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Cisco beefing up app monitoring portfolio with acquisition of Epsagon for $500M

Cisco announced on Friday that it’s acquiring Israeli applications monitoring startup Epsagon at a price pegged at $500 million. The purchase gives Cisco a more modern microservices-focused comp

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McConnell slams Biden's 'botched exit' from Afghanistan

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) slammed President Biden's "botched exit" from Afghanistan on Sunday after the Taliban entered the capital city of Kabul,

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APD | Indian experts slam US behind Afghanistan crisis following Taliban takeover

By APD writer Shristi KafleIndian intellectuals, experts and journalists have termed the US as a complete 'failure' and reason behind creating a latest political mess i

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China's embassy in UK slams Daily Telegraph 'prejudice and hostility'

The Chinese embassy in the UK sent an open letter to the Daily Telegraph on Saturday, criticizing that the newspaper's report on the imported cases of the Delta variant in China violates "professiona

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APD | Weekly top 10 hot news (Aug. 07 - Aug. 13)

Every weekend, Asia Pacific Daily will provide you with a run-down of the latest hot news.This week, the following hot news you should know:Top 1 | Biden administration

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Meng Wanzhou lawyers called called U.S. fraud case “fatally flawed”

Lawyers for Huawei Technologies executive Meng Wanzhou have called the U.S. fraud case against her implausible, unprecedented and fatally flawed.They were arguing in the final stage of Meng’s extr

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Lawmakers ask Amazon what it plans to do with palm print biometric data

A group of senators sent new Amazon CEO Andy Jassy a letter Friday pressing the company for more information about how it scans and stores customer palm prints for use

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'The Magical Craftsmanship of Suzhou': Seeing the light

Lanterns evoke a feeling of warmth, welcome, hospitality and community. Previous generations did not have a switch to flip, so they lit up the night by making lanterns of different colors, shapes and

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I have a piece of advice for Mr. Trudeau

Xia Jixuan got this advice from Pierre Elliot Trudeau in 1986 when he worked as a reporter for China Radio International. Xia Jixuan/CGTN Actually, I'm passing this piece of advice on to Justi

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Chris Sacca’s Lowercarbon Capital has raised $800 million to “keep unf*cking the planet”

Lowercarbon Capital, a climate-tech focused fund founded by longtime investor Chris Sacca and his wife Crystal Sacca, has closed on $800 million in capital, Sacca announced today in a post on the firm

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Construction tech startup Agora raises $33M in Tiger Global-led round amid 760% YoY ARR growth

Agora, a startup that has built a materials management platform for contractors, has raised $33 million in a Series B round of funding led by Tiger Global Management.8VC, Tishman Speyer, Yahoo co-foun

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​Nobel laureate Mo Yan starts blog to communicate with youngsters

Prominent Chinese writer and Nobel laureate Mo Yan opened a new social media account Monday, with the aim of talking to young people.He recorded a short video on the WeChat social media platform, intr

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Twitter locks account of India’s largest opposition party

Twitter has locked the account of Indian National Congress, the South Asian nation’s largest opposition party, for violating its rules.The Indian National Congress wrote about the Twitter episod

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Desktop Metal is acquiring industrial 3D printing company ExOne

As part of its earnings call this week, Desktop Metal announced plans to acquire ExOne. The Pennsylvania-based firm creates a variety of different industrial 3D printers for industries like aerospace,

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'We're normal people': Women being targeted by trolls using online gossip forum 'Tattle Life'

Instagram users including Lauren Harris told Sky News that the things written about her on the Tattle Life website caused her "terrible anxiety" and impacted her mental health and reputation.

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Doxel raises $40M from Insight, a16z to become the ‘Waze for construction’

Doxel, which has developed software that uses computer vision to help track and monitor progress on construction job sites, announced today that it has raised $40 million in Series B funding.Insight P

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Gamified home rowing machine Aviron raises $4.5M

Along with a surge in connected fitness funding, it seems that rowing machines are really having their moment. In April, Ergatta announced a $30 million raise, last month, CityRow announced a $12 mill