The funding streak for educational startups in Asia continues into 2019 after Emeritus, a U.S-Indian company that partners with universities to offer digital courses, landed a $40 million Series C round led by Sequoia India. The deal includes participation from existing investor Bertelsmann India Investments, and it takes Emeritus — founded in 2010 as offline management program company Eruditus — to […]
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Sophia Genetics bags $77M Series E, with 850+ hospitals signed up to its “data-driven medicine”
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LearnLux offers businesses access to its financial wellness platform, a digital product that helps employees make important financial decisions.
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It’s Game 3 of the World Series tonight, but the Boston Red Sox have already beat the Los Angeles Dodgers for the championship — that is, if you trust Google to give you the right answer.
Google Search today has been incorrectly displaying the Boston Red Sox as the winners of the 2018 World Series in a featured snippet, or the short answers you see at the top of Google search results in response to certain queries.
The Boston Red Sox are in fact currently leading the series 2-0 heading into the third game tonight. But even if the Red Sox were to win the upcoming game, the team would still be one game away from winning the championship. Shame on you, Google, for spreading lies about the championship! Read more…
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