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HappyOrNot, a Finland-based customer survey platform, raises $25M Series A led by Verdane, bringing its total raised to $40M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: HappyOrNot, a Finland-based customer survey platform, raises $25M Series A led by Verdane, bringing its total raised to $40M  —  Customer experience in they physical world has been getting a major infusion of tech in recent years.  We now have systems being built to replace cashiers … HappyOrNot, a Finland-based customer

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A Facebook employee has died in an apparent suicide at the company's Menlo Park headquarters; Facebook says it is cooperating with the police (Business Insider)

Business Insider: A Facebook employee has died in an apparent suicide at the company’s Menlo Park headquarters; Facebook says it is cooperating with the police  —  – A Facebook employee is dead by suicide after jumping from the fourth floor of an office building, police said.  — The individual was an adult male. A Facebook

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Datadog, an app performance monitoring and analytics platform, closes up 39% on its first day of trading, after raising $648M in an IPO at a $7.8B valuation (Kenrick Cai/Forbes)

Kenrick Cai / Forbes: Datadog, an app performance monitoring and analytics platform, closes up 39% on its first day of trading, after raising $648M in an IPO at a $7.8B valuation  —  Shares of New York-based Datadog rose 39% to close at $37.55 after opening at $40.35 in the cloud company’s market debut Thursday. Datadog,

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Postmates, which confidentially filed for an IPO in February, raises $225M from private equity firm GPI Capital at a $2.4B valuation, up from $1.85B in January (Biz Carson/Forbes)

Biz Carson / Forbes: Postmates, which confidentially filed for an IPO in February, raises $225M from private equity firm GPI Capital at a $2.4B valuation, up from $1.85B in January  —  Postmates is receiving another cash injection as the San Francisco-based delivery service prepares to go public … Postmates, which confidentially filed for an IPO

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Google makes ‘biggest corporate purchase’ of renewable energy ahead of climate strikes

Photo credit should read JOSH EDELSON/AFP/Getty Images On Thursday, Google announced its plan to make “the biggest corporate purchase of renewable energy in history.” This announcement precedes a day of walkouts by tech employees, including those from Google, who are participating in the Global Climate Strike. The tech workers are demanding their employers take stronger

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3 Institutions Doing Innovative Work to Boost Degree Completion

The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities has announced three finalists for its 2019 Degree Completion Award, an annual recognition program that identifies higher ed institutions that “employ innovative approaches to improve degree completion while ensuring educational quality.” 3 Institutions Doing Innovative Work to Boost Degree Completion Source: Campus Technology

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