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As Allbirds goes public, sustainability is the mantra of the future Nov 04, 2021

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Allbirds started with a humble, natural wool shoe, but it is not merely an apparel company today. It has become a materials innovation company disrupting how clothes are made.

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Femtech startup illumigyn secures $33M to provide women with accessible and affordable medical care Nov 03, 2021

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According toÂ World Health Organization, cervical cancer, the fourth most common cancer among women, affected approximately 570,000 women and resulted in about 311,000 death in 2018.Â

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Facebook says it will delete facial recognition data on more than a billion users Nov 03, 2021

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Just days after rebranding itself, Facebook announced plans to delete a trove of the most worrisome data that the world’s biggest social network collected on more than a billion individuals.

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137 Ventures, which buys equity from private company shareholders, just raised a new fund Nov 02, 2021

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137 Ventures, a 10-year-old, San Francisco-based investment firm that mostly buys private company shares of founders, executives, early employees, and other large shareholders of private, high-growth tech companies, has closed its fifth fund with $350 million.

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Epic pulls plug on Fortnite in China Nov 02, 2021

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Epic Games announced today that its work to bring video game mega-title Fortnite to the Chinese market is shutting down. The company said in an official announcement that the long-running test of the popular shooter title in China will conclude on November 15th.

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Six-month-old Zepto, a 10-minute grocery delivery startup in India, raises $60 million Nov 01, 2021

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Two Stanford dropouts in their late teens, who have previously collaborated on a number of projects including a ride-hailing commute app for school kids, said on Sunday they have raised $60 million to disrupt India’s overcrowded and highly-competitive grocery delivery market.

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MIT’s CSAIL self-driving water taxis launched in the Amsterdam canals Nov 01, 2021

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Granted, there aren’t many cities where self-driving water taxis are a viable option, but Amsterdam may just be one of those places.

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Google and Jio’s smartphone with custom Android OS for India launches November 4 for $87 Oct 29, 2021

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Google and top Indian telecom network Jio Platforms said on Friday that their much-anticipated budget smartphone, JioPhone Next, will go on sale in the world’s second largest smartphone market on November 4 (to coincide with Big Indian festival of Diwali.)

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Facebook changes its corporate branding to Meta Oct 29, 2021

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Well, it’s official. After 17 years of being called Facebook, the social networking parent company behind Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus has a new name. Facebook’s corporate entity is now Meta. Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg announced the change at the company’s AR/VR-focused Connect event, sharing that the new title captured more of the company’s core […]

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N!CK’S grabs $100M to create better-for-you snacks Oct 28, 2021

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The new funding will accelerate the company’s goal of doubling its stores in the U.S. and Europe.

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