American Express acquires Japan-based restaurant booking service Pocket Concierge

American Express has made an acquisition in Japan after it picked up restaurant booking service Pocket Concierge in an undisclosed deal. The acquisition was announced in Japanese and in English by James Riney, the head of 500 Startups Japan which invested in Pocket Concierge as one of its first deals in the country. The service was launched in […]

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This story of a noisy neighbor — and cake — shows the power of kindness over anger

Call it the Christmas Spirit: 2018 Edition.
Writer Candice Marie Benbow chose to handle what could have been a sticky situation with a neighbor with kindness, and, also, cake.
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Cake raises $5 million for a swipeable mobile browser

 A startup called Cake has an ambitious plan to take on incumbents like Chrome and Safari to build a better browser for mobile devices. The company announced this morning it has raised $5 million for those efforts from Peak Ventures, Pelion Ventures and Kickstart Seed Fund. Cake was founded in late 2016 in Provo, Utah by Jase Bosarge, who had originally developed technologies and a… Read More

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The ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ wrap cake has got people all worked up

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Okay, we’re all officially hype-hungry fiends when a cake sends us spiralling into a whirlpool of speculation. And that’s exactly what’s happened.

Avengers: Infinity War has wrapped and its directors the Russo brothers delivered a photo of a cake from the wrap party which has induced some fan theories.

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— Russo Brothers (@Russo_Brothers) January 11, 2018

Analysis time: so the purple guy on top of the cake, that’s Thanos. Thanos is the big bad wolf of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU for short) and he has been a shadowy presence in the Marvel films for a long time, having already popped up in the post-credits scene for the first Avengers film. Read more…

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