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Monthly Archives: September 2022
Investors are spending 24% less time looking at pitch decks in 2022, compared to 2021. On average, you have just under three minutes to convince them to take a meeting with you. In fact, for decks that fail to raise funding, investors give up in just 2 minutes and 13 seconds. That’s not a lot…
Australia telecoms giant Optus said current and former customer data was accessed following a cyberattack on its systems. Optus said in a press release on Thursday that an unspecified number of customer names, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, and addresses and identity document numbers, such as driver’s license or passport numbers, were taken…
Researchers at the biotech Moderna. Moderna Biotech startups have raised billions of dollars in an effort to transform medicine. Despite an economic downturn, biotechs are still getting interest from investors. Here are the presentations that biotechs used to win over investors and raise millions. Over the past few years, the pandemic fueled a massive boom…
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Christiane Amanpour in Beverly Hills, California, on July 30, 2018. Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP CNN’s Christiane Amanpour walked away from a long-anticipated interview with Iran’s president. The anchor “politely declined” to wear a head scarf since the interview took place on US soil. Her decision follows a history of women journalists declining to wear the clothing for…
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi at her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill on September 22, 2022. Drew Angerer/Getty Images House Democrats just teed up a potential vote next week on a congressional stock trading ban. Top Democrats told colleagues that the legislation will most likely include Supreme Court justices. That inclusion — along…
A raccoon inside the experimental cubicle. Lauren Stanton Calm, passive raccoons adapt better to city environments, a study published Thursday suggests. Researchers studied 204 wild raccoons for two years, to test whether they could push a button for a reward. The results could help inform how wildlife managers deal with urban raccoons. Raccoons are beloved…
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President Joe Biden boards Marine One at the White House on July 20. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Azerbaijan reignited a longstanding conflict with Armenia last week. The two countries are part of a web of partnerships with Russia and its Western rivals. Those overlapping relationships show the folly of basing US policy on “good” democracies vs….