Subaru Loves Pets is funding pet adoptions and homeless pet transport

Subarus are popular with dog owners. You can tell that by its many commercials featuring man’s best friend. However, the company is doing a lot more for pets than simply keeping a handful of animal actors employed. Through its Subaru Loves Pets initiative, it has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to the ASPCA to […]

Tom DeLonge needs your help funding his next UFO obsession

Former Blink-182 singer and guitarist Tom DeLonge is taking his fascination with/conspiracy theories about UFOs to their logical conclusion point: He’s partnering with former government officials on a public benefit corporation studying “exotic technologies” from Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP) that the consortium says can “revolutionize the human experience.” To The Stars Academy says it strives […]

Trump makes opening demands for ‘Dreamer’ deal — including funding for the wall

Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images President Donald Trump, who pledged to work with Democrats to protect “Dreamers” — young people brought illegally to the United States as children — called on Sunday for money to fund a border wall and thousands more immigration officers to be part of any deal. Trump’s list of immigration “principles,” laid out in […]

SEC hack came as internal security team begged for funding

Somebody didn’t hear that whistle blowing. (credit: Securities and Exchange Commission Office of the Whistleblower) Last month, the Securities and Exchange Commission revealed a 2016 breach of a test system that allowed an unknown party to get access to unpublished corporate information in the SEC’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR) system. The breach […]

Marketing tech startup mParticle has raised $35 million in Series C funding

mParticle Marketing technology startup mParticle has raised $ 35 million in Series C funding. The funding round was led by Harmony Venture Partners and included previous investors Bain Capital Ventures and Social Capita. The company has raised a total of $ 76 million since launching in 2013. mParticle has built software designed to help marketers suck in data […]

Slack has been valued at $5.1 billion after new funding led by SoftBank

Thomson Reuters (Reuters) – Software startup Slack Technologies Inc said it raised $ 250 million from SoftBank Group Corp and other investors in its latest funding round, boosting the company’s valuation to $ 5.1 billion. The latest fund-raising, led by SoftBank through its giant Vision Fund and joined by Accel and other investors, lifted Slack’s […]

Trump just reached a deal with top Democrats to protect ‘dreamers’ — and they say it doesn’t include wall funding

Alex Wong/Getty Images Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi announced they have reached a deal with President Donald Trump that would protect certain unauthorized immigrants as part of a broader border security agreement. The two Democratic leaders made the announcement Wednesday night after a meeting with Trump. They said their […]

Trump increases federal funding for debris removal after Harvey

Thomson Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump on Saturday authorized an increase in the level of federal funding for debris removal and emergency protective measures as a result of Hurricane Harvey to 90 percent from 75 percent, the White House said. “President Trump increased cost sharing to 90 percent federal funding for debris […]

Entrepreneurs, don’t fear the seed funding slowdown — it’s a market correction

GUEST: A few years ago at an incubator demo day, I watched open jawed as a would-be seed investor made funding commitments based solely on 7-minute presentations – without speaking with the team or conducting any due diligence. Investor odds may have been better in Vegas. Silicon Valley has been inundated in recent years with […]

Qatar banks under Arab boycott seek Asian & European funding

Published time: 24 Aug, 2017 14:40 Hit by Doha’s ongoing standoff with neighboring Gulf countries, Qatari banks have turned to Asia and Europe for financing as clients from other Arab states started pulling billions of dollars from their accounts. Read more According to the Qatari central bank, the crisis has led to an outflow of […]