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Chinese eSports Provider VSPN Raises $60 Million To Expand Overseas

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Chinese eSports provider VSPN has raised $60 million in a Series B+ funding round to help it expand its operations overseas. Shanghai-based VSPN said it plans to spend the cash largely on investing in innovative eSports production technologies, creating new products and expanding its reach overseas.

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TemperPack CEO On An eCommerce Shipping Future Free Of Styrofoam

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“Styrofoam is a 70-year-old technology that succeeds at being very bulky and fragile, but it doesn’t really insulate all that well,” Powers said. And it doesn’t fit in with most companies’ operations very well.”. And, he noted, TemperPack is just getting started. A Better Choice For Food And MedTech.

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Drones In Reno Will Now Bring You Slurpees From 7-Eleven

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The delivery took place on July 10 at a home in Reno, Nevada, which is where Flirtey is headquartered, according to TechCrunch. Flirtey believes its technology can be applied to the food and retail industries, as well as health care and humanitarian fields. The order was flown by drone to the home of the family who placed the order.

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Nipton, Calif., Goes To Pot, Literally

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Malls operated on that theory for years: Put a few anchor stores in to draw foot traffic and the smaller ancillary stores feast on the revenue rewards of being close by. and its area of retail specialty is marijuana; particularly the growth and technology that supports it. In real estate and in retail, location is everything.

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Balancing customer expectations (and risks) in real-time payments

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IBM RegTech Innovations. It’s easy to think that, since so many countries have already taken the faster payment plunge , the upcoming US initiative would be a smoother operation. However, that would mean operating under the assumption that payment activity has remained the same as it was ten years ago, which is clearly not the case.

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Balancing customer expectations (and risks) in real-time payments

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IBM RegTech Innovations. It’s easy to think that, since so many countries have already taken the faster payment plunge , the upcoming US initiative would be a smoother operation. However, that would mean operating under the assumption that payment activity has remained the same as it was ten years ago, which is clearly not the case.

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33 Ways Drones Will Impact Society: From Fighting War to Forecasting Weather, UAVs Change Everything

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Drone technology has been used by defense organizations and tech-savvy consumers for quite some time. However, the benefits of this technology extends well beyond just these sectors. And as autonomy and collision-avoidance technologies improve, so too will drones’ ability to perform increasingly complex tasks.