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Why are the DPP authorities so soft on the Fukushima issue?

Tanks storing treated radioactive water on the premises of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, January 8, 2021. /Getty Editor's note: Zhou Wenxing is a research fellow at Huazhi Instit

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Hawke Ventures raises $5.6M to back digital marketing startups

Hawke Ventures, the investment arm of marketing consultancy Hawke Media, is announcing that it has closed its first $5.6 million venture fund.Managing Partner Drew Leahy acknowledged that the firmR

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UserZoom raises $100M, acquires EnjoyHQ, to grow its platform to improve UX and other interactive design elements

Graphic designer Paul Rand once famously said that the public was more familiar with bad design than good design. While he was referring to most of the design in the world being “bad”, the

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Sunday raises $24 million seed round to build a fast restaurant checkout flow

Meet Sunday, a new startup that is going to attract some headlines as it has raised a $24 million seed round at a $140 million post-money valuation. That’s a lot of money for a company that started ju

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China’s Xpeng in the race to automate EVs with lidar

Elon Musk famously said any company relying on lidar is “doomed.” Tesla instead believes automated driving functions are built on visual recognition and is even working to remove the radar

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Nabla is building a healthcare super app for women

Meet Nabla, a French startup launching a new app today focused on women’s health. On Nabla, you’ll find several services that should all contribute to helping you stay on top of your health. In short,

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Biden announces second extension to Obamacare enrollment window

President Joe Biden announced Tuesday he would extend the special enrollment period for Americans to purchase Affordable Care Act health plans by three months, until Au

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PayFit raises $107 million for its payroll and HR platform

French startup PayFit has raised a $107 million series D funding round (€90 million). Eurazeo Growth and Bpifrance’s Large Venture fund are leading today’s round. Existing investors Accel, Frst and Xa

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Resilience is an ambitious bet to improve cancer treatment

Meet Resilience, a new startup that wants to help cancer treatment institutes as well as cancer patients at every step of the treatment journey. It’s an ambitious project founded by two well-known Fre

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Flourish, a startup that aims to help banks engage and retain customers, raises $1.5M

It’s not uncommon these days to hear of U.S.-based investors backing Latin American startups.But it’s not every day that we hear of Latin American VCs investing in U.S.-based startups.Berkeley-based f

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Investors say Belgium’s startups are poised for international expansion

We surveyed five investors from the Brussels, Belgium ecosystem, and overall the mood was upbeat.Investors are backing companies in smart living, life sciences (“a really promising sector for Belgium”

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Blobr, the ‘no-code’ company turning APIs into products, raises €1.2M pre-seed

Blobr, a Paris-based startup operating in the no-code space with tech to make it easier for companies to expose and monetise their existing APIs, has raised €1.2 million in pre-seed funding.The round

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California AG nominated to take over U.S. Health and Human Services

02:14 U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has picked California’s Attorney General Xavier Becerra to lead the​U.S. Department ofHealthand Human Services.Becerra has never held ahealthpolicy

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Biden team prepares push for COVID relief bill expected to cost trillions

President-elect Joe Biden's coronavirus economic relief package is expected to cost trillions, and on Tuesday, transition officials briefed Democratic congressional sta

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New Wave is a new European seed fund headed up by ex-Accel VC Pia d’Iribarne

Pia d’Iribarne, formerly of Accel and Stride, is heading up a new European early stage venture capital firm co-founded with French entrepreneur and investor Xavier Niel, TechCrunch has learned.Dubbed

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Turing nabs $32M more for an AI-based platform to source and manage engineers remotely

As remote work continues to solidify its place as a critical aspect of how businesses exist these days, a startup that has built a platform to help companies source and bring on one specific category

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Biden picks infectious diseases specialist to lead CDC: report

President-elect Joe Biden has chosen Dr. Rochelle Walensky, chief of infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital, to head the Centers for Disease Control and