| In Q2 2018, late-stage deals led the world's venture capital market
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 Jason Rowley Contributor Jason Rowley is a venture capital and technology reporter for Crunchbase News. More posts by this contributor • Satellite startups turn to reinventing broadband, mapping and other industries • Old VC firms hold entrenched position in fundraising despite fresh entrants Here is what you should take away from the state of the global venture capital market: late-stage deals dominated Q2. Using projected data provided by Crunchbase, Crunchbase News reported that Q2 2018 marks new post-dot com highs for both VC deal and dollar volume around the world, the latter of which was propelled by a surge in late-stage deals (Series C and above). The chart below plots growth in projected late-stage deal and dollar volume over time. This remarkable growth in dollar volume — more than doubling since the same period in 2017 — has led to the late-stage deal market looming large over the venture landscape. For perspective, late-stage rounds accounted for about 42 percent of dollar volume in Q2 2017, ...
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| France beat Croatia to win second World Cup as Pogba, Mbappe star
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 Goals from Paul Pogba and Kylian Mbappe, as well as a controversial VAR-awarded penalty, helped France beat Croatia 4-2 in an incredible World Cup final in Moscow today to lift the trophy for the second time in their history. In a match that had a bit of everything, Mario Mandzukic scored the first ever own goal in a World Cup final to put France in front at the Luzhniki Stadium, only for Ivan Perisic to equalise. However, Antoine Griezmann's penalty put France back in front after Perisic's handball was penalised with the aid of the video assistant referee, before Pogba and Mbappe both scored in the second half. The first team to score four times in a final since Brazil in 1970, the French could even afford to see Mandzukic pull a goal back following a ridiculous goalkeeping mistake by Hugo Lloris. France join Uruguay and Argentina in winning the World Cup for a second time, after their 1998 triumph over Brazil when Didier Deschamps -- now the coach -- was the captain. The game will ..
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| Flying the O'Brien Flag on top of Everest
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| CHAMPION Irish trainer Aidan O'Brien will have his first Sydney starter after confirmation that US Navy Flag will contest the $13 million The Everest at Royal Randwick this year.
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| Полиция назвала имена девушек, выбежавших на поле в финале ЧМ
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 В финале чемпионата мира по футболу Франция — Хорватия на поле выбежали люди в полицейской форме. Ответственность за акцию взяла на себя панк-группа Pussy Riot. Из источников в полиции нам стали достоверно известны имена двоих задержанных - это москвичка Ольга Пахтусова 1992 года рождения и Вероника Никульшина 1997 года рождения, живущая в Московской области. Мы публикуем фото девушек после их ...
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| We visited a cult-favorite Texas taco chain that's trying to take over America. Here's why Chipotle should be terrified.
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 • Torchy's Tacos has won over a loyal following throughout Texas with its top-notch queso and tacos with names like "The Republican" and "The Trailer Park." • The taco-centric chain's expansion could cut into the business of Big Burrito — especially as Chipotle struggles to regain its footing. • We visited Torchy's to see if it lived up to its hype and were amazed to find a rare chain that was even better than its cultish fans told us it would be. We believe tacos are our future. For too long, the burrito has ruled supreme over the world of Tex-Mex, at least since Chipotle's tentacles spread across the United States with the promise of a mainstream Mission-style burrito. But now, the burrito's reign is coming to an end — if Torchy's Tacos has anything to say about it. The taco chain started in a trailer in Austin, Texas, in 2006. Since then, it has grown a cult following in Texas and expanded to more than 50 locations. To topple Big Burrito, however, it's going to take more than some Texan pride. Torchy's ...
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| The Risk to the World: Massive Nuclear Proliferation
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 BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI Donald Trump every so often suggests he'd like to pull the United States out of the the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, knowing full well that would be the end of NATO as we've known it for almost 70 years. And such hints, the most recent of them last week at a summit in Brussels, must make Vladimir Putin's crocodile smile spread from ear to ear. Indeed, going into the Helsinki summit with Trump on Monday, Putin is surely aware that it was not necessary for Trump to pull the U.S. out of NATO in a formal sense for him to harm the alliance — and benefit Russia. Official statements notwithstanding, merely threatening to walk away from the Atlantic Alliance has been deeply destabilizing, and no amount of frantic damage control by Trump underlings is likely to fix that. "In casting doubt on America's commitment to defend NATO countries against attack, Trump is forcing these countries to begin preparing to go it alone or realign themselves under a new European-based alliance to provide ...
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