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• Mixlab Adds To Veterinary Pharmacy Footprint Following $10M Series A Extension

  by Josphat . August 14, 2023
  The global pandemic showed most of us how easy it was to get items delivered to our homes, and that expanded into anything we needed for our pets, too. And as more pets find homes, with it grows the global pet care industry, now expected to reach $368 billion by 2030, and so grows the need for...

• Altos Challenges Lidar’s Dominance In Autonomous Driving With 4D Image Radar

  by Josphat . August 14, 2023
  As lidar technology becomes the industry standard in powering autonomous vehicles, a young startup called Altos Radar is stepping up to challenge the light-based remote sensing technology with 4D millimeter wave radar. Based in California and founded in January, Altos Radar recently raise...

• CoinDesk To Cut Staffing Ahead Of Potential Sale

  by Josphat . August 14, 2023
  CoinDesk, a crypto media business owned by Digital Currency Group, is reducing its workforce according to an internal email viewed by TechCrunch. “…several roles, predominantly in our media team, were impacted by a reduction in force,” Kevin Worth, CEO of CoinDesk wrote in the no...

• PayPal Announces Senior Intuit Exec Alex Chriss As New CEO

  by Josphat . August 14, 2023
  PayPal is gaining a new CEO, the payments giant announced this morning. Effective September 27, 2023, senior Intuit executive Alex Chriss will become PayPal’s President and CEO, replacing current CEO Dan Schulman, members of PayPal’s board shared this morning in a press release...

• Mastercard To Purchase A Minority Stake In MTN’s $5.2B Fintech Business

  by Josphat . August 14, 2023
  Mastercard has agreed to purchase a minority stake in the fintech division of MTN Group, Africa’s largest cellphone provider, which it values at $5.2 billion. The signing of the formal investment agreements will likely occur very soon as both parties near the end of the regular due diligence p...

• Iraq Lifts Ban On Telegram After Messaging App Complies With Authorities

  by Josphat . August 14, 2023
  Iraq’s telecom ministry lifted the ban on Telegram over the weekend, days after the agency blocked the chat app over security concerns. The ministry said it lifted the ban because of the “response of the company that owns the application to the requirements of the security authorities,&...

• India’s Local Manufacturing Push Spurs 2 Billion Mobile Unit Shipments

  by Josphat . August 14, 2023
  India’s ambitious push for self-sufficiency in mobile phone assembling is yielding results. India shipped 2 billion domestically assembled smartphones and feature phones between 2014 to 2022 as part of its Make in India initiative, according to a new research, as the world’s se...

• AI Startup Anthropic Raises $100M From Korean Telco Giant SK Telecom

  by Josphat . August 14, 2023
  Anthropic, an artificial intelligence startup co-founded by former OpenAI leaders, will receive $100 million in funding from one of the biggest mobile carriers in South Korea, SK Telecom (SKT), the telco company announced on Sunday.   The funding news comes three months after An...

• The Space Industry Is Starting A Green Revolution

  by Josphat . August 14, 2023
  Rocket launches are nothing short of spectacular. Whether we grew up in the Apollo era, the space shuttle era or the private space era, most of us can easily bring to mind a rocket launch with the roar of its engines, jets of fire and trails of smoke. That image is burned into the consciousness of n...

• Bugs In Transportation App Moovit Gave Hackers Free Rides

  by Josphat . August 14, 2023
  Hackers could have hijacked the user accounts of a popular transportation app and used them to get free rides and access people’s personal information, according to a security researcher. Omer Attias, a security researcher at SafeBreach, said he found three vulnerabilities in the Moovit app, ...

• Neymar Could Receive £130 Million Lump Sum The Moment He Joins Al Hilal As Stunning Contract Clause Revealed

  by Josphat . August 14, 2023
  Neymar could receive a whopping £130 million payment as soon as he joins Al Hilal due to a secret clause. On Sunday it emerged that the Brazilian had reached an agreement to become the next high-profile addition to the Saudi Pro League, joining the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim...

• FPL Site Shows What Team Premier League Players Have Picked Each Week, It's Fascinating

  by Josphat . August 14, 2023
  A website with a ton of Fantasy Premier League content has discovered how a number of top flight players lined-up on Gameweek 1. The guys over at FPL.page are giving Fantasy managers a heads up when it comes to data around bonus points, injury news and price changes; not to mention ...