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Spenmo originated as an expense management platform before realizing that expenses “are just a tiny sliver” of a company’s payables, founder and CEO Mohandass Kalaichelvan told TechCrunch. Financial teams also need to manage vendor payments, supplier payments, payroll and reconcile bank accounts, often in different countries, resulting in an overwhelming amount of work. Spenmo was […]

June Homes, a proptech startup that aims to make renting less painful and more flexible for both tenants and landlords, is emerging from stealth today with $50 million in total funding. SoftBank Ventures Asia led the startup’s latest round — a $27 million Series B. Other backers in the company include FJ Labs, Kairos, TQ […]

It’s an extraordinarily exhausting time to estimate costs in the construction industry. Lumber prices skyrocketed during the post-pandemic construction spree, only to come hurtling back down to Earth in recent weeks. Copper, concrete, and steel have also seen wild price swings as supply chain breakages, workers shortages, border restrictions and more plague price stability. Construction […]

Grocery giant Albertsons Companies, which owns Safeway and Jewel-Osco, is steadily adding to its digital transformation, this time with shoppable, livestream video experiences developed by Redwood City-based Firework. Firework noted that Albertsons is the first U.S. grocer to utilize its platform to create, host and curate their own short-form and livestream video for the Albertsons […]

Executive assistants are the ultimate multitaskers and instead of relying on half a dozen apps to make their jobs easier, startup Cabinet is pulling all of that together into one software package designed for the 10 million-person administrative professional market. The company, with bases in both Denver and New York, is developing software to aid […]

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September 22, 2021 FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Banks in southern Europe are set to be among the hardest hit if climate change is not mitigated as their clients are most exposed to natural hazards such as wildfires, a European Central Bank study showed on Wednesday. The ECB has run simulations on more than 1,600 euro zone […]

September 22, 2021 (Reuters) – Netflix Inc has bought the works of Roald Dahl, including classics such as “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and “Matilda”, in its latest content deal as the streaming service faces stiff competition from Disney+ and HBO Max. The company did not disclose the financial terms of the deal, which will […]

September 22, 2021 MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s chief of general staff, Valery Gerasimov, and his United States counterpart, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff Mark Milley, met in Helsinki on Wednesday to discuss risk mitigation in military activities, the RIA news agency reported. It quoted the Russian defence ministry as saying the meeting was […]

Sony Pictures Networks India said on Wednesday it has agreed to acquire Zee Entertainment, which if the deal materializes, will bring together two of the largest broadcasting giants that run large cable television networks, streaming services, music labels, and own scores of other digital assets. The subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate said it will invest […]

September 22, 2021 BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Europe’s second-highest court on Wednesday rejected French telecoms provider Altice’s challenge against a 125-million-euro ($146.7 million) fine imposed by EU antitrust regulators for closing its PT Portugal deal early six years ago. The Luxembourg-based General Court however reduced the fine by 6.22 million euros because Altice had told the […]

September 22, 2021 (Reuters) – U.S. actor Leonardo DiCaprio is investing in and joining the advisory boards of Aleph Farms and Mosa Meat, the two cultivated meat start-ups said in a statement on Wednesday. “Mosa Meat and Aleph Farms offer new ways to satisfy the world’s demand for beef, while solving some of the most […]

A number of sexual health startups have spun up in recent years offering men discreet help with the awkward issue of erectile dysfunction. Companies like Numan and Roman. But ‘help’ in this context usually means making it easier to get hold of drugs like Viagra. UK-based startup Mojo has been taking a different tack. It’s […]

September 22, 2021 ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A threat to New Zealand’s cricket team that prompted them to call off a tour of Pakistan came in an email that originated in India, Pakistan’s information Minister said on Wednesday. New Zealand’s cricket squad arrived home on Wednesday after abandoning their tour of Pakistan last week citing a […]

September 22, 2021 KYIV (Reuters) -A volley of shots was fired at a car carrying Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s principal aide on Wednesday morning, wounding the driver in what a senior official called an assassination attempt. More than 10 bullets hit the car near the village of Lesnyky outside the capital Kyiv, a police statement […]

September 22, 2021 By Hideyuki Sano TOKYO (Reuters) – The Australian dollar jumped and the safe-haven yen eased slightly on Wednesday after struggling Chinese property giant Evergrande said it would make an upcoming bond coupon, allaying immediate fears about a messy corporate collapse. Some of the excitement fizzled, however, after traders realised it was still […]

September 22, 2021 BRASILIA (Reuters) – Indigenous activists delivered a Jatoba tree to Norway’s embassy in Brasilia on Tuesday, seeking “refugee” status for it in a symbolic protest against the destruction of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. The protest coincided with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro at the United Nations General Assembly defending what he described as his […]

September 22, 2021 PRAGUE (Reuters) – Czech President Milos Zeman, 76, will be released from hospital on Wednesday after an eight-day stay. A spokeswoman for the Prague Central Military Hospital told Reuters in a text message Zeman would be discharged around 11 a.m. She did not give any details and did not respond to questions […]

September 22, 2021 By Tife Owolabi and Estelle Shirbon BENIN CITY, Nigeria (Reuters) – A new guild of artists from Nigeria’s Benin City has offered to donate artworks to the British Museum in London as a way to encourage it to return the priceless Benin Bronzes that were looted from the city’s royal court by […]

September 22, 2021 BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s Ifo economic institute said on Wednesday it cut its growth forecast for Europe’s largest economy for this year as supply chain disruptions and scarcity of intermediate goods are slowing down the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Ifo institute now sees Germany’s gross domestic product (GDP) to grow […]