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UK challenger bank Starling raises $376M, now valued at $1.9B

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Digital banking has reached a tipping point,” said Anne Boden, founder and CEO of Starling Bank, in a statement. The trend in the U.K. To decelerate the spread of COVID-19, those trends rapidly picked up pace in the last year of lock-downs and enforced social distancing.

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Impact raises $150M at a $1.5B valuation as affiliate and other marketing partnerships come into their own

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Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) is leading this round, with Providence Public also participating. Spon-con and related marketing techniques have been on an upward trend for years, making gradually bigger dents in the 60% commitment that brands typically dedicate to online advertising to get the word out. billion valuation.

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Daily Crunch: Samsung erases the Note, starts new page with Galaxy S22 Ultra phablet

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Cybersecurity investment runs hot as risks run rampant : In a digest of recent investing trends, our own Carly Page writes that “2021 may have been a rough year for cybersecurity, but it was a record-breaking year for security startups.” The more issues with security, the more demand for security products. Sounds cool, frankly.

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Web Summit Panel with XTransfer: insights on AI-Driven B2B growth in 2024

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Amidst the dynamic landscape of the Web Summit Qatar, Dr. Gang Lu engaged in a thought-provoking interview with Bill Deng, the Founder and CEO of XTransfer with the theme “AI at the helm: accelerate B2B growth in 2024” In this summary, we encapsulate the key insights and highlights from their discussion.

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Obrizum uses AI to build employee training modules out of existing content

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Then, at an organizational level, machine learning can be used to spot trends and patterns which can benefit the majority. He demurred when asked about Obrizum’s revenue, revealing only that it has increased 17x since year-end 2020 — mostly due to client digital transformation efforts kicked off during the pandemic.

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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

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We hope to work on this thorny challenge further with our partner, the Mada Center, in Qatar, and benefit others throughout the region, such as the members served by our new partner, Emirates Association for the Visually Impaired, in the United Arab Emirates. Another growing trend is that everyone is a publisher.

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