Apple released new data about anti-fraud measures related to its operation of the iOS App Store on Tuesday morning, trumpeting a claim that it stopped over $ 7 billion in “potentially fraudulent transactions” across the four years between 2020 and 2023. More than $ 1.8 billion of that total was stopped in 2023, per Apple, […]
Pep Guardiola Expects Manchester City To Be Pitch Perfect Against Fulham
Pep Guardiola insists Manchester City will be prepared for whatever conditions come their way at Fulham on Saturday after training on long grass. City, bidding for an unprecedented fourth successive English title, are renowned for a possession-based passing game suited to the slick, watered surfaces they are guaranteed at their Etihad Stadium home. City manager […]
Pitch Deck Teardown: Cloudsmith’s $15M Series A deck
Back in September 2021, Cloudsmith raised $ 15 million in Series A funding for its cloud platform that manages companies’ software supply chains. At the time, that was the largest Series A round for a Northern Ireland company since 2005, so it definitely got something right! I was delighted to look over Cloudsmith’s deck to […]
TWICE Sana’s Beauty Throwing First Pitch At Baseball Game Awes Everyone
On April 27, TWICE‘s Sana attended the LG Twins vs. KIA Tigers baseball game at Jamsil Stadium, where she also had the honor of throwing the first pitch of the game. Wearing a cropped baseball jersey in support of the LG Twins, Sana was poised and stunning as she wound up for the pitch. It’s always interesting […]
Pitch Deck Teardown: NOQX’s $200K pre-seed deck
NOQX is a Stockholm-based startup on a mission to help companies improve their goal-setting, collaboration mechanisms and experiences. It has just raised a $ 200,000 pre-seed round to help accomplish its aims and, by extension, help out companies with employee counts ranging from 50 to 500 or so. The company hasn’t been around for very […]