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Yahoo Finance 'Signature bites' and free umbrellas: Inside JPMorgan's plan to lure more rich people to its branches You won't find teller windows at two new JPMorgan financial centers in New York City and San Francisco designed to reach the 'mass affluent.' Instead there are free snacks, umbrellas and a banker who greets you at the door.

Support automation firm Capacity grows with new cash and acquisitions David Karandish has been busy. Capacity, his support automation company, was planning a $5 million "bridge round" to help the company reach the break-even point. While all this was happening, Capacity acquired three companies: enterprise search firm Lucy (which had raised $5.6 million) and two startups focused on customer service automation, Linc and Envision.

Nordic entrepreneur-led VC firm Node.vc closes €71 million first fund From Switzerland's Founderful to Italians Founders Fund and the Dutch Operator Fund, a new crop of European VC firms claim to operate as "entrepreneurs backing entrepreneurs." Although it might still be early to call it a trend, Swedish fund Node.vc has now joined this group, with €71 million in funding to deploy into startups across the Nordics and Baltics. "I hope it is a beginning trend," Node.vc managing partner John Elvesjö told TechCrunch.

Yahoo Sports Data Dump Wednesday: 10 stats you need to know for Week 7 + Drake London interview | Yahoo Fantasy Forecast Week 6 has come and gone. Time to set our sights for Week 7. Matt Harmon and Sal Vetri are back for another 'Data Dump Wednesday' by sharing 10 data points you need to know for Week 7 to maximize your fantasy lineups.

Former Palantir CISO Dane Stuckey joins OpenAI to lead security Dane Stuckey, the former CISO of analytics firm Palantir, has joined OpenAI as its newest CISO, serving alongside OpenAI head of security Matt Knight. Stuckey announced the move in a post on X Tuesday evening. Stuckey started at Palantir in 2014 on the information security team as a detection engineering and incident response lead.

X rival Mastodon has started selling toys If you like open-source, decentralized social networks that put the power in the hands of the people instead of billionaires, you can now support that cause...by buying toys. On Tuesday, Mastodon, a decentralized alternative to X, began selling its own merchandise in the form of cute, plushie mastodons – the proto-elephants with long tusks that give the social network its name. The company announced last year that it would help fund its development efforts through merchandise sales after a poll found that over 6,700 Mastodon users said they would buy something if merch was made available.

Yahoo Sports Midseason College Football Playoff Outlook: projecting which teams will make it | College Football Enquirer How does the College Football Playoff picture look halfway through the 2024 season? On today's episode of The College Football Enquirer, Dan Wetzel, Ross Delleneger and SI's Pat Forde share which teams in each conference still have a realistic shot of making the playoff field. They discuss implications for big programs like Notre Dame, Oregon, Georgia and the possibility of Boise State receiving a bye.

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