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Jumbotail, a Bengaluru-based B2B ecommerce and retail platform for food and grocery, has raised $120 million in a Series D funding round led by SC Ventures, the innovation and investment arm of Standard Chartered Plc. The round saw continued participation from existing investor Artal Asia, bringing the company’s total funding to $263 million to date.The fundraise comes alongside Jumbotail’s acquisition of Solv India, a B2B commerce and financial services platform incubated by SC Ventures. The deal has received approval from the Competition Commission of India. The combined entity now claims to serve over 500,000 kiranas and MSMEs across more than…
And she was lucky to be part of that equation working alongside the director in 2020’s Horse Girl as well as 2022’s Spin Me Round, both featuring Alison Brie. “He believed in me. I feel really proud to be able to say that,” Ryan wrote. “Jeff was a rare person in the world who gave me the dignity of introducing myself, of being taken at my present. And I liked who he saw. Like good friendship helps you love yourself, good collaboration gives you the chance to be the best evolution of yourself.” And their friendship went far beyond the…
Cinespia has finalized its August lineup. The popular outdoor movie series at Hollywood Forever Cemetery (presented by Amazon MGM Studios and Prime Video) has set screenings of Kathryn Bigelow’s Point Break starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze on Aug. 2; a full moon slumber party featuring a double feature with Joel Schumacher’s vampire thriller The Lost Boys starring Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Corey Feldman and Jami Gertz, and John Landis’ seminal horror entry An American Werewolf in London on Aug. 9; Ben Stiller’s modeling world comedy Zoolander starring the actor opposite Owen Wilson on Aug. 16; and Alfred…
On June 4, 2025, at approximately 10:00 p.m., alternative-pop singer-songwriter King Princess sacrificed herself on the altar of live music. Staggering around a small stage at Brooklyn’s Market Hotel and staring into a crowd of awestruck fans, the 26-year-old singer collapsed to the ground as two women dressed in low-cut nurse’s outfits rushed to her position, declared that she had passed away, and carried her off the stage. King Princess was dead; long live King Princess. “Well, I was poisoned,” the singer tells Billboard with a smirk nearly three weeks later. She’s sitting in the corner of Julius’, the historic…
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Ex Says She Fainted After Reading Cassie Ventura’s LawsuitJane said during her testimony that parts of Ventura’s November 2023 lawsuit—which was ultimately settled—mirrored her own experience with Combs. “I almost fainted, in fact, I think I did,” she told jurors as she cried. “There was three specific pages that was just a harrowing reference to what I was experiencing.” Jane, who took part in “hotel nights, “said that it felt like she was reading “her own story.” It led to her confronting Combs via text messages. “I feel like I am reading my own sexual trauma,” she…
In an interview with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that aired on Sunday, President Donald Trump said a TikTok deal would occur soon.Last year, Congress passed a law requiring TikTok to separate from its parent company, Beijing-based ByteDance, or face a permanent ban in the U.S. After multiple extensions, the deadline is now mid-September.Related: Billionaire Investor Frank McCourt Jr. Wants to Do More Than Buy TikTok — He Wants to Transform the Entire InternetTrump said that in about two weeks, he’ll reveal the names of the “very wealthy people” who were ready to buy the popular app, and that he thinks…
Audiences should dust off their knowledge of cerulean: the Devil Wears Prada sequel is officially happening. The film is heading into production this week two decades after the beloved movie hit theaters, with it set to shoot in New York and Italy. Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci are set for the follow-up film, which is adding Kenneth Branagh to the cast, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. The 2006 film based on the book of the same name follows Andy (Hathaway), a recent college journalism graduate as she lands one of the most coveted jobs in publishing…
For decades, Atlanta has been a major musical hub, nurturing an array of Southern acts who have set trends and topped Billboard charts. It’s the city that developed and commercialized trap music, which has made global waves even outside of rap music. The city’s impact extends beyond trap, though. Atlanta has long been a place where artists from elsewhere – ranging from Nelly to Jack Harlow, from Muni Long to Mariah Carey – come to be creative and collaborate with hitmaking producers such as Jermaine Dupri, Tricky Stewart and Metro Boomin. From James Brown to Outkast to Summer Walker, the…
Rob McElhenney is breaking free from the mispronunciations. The It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia star has officially filed to change his name to Rob Mac, his representative confirmed to Entertainment Weekly June 27. Why? Well, he just wants to make it easier to say his name. “As our business and our storytelling is expanding into other regions of the world and other languages in which my name is even harder to pronounce,” Rob told Variety in a joint interview with his wife Kaitlin Olson last month. “I’m just going by Rob Mac.” Expanding is putting it lightly. Back in 2020,…
Warren Buffett, 94, donated a record $6 billion worth of Berkshire Hathaway stock to five foundations on Monday, his largest annual donation since he started his philanthropic journey in 2006.The Berkshire Hathaway CEO donated about 12.36 million Berkshire Class B shares, bringing his overall lifetime giving to the charities to over $60 billion.He donated 9.43 million shares to the Gates Foundation, 943,384 shares to the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, and 660,366 shares to each of the three organizations led by his children, Howard, Susie, and Peter Buffett: the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, the Sherwood Foundation, and the NoVo Foundation. Related:…