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Do Ventures launches $50 million fund for Vietnamese startups, backed by Naver, Vertex and other notable LPs

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Vy Le and Dzung Nguyen, the founders and general partners of Do Ventures, an investment firm focused on early-stage Vietnamese ...

Revolut launches its financial app in Japan

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Fintech startup Revolut is expanding to Japan. After testing the service with 10,000 users, anybody can now sign up and ...

Dutch payments startup Mollie raises $106M at $1B+ valuation

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E-commerce has seen a huge jump in the last eight months, driven by consumers shopping more for goods online while ...

The Station: Yandex spins out self-driving biz, Ike takes the SaaS road and a solid-state battery startup strikes SPAC

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The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to ...

The Shed is a startup out of Virginia trying to revive the rental-for-everything business

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Reducing consumption by expanding the notion of the rental economy and giving people access to tools and equipment has been ...

Google Maps continues to stay a step ahead of the crowd

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uses historical traffic data with Google Maps to help it produce an estimated time of arrival (ETA). This allows a ...

Verizon vs AT&T vs T-Mobile vs Sprint: new 5G and 4G LTE speed tests yield two big winners

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With the coronavirus pandemic raging across the US for what feels like an eternity now, you can probably imagine how ...

How Montreal-Based Model Djamilla Toure is Amplifying the Voices of the African Diaspora

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At the age of seven, Djamilla Toure learned what it’s like to be “the other.” She and her family had ...

Chanel is Expanding Its Boy de Chanel Collection Next Month

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Men wearing makeup shouldn’t be considered a novelty, yet makeup collections designed with dudes top of mind still feel like ...

Prince Harry repays chunk of cash for British home reno

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Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle have repaid £2.4 million ($4.3 million) in public money used to refurbish a ...

Royal date night: The Queen turns Sandringham Estate into a drive-in

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Have you ever felt like a date to the drive-in cinema was so luxurious and regal that the Queen of ...

No daggy Zoom calls: How the Emmys will bring us a touch of glamour

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The Emmys are right around the corner, giving fans mourning the postponement of many of this year’s awards ceremonies something ...

Italian lockdown musical stars rewarded with Monza F1 slot

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They captured hearts around the world and on social media during lockdown, and now a group of musicians who kept ...

Victoria has recorded 55 new coronavirus cases and eight deaths

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Victoria has recorded 55 new coronavirus cases and eight deaths in the past 24 hours, as Premier Daniel Andrews says ...

World must be better prepared for next pandemic: WHO

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World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the world must be better prepared for the next pandemic, as he ...

Spain just passed 500,000 coronavirus cases in Western European first

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In response to the rise in cases, mandatory and recommended confinement measures have been introduced in some areas in Spain. ...

Donald Trump slams Kamala Harris over ‘reckless anti-vaccine rhetoric’

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Donald Trump has blasted Kamala Harris over her remarks that she would not trust his word on the safety of ...

Dengue control: three-year Indonesia trial shows promising results

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<p></p><p>A three-year trial in Indonesia has produced encouraging results that show a significant reduction in the number of dengue cases. ...

Malaria and COVID-19: country perspectives

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How have country-based malaria experts adapted to the double challenge of malaria and COVID-19? What successes have they achieved, and ...

Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality online consultation for coverage targets for Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality

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Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality (EPMM) is a global initiative with the ultimate goal of ending preventable maternal mortality to support ...

Victoria records 55 new infections

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Daily coronavirus infections in Victoria have increased again after falling for four straight days with 55 new cases recorded overnight. ...

Victoria and David Beckham get COVID after ‘partying’

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David and Victoria Beckham caught COVID-19 along with several relatives and staff and reportedly feared they were “superspreaders” as they ...

What Victorians are loading up on at Aldi

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EXCLUSIVE: Melbourne’s CBD, Frankston and Ballarat are obsessed with paw paw ointment while St Kilda’s hipsters are indulging in salmon ...

Shorten‘s swipe at PM over Vic comments

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Former Labor leader Bill Shorten has taken a swipe at Scott Morrison over his reaction to Victoria’s roadmap out of ...

Prisoner warns COVID-19 ‘criminals’ to obey rules

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A prisoner jailed over a high-speed crash while high on drugs has urged young Victorians to obey lockdown orders or ...