Covering Bases Blog
Aimed at both first-time entrepreneurs looking to build a platform business and experienced C-level executives, the Covering Bases blog is a rolling commentary, including business strategies and useful information.
AI specialist Appier has raised $80 million
Interested to learn that the articifical intelligence start-up Appier has raised $80 million in its Series D round of funding. The latest in a line of investors include TGVest Capi...
China plans stronger protections for intellectual property
Yesterday, China declared it would seek to improve its much criticised protections for intellectual property rights, including raising the upper limits for compensation for proven ...
Insurance platform raises $45 million
In case you missed it, San Francisco-based Vouch Insurance, a dedicated platform offering business insurance for start-up businesses, stated on Wednesday that it raised $45 million...
Y Combinator to close its Chinese unit
Interested to learn that the high profile business incubator, Y Combinator has announced it is to close its Chinese unit, YC China. The move comes as tensions between the United St...
Trump mulls whether to exempt Apple from China tariffs
President Donald Trump was quoted on Wednesday that he was considering whether to exempt Apple Inc from tariffs on Chinese imports.
Servers and software used (version 1)
We are a relatively new property, with a ton of CPU and memory intensive functionality. Our functional spec is based around the serving of content, e-commerce transactions and memb...
An insight into our hosting set-up
We have recently moved from the dedicated server hosted in Australia, over to the cloud primarily based in San Francisco. So far so good. Certainly, I am loving how easy it is to m...
Google is testing its own version of Live Gold
Reports highlight that the Silicon Valley titan has begun testing ‘Google Stadia”, an upcoming game streaming service that requires separate game purchases.
German FinTech start-up raises $30m
The business-to-business invoicing and payments platform company Billie has successfully raised €30 million in Series B funding. Leading the round was Creandum, who were joined by ...