Thursday, November 12, 2026

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Anti-scammer startup Apate.AI nabs $11.4 million Seed raise amid US move

The round was led by Silicon Valley VC Lobby Capital, with support from OIF Ventures, Investible, Concept Ventures and Baobab Ventures. Apate previously raised $2.5 million, led by OIF, a year ago. It now has operations in Australia, Europe,...

The ticking clock nobody warns product founders about

We sell concentrated cleaning sheets, the kind that replace a two-litre plastic bottle of detergent with something that fits in a drawer. There are two of us, we have no staff, and every dollar in the business is ours. Our...

Airwallex tips $1 million into 10 AI startups

Cofounder and CEO Jack Zhang announced the annual initiative – Latitude 37 is a reference to Melbourne, where Airwallex began -in April and received 100s of applications from local startups before a panel of VCs and company execs selected...

‘Purpose and commercial success shouldn’t compete’: The founders proving you don’t have to choose

Australian entrepreneurship is becoming harder to define by a single measure of success. For some founders, growth means building a global brand. For others, it means protecting threatened landscapes, creating regional jobs or finding new ways to solve problems that...

In 2004, office workers stayed on one screen for an average of two and a half minutes before switching. By the late 2010s, Gloria...

Two and a half minutes can feel almost spacious beside 47 seconds. Yet those are the bookends Gloria Mark uses to describe one of the longest-running changes her workplace research has documented: how long people remain on a screen...

Psychology says people who sleep in the same bed as their pets aren’t necessarily anxious or over-attached — pets can become genuine attachment figures,...

Somewhere between the pillow and the edge of the mattress, a nightly negotiation over territory takes place. More often than not, the pet wins. The assumption that follows tends to be unkind. Sharing a bed with an animal gets read...

A meaningful life isn’t a checklist you finish by 70, and the research shows what it really rests on

Reach a certain age and the internet fills with checklists promising to certify your life: achieve these seven things by seventy and you have lived meaningfully. The lists are usually well meant, and they tend to point at genuine...

Virginia Beach packed 640,000 tons of garbage into 18-inch layers, capped each one with 6 inches of dirt dredged from the swamp next door,...

Virginia Beach had a problem that most cities solve with geography: nowhere to put its garbage. The city sits on the flat coastal plain of the Chesapeake, with the water table lurking six to eight feet below the surface,...

In 1886 a club of Rockefellers, Morgans and Vanderbilts paid $125,000 for Jekyll Island off Georgia and kept it as a private winter retreat...

In 1904, Munsey’s Magazine surveyed the private playgrounds of America’s rich and awarded Jekyll Island the full crown: the richest, the most exclusive, the most inaccessible club in the world. The judgment was barely an exaggeration. The membership roll...

Georgia appraised Ossabaw Island at $16 million in 1978 and Sandy West sold it to the state for half that, keeping a life estate...

Ossabaw Island sits twenty minutes by boat from Savannah, Georgia, and several decades from everywhere else. It is the state’s third-largest barrier island, 26,000 acres of beach, salt marsh and live-oak forest hung with Spanish moss, roamed by wild...
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As Funds Dried Up, Nonprofit Immigration Group Hired Anti-Labor Law Firm to Crush Union

As the two executives of immigration advocacy group Washington Immigration Solidarity Network (WAISN) burned through cash and as donations...
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