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Hatch, a neobank for SMBs, launches with $20M in funding from investors like Kleiner Perkins, Foundation and Plaid’s foundersApril 13, 2021 at 11:00 AM After his last startup, Framed Data, was acquired by Square, Thomson Nguyen began exploring new ideas. While an entrepreneur-in-residence at Kleiner Perkins, Nguyen interviewed hundreds of small business owners and realized that many pay hundreds of dollars in fees to maintain a business checking account. “Most small businesses are low margin, high cash flow, so they don’t have $4,000 just laying around,” Nguyen told TechCrunch. “We found in our analysis that micro-SMBs actually end up paying on...Tags: Fundings & Exits, Startups, TC, Small Businesses, Tech, United States, Jp Morgan, Square, Vietnam, Fintech, Foundation Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Mastercard, Smbs, Hatch, Kleiner Sacramento County Tackles Zip Code Vaccine DisparitiesApril 13, 2021 at 3:04 AM cbsoptanon.onScriptsReady(function(cmp){cmp.ot.targetingAllowed(function(a){if(a) AnvatoPlayer("p0").init({"mcp":"cbs","width":"100%","height":"100%","video":"5484494","autoplay":false,"accessKey":"5VD6Eyd6djewbCmNwBFnsJj17YAvGRwl","accessControl":{"preview":false},"pInstance":"p0","plugins":{"heartbeat":{"account":"cbslocal-global-unified","publisherId":"cbslocal","jobId":"sc_va","marketingCloudId":"[email protected]","trackingServer":"cbsdigitalmedia.hb.omtrdc.net","customTrack...Tags: News, Local, Sacramento, Sacramento County, East Sacramento, North Highlands, Cardoza, Nguyen, Foothill Farms, Donald Martin, Coronavirus, Coronavirus Vaccine, Kasirye, Samantha Nguyen, East Arden, Jessica Cardoza 44 people like this. Like Vietnamese electric motorbike startup Dat Bike raises $2.6M led by Jungle VenturesApril 12, 2021 at 9:00 PM Son Nguyen, founder and chief executive officer of Dat Bike
Dat Bike, a Vietnamese startup with ambitions to become the top electric motorbike company in Southeast Asia, has raised $2.6 million in pre-Series A funding led by Jungle Ventures. Made in Vietnam with mostly domestic parts, Dat Bike’s selling point is its ability to compete with gas motorbikes in terms of pricing and performance. Its new funding is the first time Jungle Ventures has invested in the mobility sector and included part...Tags: Fundings & Exits, Startups, TC, Asia, China, Southeast Asia, Tech, Electric Vehicles, Silicon Valley, Mobility, Motorbike, Vietnam, Gogoro, Jungle Ventures, Amit Anand, Ho Chi Minh City 14 people like this. Like “White lives matter’ rally goers are vastly outnumbered in Huntington BeachApril 11, 2021 at 2:48 PM  Tags: News, Protest, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Sport, Soccer, United States, Kkk, City Council, Jack, Orange County, Black Lives Matter, Lapd, BLM, Pacific Coast Highway, White 88 people like this. Like Speed Read, 11 April 2021April 11, 2021 at 1:01 PM  Tags: Japan, Germany, US, Porsche, Motorcycles, Ducati, Netherlands, Vietnam, Honda, Malibu, Dlc, Exif, Scottsdale, Yamaha, Aaron, Alcantara Park Chan-Wook to Helm A24’s Series Adaptation of The SympathizerApril 7, 2021 at 2:06 PM  Tags: TV, Movies, Los Angeles, Bbc, Park, TV News, Vietnam, A24, Nguyen, Steven Yeun, ComingSoon, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Park Chan wook, Chan Wook, Park Chan, Ali Wong 133 people like this. Like Park Chan-wook is Directing a TV Adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer-Winning Novel ‘The Sympathizer’April 7, 2021 at 3:00 PM  Tags: Television, Movies, America, Los Angeles, War, Adaptation, Vietnam, A24, Saigon, Nguyen, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Park Chan wook, Park Chan, The Sympathizer, Sympathizer 76 people like this. Like Shooting in Orange worst in city since four were killed in 1997 rampageMarch 31, 2021 at 11:48 PM The shooting in Orange that left four dead on Wednesday, March 31 was the worst in the city since a former Caltrans worker killed four people on Dec. 18, 1997, Orange Police Lt. Jennifer Amat said.
