Thursday, November 12, 2026

Business

Kiwi electric ferry startup Vessev floats $27 million Series A

The funding was led by ANZ VC Blackbird, with GD1 and Rypples joining the cap table alongside existing investors K1W1, Icehouse Ventures, Shasta Ventures, NZVC and existing angel investors. The funding is to ramp up production of Vessev’s VS-9...

Confidence appears to be contagious. A Birkbeck study found that interacting with a confident partner changed people’s own sense of certainty — and they...

Every workplace has its own acceptable volume of certainty. In one team, saying “I think this is right” sounds appropriately careful. In another, the same sentence is heard as weakness, while the person who speaks without qualification becomes the...

Psychology says people who feel genuinely restored after time in nature aren’t indulgent or avoidant —they’re often carrying a sensitivity that the built world...

Some people come back from two days in the hills looking like a different animal. Not tanned, not simply well-slept. Reset, as though a technician went in overnight and defragmented the hard drive. The people around them usually find this...

Psychology says the kindest people you will ever meet aren’t naive or soft — they are often people who have experienced real pain in...

There is a person everyone has met at least once. The one who notices the new hire eating lunch alone and quietly sits down. The one who remembers the date of your mother’s surgery and sends a message that...

Feeling purposeless in your 60s or 70s isn’t simply a failure of character. Researchers can measure a broad decline in purpose across later adulthood,...

There is a particular kind of shame that can settle over later life. You have reached an age that was supposed to bring perspective. The frantic decades are behind you. Yet when someone asks what gives your days direction, no...

Research Funding Targets Potential of DNA to Lower Healthcare Barriers in BC

Projects translating genetic insights for specific medical uses are pushing to put personalized care into practice. The projects are all funded by Genome British Columbia, which facilitates the integration of genomics into society. Two projects aim to improve access to personalized...

Gotta be bonds: Australian investors wanted to tip $20 billion into Alphabet’s $5.5bn debt raise

And locals couldn’t get enough of the US tech giant’s ‘Kangaroo’ bonds, which mature in 3, 5, 10 and 20 years, with the yield at 6.98% if you have two decades of patience, or 5.24% at 3 years. Astonishingly,...

Oz2US Ventures is hosting free masterclasses for startup keen to crack the US market

‘Preparing for US Expansion: A 2-Hour Interactive Masterclass & Tactical Workshop,’ is led by Robert Gallup, founder of Oz2US Ventures, and hits Adelaide on Monday, August 25, ahead of Sydney, Brisbane, and Perth. The program is designed to to...

In January 1962, Decca Records rejected The Beatles after a one-hour audition, telling their manager that guitar groups were on the way out and...

New Year’s Day, 1962. Four young musicians from Liverpool set up their gear in a London studio. They had driven ten hours through a snowstorm to get there. Their van driver got lost. They arrived so late on New...

Why Meta pays for controversial content – and it means for your Facebook feed

In recent days, media reports have revealed several instances where Facebook has paid for content that could be deemed controversial. ABC News Verify found Facebook had monetised Australian accounts described as having white nationalist, neo-Nazi or anti-vaccine links. According to...
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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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