France has cut the amount that tourists must spend to claim back the VAT on their purchases.

Switzerland's Federal Department of Finance is extending the time limit within which tourists can export goods purchased in the country tax free.

Effective August 1, 2020, Switzerland relaxed the rules for tourists seeking to export goods free from tax.

The Dutch Government has issued a decree to ensure the country's dividend withholding tax rules comply with the European Court of Justice's ruling in the Sofina case.

Starting in 2025, Australia will provide free respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccinations (!--ref1--) for newborns and pregnant women. Mark

The Dutch Government has issued a decree to ensure the country's dividend withholding tax rules comply with the European Court of Justice's ruling in the Sofina case.

Fruits of new investments in CGIAR could include big boost in rice production for Asia, sustainable irrigation for millions of parched farms in Africa, and dramatic drop in forest destruction tied to agriculture. Washington, D.C. and Montpellier, France — CGIAR, the world’s largest agriculture research partnership, today announced its funding has doubled from $500 million […]

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IWMI and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation have awarded five organisations with funds to develop innovations for solar irrigation.

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A holistic approach and reliable database on water resources and their use across Pakistan is the key to achieving food, water, and energy security in the fifth most climate-vulnerable country in the world.

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Smoking is a life-threatening habit and causes serious health issues. If smoking is not controlled, it is not possible to reduce the gap between rich and poor people who can live healthily.

Bridging gaps between research, policy and implementation can make cities flood-resilient.

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State, National Long Term Care Leaders to Warn of Growing Threat to Washington Seniors' Care in Wake of Legislative Sess

President's Cancer Panel Calls for Fundamental Shift in Chemicals Policy

Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation Funds Amicus Therapeutics To Advance Pharmacological Chaperone Technology

The recommendations have been made in a joint report of 'India-Japan Business Leaders Forum' 2016 which was presented to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe here on Friday.

Rupee depreciation, foreign fund outflows and lower global crude oil prices depressed the Indian equity markets on Tuesday.

The monthly systematic investment plan (SIP) inflow made a new all-time high in India at Rs 25,323 crore in October, from Rs 24,509 crore in September, according to the latest data from the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) on Monday.

The Centre on Tuesday said it has released 15th Finance Commission grants for FY25 for rural local bodies in Kerala worth Rs 266.8 crore, along with Rs 27 crore for rural local bodies in Meghalaya (for FY22), for addressing location-specific needs.

The new fund has already made around 20 investments, and it will operate with a generalist thesis, investing across the whole of Europe.

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U.S. venture capital giant General Catalyst has announced a fresh $8 billion in funds as it looks to ramp up its investments in multi-sector early-stage startups globally, with a specific focus on the U.S., Europe, and India. The capital constitutes around $4.5 billion for its “core VC funds,” which spans seed and growth equity funding, […]

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The startup ecosystem in the Iberian Peninsula — the region encompassing Spain and Portugal — has been on a roll the last couple of years. The value of Spanish startups surpassed €100 billion in 2023, according to Dealroom data, with venture investment of €2.2 billion across some 850 rounds. Meanwhile, Portugal has produced a slew of […]

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Harry Stebbings (pictured above), the U.K. podcaster who broke into the world of tech with his 20-minute interviews of venture capitalists and founders, parlayed that fame into becoming a VC himself. Now, Stebbings has closed his third investment vehicle, and it’s his biggest yet: 20VC, the firm named after the podcast series, has closed a […]

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Couchbase, the Santa Clara-based company behind the eponymous NoSQL cloud database service, today announced that it has raised a $105 million all-equity Series G round “to expand product development and global go-to-market capabilities.” The oversubscribed round was led by GPI Capital, with participation from existing investors Accel, Sorenson Capital, North Bridge Venture Partners, Glynn Capital, […]

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Tofino Capital, a venture capital firm targeting early-stage startups in emerging markets, has launched its $10 million fund. It is announcing the first close of this fund at $5 million and hopes to achieve a final close nine months from now.   The firm, founded by Eliot Pence and Aubrey Hruby, wants to back startups in Africa, […]

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Online language learning continues to be a huge opportunity for startups, with the most engaging experiences meeting a surge of interest from consumers looking for more productivity out of the hours that they spend on their smartphones. In one of the more recent developments, a language learning app called EWA — which has built a […]

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Andreessen Horowitz is launching a new vertical fund exclusively focused on opportunities in the games industry. The new $600 million fund brings a pool of dedicated capital and a new internal structure dedicated to sourcing deals inside the games vertical. The new vehicle, called Games Fund One, joins other industry-specific arms at a16z, including its […]

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Mira Murati, the OpenAI CTO who announced her departure last month, is raising VC funding for a new AI startup, according to Reuters. This startup will reportedly focus on building AI products based on proprietary models and could raise more than $100 million in this round. When she left, Murati wrote on X that OpenAI […]

