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Venture capital flows to Africa surge in 2025
Venture capital flows to Africa soared last year, the latest sign the continent's economies are being shaped by investment, not aid. VC funds ploughed around $4 billion into African economies in 2025, up around fourfold from 2020 levels, helping to…
I went to a prediction-market bar to 'monitor the situation'. Here's what I saw
Washington: It's effectively mandatory for American bars to have wall-to-wall televisions showing football, basketball and hockey. So the idea of instead screening CNN, the price of oil and the “Pentagon pizza index” seems…
OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky dies at 43
Leonid Radvinsky via his website lr.com The owner of OnlyFans, a site known for its adult content that is credited with revolutionising the online porn industry, has died at the age of 43. Leonid Radvinsky, who was born in Ukraine and grew up in…
Startup Antithesis turns years of real-world chaos into hours of simulated mayhem-and key trading firms and crypto networks are paying close attention
Will Wilson wants to make sure the software running everything from your bank account to your favorite crypto exchange actually works—and his company Antithesis is rethinking how software has been tested for the last 80…
OpenAI chairman Bret Taylor finds himself on both sides of disruption
He's been the chief technology officer at Facebook and the chairman of Twitter. But Bret Taylor's current gig might be his most consequential. As chairman of OpenAI, the Silicon Valley giant behind ChatGPT, Taylor is at the very front of an…
Forging Legacies: HK4FAMILIES
[The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.] Three years of intensive research and dialogue within Hong Kong's wealth ecosystem have culminated in the official launch of HK4FAMILIES. We move beyond conversation to…
Great AI divide: markets in America, systems in China
The United States and China are forging divergent paths in artificial intelligence—paths that will shape economies, societies and the nature of power itself for generations to come. One is shaped by market forces, the other by a logic of…
Billionaire OnlyFans owner dies at 43 after long cancer battle
ONLYFANS owner and reclusive billionaire Leonid Radvinsky has died aged 43 after a long battle with cancer. His tragic passing was announced on Monday in a statement by the company. Your info will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy…
View: 'We're not keeping up': Why the future of war still eludes US leaders
For Bob Work, the big red flag came with reports that Iran appeared to have damaged two half-billion-dollar radar installations at the outset of the US-Israeli strikes on Iran. “The fact that we didn't have any air defense capabilities…
BKR Capital Announces the First Close for its $50M Fund II After Top-Quartile Performance of Debut Fund
TORONTO, March 23, 2026 /CNW/ - BKR Capital announces the $20M first close of its second venture capital fund – Black Innovation Fund II – targeting $50 million to back the next generation of globally competitive Black-led technology…
ROBOTERA Raises RMB 1 Billion in Strategic Round, Valuation Exceeds RMB 10 Billion with Broad Industry Support
BEIJING, March 23, 2026 /CNW/ -- Robotics company ROBOTERA has closed a strategic funding round of RMB 1 billion, pushing its valuation past RMB 10 billion. The round saw participation from major new investors including Gaocheng Capital, Singtel…
POSCO International launches $16 mil. CVC fund for rare earths
POSCO International said Monday it is accelerating efforts to build a stable global supply chain for heavy rare earth elements, a key component in electric vehicle (EV) motors, through the launch of its first corporate venture capital (CVC) fund.
15 TV Shows To Watch If You Like HBO's Industry
'Industry' has turned out to be one of the most pleasant surprises of the 2020s in television — a mean, nasty, pull-no-punches immersion into the icy wilderness of the British stock market, conducted through first-rate storytelling in which…
Exclusive: Interloom, which wants to solve AI agents' 'tacit knowledge' problem, raises $16.5 million in VC funding
Michael Polyani, the British-Hungarian philosopher, economist, and scientist, is perhaps best known today for coining the term “tacit knowledge.” His great observation was that a large part of what constitutes expertise in any given…
Bitcoin struggles to hold US$70,000 as war fuels inflation fears
NEW YORK: Bitcoin briefly slid below US$70,000 last Friday as inflation fears tied to the Iran war rattled markets, overshadowing a fresh regulatory win for cryptocurrencies in the United States. Bitcoin had fallen for three straight days after…
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