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Any consumer product that has a social component baked in has fundamental and asymmetric advantages over competing non-social products in that category (D'Arcy Coolican/Andreessen Horowitz)

D’Arcy Coolican / Andreessen Horowitz: Any consumer product that has a social component baked in has fundamental and asymmetric advantages over competing non-social products in that category  —  Social Strikes Back is a series exploring the next generation of social networks and how they’re shaping the future of consumer tech. Any consumer product that has

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Atomico report: European tech startups are on track to receive a record $41B in VC funding in 2020, driven by fintech and SaaS startups (Sifted)

Sifted: Atomico report: European tech startups are on track to receive a record $41B in VC funding in 2020, driven by fintech and SaaS startups  —  Despite the upheavals and uncertainties, 2020 is on track to be a record year for the amount of capital invested into European tech. Atomico report: European tech startups are

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Unit, whose API helps companies integrate banking services like payment cards and checking accounts, emerges from stealth with $18.6M in funding (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Unit, whose API helps companies integrate banking services like payment cards and checking accounts, emerges from stealth with $18.6M in funding  —  Companies like Stripe and Twilio have changed the game for online businesses by making it easier to integrate payments and communications services … Unit, whose API helps companies integrate

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Printed Circuits, 1940s Style

A presentation this month by the Antique Wireless Museum brought British engineer and inventor John Sargrove (1906-1974) to our attention. If you’ve ever peeked inside old electronics from days gone by, you’ve no doubt seen point-to-point wiring and turret board construction. In the 60s and 70s these techniques eventually made way for printed circuit boards which

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Swedish startup GetAccept, whose B2B sales software helps companies close deals remotely, has raised $20M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)

Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: Swedish startup GetAccept, whose B2B sales software helps companies close deals remotely, has raised $20M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners  —  GetAccept aims to help small and medium-sized businesses close more sales, starting with automating sales enablement and engagement … Swedish startup GetAccept, whose B2B sales software helps

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Supply chain and logistics cloud software startup Stord has raised $31M Series B at a ~$200M valuation led by Founders Fund, bringing its total funding to $46M (Amy Feldman/Forbes)

Amy Feldman / Forbes: Supply chain and logistics cloud software startup Stord has raised $31M Series B at a ~$200M valuation led by Founders Fund, bringing its total funding to $46M  —  Sean Henry, 24, and Jacob Boudreau, 22, founded flexible warehousing startup Stord while in college at Georgia Tech in 2015. Supply chain and

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A proposed Australian bill to force Google and Facebook to pay publishers for news now recognizes the monetary value of traffic that platforms send publishers (Angus Whitley/Bloomberg)

Angus Whitley / Bloomberg: A proposed Australian bill to force Google and Facebook to pay publishers for news now recognizes the monetary value of traffic that platforms send publishers  —  Google and Facebook Inc. won a key concession in Australia as the government unveiled details of a world-first law to force … A proposed Australian

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Mexican digital bank albo raised $45M Series B from investors including Valar Ventures and Greyhound Capital, claims 500,000 MAUs and 40% market share in Mexico (Jonathan Shieber/TechCrunch)

Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: Mexican digital bank albo raised $45M Series B from investors including Valar Ventures and Greyhound Capital, claims 500,000 MAUs and 40% market share in Mexico  —  With nearly half a million customers across Mexico and a network of 30,000 retail locations where representatives can take deposits … Mexican digital bank albo

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Roll Your Own Tracking

The smartphone is perhaps the signature device of our modern lives. For most of the population it is never more than an arm’s length away, it’s on your person more than any other device in your life. Smartphones are packed with all sorts of radios and ways to communicate wireless. [Amine Mansouri] built an ESP8266

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Pear Therapeutics, a startup developing app-based therapy and tracking tools to help treat patients, raises $80M Series D led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 (Pavel Alpeyev/Bloomberg)

Pavel Alpeyev / Bloomberg: Pear Therapeutics, a startup developing app-based therapy and tracking tools to help treat patients, raises $80M Series D led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2  —  – Pear has FDA-approved prescription digital therapies  — The round is joined by existing investors including Temasek Pear Therapeutics, a startup developing app-based therapy and tracking

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JD.com's digital health care unit JD Health closed up nearly 56% on Tuesday in its Hong Kong trading debut, says net proceeds from its IPO last week were $3.41B (CNBC)

CNBC: JD.com’s digital health care unit JD Health closed up nearly 56% on Tuesday in its Hong Kong trading debut, says net proceeds from its IPO last week were $3.41B  —  – Shares of JD Health, the health-care arm of Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com, surged on their debut in Hong Kong. JD.com's digital health care

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