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Inside the Google-Epic deal: lower app store fees, alternative storefronts, and a ‘sweetheart’ concern

Why people who grew up without financial safety nets can walk into any room and immediately sense who has real authority and who is performing it

How layoff survivors at European scale-ups are quietly burning out behind record growth numbers

Anghami CEO’s side project World Monitor now has 2 million users tracking conflicts in real time

I mapped who profits when a country’s internet gets shut down , it’s never who you think

Speedy grocery startup Flink raises $100m at $900m valuation

Elon Musk says his tweets are personal thoughts. A $44 billion trial tests who pays when markets disagree.

Photoncycle raises €15m to scale its ‘summer sun to winter power’ energy solution

Self-driving startup Oxa raises $103m round backed by Nvidia and BP

Iran war underscores the ‘urgency’ for Europe to build its defence capabilities, VCs say