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Will VC investment into Chinese startups slow as the country’s tech stocks shatter?

TechCrunch

Shares of Chinese technology companies are selling off at home and abroad this week as the nation’s ties to Russia add to investor uncertainty at the expense of China’s tech industry. After all, when the market’s risk tolerance flips, we often see more conservative behavior from money managers, right?

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The toilet paper startup backed by Marc Benioff, Dara Khosrowshahi and Robert Downey Jr. now sells paper towels

TechCrunch

No less august a body than the National Resources Defense Council has come out swinging against how much waste is sacrificed to the commode. has grown so substantially that, in recent years, Canada has ranked third globally in its rate of intact forest loss — behind only Russia and Brazil — mostly due to logging, the NRDC said.

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Webinar: Multichannel Strategies to Convert Online-Acquired Supporters into Donors

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Using donor conversion data from Covenant House, Human Rights Campaign, IFAW and Nature Conservancy Canada, we’ll drill down on how the time-tested multichannel fundraising approach is producing strong results. Multichannel Strategies to Convert Online-Acquired Supporters into Donors Tuesday, 9/10 at 3pm ET. Magazine and many others.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: SaaS success stats, leveraging ad tech chaos, 2022 layoff trends

TechCrunch

And it was presaged by falling public markets that, we presume, allowed some private companies to conserve cash in anticipation of, say, a more conservative funding market.” Russia’s invasion of Ukraine changed that, however. ” Today’s startup layoffs have nothing on the 2020 correction.

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This is what your life will be like when the world hits a dangerous climate tipping point

Fast Company Tech

and thats a conservative estimate. The boreal forests of Canada, Alaska, and Russia will be especially vulnerable. For many low-lying island nations , the challenge of higher seas and more intense tropical storms will be existential. Still, heat-related deaths will continue to rise to 20,000 annually in the U.S.,

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Germany’s parliament approves huge defense and infrastructure spending reforms

Fast Company Tech

Germanys would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz , won lawmakers approval Tuesday for ambitious plans to loosen the nations strict debt rules for higher defense spending as doubts mount about the strength of the trans-Atlantic alliance, and to set up an enormous fund for investment in its creaking infrastructure.

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How Trump calculated the new tariff rates and why they differ by country

Fast Company Tech

It has set even higher levies for about 60 nations that it says are the worst” offenders. To determine how much higher those nations’ rates should be, the White House says it calculated the size of each countrys trade imbalance on goods with the United States and divided that by how much America imports from that nation.

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