Walgreens to close 1,200 stores over next 3 years
Walgreens warned in June that it planned to shut down a significant number of its stores, but now it’s giving some more precise numbers: 1,200 of the chain’s roughly 8,600…
Azra Games, a blockchain-based video game developer, raises $42 million from Pantera Capital
Many crypto enthusiasts have tried and failed to combine the multi-billion dollar video game industry with NFTs and blockchain technology. Out of 2,817 web3 games launched between 2019 and 2023,…
The world may be slipping backward into a ‘geopolitical risk supercycle’
After decades of relative peace that led to economic expansion, globalization, and the integration of markets, the world may be slipping backward into a “geopolitical risk supercycle,” warns geopolitical strategist…
Exclusive: Towns raised $25.5 million from Andreessen Horowitz – The on-chain messaging platform launches today
Towns, an on-chain messaging platform co-founded by the creator of video streaming apps Houseparty and Meerkat, launched on Tuesday after raising $25.5 million in their Series A funding round with…
Canada-India tensions: Who is Lawrence Bishnoi, at centre of row?
India and Canada expelled six of each others’ diplomats in tit-for-tat moves after Ottawa accused Indian government agents of links to the 2023 murder of a Sikh separatist leader near…
Exclusive: Ghost, B2B retail inventory marketplace, raises a $40 million Series C led by L Catterton
Product managers, tech leads, engineers, and designers collaborate in spectrally-named teams to dream up new products for the retail inventory platform. There’s one group named for Pac-Man ghost Blinky and…
13 Tips for Creating Videos for Instagram Like the Brands You Love [+ Examples]
Creating videos for Instagram has to be one of my favorite marketing tasks.
N-Type Thermoelectric Technology to Harness Waste Heat
- Advertisement - A research team at Korea Institute of Materials Science has developed a novel n-type thermoelectric semiconductor material, advancing the ability to recycle waste heat from industrial sectors.…
Singapore’s government blocks Allianz from completing $1.7 billion deal
Singapore’s government made a rare intervention in a merger deal, stepping in to block a controversial $1.7 billion deal by Germany’s Allianz to buy Income Insurance, a cooperative-turned-company. On Monday,…
Sluggish sales leave Portugal’s iconic wine producers grappling with sour grapes
Jose Manuel Ferreira should have already started harvesting grapes on his century-old vineyard in northern Portugal — instead he is still looking for a buyer for his crop. “I used…
