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Entrepreneurs and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) often struggle to deal with several siloed functions, such as company secretary, bookkeeping, banking, tax, payroll, employment services, insurance and more. French entrepreneurs Julien Labruyere and Adrien Barthel founded Sleek in 2017 to help entrepreneurs incorporate and operate businesses in Singapore and Hong Kong. The startup built a […]... →

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Lucid Group completed its first quarter as a public company with a booming stock price and customer deliveries underway, as it seeks to grab the top spot in the burgeoning luxury EV market. The company has come a long way since its founding as Atieva in 2007. After shifting its focus from EV battery and […]... →

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Новый виток вводимых ограничений ведет к кратному росту числа клиентов в онлайн-ритейле. Для того, чтобы справиться с растущими объемами, компании e-commerce сегмента массово внедряют различные проекты по автоматизации привычных процессов.  Одним из таких все чаще становится внедрение Transportation Management system (TMS) — это общее название для технологий, которые позволяют автоматизировать управление таксопарком компании и дают возможность компании масштабироваться за счёт оптимизации грузоперевозок.  П... →

Canoo, the electric automaker that became a publicly traded company last year, is expanding its U.S. footprint with plans to establish its headquarters and another facility in Bentonville, Arkansas — a city most famously connected with Walmart. Canoo also announced Panasonic as its battery supplier and other expansion plans during its third-quarter earnings call Monday, […]... →

Today after the bell, scooter-sharing company Bird disclosed its third-quarter earnings, the first time it has done so as a public company. Bird recently merged with a SPAC, bringing cash and public-status to the formerly private unicorn. In the third quarter, Bird’s revenues missed expectations, but given an expanded global footprint and an expectation that […]... →

Страховщики провели необычное исследование и выяснили, автомобили каких цветов угоняют чаще всего. Самым непривлекательным для угонщиков цветом является красный, а белые авто, наоборот, угоняют в разы чаще других.... →

If you run marketing for an early-stage startup, these growth experts have some advice for how you can get the most value out of your meager budget.... →

Rocket Lab is continuing its acquisition strategy, this time with a cash and stock deal with Planetary Systems Corporation. The news was announced ahead of the company’s third quarter earnings. Rocket Lab said it would purchase the company for $42 million in cash, plus 1,720,841 in shares of common stock, with the potential for additional […]... →

Mark Cuban’s Fireside, an audio platform that is helping creators share their stories with audiences through live, interactive and virtual shows, is in advanced stages to close a “seed+” round, two sources familiar with the matter told me. The financing round has already received commitment from investors such as The Chainsmokers, HBSE, Goodwater, Animal Capital […]... →

As the crypto market continues to push towards new heights, investors are finding heightened LP appetite for exposure to the space, leading to new venture funds that are huge — even by 2021 standards. Paradigm, a crypto VC firm founded in 2018 by Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam and former Sequoia Capital partner Matt Huang, has […]... →

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French startup Lifen has raised a $58 million (€50 million) funding round. The startup has been working on digital infrastructure for the healthcare industry, starting with medical reports. 600 healthcare facilities are using the product to send and receive medical documents. And each customer is using Lifen intensively as it represents 2 million medical documents […]... →

Berlin-based Tier Mobility, one of the largest e-scooter operators in Europe, has just acquired German bikesharing platform Nextbike. The move signals Tier’s commitment to the same multi-modal approach that competitors like Lime and Voi have followed to take advantage of market share. It’s also the latest big acquisition in the micromobility industry that might herald […]... →

Peloton has filed fresh lawsuits against two of its rivals, iFit and Echelon. It alleges that the companies are violating up to four patents it holds related to on-demand classes.... →

Twitter is updating its web platform to change the way users see new tweets. The social media giant will no longer automatically refresh timelines on the web with new tweets, and users can now decide when they want to load new tweets. Twitter acknowledged that in the past, tweets would often disappear from view mid-read […]... →

The latest pair of e-readers from Kobo provide a modest but noticeable upgrade to the display, stylus support, and Bluetooth for listening to audiobooks, but take a step down in build quality from the admirable Forma. But the new capabilities may be worth the upgrade, and the Libra 2 especially makes for an attractive little […]... →

Mitra Future Technologies, also known as Mitra Chem, has raised a $20 million Series A led by billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya’s Social Capital Holdings. The startup aims to boost the North American battery supply chain industry that’s currently dominated by China, by producing an iron-based cathode for non-Chinese applications. Taiwanese billionaire Richard Tsai, Fontinalis Partners, […]... →

Once upon a time, I used to write TechCrunch’s travelers gift guide. It was fun and people liked it. People love travel gadgets! Of course, the events of last year left many of us grounded for an extended period, so we shifted to a remote work gift guide – assuming that, by 2021, we’d be back to traveling.... →