planity-raises-$forty-eight-million-on-story-of-even-hair-salons-need-their-dangle-saas-product-|-techcrunch-–-techcrunch

Planity raises $forty eight million on story of even hair salons need their dangle SaaS product | TechCrunch – Techcrunch

If you’ve ever traveled in rural areas in France, you may have realized a French peculiarity. Even in the seemingly less populated towns, there’s a hair salon. French startup Planity has been taking advantage of France’s love affair with hair salons to launch a SaaS product for these businesses in particular. Over time, the company

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Singapore-essentially based utterly mostly fintech Xalts acquires digital commerce platform Contour Community | TechCrunch – Techcrunch

In a role reversal, Xalts, a Singapore fintech startup founded 18 months ago, has acquired Contour Network, a digital trade platform set up by eight major banks including HSBC, Standard Chartered and BNP. Terms of the deal were undisclosed, but the acquisition price was in the high single millions and composed of cash and stock.

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Astronomers understanding universe’s brightest object – a quasar powered by a dim gap that eats a sun a day – Guardian

The brightest known object in the universe, a quasar 500tn times brighter than our sun, was “hiding in plain sight”, researchers say. Australian scientists spotted a quasar powered by the fastest growing black hole ever discovered. Its mass is about 17bn times that of our solar system’s sun, and it devours the equivalent of a

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nitazenes-and-xylazine:-what’s-within-the-support-of-the-upward-thrust-of-dangerous-synthetic-remedy?-|-podcast-–-guardian

Nitazenes and xylazine: what’s within the support of the upward thrust of dangerous synthetic remedy? | podcast – Guardian

Social affairs correspondent Robert Booth tells Madeleine Finlay why a class of synthetic opioids called nitazenes, first developed in the 1950s, is leading to a worrying number of fatal overdoses in the UK. And she hears from toxicology and addiction specialist Dr Joseph D’Orazio about a tranquilliser called xylazine that has been showing up in

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