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Booming edtech M&A activity brings consolidation to a fragmented sector

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CEO Andrew Grauer says Symbolab’s algorithm isn’t something that Course Hero, which has been operating since 2006, can drum up overnight. The programming, a mix of videos, prompts and projects, cover a range of questions such as, “Where do rivers flow?” Using data management and analytics to improve student outcomes.

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RxAll grabs $3.15M to scale its drug checking and counterfeiting tech across Africa

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More modern approaches are being adopted these days, which is the case of RxAll , a startup using deep technology to provide quality medication to patients. In 2006, Alonge was a victim of fake pharmaceuticals and almost died after taking medicine that contained lethal levels of diazepam. Today, the U.S.

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5 top investors in Dutch startups discuss trends, hopes and 2020 opportunities

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Adyen launched in 2006, and in June 2018, it was listed as one of Europe’s largest tech IPOs with a value of €7 billion. Elastic, the provider of subscription-based data search software used by Dell, Netflix, The New York Times and others, was another gangbuster IPO in 2018. This can be professional, personal or a mix of the two.

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Does Atlantic Canada have a blueprint for rural revival in the post-pandemic era?

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Can Bitcoin find its practical use case as a currency in Latin America? Stephen Harper, the country’s prime minister from 2006 to 2015, famously quipped that the region suffered from “ a culture of defeatism.” More posts by this contributor. In Latin America, the business of trolling threatens Twitter’s disruptive power.

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The gig economy, cannabis and car data are tech-election winners in 2020

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Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. The US is settling in for some new form of national gridlock, but state and local propositions are busy defining how technology businesses will be allowed to work (legally) in the US. Subscribe here.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. There were chat rooms, discussion groups, dating, classified ads – you name it.

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The True Potential of Cleantech: An Interview with Jason Holt

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In 2006, our group published a high-profile paper in Science on the concept of water filtration with nanotubes. There is still money to be made, but it needs to be used in different and more intelligent ways. Venture investment in the sector has remained pretty flat the last several years.

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