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Top internet firms didn’t let a ‘funding winter’ dampen their spending in the last fiscal, an ETtech analysis found. Details of this and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.Also in this letter:■ Byju’s cap table reset■ Bids for modernisation of SCL■ Nasscom’s suggestions for BudgetStartups talk up funding winter, but loosen their purse strings Several of the country’s top internet firms stepped up their spending during fiscal 2023 despite all the talk about controlling expenses given the onset of a ‘funding…

Breadcrumb Trail LinksNewsCultureCanadaBooks'We’re Canadians. We might as well embrace it. It’s part of what we are. Winter is us!' says Edmonton's Joe ChowaniecPublished Jan 19, 2024  •  2 minute read Images from Joe Chowaniec's social media include frozen eggs, noodles and toilet paper. Photo by Joe ChowaniecArticle contentWhen the going gets cold, Alberta’s Joe Chowaniec gets outside.The Edmonton resident is Executive Director of the Environmental Services Association of Alberta and also a professional photographer…

A Nashville judge ruled Thursday that John Oates must remain in a holding pattern and take no “further action” to sell his half of his business partnership with Daryl Hall against Hall’s wishes. Instead, Oates must wait for the arbitrator selected in the famed duo’s previously filed arbitration to resolve the now highly public battle over the fate of Hall & Oates’ intellectual property. In a six-page ruling obtained by Rolling Stone, the judge said Hall had “made a sufficient showing of risk of irreparable…

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze has received a massive discount for Black Friday 2023. For a limited time, you can snag the colorful side-scrolling platformer for only $30. This 50% discount matches the lowest price ever for Tropical Freeze, so it's certainly possible it'll sell out.Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze is one of the many Wii U games that was given new life on Nintendo Switch. It earned a 9/10 in our Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze review."Tropical Freeze isn't a heavy-hitter from Nintendo in…

Warning of tough times ahead, CEO of Volkswagen Passenger Cars, Thomas Schäfer, addressed top VW employees this week, telling them, “This is the final wake-up call.” Schäfer is calling for a short-term spending freeze to get costs under control. “We are letting the costs run too high in many years,” VW’s leader proclaimed during an online management meeting this week. Schäfer said he plans to cut spending for the rest of the year as part of a broader company-wide savings plan. Last month, VW…

In the past few years, students have missed out on seats in top engineering colleges only because they failed to completely understand the admission process. When a seat is allocated, choose your option - Freeze, Float or Slide - carefully. Not choosing an option means you are rejecting the offered seat and you will be out of the counselling process in the subsequent rounds In the past few years, students have missed out on seats in top engineering colleges only because they failed to completely understand the…

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze for Nintendo Switch is discounted to just $30 (normally $60) for My Best Buy Plus or Total members. The price applies to both physical and digital versions of the game. My Best Buy is the retailer's subscription service that includes benefits depending on your membership level. The basic My Best Buy membership is free and grants you free standard shipping, but the $50/year My Best Buy Plus and the $180/year My Best Buy Total offer extra perks like early…

MINNEAPOLIS—The rat kidney on the operating table in front of Joseph Sushil Rao looked like it had been through hell. Which it had—a very cold one. Normally a deep pink, this thumbnail-size organ was blanched a corpselike gray. In the past 6 hours, it had been plucked from the abdomen of a white lab rat, pumped full of a black fluid, stuck in a freezer cooled to –150°C, and zapped by a powerful magnet. Now, in a cramped, windowless room on…

The Securities and Exchange Commission and Binance have come to an agreement that will allow the cryptocurrency exchange to continue operating in the US until a lawsuit filed by the SEC earlier this month is resolved. The regulator sued Binance and founder Changpeng Zhao, better known as CZ, on June 5th, alleging the company had artificially inflated trading volumes, mixed and diverted customer assets and failed to restrict US investors from trading on Binance.com when they were supposed to stay on a separate US system.…

Credit: Shutterstock As someone who has spent the last decade researching sexual harassment and violence in public spaces, the question I'm commonly asked is: "What advice should I give my teenage daughter about what to do when she's harassed by men in public? " This question is, of course, completely understandable. We all want…