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When it comes to fintech plays, small and medium businesses are not often the target audience: they’re too small and fragmented compared to big-spending corporates; and they’re too demanding compared to mass-market consumer users. But as a sector, they account for over 99% of all businesses in developed countries like the UK and USA, and that…
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Last Monday a group of millionaires and billionaires took a trip to an industrial site in Lancaster, Calif. to witness the achievement of what could represent a giant leap forward in the effort to decarbonize some of the world’s most carbon intensive industries. For Bill Gross, the founder of Idealab and brains behind the excursion,…
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Tottenham are considering potential replacements for manager Mauricio Pochettino as they begin to prepare for their manager’s departure, according to reports. Pochettino’s future at White Hart Lane is in doubt following the team’s poor start to the season, with Spurs currently 14th in the Premier League and just six points above the bottom three. getty…
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Liverpool fan Callum Smith knows his 2020 Anfield dream could be over this weekend. Smith defends his WBA super-middleweight title against John Ryder at the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool on Saturday. Ed Mulholland/Matchroom Callum Smith is the WBA and Ring Magazine super-middleweight champion And a win over Ryder will keep ‘Mundo’ on course for…
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Noah Centineo is one smitten kitten — or at least according to his girlfriend, Alexis Ren. The model attended the 2019 Revolve Awards in Los Angeles on Friday night (November 15), and she couldn’t help but swoon over the actor, revealing that after “eight or nine months” together, they’re truly in love. “Yeah, I love…
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On Thursday (November 14), students at a high school just north of Los Angeles, California, were on lockdown. At least two students were killed and several others were injured when an armed classmate attacked Saugus High School in Santa Clarita. That same morning, Senators Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut were in Washington, D.C.,…
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CLOSE Ousted Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch provides chilling detail in Trump impeachment hearings of being suddenly ousted from her post and feeling threatened. As she spoke, the president tweeted that everywhere she served had “turned bad.” (Nov. 15) AP WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump only cares about the “big stuff that matters to him, like this Biden…
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CLOSE The Taliban captured Australian Timothy Weeks, left, and American Kevin King. (Photo: EPA-EFE) Two professors from the American University of Afghanistan, one of whom is a U.S. citizen, were released from Taliban captivity Tuesday as part of a prisoner exchange with the militant group previously announced by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. The two men – American Kevin King, 63, and…
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CLOSE House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff defended Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who testified to impeachment investigators on Tuesday. Schiff also said President Trump wants to punish the whistleblower first reported Trump’s phonecall. (Oct. 30) AP, AP WASHINGTON – Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a National Security Council expert on Ukraine, is scheduled to testify…
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Instagram is cracking down on an app that allowed users to look into private profiles without their permission. According to Android Police, the Facebook-owned photo-sharing network has confirmed that the app — named Ghosty — violates its terms. It also added it will be sending a cease and desist letter to the app makers “ordering them…
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