Trump’s mix of threats and secret talks with North Korea are ‘coercive diplomacy 101’

Justin Merriman/Getty Images Even as President Donald Trump says the US military is “locked and loaded” to potentially unleash “fire and fury” on North Korea, the two feuding countries have been holding secretive, back-channel talks, The Associated Press reported Friday. In a process dubbed the “New York channel,” Joseph Yun, the US envoy for North Korea policy and […]

Toast raises $101 million to grow its point-of-sale platform for restaurants

Toast, a point-of-sale (POS) platform aimed at restaurants, raised a chunky $ 101 million this week in a series C round of funding led by Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management and Lead Edge Capital. Some of its existing investors, which include GV (formerly Google Ventures) and Bessemer Venture Partners, also participated in the round. Founded out of […]