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Rita Liao / TechCrunch: SoftBank-backed travel reservation service Klook raises $ 200 million led by Aspex Management, and says reservations have reached nearly pre-COVID levels in Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan.– Klook, the Hong Kong-based travel activities platform backed by the SoftBank Vision Fund, announced a $ 200 million shutdown …

Over the past two to three years, the pace of digital transformation has been increasing thanks to the improved performance, strength and adaptability of tools and investments in cloud computing, data engineering, and visualization technologies. There is also a growing number of use cases for machine learning and, in the future, quantum computing, which will...

Meets Sidecar Health, The newest member of the tech industry’s billion dollar healthcare startup club. The valuation comes thanks to $ 125 million in new funding that the company will use to expand its new health insurance model. Sidecar Health’s insurance plans give consumers the ability to pay directly for care – often at substantial...

Sarah Fisher / Axios: Twitter Acquires Revue Newsletter The five-year-old Dutch company has six employees and has raised about $ 318,000Twitter said on Tuesday it had acquired Revue, a newsletter platform for writers and publishers. Why it matters: The deal is Twitter’s first step …

There may also be another variation. There are a lot of people out there that, even if you give them the vaccine, they won’t get it. This is partly due to mistrust. There is a much higher level of distrust between Latin Americans and blacks, in part due to historical abuse. s: How do you...

Flexible, An AI keyboard for autocorrect that competes with big guns like Google’s Gboard and Microsoft Swiftkey, has a new way to grab users’ attention: technical keyboards. It has just been launched FleksyArtA marketplace for artists to sell digital works to its users so that they can customize the look of their keyboards. Fleksy has...

Felipe Esposito / 9to5Mac: Twitter is unveiling a “standalone and flexible” open source text editor API for iOS developers, similar to what is used in tweets and Fleet authors on its iOS appTwitter today announced a new “standalone and flexible” open source API for iOS developers that provides a text editor for apps …

ReimagineIt is a financing platform that provides banking services to high-growth companies with the development of “Impact”, and has raised 20 million euros (24 million dollars) in an initial funding round. The Berlin-based startup is in stealth mode, but it already has 20 clients under its former brand name, Get Conscious Growth. Its supporters include...

Matthew Keys / the desk: Survey: The average American household spent $ 47 a month on broadcasting in 2020, up from $ 34 a month in 2019; 81% of American households used Netflix at the end of 2020– The average American family dropped more money on broadcast TV services in 2020 than the previous year...

Riley Brennan probably loves cars and trucks the most. The Michigan native happily did the hard work of Automotive Magazine as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan before landing at a party as a trackside communications director at General Motors, spending a few years as an editor and general manager with a car publisher...