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How to Build Meaningful Connections in the Digital Networking Era

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June 2023

Nigeria’s Termii to launch mobile app and scale customer engagement business with new funding

June 12, 2023

Nigerian communications platform-as-a-service startup Termii has raised $3.65 million in new financing, bringing its total funding to date to slightly $5 million. According to CEO Gbolade Emmanuel, in a chat with TechCrunch, the funds are not needed for operational activities but rather to power the company’s expansion initiatives: developing and promoting existing and new products […]

Nigeria’s Termii to launch mobile app and scale customer engagement business with new funding by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch

HSBC rebrands, expands its SVB UK buy as HSBC Innovation Banking

June 12, 2023

Acquired by HSBC in an emergency sale for just £1 in March as SVB was melting down, SVB UK is now getting a rebrand and expansion under its new owner. Today the banking giant launched HSBC Innovation Banking, a new unit focusing on banking services to the startup, investor, and wider tech community. Rumored for […]

HSBC rebrands, expands its SVB UK buy as HSBC Innovation Banking by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

Djust is a new commerce platform focused exclusively on B2B transactions

June 12, 2023

Meet Djust, a French startup that essentially wants to build an e-commerce platform like Mirakl, but focused exclusively on business-to-business (B2B) activities. The company recently raised a $13 million funding round (€12 million). NEA is leading the most recent funding round, with Elaia Partners also investing in the company. Elaia previously led Djust’s $4 million […]

Djust is a new commerce platform focused exclusively on B2B transactions by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch

Nio said not to join China’s EV price war. Now it’s cutting $4K across all models

June 12, 2023

Nio, one of China’s homegrown Tesla challengers, has slashed the prices of all its models by 30,000 yuan ($4,200), the NYSE-listed premium electric vehicle upstart announced on Monday. The news came as EV makers enter a price war in the world’s largest auto market, where BYD, the 28-year-old, Shenzhen-based company known for its affordable hybrid […]

Nio said not to join China’s EV price war. Now it’s cutting $4K across all models by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch

Tesla fuels an EV charging standards war

June 11, 2023

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Tesla fuels an EV charging standards war by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch