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The guy in charge of Dish wants to buy Boost from Dish

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Dish Network is considering selling its Boost Mobile arm to a company called CONX Corporation, according to a filing with the SEC, spotted by Light Reading. The rub is that CONX is a “company” founded by Charlie Ergen — co-founder and current chairman of Dish Network itself. The … Read more

Ask the professor: Wharton’s Mori Taheripour on how to negotiate the right way

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Mori Taheripour teaches negotiations at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where she has taught undergraduates, MBA students and executive MBA students how to have better business conversations. Taheripour has also coached corporate clients, including on behalf of Goldman Sachs and Major League Baseball, about how to feel more confident and comfortable in … Read more

Royalty-backed Lightrock packs $834 million into its first climate fund

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Lightrock, the London-based backer of neobank Niyo and “wood modification” company Kebony, has secured about $834 million (€860 million) for a new fund focused on climate tech. The private equity and venture firm plans to pump the money into startups in areas such as clean energy, decarbonization and sustainable agriculture. Lightrock will write checks as small … Read more

Katana, an ERP for SMB manufacturers, raises $34M

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Katana, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform for small- and medium-sized manufacturers, has raised €35 million ($34 million) in a Series B round of funding. ERP is a form of business management software that can serve any number of functions inside a company, from marketing and risk management, to supply chain management and beyond. Integrations … Read more

FOLX powers LGBTQ+ telehealth support groups with $30M round

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FOLX Health, a telehealth company catering to the LGBTQIA+ community, closed a fresh $30 million round of funding, which it will use to expand its new support groups feature. The company provides affirming and inclusive care through services such as hormone replacement therapy, PrEP prescriptions, general and sexual health services. FOLX also recently began offering … Read more

Truth Social is now available on the Google Play Store

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Truth Social has been available on iPhone since February. | Photo by Stefani Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images Truth Social, the social media app created by former President Donald Trump, is now available for download on the Google Play Store (via CNBC). In August, Google banned the app over “insufficient” content moderation policies. Truth … Read more

Daily Crunch: Closed early-access product Relay raises $5M seed round to ‘tackle collaborative workflows’

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Warner Bros. Discovery is effectively killing Cartoon Network

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Craig and Kit expressing their displeasure with another Creek Kid | Image: Cartoon Network Along with making Warner Bros. Discovery a less-diverse place overall, CEO David Zaslav’s latest bit of corporate restructuring is probably going to gut Cartoon Network and turn it into a shadow of its former self. For understandable reasons, Warner Bros. Discovery’s … Read more