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Food delivery service Deliveroo is making headway in its Asian expansion strategy. The London-based company announced today that it will launch in Taiwan in the coming weeks, starting with Taipei, the countrycapital, before heading to other cities. This marks Deliveroo fourth market in the Asia-Pacific region (the others are

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Roy Raymond opened a little store called VictoriaSecret, now one of the most popular lingerie businesses in the world, because he was embarrassed to buy lingerie for his wife in department stores.

The brand was founded on the premise that men needed a safe space to buy lingerie for women and women needed a larger variety of sexy, angelic

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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have created a method to turn one video into the style of another. While this might be a little unclear at first, take a look at the video below. In it, the researchers have taken an entire clip from John Oliver and made it look like Stephen Colbert said it. Further, they were able to mimic the motion of

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A stablecoin is a cryptocurrency pegged 1-to-1 with another &stable& currency. In most cases, these coins are pegged to the US dollar and, as such, allow for true transfers of actual fiat currencies between parties using the blockchain. If you&re nodding off right now thinking about this, I would posit that these moves, however

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Meet Paysendglobal account, a new way to hold, spend and send money in multiple currencies using a mobile app and a card. It looks a lot like Revolutbasic features. But the company is trying to provide a more focused and robust experience from day one.

&We are quite different from both a technical infrastructure and consumer

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U.S. tech companies continue to be the most active acquirers in the world, says a new report from Crunchbase andMind the Bridge.

The pair crunched data on 22,000 startup exits since 2010, recording about 4,200 so far this year. U.S. companies, though less active this year than last, have acquired approximately 2x more startups than

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  1. TiDB developer PingCAP wants to expand in North America after raising $50M Series C
  2. Instacart brings on Mark Schaaf as Chief Technology Officer
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