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Lessons from COVID: Flexible funding is a must for alternative lenders

Rachael runs a bakery in New York. She set up shop in 2010 with her personal savings and contributions from family and friends, and the business has grown. But Rachael now needs additional financing t

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How one founder turned painful personal experience into the solution for a huge gap in healthcare

A lot of startup founders think there’s a dire need for their product in the market, but Liya Shuster-Bier knew for sure that there was one, because she’d required it herself prior to buil

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Ryan Reynolds is coming to Disrupt

Ryan Reynolds is America’s sweetheart, despite being both Canadian and somewhat irreverent. The actor, producer, screenwriter and entrepreneur has been nominated for a Golden Globe and Grammy fo

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Russell Westbrook, Chainsmokers join group pouring $13.5M into prebiotic soda brand Poppi

Poppi, a prebiotic soda brand, closed $13.5 million in a Series A2 round and is on a mission to lead in the new category of “functional soda” by offering a better-for-you product that also tastes good

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How Amazon EC2 grew from a notion into a foundational element of cloud computing

Fifteen years ago this week on August 25, 2006, AWS turned on the very first beta instance of EC2, its cloud-based virtual computers. Today cloud computing, and more specifically infrastructure as a s

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Xi stresses consolidating the sense of community for Chinese nation

01:04 Chinese President Xi Jinping talks with a family at Galai Village of Nyingchi, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, July 21, 2021. /XinhuaSummarizing past e

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China's COVID-19 vaccination drive hits 2 billion mark

China had administered more than 2 billion coronavirus vaccine doses by Thursday, according to the National Health Commission (NHC), accounting for 40 percent of the 5

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Cribl raises $200M to help enterprises do more with their data

At a time when remote work, cybersecurity attacks and increased privacy and compliance requirements threaten a company’s data, more companies are collecting and storing their observability data, but a

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Wild tortoise's 'horrifying' attack on baby bird never seen before, say experts

The attack on the baby bird was seen on Fregate Island in the Seychelles and researchers think this new hunting behaviour has been driven by the unusual combination of a tree-nesting tern colony and a resident giant tortoise population in the area.

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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

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Man arrested as Nice-Marseille fan violence damages French football

The Ligue 1 game between Nice and Marseille turnned violent in the second half after fans invaded the pitch following a bottle-throwing incident at the Allianz Riviera stadium in Nice, southern F

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Rocket Lab’s Mars mission gets green light from NASA

Rocket Lab is one step closer to going to Mars with NASA’s approval of the company’s Photon spacecraft for an upcoming science mission. If all continues according to plan the two craft wil

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Caldor Fire spreads to more than 98,000 acres in the U.S.

FILE PIC: The Caldor Fire has destroyed more than 320 structures and is threatening another 13,000 as it continues to burn uncontained in Northern California. /AP The Caldor Fire has destroyed

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E China provincial official Zhou Jiangyong investigated

Zhou Jiangyong, a member of Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the secretary of the CPC municipal committ

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Attack kills 2, injures 3, including Chinese national, in Pakistan

Two children were killed and three were injured in a suicide attack in Gwadar district of Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province on Friday, a Pakistani government official said.On August 20, at th

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Former Chinese striker Yang Chen joins Bundesliga Legends Network

Yang Chen, former striker of the Chinese national football team and Bundesliga's Eintracht Frankfurt, joined the Bundesliga Legends Network, announced Germany's top foo

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Former Chinese striker Yang Chen joins Bundesliga Legends Network

Chinese striker Yang Chen plays for Bundesliga's Eintracht Frankfurt. /CFP File Yang Chen, former striker of the Chinese national football team and Bundesliga's Eintracht Frankfurt, joined the