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American cloud-based software giant Salesforce has announced it's buying workplace chat app Slack, marking one of the biggest – and most valuable - recent deals in the software industry. On Tuesday, Salesforce announced it would pay $27.7 billion for the independent publicly traded company.

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Salesforce Acquires Slack. Here's the Executive Team Making it Happen

On Tuesday, Swedish “shop now, pay later” fintech giant Klarna revealed several major changes to its board of directors, chiefly that Michael Moritz is replacing Jon Kamaluddin as Chairman. 

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Klarna Taps Sequoia Partner As Next Board Chairman

Over the last few years, two 31-year old twins, Filippo and Marco Mottolese, have grown to dominate the Italian food landscape. Their drive and innovation led to two renowned companies that they founded less than five years ago: Foorban and Miscusi. 

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The Mottolese Twins are Leading Food Retail Innovation in Italy

While the UK scene is in dire need of more support for entrepreneurs from Black communities, it’s important to support the thriving number of entrepreneurs from those backgrounds which are creating great things.

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Ten Rising Black-Owned Startups in the UK

On Monday, eBay hired Eve Williams as Chief Marketing Officer, UK. In her new role, Williams will help the global e-commerce company build its brand with British customers through impactful brand campaigns, content, and integrated marketing plans to show the breadth of eBay’s marketplace. 

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eBay Hires Veteran Global Brand Director as CMO

Ola, a ride-hailing and micro-mobility company, has announced that GM veteran Jose Pinheiro will serve as the Head of Global Manufacturing and Operations for its burgeoning electric vehicle business. 

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Ola 

Ola Hires GM Veteran To Realize Its Electric Vehicle Ambitions

The state’s largest city and capital, Indianapolis, is on the radar of the biggest names in tech, as Salesforce’s largest presence outside of San Francisco is in Indianapolis and Amazon picked the city as a top 20 finalist for is HQ2.

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Ten Indiana Startups to Know in 2020

Interestingly, the Italian government still owns a significant share of many of these large businesses, a remnant from when the state was the most important buyer for the strategic utilities industry during Italy's fascist period. 

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Milan 

The Ten Largest Companies in Italy by Revenue

José Calderon is already one of the most successful serial entrepreneurs in Latin America at just 33 years old, having co-founded and led three of the most disruptive food-tech startups in the region: Domicilios.com, Merqueo, and currently RobinFood, perhaps his most ambitious venture yet. 

José Calderon

The Man Disrupting LatAm's Food Industry

Armed with almost $190M in total funding, Hyperscience has come close to doubling its team in 2020 and has goals to do the same in 2021. Maintaining that growth over the course of two years would be challenging for any company, but for one that’s on the cutting edge of machine learning and AI automation, nailing the hiring process, especially on the technical side, will be imperative. 

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Hyperscience is Doubling (Again) — Here’s How Suren Hiraman Will Build Another Powerful Engineering Team

For the past ten years, the tech scene in France has grown at a rapid pace, and the country now has over 9,900 startups, including six unicorns among the 400 worldwide unicorns.

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The Top 10 French Startups to Know in 2020

Social media is an ever-changing landscape with new entrants popping up all the time, however, few have the clout to stick around, which makes Parler an anomaly. 

Parler 

The People With Power at Parler

Almost 10% of B Corps worldwide can be found in Australia and New Zealand - significant considering  the region’s population is around  30 million - and that number is growing.

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Sydney, Australia

Ten B Corps Driving Impact in Australia

India is home to 21 startup unicorns valued at $73.2 billion, and 5 of these joined the club after February 2020. 


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Downtown Mumbai 

The 5 New Unicorns Born During India’s Lockdown

“In some ways, Jumprope is a new type of distributed media company or social media company," says Jake Poses. "We're just empowering everyday people to create, frankly, better content than they're creating from their kitchens, their bathrooms, and their garages.” 

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The Key to Jumprope's Success? Not Rushing the Idea 

Individuals and organisations alike rushed to express support and solidarity with the BLM movement and to recognize the dire nature of the situation in the country. Only 1.5% of managers, directors, and senior officials in the UK were Black in 2019 - a figure which has only gone up by 0.1 percentage-points since 2014. 

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How the Black Lives Matter Movement is Changing Business in London

Hedvig focuses their energy on building a more rewarding and supportive insurance experience - one in which they have no reason to question their member’s stories.

Hedvig

Can the Trust-Based Model of this Swedish Startup Change Insurance Globally?

Ahmed, along with co-founders Craig Fernandes and his father Ian Fernandes, as well as CMO Hussain Ali Asgar, launched Lock&Stock in 2017 to combat phone addiction in the classroom by incentivizing students to lock their phones in return for rewards.

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How Locking Phones is Boosting Higher Education in the UAE

Tackling one big problem at a time, rather than trying to fix every single issue at once, is how John Katzman has been able to start three transformative education companies.

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How John Katzman's Failed Architecture Career Transformed Higher Education

“Your life will change,” the cofounder and CEO of 3DLOOK told The Org. “If you are a founder, the company is no longer just a job — it's your life. And you need to be okay with that, and your closest ones should be okay with that too. But believe me, it’s all worth it.”
