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Big Profits from Low Priced Stocks

August 23, 2023
How low will stocks go? That is the question on everyone’s mind as the recent highs for the S&P 500 (SPY) seem like a distant memory as stocks have been…

QIA invests $1 billion in Ambani’s Reliance Retail at $100 billion valuation

August 23, 2023
QIA, Qatar’s sovereign fund, will invest $1 billion in Reliance Retail for a 1% stake in India’s largest retail chain, the two firms said Wednesday. The investment values Reliance Retail, part of Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries, at $100 billion. Reliance Retail — which operates 18.500 stores and digital commerce platforms, selling everything from electronics to […]

A cell that does it all

August 23, 2023
From “The Troubled Hunt for the Ultimate Cell” (1998), by Antonio Regalado: “If awards were given for the most intriguing, controversial, underfunded and hush-hush of scientific pursuits, the search for the human embryonic stem (ES) cell would likely sweep the categories. It’s a hunt for the tabula rasa of human cells—a cell that has the…

Hackers exploit WinRAR zero-day bug to steal funds from broker accounts

August 23, 2023
Cybercriminals are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in WinRAR, the venerable shareware archiving tool for Windows, to target traders and steal funds. Cybersecurity company Group-IB discovered the vulnerability, which affects the processing of the ZIP file format by WinRAR, in June. The zero-day flaw — meaning the vendor had no time, or zero days, to fix […]

Jobs platform CakeResume gets $5 million in fresh funding

August 23, 2023
CakeResume, used by tech companies like Google, Nvidia and TSMC to find new talent, announced today it has raised $5 million in Series A funding. The round was led by returning investor Mynavi, one of Japan’s largest human resources companies, and will be used to expand in countries like Indonesia, Vietnam and India. Based in […]

Dice books $65M for its event discovery and ticketing platform

August 23, 2023
Live, in-person activity has come back with force in the wake of years of living with Covid-19, and a London startup that built an events tech business is today announcing funding to capitalise on that. Dice, an events discovery and ticketing platform, has raised $65 million, funding that it will be using to grow in […]