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Corporate net debt seen rising as companies spend pandemic cash piles

Global corporates' net debt will increase by as much as $600 billion this year as they start to spend some of the cash piles accumulated during the pandemic, a study by

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Kill the standard privacy notice

Privacy is a word on everyone’s mind nowadays — even Big Tech is getting in on it. Most recently, Apple joined the user privacy movement with its App Tracking Transparency feature, a cornerstone

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Single.Earth to link carbon credits to crypto token market, raises $7.9M from EQT Ventures

Here’s the theory: Instead of linking carbon and biodiversity credits to the sale of raw materials such as forests, which cause CO2, what if you linked them to crypto tokens, and thus kept these CO2-p

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BRI would be the best thing to happen to post-withdrawal Afghanistan

A deserted Bagram airfield after the departure of all U.S. and NATO forces from Parwan province, eastern Afghanistan. /Xinhua Editor's note:Andrew Korybko is a Moscow-based American political

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A familiar question at Cannes: where are the women?

Women stage a mass protest at the 2018 Cannes festival over the lack of female representation. /AFP With just four women among the directors behind the 24 films in competition for the Palme d'

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3 guiding principles for CEOs who post on Twitter

A CEO’s fiduciary duties to their company and its shareholders do not end when they are off the clock — they must always act in good faith. However, navigating the boundaries between a company’s offic

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Don’t send VC a cold deck ever again: Start sending video pitches

Let’s play out this scenario. Your deck is ready and you’re just about to start reaching out. What does conventional wisdom say that you should send? A three-paragraph overview, four bullet points out

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Branson aims to beat Bezos to orbit in final stretch of billionaire space race

Two billionaires are neck and neck in the final sprint to the Kármán line, but Richard Branson may clinch it with a July 11 flight on a Virgin Galactic spacecraft, narrowly beating out Jeff Bezos̵

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Codat raises $40M from Tiger for its SMB-focused API service

This morning Codat, a startup that provides APIs to link small-business fintech data to external services, announced that it has closed a $40 million round led by Tiger Global. The company raised $10

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China tells Japan to correct mistake after official's Taiwan remark

China's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday called for Japan to issue a clarification and correction after a senior official called the Taiwan region a "country."Spokesperson Wang Wenbin said the remark, mad

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SaaS-focused Acceleprise rebrands, raises $30M in new capital

TechCrunch has covered Acceleprise several times over the years, including a look at its mid-2020 accelerator startup batch from its three accelerators. The firm has long focused on business-to-busine

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Harness Wealth raises $15 million to democratize the power of family offices

Family offices have existed since the 1800s, but they’ve never been so manifold as in recent years. According to a 2019 Global Family Office Report by UBS and Campden Wealth, 68% of the 360 fami

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NBA highlights on Jun. 26: Suns beat Clippers in Game 4 to lead 3-1

L-R: Deandre Ayton, Devin Booker and Chris Paul of the Phoenix Suns celebrate after their 84-80 win over the Los Angeles Clippers in Game 4 of the NBA Western Conference Finals at Staples Center

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Condo search grows dire with 159 still unaccounted for

The torturous wait for word of nearly 160 people unaccounted for after an oceanfront condominium building collapsed near Miami, killing at least four, is taking a toll

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Angry and traumatized, Britney Spears calls conservatorship abusive

Grammy Award-winning pop icon Britney Spears on Wednesday called the 13-year-long conservatorship that has controlled her life stupid and abusive, saying she felt traumatized and angry and wanted her

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Emergence’s Lotti Siniscalco and Retail Zipline’s Melissa Wong will join us on Extra Crunch Live

For all that’s said about fundraising and working alongside investors, rarely do we get to see founders and their investors in candid conversation with one another. Extra Crunch Live is changing

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These Forge cofounders just raised $5 million to work on a new, still-stealth investing startup

Sohail Prasad and Samvit Ramadurgam are cofounders who met during Y Combinator’s 2012 summer batch and went on to cofound Forge, which helps accredited investors and institutions buy and sell pr