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For SaaS startups, differentiation is an iterative process

Software as a service has been thriving as a sector for years, but it has gone into overdrive in the past year as businesses responded to the pandemic by speeding up the migration of important functio

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Architect Capital brings alternative capital to the early stage with new $100M fund

Early-stage startups are increasingly looking for alternative ways to access capital, meaning not every company wants to raise money from VCs or take on debt.In recent years, a flurry of startups have

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China again urges Japan to revoke decision to dump nuclear wastewater

Huge tanks that store radioactive wastewater in Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima, Japan, October 12, 2017. /Xinhua China once again urges Japan to revoke its decision to disc

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Israel, Egypt talk truce with Hamas, rebuilding Gaza Strip

Egypt and Israel are holding high-level talks in both countries Sunday to shore up a fragile truce between Israel and the Hamas militant group, and rebuild the Gaza Str

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Pakistani FM meets Iraqi leaders in Baghdad to boost bilateral ties

Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi during an interview at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Islamabad, Pakistan, March 1, 2020. /Reuters Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood

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Rwanda, Egypt seek to enhance military cooperation

Rwanda and Egypt have been working on ways to strengthen bilateral ties and further mutual interests in economy and trade, as well as defence and security. /Xinhua The Chief of Staff of the Eg

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Parametrix Insurance raises $17.5 million to offer cloud downtime insurance

Insurtech is picking up steam in a big way, but startup Parametrix thinks there is still plenty of room left to innovate. The company, which today announced the close of a $17.5 million funding round,

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Hyundai is launching in-car payments in the all-electric Ioniq 5

Hyundai developed an in-car payment system that will debut in its upcoming all-electric Ioniq 5 crossover that will offer drivers the ability to find and pay for EV charging, food and parking — the la

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Exhibitions to mark one year George Floyd anniversary

02:43 Thetrauma of GeorgeFloyd'sdeatha year agomanifested itself in many ways in Minneapolis.Thousands took to the streetsto protest the murder of an unarmed Black man by a White police

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Snap emphasizes commerce in updates to its camera and AR platforms

At Snap’s Partner Summit, the company announced a number of updates to the company’s developer tools and AR-focused Lens Studio including several focused on bringing shopping deeper into t

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'Eco awakening' as WWF report shows surge in environmental concern

The slow loris, a protected species, being reintroduced into the wild. /CFP The number of people concerned with the environment has "dramatically increased" in the past five years, according t

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Bessemer’s Tess Hatch will join us as a judge at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021

Tess Hatch, vice president and partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, will join us at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 as a judge for our Startup Battlefield competition. By the way startups, you can still appl

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Software subscriptions are eating the world: Solving billing and cash flow woes simultaneously

Although recurring revenue businesses have been around for a long time, the trend toward a subscription economy has escalated rapidly in the last few years. IDC expects that by 2022, 53% of all softwa

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Capturing the ages

Part of a Song Dynasty (960-1279) monochrome facsimile of the Admonitions Scroll offers a good view of the original fourth-century masterpiece by Gu Kaizhi.[Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily] A p

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The truth about SDK integrations and their impact on developers

The digital media industry often talks about how much influence, dominance and power entities like Google and Facebook have. Generally, the focus is on the vast troves of data and audience reach these

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Facebook is testing pop-up messages telling people to read a link before they share it

Years after popping open a pandora’s box of bad behavior, social media companies are trying to figure out subtle ways to reshape how people use their platforms.Following Twitter’s lead, Fa

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Royal Mail to trial drones to deliver items from mainland UK to Isles of Scilly

If the trial succeeds, the technology could be used to support postal workers in delivering to remote areas in the UK.