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Medical staff draw picture of hope at Wuhan hospital

Lovely cartoon pictures drawn on the walls of a ward in a makeshift hospital in Wuhan have proved popular online.Oysters and hot dry noodles, as well as the Dalian Railway Station and Wuhan's Yell

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Startups Weekly: Remote-first SaaS products boom as workers stay home

Silicon Valley companies had already been going remote-first when the coronavirus became a global pandemic. This means there are lots of great software tools already on the market, that are seeing a h

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Oribi brings its web analytics platform to the U.S.

Oribi, an Israeli startup promising to democratize web analytics, is now launching in the United States.While we’ve written about a wide range of new or new-ish analytics companies, founder and

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As coronavirus pandemic spreads, demand for remote-work startups spikes

As the novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, spreads around the world, many companies are asking their staff to work from home. The boom in working remotely may prove temporary — even if th

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U.S. universities express support for China's fight against COVID-19

Chancellor Pradeep Khosla of the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) speaks in an interview with Xinhua in San Diego, the United States, Feb. 28, 2020. (Xinhua/Li Ying) "In this time

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Elizabeth Warren, big tech’s sworn foe, drops out of 2020 race

After a campaign characterized by early stratospheric highs and devastating recent lows, Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren will drop out of the 2020 Democratic race.Warren vaulted to the top of

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Daily Crunch: Coronavirus prompts more conference cancellations

Google cancels its big developer conference, Justin Kan’s legal startup shuts down and Robinhood offers more details about a recent outage. Here’s your Daily Crunch for March 4, 2020.1. G

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Robinhood blames record trade volume & itself for outages

It wasn’t the leap year, a coding blip, or a hack that caused Robinhood’s massive outages yesterday and today that left customers unable to trade stocks. Instead, the co-CEOs write that &#

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Boris Johnson's threat to walk away from negotiation is no bluff

Editor's note: Jonathan Arnott is a former member of the European Parliament. The article reflects the author's opinions, and not necessarily the views of CGTN.As the UK and the EU begin the first

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China's state railway didn't make UK High Speed 2 offer: ambassador

China's state railway company did not write to the UK government offering to deliver the controversial High Speed 2 (HS2) rail project within five years, the country's ambassador to the UK has said,

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R&D roundup: soft 3D printing, backscatter Wi-Fi and other bleeding-edge tech

I see far more research articles than I could possibly write up. This column collects the most interesting of those papers and advances along with notes on why they may prove important in the world of

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Equity Monday: Surprise IPOs, Briza’s $3M round, and are we worried about unicorn liquidity?

Good morning friends, and welcome back to TechCrunch’s Equity Monday, a short-form audio hit to kickstart your week. Regular Equity episodes still drop Friday morning, so if you’ve listened to the sho

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Voice of the unknown woman: Afghan filmmaker Roya Sadat

For a generation, Roya Sadat has been a voice for Afghan women in one of the world's worst places to be one.One of the first female filmmakers to make her name after th

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Notivize makes it easier for non-technical teams to optimize app notifications

A new startup called Notivize aims to give product teams direct access to one of their most important tools for increasing user engagement — notifications.The company has been testing the product with

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Teen hit Yolo raises $8M to let you Snapchat anonymously

It wasn’t a fad. Yolo became the country’s No. 1 app just a week after launch by letting teens ask for anonymous replies to questions they posted on Snapchat. But nine months later, Yolo i

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Opinion: Let reason, not lies, prevail in Washington

This raucous China-smearing campaign has reflected some U.S. political elites' deep-rooted ideological bias against China. One major reason for those Washington politicians to seize every possible

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Reporter's diary: Life in Beijing amid coronavirus

Empty restaurants, silent roads: For many living and working in Beijing including myself, the rise of the novel coronavirus epidemic that has killed over 2,700 people i