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France, Germany propose vast recovery fund

Angela Dorothea Merkel (L), Chancellor of Germany, with French President Emmanuel Macron. /Reuters France and Germany have proposed a 500-billion-euro fund to finance the relaunch of the Europ

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Equity Monday: Food delivery economics, and global layoffs

Good morning and welcome back to TechCrunch’s Equity Monday, a brief jumpstart for your week.A few housekeeping notes. First, the main, long-from Equity episodes still drop every Friday, so if you are

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European football eyes August finish as Bundesliga returns

Bayern Munich substitutes wear protective face masks and maintain social distance in the stands during their Bundesliga clash with Union Berlin in Berlin, Germany, May 17, 2020. /VCG Despite t

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Xi replies to letter from Pakistani students studying in Beijing

Chinese President Xi Jinping extended welcome to excellent youth from all countries in the world to study in China in his Sunday reply to a letter from all Pakistani s

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Italy to reopen borders for EU tourists in early June

People sit in a boat, in Naples, Italy, May 17, 2020. /VCG Italy will reopen to European tourists from early June and scrap a 14-day mandatory quarantine period, the government said on Saturda

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What’s up with tiny checks at giant valuations?

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.Are you a regular Equity listener? Take our survey here! We talk about

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Report: Las Vegas Raiders 2020 season tickets already sold out

The flag of the Raiders is shown at the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada. /VCG The Raiders moved from Oakland to Las Vegas in January and it seemed to be the correct decision

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UK government issues guidance on elite sports training

The British government issued guidance on Wednesday on how elite athletes can safely return to training, paving the way for the potential re-launch of top-level action.Professional sport, currentl

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Adding three more companies to the $100M ARR club

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.When we kicked off our series on private companies that have reached $100 million

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Zimbabwean president meets visiting Chinese medical team

China's experience in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic would benefit Zimbabwe, said Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday after meeting with a visiting Chinese medical team. The tea

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VCs pulled back from fintech in Q1

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.If you just read the headlines, you’d be excused for thinking that venture c

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Kingsoft Cloud IPO Defies Expectation as Vroom angles for debut

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.Last Friday something very odd happened: the public debut of Kingsoft Cloud, a com

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International art festival in Chengdu promotes young talents

A light installation created by Liu Yang and Yang Lu is on show at the Lake Art Museum. [Photo provided to China Daily] Young artists and designers from around the world are welcome to submit t

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China's Palace Museum to raise daily visitor cap to 8,000

China's Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, will welcome more visitors from next Tuesday as its daily cap on visitor numbers will increase from 5,000 to 8

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This Week in Apps: WWDC goes online, Android 11 delays, Facebook SDK turns into app kill switch

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all.The app industry is as hot as ever, wit

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B2B SaaS growth may be on a path to recovery

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.As the economy has worsened, the market for many goods and services has slowed. So

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Italian mayor thanks China's Chongqing for epidemic aid

A mayor in Italy has written an acknowledgment letter to a district government in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality for helping with the fight against COVID-19. In the letter, Gian Vittorio C