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As Verizon sells off MapQuest for a pittance, a look at the long, slow decline of the once dominant online mapping site which AOL bought for $1.1B in 2000 (Greg Sterling/Search Engine Land)

Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: As Verizon sells off MapQuest for a pittance, a look at the long, slow decline of the once dominant online mapping site which AOL bought for $1.1B in 2000  —  Once the dominant mapping site, the decline of Mapquest is a story of disruptive competition and corporate complacency. As

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Edify Labs, which provides software to manage customer engagement and cross-team collaboration, raises $10M seed led by First Round Capital (FinSMEs)

FinSMEs: Edify Labs, which provides software to manage customer engagement and cross-team collaboration, raises $10M seed led by First Round Capital  —  Edify Labs, a Carmel, Indiana-based provider of a software platform for businesses to manage customer engagement and cross-team collaboration, closed a $10m seed funding. Edify Labs, which provides software to manage customer engagement

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Cybersecurity startup Kenna Security raises $48M Series D led by Sorenson Capital and Citi Ventures, bringing total raised to ~$98M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Cybersecurity startup Kenna Security raises $48M Series D led by Sorenson Capital and Citi Ventures, bringing total raised to ~$98M  —  Risk-based vulnerability cybersecurity startup Kenna Security Inc. today said it has raised $48 million in new funding to accelerate its international expansion and drive product development. Cybersecurity startup Kenna Security

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Geospatial tech startup SenSat, which uses AI to create digital representations of real-world locations, raises $10M Series A led by Tencent (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Geospatial tech startup SenSat, which uses AI to create digital representations of real-world locations, raises $10M Series A led by Tencent  —  SenSat, a geospatial technology startup that digitizes real-world places for infrastructure projects, has raised $10 million in a series A round … Geospatial tech startup SenSat, which uses AI

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France-based AnotherBrain, developer of AI software that costs less and uses less energy by not relying on big data sets, raises €19M Series A (Natalie Novick/Tech.eu)

Natalie Novick / Tech.eu: France-based AnotherBrain, developer of AI software that costs less and uses less energy by not relying on big data sets, raises €19M Series A  —  Deep learning company AnotherBrain has announced the first closing of their Series A, to the tune of €19 million. France-based AnotherBrain, developer of AI software that

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Spain-based payments startup Bnext raises $25M Series A, plans to expand to Mexico later this year (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: Spain-based payments startup Bnext raises $25M Series A, plans to expand to Mexico later this year  —  Fintech startup Bnext has raised a $25 million funding round.  The Spanish company is building a banking product and has managed to attract 300,000 active users. Spain-based payments startup Bnext raises M Series A,

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A look at the history of open source as the big VC raises and multi-billion dollar exits for open source software startups become the norm (Andreessen Horowitz)

Andreessen Horowitz: A look at the history of open source as the big VC raises and multi-billion dollar exits for open source software startups become the norm  —  Editor’s Note: The open source software (OSS) movement has created some of our most important and widely used technologies, including operating systems, web browsers, and databases. A

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How China is using social media and films to stir patriotism and get communist party propaganda enthusiastically embraced by young people (Li Yuan/New York Times)

Li Yuan / New York Times: How China is using social media and films to stir patriotism and get communist party propaganda enthusiastically embraced by young people  —  Leveraging celebrities, the know-how of tech companies and images built for social media, the Communist Party can effectively stir patriotism among the youth. How China is using

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