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AI search engine Perplexity is in fundraising talks and hopes to raise around $500 million at an $8 billion valuation, according to The Wall Street Journal. If a deal happens with those terms, it would more than double Perplexity’s valuation from its $3 billion valuation when it raised from SoftBank over the summer. The WSJ […]

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Companies across the board are fighting to recruit and retain employees as the war for talent rages on. Employee benefits are no longer viewed as a cookie-cutter, standard set of offerings — rather, they are valuable tools employers can use to differentiate themselves from competitors and attract top candidates. Forma, which just changed its name […]

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It’s no secret that a massive digital transformation is happening within financial services companies and amid the growing number of non-financial outfits that are also adding financial products to their offerings. Still, Sheel Mohnot, who was formerly a general partner at the fintech fund of 500 Startups, and Jake Gibson, co-founder of personal finance startup […]

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During every economic boom, there are startup investors who appear on the scene from new corners. Some churn out; others earn the respect of the old guard over time. Jake Paul would be happy to be in the latter camp. Then again, the 24-year-old didn’t become a social media star by being conventional. Little wonder […]

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Two young Australian innovators are ready to take their ventures to the next level after sharing in $20,000 in seed funding from PwC during a live pitching event held by the Foundation for Young Australians.

PwC’s asset management leader, Ken Woo, said Japan’s commitment to creating a regional market for managed funds represents a ‘tipping point’ in terms of momentum for the initiative.

Australias four major banks delivered combined cash earnings of $14.9 billion for the first half to March 2016.

L Capital Asia, a private-equity firm backed by LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, has made its second investment in Australia, a person familiar with the matter said Monday.

An EY report released on Sunday showed that proceeds from initial public offerings (IPOs) in the country surged 61% last year to over $4.09 billion. The 'EY India IPO Trends Report: Q4 2020' showed that the increase in IPO proceeds came

Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif urges developed nations to provide USD 6.8 trillion in climate funding for developing countries by 2030.

Large Cap Funds: దేశీయ స్టాక్ మార్కెట్లలో రోజురోజుకూ మ్యూచువల్ ఫండ్ ఇన్వెస్ట్మెంట్ మేనియా భారీగా పెరుగుతున్న సంగతి తెలిసిందే. ఈ క్రమంలో ఇన్వెస్టర్లు తమకు ఇష్టమైన స్మాల్ క్యాప్, మిడ్ క్యాప్, లార్జ్ క్యాప్, డెట్ ఫండ్స్, లిక్విడ్ ఫండ్స్, ఈటీఎఫ్ ఫండ్స్, ఇండెక్స్ ఫండ్స్, గోల్డ్ ఫండ్స్ అంటూ వివిధ రకాల్లో ఇన్వెస్ట్ చేస్తూ

MidCap Mutual Funds: దేశీయంగా మ్యూచువల్ ఫండ్లకు ఆదరణ పెరుగుతోంది. దీంతో చిన్న మెుత్తంలో అయినా దీర్ఘకాలం పాటు దాటుకుంటే డబ్బులు అనేక రెట్లు పెరుగుతాయని ప్రజలు భావిస్తున్నారు. మ్యూచువల్ ఫండ్స్ గత పనితీరు సైతం ఇదే రుజువు చేస్తోంది. ప్రస్తుతం వేలల్లో దాచుకున్న వ్యక్తులు ఎలా కోట్లు సంపాదించారనే విషయాన్ని ఇప్పుడు తెలుసుకుందాం.. మ్యూచువల్ ఫండ్

Tax Refund Claim: దేశంలో అధిక ఆదాయంతో పన్ను శాఖ ప్రకటించిన శ్లాబ్ రేట్లకు అనుగుణంగా తమ రిటర్న్ ఫైల్ చేస్తున్నారు. ఈ క్రమంలో చాలా మంది పాతపన్న పరిపాలనలో ఉన్న రిఫండ్స్, క్లెయిమ్స్ పొందేందుకు దాని ప్రకారం రిటర్న్ ఫైల్ చేస్తున్నారు. ఈ క్రమంలో సెంట్రల్ బోర్డ్ ఆఫ్ డైరెక్ట్ టాక్సెస్ నుంచి కొత్త మార్గదర్శకాలు

The protests included men, women, and children, many of whom dressed like Mahant Chinmay Krishna Das to show their support.

Why Orios Venture Partners wants to double down on clean tech and climate investments

Why a dozen-odd Indian start-ups handed back to investors the cash that remained after winding up non-starters

Yash Kela, Chief Investment Officer of Singularity Growth, spells out the funding priorities of the equity platform

Even as start-up investments grind down to a seven-year low, VCs are sitting on mounds of unallocated funds

VC firm Zephyr Peacock zeroes in on sectors for its fourth fund deployment