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Roboadvisor Betterment launches crypto offering with four themed portfolios Oct 13, 2022

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Betterment, a roboadvisory platform which manages over $33 billion in assets, has finally launched its crypto offering after completing a private beta phase.

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Moon set for November traffic jam as both ispace and NASA target launches Oct 12, 2022

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If all goes to plan, Florida’s Space Coast could see two separate lunar missions take off in November.

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OatFi secures capital to power BNPL services for SMBs Oct 12, 2022

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The buy now, pay later (BNPL) market was once seen as a bulletproof investment, given the meteoric rise of players like Klarna and Afterpay during the pandemic.

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Starship partners with Grubhub to bring sidewalk bots to colleges Oct 11, 2022

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Autonomous sidewalk delivery robot company Starship Technologies is partnering with food ordering and delivery company Grubhub to provide robotic delivery services on college campuses across the U.S.

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Samsung seeks smart TV growth with first Tizen OS licensing deals Oct 11, 2022

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Samsung has confirmed the first third-party smart TV makers to ship with its Tizen operating system (OS), with several manufacturers preparing to launch Tizen-powered TVs this year across Europe and Australasia.

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Google removes The OG App from the Play Store as founders think about next steps Oct 10, 2022

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Almost a week after Apple removed The OG App from the App Store, an Instagram client that promised to provide an ad-free and suggestion-free feed, Google followed the suit and booted the app off the Play Store.9

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Purple Elephant Ventures, Kenya’s tourism-focused startup studio, raises $1M pre-seed funding Oct 10, 2022

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A Kenya-based venture studio with a focus on tourism, Purple Elephant Ventures (PEV), has raised $1 million pre-seed funding to build the next generation of startups that use technology to modernize the tourism sector.

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Twitter nudges you to share the tweet instead of taking a screenshot Oct 07, 2022

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Screenshots of tweets are one of the most popular ways to share tweets with friends or post them on your other social media accounts.

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UK to probe Inmarsat and Viasat’s $7.3B merger on competition grounds, says it could lead to pricier in-flight Wi-FI Oct 07, 2022

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The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has announced that the proposed merger between London-based satellite communications company Inmarsat and its U.S. rival Viasat raises potential competition concerns, and plans to launch a full-scale investigation into the deal.

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Uber’s former security chief found guilty of covering up 2016 data breach Oct 06, 2022

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Uber’s former head of security has been found guilty of criminal obstruction for attempting cover up a data breach that saw tens of millions of customer and driver records stolen.

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