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India’s ShareChat valued at $2.88 billion in $145 million fundraise

Indian social media platform ShareChat said on Tuesday it has raised an additional $145 million and is now valued at nearly $3 billion, less than three months after it secured $502 million at a valuation of $2.1 billion. Temasek and Moore

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Freightify lands $2.5M to make rate management easier for freight forwarders

Freight forwarders often keep track of rates on spreadsheets they email to customers, but the pandemic has made that difficult because prices are constantly fluctuating. Freightify, a startup that refers to itself as the “Shopify for maritime freight,” provides white-label

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Lydia Jacoby, the First Alaskan Team USA Swimmer, Wins a Thrilling Gold Medal

Lydia Jacoby is used to quizzical looks and puzzled curiosity. You’re from Alaska, and you swim? Yes, yes she does. And she is now an Olympic gold medalist in the women’s 100-m breastroke. When most of the world was focused

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Suddenly It’s Bare Season

Bras in the parks, skivvies on Fifth Avenue: Is this the logical endpoint of increasingly blurred distinctions between public and private?

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Jacksonville doctor calls on DeSantis to declare state of emergency due to COVID hospitalizations – WJXT News4JAX

Jacksonville doctor calls on DeSantis to declare state of emergency due to COVID hospitalizations  WJXT News4JAX Ron DeSantis’ 2024 road just hit a major Covid-19 bump  CNN CNN: Every county in Florida, Arkansas rated ‘high transmission’ for community spread | TheHill  The Hill

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Bermuda Wins Olympic Gold. It Has The Smallest Population To Ever Do That

Flora Duffy is one of two Bermudian athletes participating in the Tokyo Olympics. The remote set of islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean is more than 600 miles from the closest land mass. (Image credit: David Goldman/AP)

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Bermuda Wins Olympic Gold. It Has The Smallest Population To Ever Do That

Flora Duffy is one of two Bermudian athletes participating in the Tokyo Olympics. The remote set of islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean is more than 600 miles from the closest land mass. (Image credit: David Goldman/AP)

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Nium crosses $1B valuation with $200M Riverwood Capital-led round

Business-to-business payments platform Nium announced Monday that it raised more than $200 million in Series D funding and saw its valuation rise above $1 billion. The company, now Singapore-based but shifting to the Bay Area, touted the investment as making

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Here’s What to Know About the ROC and Why Russia Can’t Compete At the Tokyo Olympics

Those tuning into the Tokyo Olympics may have noticed that Russian athletes are competing under the flag of the ROC, or Russian Olympic Committee, rather than their native country. That’s because the 335 Russian athletes participating in this year’s Summer

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Alberto Salazar Barred from Track for Sexual, Emotional Misconduct

A former top coach who was once one of the world’s greatest distance runners, Salazar had already been suspended for breaking rules governing banned substances.

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