After a 17-hour marathon through nearly 200 startup pitches, the Equity team was fired up to get back on Twitter and chat through some early trends and favorites from the first day of Y Combinator’s demo party. We’ll be back on the air tomorrow, so make sure you’re following the show on Twitter so you…
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Electric vehicles updates Sign up to myFT Daily Digest to be the first to know about Electric vehicles news. Royal Dutch Shell has offered to install 50,000 on-street electric vehicle charging devices in the UK in four years, a move that could give the energy group a third of the public charging market by 2025.…
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On the heels of Heroes announcing a $200 million raise earlier today, to double down on buying and scaling third-party Amazon Marketplace sellers, another startup out of London aiming to do the same is announcing some significant funding of its own. Olsam, a roll-up play that is buying up both consumer and B2B merchants selling…
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Natural disasters updates Sign up to myFT Daily Digest to be the first to know about Natural disasters news. More than 1m people in Louisiana were preparing for a third sweltering day without electricity after utilities struggled to reconnect power lines knocked down by Hurricane Ida, with residents warned that the outages could last for…
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Workers who refuse to get COVID-19 vaccines after their employers mandate them could be denied unemployment benefits, attorneys say. The healthcare sector With healthcare organizations largely leading the way on mandates, especially after the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine received full approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration this month, that means healthcare workers will be among…
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Gov. Brad Little on Tuesday called in 220 medical workers available through federal programs and mobilized 150 Idaho National Guard soldiers to deal with a surge in unvaccinatedCOVID-19 patients that is overwhelming the state’s hospitals. The Republican governor during a remotely held announcement said the moves are a last-ditch effort…
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Jeff Morin Contributor Jeff Morin is the co-founder and CEO of Liteboxer, an at-home fitness company that creates immersive workouts. Startups are hard work, but the complexities of global supply chains can make running hardware companies especially difficult. Instead of existing within a codebase behind a screen, the key components of your hardware product can…
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Amwell has closed acquisitions on two digital health companies, SilverCloud Health and Conversa Health, the company announced Tuesday. Here are five things to know about the acquisitions: 1. Telehealth company Amwell unveiled plans in July to buy SilverCloud and Conversa in transactions totaling $320 million. Boston-based Amwell will integrate services from the two firms into…
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GlaxoSmithKline PLC updates Sign up to myFT Daily Digest to be the first to know about GlaxoSmithKline PLC news. A third Covid-19 shot using GlaxoSmithKline’s adjuvant technology has entered a late-stage clinical trial as the UK drugmaker seeks to make up lost ground in the development of a coronavirus vaccine. The vaccine, produced by South…
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