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Vista Equity to acquire majority stake in SaaS startup Drift, taking it to unicorn status

TechCrunch

Prior to this financing, Boston-based Drift had raised $107 million in funding from the likes of Sequoia Capital, CRV and General Catalyst since its 2015 inception. Cancel’s parents emigrated from Puerto Rico and Cuba while Torres emigrated from Nicaragua in his teens. “I Drift raises $60 million to be an Amazon for businesses.

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Women Activists Profiled by Mariane Pearl in Glamour

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Global Diary is a monthly column written by journalist, Mariane Pearl, the widow of Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and murdered in 2002 by terrorists in Pakistan. Cuba: Laura Pollan, whose home is the headquarters for Damas en Blanco ( Ladies in White).

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Big Vision Podcast: Steve Williams from POWER

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One: organizing immigrant women, mostly Latinas, who are working as domestic workers cleaning the houses and raising the kids, mostly of rich folks. At the end of the negotiation, the family raised her pay to 14 dollars an hour. In the last couple of years, we've begun two new organizing projects.

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

Fast Company Tech

President Donald Trump promised tariffs that would raise U.S. The 10% global tariffs take effect at 12:01 a.m. The White House says its calculations kept new tariffs from going even higher for many countries and demonstrate that Trump is being kind to global trading partners. Why not just charge reciprocal rates?

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