Berlin-based Grover, which runs a subscription business where people rent consumer electronics, is raising & euro; 45M Series B in shares and & euro; 15M in debt (Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch)

A startup tapping into the concept of the circular economy, where people don’t buy items outright but pay an incremental amount to use them temporarily, has raised some funding to scale its business in Europe and beyond. Grover,…
Alan, a health insurance company with 155K members using his “super health care app” in France, Belgium, Spain, raises & euro; 185M led by Coatue to a valuation of & euro; 1.4B (Amy Lewin / Sifted)

There are several reasons to keep an eye on Alan. The French healthtech startup has doubled its members over the past 12 months — it now has 155k members, covers 9.4k companies and is aiming to have 1m…
Xometry, an online marketplace allowing companies to find overcapacity manufacturers, files its S-1, revealing a loss of $ 31M in 2020 on a turnover of $ 141M (Sara Gilgore / Washington …)

Sara Gilgore / Washington, DC Business Journal: Xometry, an online marketplace for companies to find manufacturers with excess capacity, files its S-1, revealing a loss of $ 31 million in 2020 on revenue of $ 141 million– Montgomery County…
Rapyd, a “fintech-as-a-service” supplier, to acquire Iceland-based Valitor, which develops in-store and online payment technologies, for $ 100 million (Omar Faridi / Crowdfund Insider)

Rapyd, a multinational Fintech as a Service (FaaS) provider, has entered into a definitive agreement with Arion Banki (Arion Bank) in order to acquire Valitor, an Icelandic payments solutions firm. As confirmed in a release shared with Crowdfund…
Microsoft was planning to reduce its 30% reduction to 12% for Xbox games as well, a document filed in the Epic lawsuit against Apple in January (Tom Warren / The Verge)

Microsoft had been planning to cut its Xbox store cut to just 12 percent, according to confidential documents filed in the Epic Games vs. Apple case. The software maker details its store fees and changes in a document…
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Coffee is one of the most essential hot drinks that everyone needs in the morning. In the night, when someone needs energy coffee plays an integral role in energizing the body. It contains caffeine that is sure to…
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What was the first World Cup for Ronaldo and Messi

The 2022 World Cup is likely to be the last for Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. The legendary players have not yet taken the trophy with their teams. Messi was closer to the trophy, with the national team…
Q&A with Jennifer Daniel of the Unicode Consortium, the first woman to lead the Emoji Subcommittee, on inclusiveness, how emoji are viewed in the world, and more (Tanya Basu / MIT Technology Review)

Emoji are now part of our language. If you’re like most people, you pepper your texts, Instagram posts, and TikTok videos with various little images to augment your words—maybe the syringe with a bit of blood dripping from…