What’s the ‘secret sauce’ behind Croatian EV maker Rimac?

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What’s the ‘secret sauce’ behind Croatian EV maker Rimac?Rimac Group made headlines in June after it raised €500 million ($537 million) in a Series D round led by Goldman Sachs and SoftBank Vision Fund 2. The deal valued the Croatian startup at $2.2 billion, prompting the question: How has this company succeeded where so many […]

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Indian fintechs request central bank to treat full-KYC PPI same as bank account to survive crackdown

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Indian fintechs request central bank to treat full-KYC PPI same as bank account to survive crackdownPayments giants and fintech startups in India on Saturday requested the central bank to treat widely used prepaid payment instruments on par with bank accounts for customers who have undertaken certain verifications, days after the monetary authority signalled industry-wide crackdown. […]

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Crypto community or crumbling cult? And other TC news

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Crypto community or crumbling cult? And other TC newsThis week on the TechCrunch Podcast I talk with Jacquelyn Melinek about the power and pitfalls of crypto communities and Devin Coldewey about why Pornhub’s COO and CEO have unceremoniously stepped down. And as always, you’ll get a rundown of the week’s top news on TechCrunch. Articles […]

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25 French unicorns, 25 French unicorns, do I hear 100?

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25 French unicorns, 25 French unicorns, do I hear 100?Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. My home country’s president, Emmanuel Macron, wants to have 100 French unicorns by 2030. Economy […]

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Startup layoffs, the art of reinvention and a MasterClass in change

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Startup layoffs, the art of reinvention and a MasterClass in changeJust as one company’s success shouldn’t cast a halo on its vertical’s brethren, one company’s layoffs don’t quite mean that its competitors are equally screwed. Instead, I think that changes within a particular startup can be used as benchmark questions for their larger market; in […]

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Qualcomm Webinar: 5G mmWave today – Insights on monetization and global adoption

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Qualcomm Webinar: 5G mmWave today – Insights on monetization and global adoptionmmWave is poised to deliver the true promise of 5G – cost-efficient extreme capacity and new user experiences. With 110+ operators licensed to deploy ultra-high band spectrum above 24 GHz in over 27 countries, and a robust mmWave device ecosystem, strong 5G mmWave growth […]

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Rogers, Shaw may need to divest more mobile assets in merger: Report

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Rogers, Shaw may need to divest more mobile assets in merger: ReportRogers and Shaw last week agreed to sell Freedom Mobile, the cellular business owned by Shaw, to Montreal-based Quebecor Canada’s competition bureau is expected to ask Rogers Communications to sell Shaw Communications’ cellular unit Shaw Mobile to overcome competition concerns presented by the proposed […]

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