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Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday full approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine from the Food and Drug Administration – reportedly expected as soon as early next month – would open the door to a vaccine mandate for lawmakers and staff, the strongest indication yet from the House’s highest ranking member…

NEW YORK, Aug. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The  “Coffee Creamer Market by Type and Geography – Forecast and Analysis 2021-2025”  report has been added to  Technavio’s offering. Technavio has been monitoring the coffee creamer market and it is poised to grow by USD 2.51 billion during 2021-2025, progressing at a CAGR of over 4% during the forecast period. The report…

NANJING, China, Aug. 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Made-in-China.com, China’s leading comprehensive third-party B2B e-commerce platform, will be holding its largest ever Virtual Sourcing Expofrom August 16 to August 27, 2021 via its website and mobile app. With travel to China still remaining largely impractical, Made-in-China.com is working hard to ensure business continuity for global buyers.…

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for August 6, 2021. We made it to Friday. High-fives all around. If you own stocks or cryptos, you are wrapping up the week on a…

Assembling a startup team is harder than assembling 10 IKEA dressers, and the stakes are much, much higher. Starting with the assumption that 90% of startups will fail and the most successful ones take an average of six years to IPO, founders must make careful decisions about whom they invite to join the core team.…

Kenny Small is vice president SAP and Enterprise at Qualitest Group, the world’s leading AI-powered quality engineering company. Brick-and-mortar stores forced to close due to pandemic lockdowns had to quickly pivot to an online-only model. Understandably, newcomers to the digital retail scene found themselves behind the curve in attracting online buyers, particularly in the face…

Micromobility startup Voi has raised $45 million, funds it says will be used to research and develop technology that will improve safety, keep users from riding on sidewalks and ensure scooters are properly parked. The funding comes a month after Voi launched a pilot in Northhampton, UK with Irish startup Luna to test how computer…

More than 40 African startups from a handful of countries have gone through YC over the past decade. Zambia joins that list today, and its entrant, Union54, is a worthy first entry. Union54 (54 is a nod to the number of African countries) is a fintech company founded by Perseus Mlambo and Alessandra Martini. The…

UK-based open banking bulk payment startup Comma has raised £4.34 million ($6m) in a Seed round of funding led by Octopus Ventures and Connect Ventures. They were joined by investors Village Global, and the founders of Wagestream, Peter Briffet and Portman Wills. The company says it enables small and micro businesses to bulk pay bills,…

This past decade, Nigeria has seen several companies cater to the development and growth of software engineers and tech talent in general. It’s a space many in the Nigerian ecosystem like to think is budding yet overcrowded. So when Chika Nwobi started Decagon in 2018, the perception was generally “here comes another tech talent accelerator.”…