Month: April 2021
Eclipse Ventures has $500 million more to digitize old-line industries and bring them up to speed
Two years ago, we talked with Lior Susan, the founder of now six-year-old Eclipse Ventures in Palo Alto, Ca. At the time, the outfit believed that the next big thing wasn’t another social network but instead the remaking of old-line
Read MoreGuatemalan Ambassador To The U.S Weighs In On America’s Plan To Help Country
NPR’s Audie Cornish speaks with Guatemalan ambassador to the United States Alfonso Quiñónez about the announcement this week of U.S. aid to help control migration and meet humanitarian needs.
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The world could be doing much more to help India
People stand in a queue with their oxygen cylinders outside a shop to get them refilled amid the rising number of Covid-19 cases in New Delhi on April 28, 2021. | Mayank Makhija/NurPhoto via Getty Images Countries can’t go it
Read MoreIndia’s vaccine export ban could send shockwaves worldwide. Should the UK step in to help?
One in five doses being jabbed around the world is made in India. The country is also the largest exporter of COVID-19 vaccines to the rest of the world.
Read MoreGov. Whitmer unveils plan to tie Michigan vaccination rates to easing COVID-19 rules – Detroit Free Press
Gov. Whitmer unveils plan to tie Michigan vaccination rates to easing COVID-19 rules Detroit Free Press Michigan Gov. Whitmer announces plan to tie coronavirus vaccination rate to reopening Fox News Michigan reopening plan encourages business leaders, who say ‘the sooner the better’ mlive.com
Read MorePhones of the Meron dead still ringing with calls from ‘Mom’ and ‘My dear wife’
‘The phones of the dead don’t stop ringing,’ says Zaka official, as families desperately try to find relatives missing after tragedy
Read MoreThe era of the European insurtech IPO will soon be upon us
Phil Edmondson-Jones Contributor Share on Twitter Phil Edmondson-Jones is a principal at Oxx, the specialist SaaS VC backing Europe and Israel’s most promising B2B SaaS businesses at the scale-up stage. Once the uncool sibling of a flourishing fintech sector, insurtech
Read MoreAt least 44 killed, dozens injured in stampede at religious festival in Israel – The Washington Post
At least 44 killed, dozens injured in stampede at religious festival in Israel The Washington Post Israel Stampede at Mount Meron Kills at Least 44 The New York Times Chaotic scenes as crush kills dozens at religious festival in Israel Guardian News Israel
Read MoreReligious festival stampede in Israel kills 44, hurts dozens – The Associated Press
Religious festival stampede in Israel kills 44, hurts dozens The Associated Press Israel Stampede at Mount Meron Kills at Least 44 The New York Times Chaotic scenes as crush kills dozens at religious festival in Israel Guardian News Israel crush: Dozens killed at
Read MoreDozens Killed in Stampede at Israeli Religious Festival
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the incident “a terrible disaster,” and Israel’s military dispatched medical teams and an elite rescue unit to the area.
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