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Canada to accept more than 20,000 Afghan refugees

Internally displaced Afghan families, who fled from the northern province due to battle between Taliban and Afghan security forces, sit next to temporary tents in the courtyard of the Wazir Akbar

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The tale of two edtech IPOs

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Last week, Natasha and Alex jumped on Twitter Spaces to discuss the tal

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Duolingo’s IPO pricing is great news for edtech startups

While the Chinese technology market digests a new regulatory landscape impacting the country’s edtech market in a sharply negative manner, U.S. education technology companies have something to c

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The mmhmm story and how it plans to spend its $100M

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.For our Wednesday show this week, Natasha and Alex Chris had prior Equi

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Equity Monday: Zoom buys Five9 as Robinhood sets IPO price range

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private

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Visitors 'live in the film' at Hengdian World Studio

Visitors watch performances at the Guangzhou and Hong Kong streets re-created in film sets at the Hengdian World Studios, Dongyang city, East China's Zhejiang province, on July 15, 2021. [Photo b

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Countries condemned systemic racism over Africans and Asians

Ambassador Chen Xu, China's Permanent Representative to the UN's Geneva office, made a joint speech on Monday on behalf of more than 50 countries across the region during an interactive dialogue w

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WhatsApp is adding a ‘best quality’ setting for sending photos and videos

WhatsApp is working on a setting that will let users more easily bypass its iffy image compression and send photos and videos in the highest available fidelity. The “best quality” option w

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Tune in, SPAC on, drop LSD

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.For this week’s deep dive, Alex and Natasha and Danny decided that it w

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India’s IT and Broadcasting ministers resign

India’s IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and information and broadcasting minister Prakash Javadekar resigned from their roles on Wednesday, adding to the list of high-profile politicians who have vaca

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Didi gets hit by Chinese government, and Pleo raises $150M

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture-capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.This is Equity Monday Tuesday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest

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Twitter has lost liability protection in India, government says

Twitter no longer enjoys the liability protection against user-generated content in India, the Indian government said in a court filing this week as tension escalates between the two over the South As

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Flower expo venue in Shanghai to be turned into park

00:44 The venue for the 10th China Flower Expo in Shanghai will be retained and turned into a park following its conclusion on Friday.The organizer said the southern pa

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Australia sabotaging China-PNG cooperation by any means: Global Times

The Global Times on Friday published an article which said that Australia had been sabotaging and disturbing Pacific Island nations' cooperation with China on vaccines and anti-coronavirus measures.T

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The U.S. state of Washington fully reopens

02:49 The U.S. state of Washington has just reopened for business after more than a year of sheltering in, social distancing, and masking requirements.Though welcome news for businesses

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California has no water and lots of liquidity

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.Danny, Natasha, and Alex were on deck this week, with Grace on the reco

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Zebra Technologies is acquiring warehouse robotics company, Fetch

Zebra Technologies this morning announced its intention to purchased Bay Area-based warehouse robotics firm, Fetch. The $290 million deal finds the enterprise corporation snapping up 95% of the compan