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Lightspeed and Max Levchin bet on Balance to bring B2B payments into the digital world

TechCrunch

A mash-mash of payment methods from paper checks to wire transfers get sent against invoices, none of which are automatically synchronized across financial information systems. The critical customers though in Geron’s mind are B2B marketplaces where there are few solutions to synchronize the complexities of marketplace transactions.

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Engageli nabs $33M more for its collaborative video-based teaching platform

TechCrunch

“At first the priority was on the best synchronous experience,” Avida said in an interview, of the priorities of universities when it came to remote learning. “Now everyone is much more focused on multi-modality.” ” Engageli comes out of stealth with $14.5M and a new approach to teaching by video remotely.

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Bot farms invade social media to hijack popular sentiment

Fast Company Tech

People under the age of 30 don’t go to Google anymore, says Jacki Alexander, CEO at pro-Israel media watchdog HonestReporting. The same deceptive forces used bot farms to boost posts about a New York Times report that falsely blamed Israel for a bomb that hit a hospital in Gaza that reportedly killed 500 Palestinians.

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