750m bonus after presiding over soaring Apple share price

August marks the 10th anniversary of Mr Cook's promotion to the role of chief executive. Apple gave him 5 million shares to say thank you.

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U.S. reconstruction effort in Afghanistan: Success or failure?

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), an independent U.S.watchdog created in 2008, has concluded that while two decades of rebuilding efforts in Afghanistan has "yi

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Founders Fund backs Royal, a music marketplace planning to sell song rights as NFTs

Founders Fund and Paradigm are leading an investment in a platform that’s aiming to wed music rights with NFTs, allowing user to buy shares of songs through the company’s marketplace, earn

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Apple lowers commissions on in-app purchases for news publishers who participate in Apple News

Apple today is launching a new program that will allow subscription news organizations that participate in the Apple News app and meet certain requirements to lower their commission rate to 15% on qua

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Picsart raises $130M from SoftBank, becomes unicorn on the back of its visual creator tools

Picsart announced this morning that it has raised a $130 million round led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2. The new capital infusion pushes the company’s valuation north of the $1 billion mark

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Atheneum nabs $150M to build out its “research as a service” platform for virtual surveys and interviews

Data is the new oil, as the saying goes, and today a startup that is helping companies mine for it is announcing a major funding round to expand its business on the back of strong growth.Atheneum, whi

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Point Pickup acquires e-commerce platform GrocerKey for $42M to allow for same-day delivery

Point Pickup Technologies, a last-mile delivery service, has acquired white label e-commerce platform GrocerKey for $42 million, according to the company. With the acquisition, Point Pickup now allows

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Full text: Coronavirus Research Conducted by Ralph Baric's Team at UNC

Medical workers conduct COVID-19 testing for people in Raleigh, North Carolina, the U.S., July 6, 2020. /CFP A senior Chinese diplomat said on Tuesday that the labs of Fort Detrick and the Uni

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Microsoft Flight Simulator creator hopes franchise will attract more pilots post-COVID

A new update for Microsoft Flight Simulator brings cities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland alive, allowing players to fly over the famous Elbphilharmonie concert hall in Hamburg and the castle that inspired Disney's logo, among others.

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OnlyFans ‘suspends’ decision to ban explicit content

OnlyFans has suspended its decision to ban sexually explicit content after it received widespread backlash over the planned policy change. Although Onlyfans was not created specifically for porn, the

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Canalys: U.S. PC sales up 17% YoY for quarter, even as tablet sales stagnate

Canalys released its quarterly U.S. PC sales today, and while the news was quite good with sales overall up 17% YoY, the growth slowed significantly from the prior quarter when sales soared to 74% pus

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D2C specs purveyor Warby Parker files to go public

Did you miss IPOs? I sure did. They could be coming back after a summer lull.Warby Parker, a D2C glasses company backed by over a half-billion dollars of private capital, filed to go public yesterday.

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MaxAB gets an extra $15M, acquires YC-backed Moroccan startup WaystoCap

Last month, MaxAB, the Egyptian B2B e-commerce platform that serves food and grocery retailers, raised one of the largest Series A on the continent, to the tune of $40 million. Today, it has raised a

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ForgeRock files for IPO as identity and access management business grows

ForgeRock filed its form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this morning as the identity management provider takes the next step toward its IPO.The company did not provide initial p