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Willem Marx / Bloomberg: Malta's status as Europe's online gambling capital is under threat after it was added to the global money laundering watchdog FATF's “gray list” in June — One spring night in 2007, Joseph Borg and several colleagues from Malta's tiny gaming commission stayed late at...

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Hamburg-based Taxdoo, which offers API-based tools for e-commerce tax and accounting, raises a $64M Series B led by Tiger Global, bringing total funding to $84M — With e-commerce becoming increasingly globalized, a company called Taxdoo, which builds API-based tools...

Henry Mance / Financial Times: Interview with Nick Clegg, Meta's VP of global affairs, on moving from politics to Meta, the impact of Haugen's leaks, and the decision to ban Trump — Nick Clegg may be available in Berlin. He has a slot in Paris. He'll make time for lunch in Brussels.

Investment from VC and PE into climate tech is booming, reaching $87.5bn over H2 2020 and H1 2021, with in excess of $60bn in the first half of 2021 alone, according to a new report from PWC. This is a 210% increase from the $28.4bn invested in the 12 months prior. Some 14¢ of every dollar of...

Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: Zoom joins the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, founded by Meta, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube to combat terrorist and extremist content — Video-conferencing platform Zoom has joined a counterterrorism organization formed by major U.S. tech companies...

For years, offline test preparation centers in Nigeria have provided after-school guidance and tutoring to students who seek to pass entrance examinations. Edtech platforms such as Edukoya have sprung up with the intent to take these models online and maintain affordability for students. Today...

There are millions of tenders and public sector contracts published every year by governments globally. The value of all this is estimated to be about $5 trillion, and is expected to reach $9 billion by 2025. And of course, the pandemic has super-charged the need for digitized government...

Some say that antivirus software that you install on your PC may have run its course when it comes to the next generation of computing in the cloud. Today a startup that has built what it believes comes next is making some news with a large funding round, its first outside money. Guardio —...

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Tel Aviv-based Guardio, which offers a cybersecurity browser extension used by 1M+, raises $47M led by Tiger Global — Some say that antivirus software that you install on your PC may have run its course when it comes to the next generation of computing in the cloud.

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Mesh Payments, which helps companies track employee expenses, raises a $50M Series B led by Tiger Global, bringing its total raised to $63M — Now that the world appears to have settled longer-term into working in a significantly more distributed way in the wake of...

Steven Borowiec / Rest of World: A look at South Korea's antitrust battles with local tech firms Kakao and Naver, as regulators balance protectionism with the companies' global ambitions — Seoul is reining in tech giants Kakao and Naver to save small business — but it might be too little, too...

Seamus Donoghue Contributor Seamus Donoghue is the VP of Strategic Alliances at METACO. Climate change is the issue of our time. From policymakers to the individual, every one of us has a responsibility to do our part to ensure that sustainability and green practices are implemented...

PMID: Phytother Res. 2021 Nov ;35(11):6428-6440. Epub 2021 Sep 27. PMID: 34580912 Abstract Title: Neuroprotective effect of wild lowbush blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium) on global cerebral ischemia/reperfusion injury in rats: Downregulation of iNOS/TNF-α and upregulation of miR-146a/miR-21...

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Robust Intelligence, which helps businesses stress test their AI models, raises a $30M Series B led by Tiger Global — Robust Intelligence, an AI startup that helps businesses stress test their AI models and prevent them from failing, today announced that it has...

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Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer: Amazon says it will shut down Alexa.com, its global website ranking system, on May 1, 2022, after 25 years of operation — Amazon announced on Wednesday plans to shut down its global website ranking system and competitor analysis tool “Alexa.com”, which has...

Financial Times: Blackstone and others are trying to shake up the $40T global corporate bond market with computer-driven quant trading that already reshaped the stock market — Corporate credit has been largely untouched by computer-driven trading, but some investors are trying to change that

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Easol, which offers event management tools, raises a $25M Series A led by Tiger Global — The gradual return of tourism and travel in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic continues to see a wave of startups raising rounds of funding to meet new opportunities in the market.

Christine Hall / TechCrunch: Circle, a community platform where creators can manage content and memberships, raises a $24.7M Series A led by Tiger Global at a $200M post-money valuation — Having a thriving community is the backbone for creators, but when the global pandemic hit, brands also...

Having a thriving community is the backbone for creators, but when the global pandemic hit, brands also found that they needed similar engagement with customers that were now interacting with their products online. Circle is working to make those engagements effortless by building a community...