Here is The Orange County Register’s story from that shooting:
By John Gittlesohn
The gunman knew where he was going when he launched his rampage.
Revenge apparently was his motive.
Armed with an assault rifle, a shotgun and a handgun, Arturo Reyes Torres, 41, returned to the orange trucks and warehou...Tags: Crime, News, Sport, Soccer, CalTrans, Bmw, Volkswagen, Vietnam, Orange County, Orange, Mercedes, Collins, Priest, Huntington Beach, Anaheim, Taft 24 people like this. Like From the archive: Shooting in Orange worst in city since four were killed in 1997 rampageMarch 31, 2021 at 11:48 PM The shooting in Orange that left four dead on Wednesday, March 31 was the worst in the city since a former Caltrans worker killed four people on Dec. 18, 1997, Orange Police Lt. Jennifer Amat said.
Here is The Orange County Register’s story from that shooting:
By John Gittlesohn
The gunman knew where he was going when he launched his rampage.
Revenge apparently was his motive.
Armed with an assault rifle, a shotgun and a handgun, Arturo Reyes Torres, 41, returned to the orange trucks and warehou...Tags: Crime, News, Sport, Soccer, CalTrans, Bmw, Volkswagen, Vietnam, Orange County, Orange, Mercedes, Collins, Priest, Huntington Beach, Anaheim, Taft 4 people like this. Like The best nail files in 2021, according to nail artists and nail techniciansMarch 30, 2021 at 4:54 PM Tags: Reviews, Amazon, Trends, Features, Nails, Reign, Valentino, Erica, ATA, Orly, Nguyen, Tong, Nail Care, Deborah Lippmann, Smith Cult, Julie Kandalec 75 people like this. Like Is it possible to build fire-resilient communities in a fire-risk state?March 28, 2021 at 3:29 PM Laura Dyberg admits she was once one of those laisse-faire types who did little to protect her home from wildfires. She assumed fire crews would always be able to take care of her home, in the high and rugged San Bernardino Mountains where she’d lived for 15 years.
But then she experienced her first large wildfire, the 1997 Mill Fire.
She’ll never forget how it destroyed 12 homes.
In the aftermath, her community blamed authorities for the losses — until they made the proactive move of creating a...Tags: News, California, Environment, Los Angeles, Sport, Soccer, CalFire, Orange County, San Bernardino Mountains, Ventura County, Mediterranean, Southern California, Northern California, Elements, David Haas, Urban Land Institute 23 people like this. Like Atlanta shootings shed light on sexualization of Asian womenMarch 19, 2021 at 9:08 PM Statements from the man suspected of fatally shooting eight people, including six women of Asian descent, in Atlanta this week have spurred outrage nationwide and shined new light on the hypersexualization and fetishization of Asian women in America.
Investigators say Robert Aaron Long, a 21-year-old White man who faces murder charges in connection with the attacks Tuesday, March 16, at three Atlanta-area spas, told officials he didn’t shoot anyone because of their race, but because of his own s...Tags: Crime, News, Shooting, California, China, New York City, America, Atlanta, Georgia, Diversity, Sport, Soccer, Hate Crime, Orange County, Southern California, Levin 43 people like this. Like The victims of the spa shootings highlight the vulnerability of working-class Asian women as Asian Americans face rising fearsMarch 18, 2021 at 1:32 PM At least two of the eight people killed at Atlanta-area Asian massage spas Tuesday lived in the same spa where they worked, Georgia state Rep. Bee Nguyen said.Tags: Atlanta, Georgia, Cnn, Nguyen 13 people like this. Like Unsettling questions surround the motive behind the Atlanta-area spa shootings as Asians in the US face increased hateMarch 18, 2021 at 10:56 AM At least two of the eight people killed at Atlanta-area Asian massage spas Tuesday lived in the same spa where they worked, Georgia state Rep. Bee Nguyen said.Tags: US, Atlanta, Georgia, Cnn, Nguyen 28 people like this. Like Asian Americans in Southern California rattled by fatal Atlanta spa shootingsMarch 17, 2021 at 9:19 PM The Asian American community, already on edge after reports of increases in hate incidents across the country, was further rattled Tuesday, March 16, by three shootings in Atlanta-area spas that killed eight people, including six Asian women.
