Month: April 2021
5 new offerings on Indian OTT platforms for your viewing this weekend Still from the Malayalam movie One
It has been a hard week in India as the blighted Covid-19 continued its fatal sweep across the country. In such a situation, entertainment may be the last thing on many people’s mind. On the other hand, it can also be argued that entertainment, as represented by films and series,…
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Eclipse Ventures has $500 million more to digitize old-line industries and bring them up to speed
Two years ago, we talked with Lior Susan, the founder of now six-year-old Eclipse Ventures in Palo Alto, Ca. At the time, the outfit believed that the next big thing wasn’t another social network but instead the remaking of old-line industries through full tech stacks — including hardware, software and…
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What to stream this weekend: Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse, Young Rock and more Without Remorse
With so many shows and movies to choose from on Australia’s major streaming services, it can often be difficult to find the best new stuff to entertain yourself with each end of week. In an effort to make things easier, we’ve hand-picked the best new shows and movies of the…
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The era of the European insurtech IPO will soon be upon us
Phil Edmondson-Jones Contributor Phil Edmondson-Jones is a principal at Oxx, the specialist SaaS VC backing Europe and Israel’s most promising B2B SaaS businesses at the scale-up stage. Once the uncool sibling of a flourishing fintech sector, insurtech is now one of the hottest areas of a buoyant venture market. Zego’s…
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COVID-19 Is Devastating India. Modi’s Government Is Trying To Censor Social Media.
Anadolu Agency / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images A worker adjusts a funeral pyre of those who died from COVID-19 during a mass cremation at a crematorium in New Delhi on April 29, 2021. India, a country with 1.4 billion people, has been gripped by a deadly second wave of…
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Apple adds a way to speed up searches on the App Store by suggesting words
Apple has added a new App Store search suggestions feature in the US, Canada, Australia, and the UK, that might make it easier to find apps. Now, after typing in a search term, the App Store will attempt to predict what you’re looking for and offer suggested words that, when…
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