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The public's phobia of touching cash amid COVID-19 could help SoftBank popularize mobile payments in cash-addicted Japan; SoftBank has invested $1B+ in PayPay (Wataru Suzuki/Nikkei Asian Review)

Wataru Suzuki / Nikkei Asian Review: The public’s phobia of touching cash amid COVID-19 could help SoftBank popularize mobile payments in cash-addicted Japan; SoftBank has invested $1B+ in PayPay  —  Masayoshi Son zeros in on Japan, where he is ready to lose billions in a battle to conquer cash The public's phobia of touching cash

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Franchised esports leagues have allowed players to become full-time employees but critics say game publishers like Activision have too much power over players (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Wired)

Cecilia D’Anastasio / Wired: Franchised esports leagues have allowed players to become full-time employees but critics say game publishers like Activision have too much power over players  —  Franchised leagues are a modern experiment in what happens when a marketing initiative becomes a billion-dollar industry. Franchised esports leagues have allowed players to become full-time employees

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Paris-based insurance tech startup Descartes Underwriting, specializing in climate risk modeling and transfer, raises $18.5M Series A to expand in US and Asia (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Paris-based insurance tech startup Descartes Underwriting, specializing in climate risk modeling and transfer, raises $18.5M Series A to expand in US and Asia  —  Descartes Underwriting, an insurance tech company specializing in climate risk modeling and transfer, today announced it has raised $18.5 million. Paris-based insurance tech startup Descartes Underwriting, specializing

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Vancouver-based Klue, which develops AI-powered software aimed at giving enterprises better insights into their competitors, raises $15M Series A (Isabelle Kirkwood/BetaKit)

Isabelle Kirkwood / BetaKit: Vancouver-based Klue, which develops AI-powered software aimed at giving enterprises better insights into their competitors, raises $15M Series A  —  Vancouver-based artificial intelligence startup Klue, which has developed software aimed to give enterprises a better view of their competitors … Vancouver-based Klue, which develops AI-powered software aimed at giving enterprises better

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Ubicquia, which helps cities provide services such as public WiFi through connected streetlights, raises $30M Series C, claims its tools are used in 100+ cities (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)

{$inline_image} Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: Ubicquia, which helps cities provide services such as public WiFi through connected streetlights, raises $30M Series C, claims its tools are used in 100+ cities  —  Ubicquia is helping keep the streetlights on in cities across the country, and its smart cell and smart grid technologies have investors taking

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Ubicquia, which helps cities provide services such as public WiFi through connected streetlights, raises $30M Series C, claims its tools are used in 100+ cities (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)

Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: Ubicquia, which helps cities provide services such as public WiFi through connected streetlights, raises $30M Series C, claims its tools are used in 100+ cities  —  Ubicquia is helping keep the streetlights on in cities across the country, and its smart cell and smart grid technologies have investors taking notice.

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Several H-1B employees hired at TikTok's Silicon Valley campus are facing visa approval delays that, legal experts say, are unusual (Wendy Lee/Los Angeles Times)

Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times: Several H-1B employees hired at TikTok’s Silicon Valley campus are facing visa approval delays that, legal experts say, are unusual  —  The hits to California’s TikTok workers just keep coming: First, the Trump administration threatened to shutter the company’s U.S. operations; then its CEO quit after just three months

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IT service company Virtusa to be acquired by Baring Private Equity Asia in an all-cash deal worth about $2B (Joseph F. Kovar/CRN)

Joseph F. Kovar / CRN: IT service company Virtusa to be acquired by Baring Private Equity Asia in an all-cash deal worth about $2B  —  The large global IT services provider will join several other global IT solution providers that are partially or wholly owned by Baring Private Equity Asia. IT service company Virtusa to

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Toy O-Scope is Dope

Not many of our childhood doll and action figure’s accessories revolved around lab equipment except maybe an Erlenmeyer flask if they were a “scientist.” No, they tended to be toasters, vehicles, and guns. When we were young, our heroes made food, drove sexy automobiles, and fought bad guys. Now that we’re older, some of our

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