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Carsome Group will acquire iCar Asia in a deal worth $200M

Southeast Asia’s car marketplace wars are going into high drive. Today Carsome Group, one of the region’s largest online used car marketplaces, said it plans to acquire listings platform iCar Asia in

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Chinese streaming firm DouYu terminates $5.3 billion merger with Huya

DouYu International Holdings Ltd. said on Monday it had terminated its $5.3 billion deal with Huya Inc., two days after China's market regulator blocked Tencent Holding

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Q3 IPO cycle starts strong with Couchbase pricing and Kaltura relisting

Today we have new filings from Couchbase and Kaltura: Couchbase set an initial price range for its IPO, something we’ve been waiting for, and Kaltura’s offering is back from hiatus with a

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Virgin Galactic value falls back to Earth despite successful flight - as share sale plan revealed

The space venture's shares had been surging higher in pre-market trading but a plan to raise up to $500m from a share sale left investors in the New York-listed company scrambling for the escape capsules.

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Equity Monday: Cybersecurity startups see deluge of capital as Microsoft looks to buy RiskIQ

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private

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MSCHF drops tiny action figures of your favorite failed startup hardware

Hardware is hard. You can browse the archives of this site and come up with dozens of bold attempts to make new consumer electronics gadgets work — some of them very close to home. But, like all

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Indian financial services firm MobiKwik looks to raise $255 million in IPO

Gurgaon-based mobile wallet service firm MobiKwik plans to raise up to $255 million in an initial public offering, becoming the latest Indian startup to explore the public markets.The 12-year-old firm

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NGOs, experts call for peace, development in human rights protection

NGO leaders and experts speak during a parallel event for the 47th Session of the UN Human Rights Council, July 9, 2021. /CMG Leaders of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and experts from C

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Mo Brooks Delivers CPAC Speech Reminiscent of 1/6 Address: 'Are You Willing to Fight?'

Alabama Republican Representative Mo Brooks asked audience members at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Texas Friday if they would be "willing" and

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China pushes more security rules for companies listing overseas

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, New York, New York, U.S., May 18, 2021. /ReutersChina's internet regulator said companies holding data on over

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Richard Branson set to leave Earth: What you need to know about the billionaires' space race

Three billionaires with private spaceflight companies are competing to take paying customers beyond the stratosphere.

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Startups have never had it so good

The venture capital market is racing ahead, foot on the gas, middle finger out the window, hair on fire. That’s our read of the Q2 2021 data released thus far concerning how much money venture capital

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'Important Milestone' as Norway, Germany Conclude 'Gigantic' Submarine Deal

Norway and Germany have signed contracts for the delivery of new German submarines and broader military cooperation, including arms production.The two countries have re

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Can U.S. infrastructure plan do enough to fix water systems?

03:06 Part of U.S. President Joe Biden's infrastructure plan includes a proposal to upgrade the country’s water distribution system by eliminating lead pipes. Some $45 billion has been

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Kurly, the Korean grocery startup, raises $200M on a $2.2B valuation after shifting IPO plans away from the NYSE

Online grocery startups around the world continue to pull in major investment, underscoring how much they have all grown especially in the last year of pandemic living. In the latest development, Kurl

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Europe’s DN Capital launches its new $350M fund after a knock-out year for its portfolio

DN Capital, one of Europe’s most active VCs has launched its latest $350 million (£220m, €300m) fund off the back of a pretty stand-out year when the firm saw four of its portfolio companies hit billi

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Cryptocurrency company Circle to go public in SPAC deal

Circle has announced that it plans to become a public company. The cryptocurrency company will merge with Concord Acquisition Corp, a SPAC. Circle is better known as one of the founding members of the