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Planning 500,000 charging points for EVs by 2025, Shell becomes the latest company swept up in EV charging boom

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Shell’s plan to roll out 500,000 electric charging station in just four years is the latest sign of an EV charging infrastructure boom that has prompted investors to pour cash into the industry and inspired a few companies to become public companies in search of the capital needed to meet demand. One more deal soon followed.

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Energica CEO plots her Italian EV company’s reboot from lockdown

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There could be more demand for electric vehicles post COVID-19 crisis, believes Energica founder Livia Cevolini. From lockdown in her Northern Italy home, Cevolini shared perspective on the future of motorcycling, acquisition offers and plans to recharge her company when the COVID-19 crisis subsides.

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Gimlet Media and Anchor: What Spotify’s Acquisitions Mean for Podcasts

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It’s the biggest podcast industry acquisition ever, and Spotify isn’t done. Here’s what the podcast acquisitions mean for Spotify, for the entire podcast industry, and for all the tiny underdog podcasters out there. That’s because the acquisitions make Spotify a publisher, as well as platform.

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Reflections on 2018: Rob Freelen, Silicon Valley Bank

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Here, we have the thoughts of Rob Freelen , Los Angeles Market Manager for Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Given SVBs market position, that is great news. If you measure success by exits, the Ring acquisition by Amazon and Cylance acquisition by Blackberry, each for $1 billion, were among the biggest stories of 2018.

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GrubMarket raises $60M as food delivery stays center stage

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Past investors also included Y Combinator, where GrubMarket was part of the Winter 2015 cohort), and for some more context, GrubMarket last raised money in April 2019 , $28 million at a $228 million valuation, a source says. Its opportunity comes in the form of disruption and a gap in the market.

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LA’s consumer goods rental service, Joymode, sells to the NYC retail investment firm, XRC Labs

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The relationship with XRC Labs’ Pano Anthos began after a small pilot integration between Joymode and Walmart launched in late 2019. “ If we had cracked user acquisition in LA we would have rolled it out in a bunch of places.” “From day one, my belief was Joymode was going to be huge or dead. .

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TikTok inks licensing deal with Merlin to use music from independent labels in videos and new Resso streaming service

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Bytedance owns the Resso trademark , so it’s a good bet that it will make its way to more markets soon. Possibly with features that differentiate this later entrant from others in the market? Despite being one of the most popular apps of 2019 , monetisation has largely eluded the company up to now. .

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