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Pimcore closes $3.5M for its open-source data platform to expand in the US
Pimcore, an open-source platform for data and customer experience management which has emerged out of Austria, has closed $3.5 million…
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Goldex raises $1M for its marketplace app for ‘ethical’ physical gold trading
Goldex, a trading app that claims to power so-called “ethical pricing” for retail gold investments, says it has now raised…
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Robinhood lacked proper insurance so will change checking & savings feature
Robinhood will rename and revamp its upcoming checking and banking features after encountering problems with its insurance. The company published…
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Facebook open-sources PyText NLP framework
Facebook AI Research is open-sourcing some of the conversational AI tech it is using to power its Portal video chat…
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GE’s digital future looking murkier with move to spin off Industrial IoT biz
When I visited the GE Global Research Center in Niskayuna, New York in April 2017, I thought I saw a company…
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Last call for Polish pitch-offs
I’m heading back to Europe to hang out in Wroclaw and Warsaw so it’s last call for pitch-off applications. I’ll…
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Waggel launches ‘fully digital’ pet insurance
Waggel, a new ‘insurtech’ startup in the U.K., is officially launching today to offer what it describes as “fully digital”…
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Africa Roundup: Terragon’s Asia acquisition, Twiga Foods’ $10M raise, SimbaPay’s China payment service
Nigerian consumer data analytics firm Terragon Group acquired Asian mobile marketing company Bizense in a cash and stock deal. The price of the acquisition…
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Some things Jack Dorsey didn’t mention in his Myanmar meditation travelogue
Twitter co-founder and chief executive officer Jack Dorsey recently went on a birthday trip to Myanmar. As Dorsey recounted in…
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Alibaba Group takes majority control of loss-making movie unit Alibaba Pictures with $160M share purchase
Alibaba Group announced today that it will increase its stake in Alibaba Pictures from 49% to 50.92%, making it the…
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