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London’s Stride VC raised second $138.6M seed fund, hunts for third partner May 05, 2021

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Stride VC, a London-based seed investment fund, has raised its second fund, which will be £100M ($138.6M) – identical to its first fund. The fund will invest primarily in London startups but also look at select European opportunities.

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SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink satellites, claims over 500,000 service pre-orders so far May 05, 2021

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SpaceX has launched 60 more of its Starlink internet broadband satellites — on ‘Star Wars Day,’ no less, and only five days after it launched the last batch.

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Twitter expands Spaces to anyone with 600+ followers, details plans for tickets, reminders and more May 04, 2021

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Twitter Spaces, the company’s new live audio rooms feature, is opening up more broadly. The company announced today it’s making Twitter Spaces available to any account with 600 followers or more, including both iOS and Android users.

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Cloud infrastructure market keeps rolling in Q1 with almost $40B in revenue May 04, 2021

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Conventional wisdom over the last year has suggested that the pandemic has driven companies to the cloud much faster than they ever would have gone without that forcing event with some suggesting it has compressed years of transformation into months. This quarter’s cloud infrastructure revenue numbers appear to be proving that thesis correct.

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Facebook rolls out vaccine finder tool in India, donates $10 million May 03, 2021

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Facebook has announced a $10 million grant to support emergency response efforts in India and has rolled out its Vaccine Finder tool in the country as the South Asian nation grapples with the latest wave of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Basecamp sees mass employee exodus after CEO bans political discussions May 03, 2021

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Following a controversial ban on political discussions earlier this week, Basecamp employees are heading for the exits. The company employs around 60 people, and roughly a third of the company appears to have accepted buyouts to leave, many citing new company policies.

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Eclipse Ventures has $500 million more to digitize old-line industries and bring them up to speed Apr 30, 2021

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Two years ago, we talked with Lior Susan, the founder of now six-year-old Eclipse Ventures in Palo Alto, Ca. At the time, the outfit believed that the next big thing wasn’t another social network but instead the remaking of old-line industries through full tech stacks — including hardware, software and data — capable of bring […]

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Biden’s labor secretary thinks many gig workers should be reclassified as employees Apr 30, 2021

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Biden Labor Secretary Marty Walsh charged into the white hot issue of the gig economy Thursday, asserting that many people working without benefits in the gig economy should be classified as employees instead. In an interview with Reuters, Walsh said that the Department of Labor is “looking at” the gig economy, hinting that worker reclassification […]

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Google announces career and digital training initiative for formerly incarcerated individuals Apr 29, 2021

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Google today announced the launch of Grow with Google Career Readiness for Reentry. The initiative — created in partnership with nonprofits The Last Mile, Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO), Defy Ventures, Fortune Society and The Ladies of Hope Ministries — is designed to offer job readiness and digital skill training for formerly incarcerated individuals.

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Facebook hides posts calling for PM Modi’s resignation in India Apr 29, 2021

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Facebook has temporarily hidden all posts with hashtag “ResignModi” in India, days after the U.S. social juggernaut — along with Twitter — complied with an order from New Delhi to censor some posts critical of Indian government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

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