A day after the attacks, as Atlanta police continued to investigate the suspected gunman’s motive, Asian American community members in Southern California, including business owners, said they are fearful. Business owners in Little Saigon in Orange County, ...Tags: News, California, America, Atlanta, Diversity, Sport, Long, Soccer, Associated Press, Vietnam, Orange County, Race Relations, Riverside County, Social Justice, Ucla, Southern California 25 people like this. Like Police investigate suspect’s motive in Atlanta-area killingsMarch 17, 2021 at 1:33 PM By KATE BRUMBACK and ANGIE WANG
ATLANTA (AP) — A white gunman accused of killing eight people, most of them of Asian descent, at three Atlanta-area massage parlors claimed to have a “sex addiction” and apparently lashed out at what he saw as sources of temptation, officials said Wednesday.
The bloodshed immediately raised fears of another hate crime against Asian Americans. But Robert Aaron Long, 21, told police the attack was not racially motivated, and police said it appeared it may not have b...Tags: Facebook, South Korea, Florida, News, Shooting, White House, China, America, San Francisco, Atlanta, Georgia, Sport, Joe Biden, Long, Fbi, Soccer 8 people like this. Like Police: Georgia shooting suspect may have ‘sex addiction’March 17, 2021 at 12:45 PM By KATE BRUMBACK and ANGIE WANG
ATLANTA (AP) — A white man accused of killing eight people, most of whom were of Asian descent, at massage parlors in the Atlanta area told police the attack was not racially motivated and that he potentially had a “sex addiction,” officials said Wednesday.
Still, authorities said they were investigating whether the deaths were hate crimes amid concerns over a wave of attacks on Asian Americans. Six of the victims were identified as Asian and seven were women.
It ...Tags: Facebook, South Korea, Florida, News, Shooting, White House, China, America, San Francisco, Atlanta, Georgia, Sport, Joe Biden, Ap, Long, Fbi 11 people like this. Like Millennial New Yorkers are ditching basements and roommates for luxury apartments at $1,000-plus discountsMarch 7, 2021 at 8:55 AM Tags: New York, New York City, US, Trends, Brooklyn, Chelsea, Queens, Manhattan, Upper East Side, Upper West Side, Goldman, Young, Empire State Building, Williamsburg, Park Slope, Hudson River 96 people like this. Like Viet Thanh Nguyen: 'I always felt displaced no matter where I was’March 6, 2021 at 1:00 PM The Pulitzer-winning author on difficult second novel syndrome, using humour to explore trauma, and the return to a ‘more efficient version of American imperialism’The Vietnamese-American author Viet Thanh Nguyen’s second novel, The Committed, is the sequel to his celebrated debut, The Sympathizer, a spy thriller set against the backdrop of the Vietnam war that was both a New York Times bestseller and winner of the 2016 Pulitzer prize for fiction. The Sympathizer established Nguyen as both a lit...Tags: Books, Fiction, Race, Joe Biden, Culture, New York Times, Paris, Colonialism, University Of Southern California, Nguyen, Viet Thanh Nguyen 38 people like this. Like Surge in anti-Asian hate crimes raises fears in Southern CaliforniaMarch 5, 2021 at 9:01 PM  Tags: Asia, News, California, La, China, New York City, US, America, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Diversity, Sport, Soccer, San Jose, Lausd, Kim 124 people like this. Like ‘Raya and the Last Dragon’ Star Kelly Marie Tran Shares How Her Personal Experiences Changed the Newest Disney Heroine [Interview]March 2, 2021 at 2:00 PM  Tags: Movies, Interviews, Disney, Animation, Disney Princess, Don, Carlos, Tran, Nguyen, Raya, Disney/Pixar, Kelly Marie Tran, Cassie Steele, Featured Stories Sidebar, Benja, López Estrada 138 people like this. Like Viet Thanh Nguyen describes turning to crime for new novel ‘The Committed’March 2, 2021 at 10:10 AM  Tags: Books, Sweden, France, America, Los Angeles, Sport, Things To Do, Soccer, United States, Paris, Netherlands, San Jose, Vietnam, Pasadena, Berkeley, University Of California 125 people like this. Like Raya and the Last Dragon Is an Exhilarating, Poignant, Animated AdventureMarch 1, 2021 at 12:00 PM  Tags: Science, Films, Actors, Dragon, How To Train Your Dragon, Walt Disney, Jones, Avatar The Last Airbender, Daniel Dae Kim, Nguyen, Tong, Gemma Chan, Don Hall, Benedict Wong, Raya, Sandra Oh 62 people like this. Like The best books of March 2021, according to Amazon's editorsMarch 1, 2021 at 11:45 AM Tags: Amazon, Steve Jobs, Africa, Trends, United States, Paris, South America, North Carolina, Kazuo Ishiguro, Latin America, Bogota, Cooke, Leonardo da Vinci, Jennifer Doudna, Nguyen, Isaacson 93 people like this. Like (CNN) — If a steaming bowl of soup strike...February 26, 2021 at 9:11 PM  Tags: Indonesia, Washington Post, Mexico, France, Nigeria, Georgia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, Cnn, Getty Images, Thailand, Unesco, Morocco, Portugal, Va 51 people like this. Like Case Mod Friday: Wedding Anniversary BuildFebruary 26, 2021 at 3:56 PM This week for Case Mod Friday we have an amazing build from Nguyen PC to celebrate their wedding day! Such a great build done inside the Antec Striker case!
