Forum Brands, an e-commerce acquisition platform, announced today that it has secured $100 million in debt funding from TriplePoint Capital. The financing comes just just over two months after the startup raised $27 million in an equity funding round led by Norwest Venture Partners. Brenton Howland, Ruben Amar and Alex Kopco founded New York-based Forum…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A man wearing a protective mask walks past the headquarters of Bank of Japan amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Tokyo, Japan, May 22, 2020.REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan will ramp up efforts to promote sustainable finance such as by nurturing its green bond market…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Evacuees from Afghanistan board a Boeing 777 bound for the United States from Naval Air Station Sigonella, Italy August 28, 2021. U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kaila V. Peters/Handout via REUTERS By Josh Smith (Reuters) – A senior board member of Afghanistan’s central bank is urging the U.S. Treasury and…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: School children wave Japanese and Union Flags (also known as the Union Jack) as a cruise boat carrying Britain’s Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, arrives at the Hama Rikyu gardens in Tokyo February 26, 2015. REUTERS/Toru Hanai By Daniel Leussink and Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) – Member countries of the Comprehensive…
A Florida restaurant owner put a sign outside of her business telling supporters of President Joe Biden not to enter.Angie Ugarte, the owner of DeBary Diner, posted the sign that criticizes the way Biden handled evacuations in Afghanistan, where a blast last week killed 13 U.S. service members.’MILITARY MISSION’ AND EVACUATIONS OVER IN AFGHANISTAN“If you…
DALLAS, Aug. 31, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (Nasdaq: TXN) Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Rich Templeton will speak at the Citi 2021 Virtual Global Technology Conference on Tuesday, Sept. 14, at 8:50 a.m. Eastern time. Templeton will field questions from analysts and investors, as well as discuss TI’s business outlook and its…
Can reading glasses actually be cool? A new eyewear company called Cheeterz Club thinks so. The startup is working to change the perception of reading glasses from being just cheap, disposable items you pick up from a rotating display rack at your local drug store to being something you’d actually be proud to wear. To…
Heroes, one of the new wave of startups aiming to build big e-commerce businesses by buying up smaller third-party merchants on Amazon’s Marketplace, has raised another big round of funding to double down on that strategy. The London startup has picked up $200 million, money that it will mainly be using to snap up more…
Square’s popular free invoicing software is becoming the company’s next big subscription service. The company is poised to announce a paid subscription offering called Invoices Plus, which will offer sellers a set of advanced features, including some that had previously been available with the free service. The service itself had been quietly introduced to individual…
SHENZHEN, China, Aug. 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — realme, the world fastest growing smartphone brand, brought in over $330 million in sales during its much-anticipated realme Fan Festival 2021, achieving 38% YoY growth. realme sold 1.6 Million units smartphone s and 225 thousand units AIoT devices during this festival. This sales record during the Fan Festival…





