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Boulevard, which provides business management software for the self-care sector, raised an $80M Series D led by JMI Equity at an ~$800M post-money valuation (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/saas-ai-scheduling-startup-boule…

Salon Software Platform Boulevard Nearly Doubles Valuation To $800M With $80M Series D
Los Angeles-based Boulevard, a business management software platform for self-care businesses, has raised $80 million in Series D funding led by JMI Equity, the company announced on Thursday.

At a private event hosted by Senator Dave McCormick, Republican of Pennsylvania,
donors wandered through a sculpture hall at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh
and partied with their cowboy hats on at a dinner where each plate cost $5,000.
The aftermath was less celebratory.
Dozens of employees at the Carnegie Museums sent an open letter to trustees,
saying that the fund-raiser violated guidelines meant to safeguard the institution from partisan activities…

$5,000-Per-Plate Dinner Tests Museum Ban on Political Fund-Raisers
Carnegie Museums employees objected that a fund-raiser for a nonprofit with ties to a senator had violated museum policy against renting space for partisan political events.

#HarperCollins übernimmt das #Manga-Geschäft von #Crunchyroll in Deutschland und Frankreich - heißt, Crunchyroll steigt aus dem Manga-Geschäft aus, nachdem sie die letzten Jahre alle ihre zusammeng…

Ukraine’s economic crimes bureau remains leaderless amid government interference: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/ukraines-economic-crimes-bureau-remains.html

Manager verrät: Google will ChromeOS und Android zusammenlegen
ChromeOS und Android sollen verschmelzen. Das hat ein Google-Manager fast beiläufig in einem Interview bestätigt. Gerüchte gibt es schon länger.

Buccaneers reveal throwback uniforms for 2025-26 season https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45746483/tampa-bay-buccaneers-throwback-uniforms-creamsicle

The Dispersion Leverage Coronagraph (DLC): A nulling coronagraph for use on primary objective grating telescopes
Leaf Swordy, Heidi Jo Newberg, Becket Hill, Richard K. Barry, Marina Cousins, Kerrigan Nish, Frank Ravizza, Sarah Rickborn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11745

The Dispersion Leverage Coronagraph (DLC): A nulling coronagraph for use on primary objective grating telescopes
We present the Dispersion Leverage Coronagraph (DLC), a novel variation of the Achromatic Interfero Coronagraph (AIC) that is designed for optical systems featuring large, dispersive primary objective gratings. DLC was originally designed for the Diffractive Interfero Coronagraph Exoplanet Resolver (DICER), a notional 20m class infrared space telescope utilizing the enhanced one-dimensional angular resolution of large diffraction gratings in order to discover and characterize near-Earth exoplan…

crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…