The post Case Mod Friday: Wedding Anniversary Build appeared first on ThinkComputers.org.Tags: Articles, Watercooling, Antec, Case Mod Friday, Modding, Case Mod, Pc Mod, Nguyen, Antec Striker 34 people like this. Like How fashion's 'patient zero' turned her fight with Covid into a new hygiene and wellness lineFebruary 7, 2021 at 9:00 AM Tags: Europe, UK, Milan, London, Germany, Trends, Paris, World Health Organization, Vietnam, Gucci, Solidarity, Lvmh, Paris Fashion Week, Benjamin Hubert, Hubert, Adelson 83 people like this. Like Not all of the I-5 will get widened, at least for nowFebruary 5, 2021 at 9:01 AM Q. Hi Honk: Thank you for the recent update on the I-5 Freeway! Do you know if there is a plan to widen the I-5 from the I-605 to the East L.A. Interchange? Once the section from the Orange County line to the I-605 is done, the section north of it will be the pinch point with only three lanes.
– Rich Schaefer, North Tustin
A. Well, Rich, for years and years Honk has dreamed of a hot tub for his back yard, and he even has a nifty spot picked out for it. Yet, no such paradise exists.
Likewise, the...Tags: News, California, Sport, Soccer, DMV, Driving, CalTrans, Orange County, Folsom State Prison, Rich, Anaheim, Los Angeles County, Department of Motor Vehicles, Nguyen, Orange County Fire Authority, Kruse 34 people like this. Like Continued Access to Service Not Sufficient to Bind User to New Terms of Service–Stover v. ExperianJanuary 29, 2021 at 9:47 AM Stover signed up for an Experian subscription for credit monitoring in 2014. She alleged that Experian overstated the relevance of the credit report. She cancelled her subscription in 2014. In 2018, she accessed Experian’s website again, shortly before filing suit. By 2018, Experian had implemented revisions to its terms.
Both sets of terms required arbitration. As the court describes it, the 2018 terms
had changed to accommodate a carve-out for disputes ‘arising out of or relating to the Fair ...Tags: Law, E-commerce, Experian, Blockbuster, Expedia, Douglas, HARRIS, Eric, Ninth Circuit, Rodriguez, Tompkins, Nguyen, Stover, FCRA, Licensing/Contracts, Schnabel 44 people like this. Like Jobless for longer: Pandemic hits Asian Americans hardJanuary 28, 2021 at 1:39 PM By Reade Pickert | Bloomberg
Asian Americans who lost their jobs during the pandemic have found it harder than most to get them back.
The 5.9% unemployment rate among the roughly 10 million-strong Asian workforce in December was below the national rate. But in the final three months of 2020, almost half of jobless Asians had been out of work for at least 27 weeks — a bigger share than White, Black or Hispanic Americans.
The reasons are largely economic and geographic. Many work in industries par...Tags: Business, California, Bloomberg, Sport, Soccer, Vietnam, Pew Research Center, Santa Ana, Nguyen, San Francisco State University, Shih, Asian American Federation, Top Stories LADN, Top Stories OCR, Top Stories PE, Top Stories IVDB 43 people like this. Like |
