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‘Back’ Season 2 By Lea Palmieri Fans of British comedies will be happy to know that the Robert Webb-David Mitchell series Back is, well, back. Now streaming on AMC+, and with new episodes airing weekly on IFC, the dark comedy from Simon Blackwell about a man trying to suss out his foster brother is twisted, …

The explosion of e-commerce and online buying has fueled a tsunami of issues for global companies that must ensure payments can be seamless and in the form and manner each locale prefers. That has fueled a push by payment providers to create more customized solutions. PPRO’s technology is underpinning many of these solutions and investors …

GUANGZHOU, China–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nov 24, 2020– The World Forum of Unicorn Companies was held at the South China University of Technology in Guangzhou, China, on November 19. Highlighting the theme of “leading the way with technological innovation and entrepreneurship in the new era”, the forum invited several front runners of technological innovation enterprises from different industries, …

GUANGZHOU, China–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The World Forum of Unicorn Companies was held at the South China University of Technology in Guangzhou, China, on November 19. Highlighting the theme of “leading the way with technological innovation and entrepreneurship in the new era”, the forum invited several front runners of technological innovation enterprises from different industries, and created an …

Steadview Capital has invested $85 million, through a secondary transaction, in SaaS major Freshworks, as it bulks up its India portfolio with yet another unicorn, Ravi Mehta, managing director of the London-based firm, told ET. The transaction, which closed in January this year, saw Steadview Capital make its ninth investment in an Indian privately-held technology …

WeWork’s aborted IPO may come to mark the end of the current “unicorn” bubble the way the scuttled merger between Yahoo and eBay signaled the start of the dotcom crash in 2000. Having become CEO of Nasdaq in 2003, I saw up close the damage caused by the growth-over-profits philosophy in that earlier era, and …

BENGALURU: The top unicorns—shorthand for startups with valuations of $1 billion or more—in India are also the most acquisitive. Among other things, it indicates how many of these companies have used mergers and acquisitions (M&As) to scale up rapidly in a short period of time. In contrast, among traditional technology companies in India, such deals …