CXA Group, a Singapore-based startup that helps make insurance more accessible and affordable, has raised $25 million for expansion in Asia and later into Europe and North America. The startup takes a unique route to insurance. Rather than going to consumers directly, it taps corporations to offer their employees health flexible options. That’s to say […]
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Taxing your privacy
Joe Apprendi Contributor Joe Apprendi is a general partner at Revel Partners. More posts by this contributor The new era in mobile Big data’s humble beginnings Data collection through mobile tracking is big business and the potential for companies helping governments monetize this data is huge. For consumers, protecting yourself against the who, what and […]
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With an inaugural investment into the Los Angeles-based entertainment startup Culture Genesis, Clifford Harris Jr., who’s better known as “T.I.”, has launched a new syndicated investment vehicle called Tech Cypha. Launched by the music and cultural impresario with more hustle than hustle and his business partner Jason Geter, the new collaborative investment strategy focused on tech startups will […]
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3D-printing the first rocket on Mars. That’s the goal Tim Ellis and Jordan Noone set for themselves when they founded Los Angeles-based Relativity Space in 2015. At the time they were working from a WeWork in Seattle, during the darkest winter in Seattle history, where Ellis was wrapping up a stint at Blue Origin . The […]
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View More Apple plans major US expansion including a new $1 billion campus in AustinDonald Trump Jr swam in a swamp full of gators who declined to eat him
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Settle down everyone, promo pics from a new Shrek film weren’t released over the weekend — that’s just Donald Trump Jr neck-deep in a literal gator-infested swamp.
The president’s son apparently can’t say no to money, so when someone bet him he wouldn’t casually wade around in a Louisiana bayou, he obviously had to.
“This is what happens when someone bets me a good sum that there’s no way that the guy from New York City would swim in a gator infested swamp/bayou down in Louisiana. Easy money!!!” Trump Jr. wrote alongside some murky swamp content. Read more…
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With new tech coming online, cities need a department of urban testing
Shaun Abrahamson Contributor Shaun Abrahamson is a managing partner at Urban Us Ventures and serves on the Investment Committee at URBAN-X. More posts by this contributor How should startups work with city governments? The design and operation of cities is the province of urban planning. But an explosion of startups in cities means a lot […]
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This week, both Microsoft and Google made moves to woo Hollywood to their cloud computing platforms in the latest act of the unfolding drama over who will win the multi-billion dollar business of the entertainment industry as it moves to the cloud. Google raised the curtain with a splashy announcement that they’d be setting up […]
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View More Esports Overwatch League heads to hipster Brooklyn for its finalsLouisiana family uses a giant alligator to reveal their baby’s gender and it does not go well
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Here’s a cool way to make a gender reveal party better (or worse, depending): add an alligator to the mix.
That’s right — this Louisiana family decided to take gender reveal parties to the next level and included a large gator as part of the ritual. Soon-to-be dad and alligator wrangler, Mike Kleibert coaxes the beast around, before dropping a watermelon in its mouth.
The gator snaps its jaws, revealing blue goo. Congrats! Thanks to the colors coded by our rigid dichotomous gender binary, looks like the kid’s gonna be a boy!
After chomping a bit on the remnants of melon, the gator swerves dangerously towards the family and Kleibert has to wrestle the creature to the ground. Read more…
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