Monthly Archives: March 2021

Google backs one-year-old Indian startup DotPe in $27.5 million fundraise

Google’s latest investment in India is a startup that is helping businesses come online. One-year-old DotPe, a Gurgaon-based startup, said on Friday it has raised $27.5 million in its Series A financing round. The round was led by PayU, with participation from existing investor Info Edge Ventures and Google. The young startup, now valued at about $90 million, helps brick and mortar stores sell to customers online and collect payments digitally. It’s a problem that scores of startups in… Source link

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How to trade the Suez Canal cargo ship blockage: Morning Brief

  Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Friday, March 26, 2021 JPMorgan suggests a trade to hedge against a worst case scenario Images of the massive 400 meter-long container ship Ever Green running aground and blocking the Suez Canal are stunning. And the world is quickly learning how crucial that chokepoint is to global trade. “The immediate impact of delays in the canal will center on European-Asian trade, adding delays to already… Source link

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One year since President Trump signed CARES Act into law

The Daily Beast Health-Care Workers Are Bragging on TikTok About Forging Vax Cards Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastBefore she wiped her page on Tuesday, TikTok user hann.brooke95 hadn’t been shy about sharing even the most mundane details of her life with her 19,400 followers.She posted TikToks of herself cooking while breastfeeding, the can of beans she was using for nachos and even the painstaking process of transferring her license as a pharmacy tech from Florida to… Source link

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Google’s unusual move to shut down an active counterterrorism operation being conducted by a Western democracy

But Western operations are recognizable, according to one former senior US intelligence official. “There are certain hallmarks in Western operations that are not present in other entities … you can see it translate down into the code,” said the former official, who is not authorized to comment on operations and spoke on condition of anonymity. “And this is where I think one of the key ethical dimensions comes in. How one treats intelligence activity or law enforcement activity… Source link

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Alibaba, Amazon, Palantir, Google, Takeda, Unity — What Cathie Wood’s Ark Bought And Sold On Thursday

Cathie Wood’s Ark Investment Management sends out an email every night listing the stocks that were bought or sold by the firm’s ETFs that day. In recent months, the emails have known to cause certain stocks to see a spike in the after-hours session. Here’s a list of 39 stocks that the hedge fund bought and sold on Thursday. Trades For Ark Fintech Innovation ETF (NYSE: ARKF): Opendoor Technologies Inc (NASDAQ: OPEN): Bought 468,600 shares of the online real estate company, representing… Source link

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Bitcoin Has Dropped To Below $51,000 And Analyst Says Further Downside On The Horizon

Bloomberg Retail Trader Army Is Signaling Retreat on Latest Stimulus Wave (Bloomberg) — From bullish options to basketball trading cards, the multibillion-dollar retail frenzy is showing signs of fading.Just as $1,400 stimulus checks arrive all across the U.S., day-trader favorites are losing steam, stirring speculation that the army of individual investors who disrupted markets over the past year have opted to spend the cash on plane tickets and restaurants rather than their trading… Source link

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Yahoo DFS Basketball: Friday Picks

A busy trade deadline Thursday makes for an interesting DFS slate Friday. Not only are there 11 games, but we could see some limited depth charts as recently traded players might not yet be eligible to play. Let’s discuss some players to consider while working your way through the options, and some to possibly avoid. GUARDS Trae Young, ATL at GS ($39): The shorthanded Warriors are coming off a loss to the Kings on Thursday where they allowed De’Aaron Fox to score 44 of the Kings’ 141 points…. Source link

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Phil Jackson talks Knicks, Carmelo Anthony

Phil Jackson is nearly four years removed from his failed tenure as president of the New York Knicks. It appears he has a long list of people to blame for that failure. The former Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers coach opened up about his time at Madison Square Garden in an episode of “The Curious Leader” podcast, hosted by Coby Karl, one of Jackson’s former Lakers players and the son of George Karl. The one-hour, 43-minute podcast touched on a number of topics, with the discussions… Source link

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