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Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones wanted to raise awareness in the black and Asian communities about the Covid-19 jab. Source: BBC

BeGreatTV, an online education platform featuring Black and brown instructors, recently closed a $450K pre-seed round from Stand Together Ventures Lab, Arlan Hamilton, Tiffany Haddish and others. The goal with BeGreatTV is to enable anyone to learn from talented Black Read more…

Jackie Weaver was in a meeting which went viral with millions of views after it descended into chaos. Source: BBC

The planes were being used by police to fight crime in Baltimore. Source: BBC

Dublin-based Frontline Ventures has released details of its new €70 million ($83.8M) Frontline Seed fund III which will be aimed at European B2B startups. The new fund will bring Frontline’s total funds under management to €250 million, deployed out of Read more…

Fans of the classic N64 game have been hoping for a high-definition remake for decades. Source: BBC

The record label says Triller has “shamefully withheld payments owed to our artists”. Source: BBC

Djamo, a financial super app for consumers in Francophone Africa, is the first startup from Ivory Coast to get backing from Y Combinator. While there has been a huge profusion of financial services that have emerged in recent years in Read more…

Twinco Capital, a Madrid and Amsterdam-based startup making it easier to access supply chain finance, has raised €3 million in funding. Leading the round is Spanish VC fund Mundi Ventures, with participation from previous backer Finch Capital and several unnamed Read more…

PayPal is shutting down its domestic business in India, less than four years after the American giant kickstarted local operations in the world’s second largest internet market. “From 1 April 2021, we will focus all our attention on enabling more Read more…

Kuaishou, a Chinese video app that’s largely underappreciated outside China, has just completed a massive initial public offering in Hong Kong. The app is by far the biggest rival for Douyin, TikTok’s Chinese version, and unlike many Western video platforms Read more…

BBC Click’s Paul Carter looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week. Source: BBC

Carmakers and consumer-gadget companies are struggling to source enough computer chips. Source: BBC

Chinese companies lead the way in super-apps but where is the next one coming from? Source: BBC

A robotic dog that can cope with new scenarios is an important stop in artificial intelligence. Source: BBC

Democrats in the House voted to strip freshman Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of some of her responsibilities Thursday, citing her penchant for violent, anti-democratic and at times anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. Greene has expressed support for a range of alarming Read more…

This probably falls under “good problems,” in the grand scheme of things. After another record quarter, Peloton has announced that it will invest more than $100 million in air and ocean freight deliveries due to “longer-than-acceptable wait times for the Read more…

NASA has awarded Firefly Aerospace a $93.3 million contract to take a lunar lander module loaded with experiments to the surface of the moon. While the company will not be performing the launch itself, it will be providing the spacecraft Read more…