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Cassandra Bailey Launches Children’s Book Series Talking About Mom’s Job

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Additionally, Bailey is the author of a new series of children’s books about women just like her. The “My Mom Is…” book series offers moms from all industries a child-friendly way to discuss why they work, what they love about your jobs, and why it matters. So I decided to write a book just for her.

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Taiwan-based FunNow, an instant booking app, raises $15M Series B

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FunNow is a booking app for spontaneous people. For example, in Malaysia, it talked to food and beverage merchants and discovered that customers prefer to pick up food instead of waiting for deliveries, so it added takeaway bookings. Some users, tired of WFH, booked hotel rooms to work. Image Credits: FunNow. “We

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Boulevard books $70M to help beauty and wellness salons with their bookings

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Specialists and their salons wanted to be perfectly booked up, and salons weren’t actually completely offline, either. We’re excited to support the Boulevard team as they continue to grow.” They built a picture of why so much was still done offline. In short, it was about “yield optimization,” Danna said.

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Medium acquires social book reading app Glose

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Glose has been building iOS, Android and web apps that let you buy, download and read books on your devices. Sure, there are social platforms that let you talk about books, such as Goodreads. There are also some gamification features that help you stay motivated as you read difficult books — you get streak rewards for instance.

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Daily Crunch: Major tech firms partner with Linux Foundation to support open map data development

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Haje’s favorite was “A Deadly Education” (Naomi Novik’s first book in the Scholomance trilogy), which incidentally was recommended by both Alex and Amanda, which was how he found out about the books in the first place. In non-book news, there’s a bushel of stories from TechCrunch for ya! to 17 cents.

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Vietnam-based healthcare booking app Docosan gets $1M seed funding led by AppWorks

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Based in Ho Chi Minh City, Docosan helps patients avoid long waits by letting them search and book doctors through its app. Lopez said advance doctor bookings aren’t the norm in Vietnam. We would all benefit from a world in which it’s as easy to find a great doctor as it is a book a Grab taxi.”.

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Hopper raises $170M and partners with Capital One on a new cardholder travel booking portal

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I asked Inovia partner Patrick Pichette about his decision to back Hopper at a moment when a lot of investors where essentially on pause pending the fallout of the just-declared pandemic, and about their renewed support with a contribution to this latest round. “Price freeze is a good example. Now, with the U.S.

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