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The Yuan Joins an Elite Currency Club
ON OCTOBER 1st, the yuan joined the elite basket of currencies that together form the Special Dra...
(Infographic) The Race For AI : Google, Twitter, Intel, Apple In A...
Nearly half of the AI companies acquired since 2011 have had VC backing.Nearly 140 private compan...
(M&A) eBay’s Latest A.I. Acquisition (Corrigon) Highlights Growing...
eBay announced it was snapping up Israeli computer-vision company Corrigon, the ecommerce giant’...
Clearpath Robotics Raises $30M to Become a Tesla for The Factory Floor
Ontario tech firm Clearpath Robotics has raised $30 million in a Series B round of venture fundin...
Ollie Raises $4.4M to Become The Sprig of Dog Food
Chicken, peas, beef, sweet potatoes and blueberries, the stuff of $40 meals in places like Hayes...
(PDF) Stanford Lead in Graduating Funded Startup Founders
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Tesla's Next Big Delivery Can't Be Far Off
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Mainstream VCs’ Bigger Checks Drive Record AR/VR Investment
Another half a billion dollars was invested into virtual and augmented reality startups in the th...
(PDF) BCG - Global Payments 2016 : Competing in Open Seas
The world of payments remains in constant flux, reflecting an ongoing rebalancing of power among...
Tax Compliance Software Company Avalara Raises $96M
Death and taxes may be the only two certainties in life (according to Ben Franklin), but tax comp...
Blue Bottle Coffee is Raising Another Big Round of Funding
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Didi Chuxing Invests ‘Tens of Millions’ of Dollars in Chinese Bik...
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(PDF) Mckinsey - How Digital Finance Could Boost Growth in Emerging...
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(M&A) Apple is Reportedly in Talks to Buy British Luxury Carmaker,...
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(Video) Amazon’s Alexa Fund Leads $5.6M Round for Smart Home Start...
Amazon’s Alexa Fund led a $5.6 million funding round for Alexa-enabled home intercom system Nucl...
AllSet Raises $2.35M to Cut Your Restaurant Wait in Half
AllSet, an app that promises to cut restaurant wait time in half by allowing customers to book ta...
Beauty M&A Deals On Track For Another Annual High
UK-based Wahanda (now Treatwell) and Estee Lauder lead in industry acquisitions.Beauty brands, CP...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Finding The True Cost of Portfolio Complexity
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Funding To Restaurant Tech Startups Headed Toward Record Annual High
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It’s Becoming Clear That We Never Needed Another Seamless
Earlier this year, Grubhub’s future looked bleak.The parent company of Seamless, and America’s...
(Video) iStaging Raises $5M to Bring VR & AR to Furniture-Makers an...
Asian augmented reality (AR) / virtual reality (VR) startup iStaging has raised $5 million in a p...
(M&A) GE Buys Two 3D Printing Companies at $1.4 Billion
A Swedish and a German company join the fold to make industrial components.On Tuesday, General El...
(Infographic) The Future of Dining : 99 Startups Reinventing The Re...
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Wall Street’s Next Frontier Is Hacking Into Emotions of Traders
Startups wielding sensors and algorithms promise a new era of surveillance.[“Imagine if all your...
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Compass Earns $1 Billion Valuation As New Unicorns Become Rarer
New York-based real estate startup Compass Inc. raised new financing that values the company at m...
(PDF) BCG - The 2016 M&A Report : Masters of the Corporate Portfolio
Following a strong 2014, the year 2015 will go into the books as a record for global M&A deal...
Symphony Commerce Raises $11M to Help Brands Offer Faster Shipping
Symphony Commerce, a provider of cloud technology for e-commerce platforms, is raising $11 millio...
Climate Change is Making Oysters and Other Shellfish Dangerous to Eat
Oyster happy hours are going to be getting sadder in the coming years—and we probably have clima...
Customized Online Prescription Acne Treatment Provider Curology Rai...
David Lortscher was one of a few dozen people practicing dermatology in New Mexico when he realiz...
(M&A) Pfizer Spent $14 Billion on a Company with Just One Approved...
Pfizer just outbid numerous competitors for Medivation, a cancer drugmaker with just one approved...
