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How to break into Silicon Valley as an outsider

Domm Holland, co-founder and CEO of e-commerce startup Fast, appears to be living a founder’s dream.His big idea came from a small moment in his real life. Holland watched as his wife’s grandmother tr

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HoneyBook raises $155M at $1B+ valuation to help SMBs, freelancers manage their businesses

HoneyBook, which has built out a client experience and financial management platform for service-based small businesses and freelancers, announced today that it has raised $155 million in a Series D r

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Biden keeps masking despite updated guidance

President Biden sought to send the message this week that the nation is in a new phase of the pandemic when he strode away from a podium outside the White House without

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Cubans mark May Day under COVID restrictions

01:59 Over the past 60 years, the Cuban people have staged massive May Day marches on local plazas like Havana's Revolution Square in support of the International Day of the Worker and

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Australian who filmed 4 dead and dying police sent to prison

A speeding driver in Australia was sentenced to 10 months in prison on Wednesday for offenses including what a judge described as the ”heartless, cruel and disgraceful”

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Albania's president lambastes US ambassador on TV talk show

Albania's president has accused the U.S. ambassador of intervening in the small European country’s internal affairs by supporting its prime minister in an upcoming parl

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SpaceX successfully launches astronauts with a re-used Dragon spacecraft for the first time

SpaceX has another successful human space launch to its credit, after a good takeoff and orbital delivery of its Crew Dragon spacecraft on Friday morning. The Dragon took off aboard a Falcon 9 rocket

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After a decade of bootstrapping, Octopus Deploy raises $172.5M from Insight Partners

Octopus Deploy’s chief financial officer Sonia Stovell and chief executive officer Paul StovellFounded almost a decade ago, Octopus Deploy has grown to serve 25,000 organizations, including Micr

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China's vaccine map: Sinovac vaccine proves 'significantly effective'

02:05 Editor's note: This is the weekly wrap-up of Chinese COVID-19 vaccines' contribution in the global fight against the virus for April 12-18, 2021.This one also focuses on the reco

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Funeral of Britain's Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

The funeral of Britain's Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, husband to Queen Elizabeth, took place Saturday at St. George's Chapel Saturday in Windsor.The coffin of the duke, who died at 99, was br

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Gabonese President, First Lady get second shots of Sinopharm vaccine

FILE PHOTO: Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba and First Lady Sylvia Bongo Ondimba arrive in Libreville, March 23, 2019. /VCG Photo Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba and his wife Sylvia B

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Russia celebrates 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin space mission

Yuri Gagarin became the first human to enter space back in 1961 and April 12 marks the 60th anniversary of his triumph. /AP Sixty years ago Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin became the first huma

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Australian portrait photographer June Newton dies at 97

Australian photographer and actress June Newton, also known under her pseudonym Alice Springs, has died at 97, the Helmut Newton Foundation said in Berlin on Saturday.Newton, who was also the wife

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Xi and his wife send condolence over passing of UK's Prince Philip

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan sent a message of condolences to Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and the royal family over the passing of Prince Philip. Britain's Prince Philip, Qu

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Britain's Prince Philip dies at age of 99

Britain's Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and husband of Queen Elizabeth II, has died aged 99, Buckingham Palace said on Friday."It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen announces the death

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Acorns’ new fintech target is debt management with acquisition of Pillar

Popular saving and investing app Acorns has acquired Pillar, an AI-powered startup built to help manage student loan debt, in its second acquisition of 2021.New York-based Pillar helps consumers optim

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Ferry sinks after colliding in Bangladesh; at least 25 dead

Rescuers have recovered 25 bodies from a river outside Bangladesh's capital after a ferry collided with another vessel and capsized, an official said Monday.The ferry M