Xata is a database service for serverless apps – TechCrunch
by Romain Dillet | September 20, 2021 | News | 0 Comments
Meet Xata, a startup with a new take on managed databases. The company runs your database for you and turns it into an API so that you can query and update it from your serverless app. Xata has raised a $5 million funding round. Its product is not yet ready for...
Pakistan edtech startup Maqsad gets $2.1M pre-seed to make education more accessible – TechCrunch
by Kate Park | September 20, 2021 | News | 0 Comments
Taha Ahmed and Rooshan Aziz left their jobs in strategy consulting and investment banking in London earlier this year in order to found a mobile-only education platform startup, Maqsad, in Pakistan, with a goal “to make education more accessible to 100 million...
India’s Cars24, a used-vehicle marketplace, raises $450M at a $1.84B valuation – TechCrunch
by Ingrid Lunden | September 20, 2021 | News | 0 Comments
The used car market is getting another major infusion of venture capital today, with one of the faster scaling startups out of India picking up a major round of financing to double down on growth: Cars24 — a site and app that sells users cars and used...
Biden Is Now Flying Blind in Afghanistan
by The Editor | September 19, 2021 | News | 0 Comments
Friday’s admission by the Biden administration that an August drone strike in Kabul accidentally killed an Afghan aid worker and his children demonstrated the limits of “over the horizon” counterterror operations. Such strikes can either scrupulously avoid...
Why Men Are Disappearing on Campus
by The Editor | September 19, 2021 | News | 0 Comments
Some 79% more men than women attended America’s colleges and universities when one of us (Mr. Vedder) was an undergraduate in 1959. Women now greatly outnumber men on campuses. The Journal reported recently that men now make up only about 40% of college...
What Explains Xi’s Pivot to the State?
by The Editor | September 19, 2021 | News | 0 Comments
Something is happening in China that the West doesn’t understand. In recent months Beijing killed the country’s $120 billion private tutoring sector and slapped hefty fines on tech firms Tencent and Alibaba. Chinese executives have been summoned to the capitol...
My Father Became His Own Boss
by The Editor | September 19, 2021 | News | 0 Comments
His priorities were family, money and sports. In that order. Source link
Diversity Days at Veterans Affairs
by The Editor | September 19, 2021 | News | 0 Comments
The Department of Veterans Affairs wants to hear from its customers, so to speak, but check your skin color before raising your hand. The VA is holding dozens of “listening sessions” for patients at its medical facilities. Eight cities are being virtually...
Purging Anthony Gonzalez – WSJ
by The Editor | September 19, 2021 | News | 0 Comments
Last week had some bad omens for Republicans. First they failed to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom, and then Ohio Rep. Anthony Gonzalez announced he won’t run for re-election in 2022. Both events reveal the Donald Trump problem that looms over GOP prospects...
How to Gerrymander the Empire State
by The Editor | September 19, 2021 | News | 0 Comments
Congressional Democrats’ H.R.1 bill to transform elections in the U.S. contains a provision mandating that each state create an “independent redistricting commission” to draw congressional maps. Meanwhile, Democrats in New York, under pressure from party...
