01:04 Wang Hong, is the Chinese term for an internet celebrity or influencer. Now, it is quickly finding its way into modern-day English dictionaries, as China is re-defining global in
Esports One is a startup betting that there’s a big opportunity in bringing a fantasy sports approach to the world of esports — particularly at a time when traditional pro sports are on pause.Co
The euro zone is making another attempt at agreeing on new fiscal stimulus to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, after 16 hours of talks earlier this week failed to pr
Bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure platform Bugcrowd has raised $30 million in its Series D funding round.The San Francisco-headquartered company said the round brings the total amount raised to
Paidy, a Japanese fintech startup that allows customers to make online purchases without credit cards, announced today that it has raised a $48 million Series C extension from ITOCHU.The company says
Indian grocery startup BigBasket has raised $60 million as it scales its business in the country to meet growing demand from customers stuck at home.Alibaba and other existing investors including Mir
05:39 Sectors hit by the COVID-19 lockdown "will come straight back to life" once governments begin to unlock their economies, according to Patrick Minford, a professor of economics at
The World Trade Organization has forecast that global trade growth will drop by up to a third in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.It bleakly added that goods trade would shrink more steeply this yea
Last year Builder.ai raised one of Europe’s largest Series A investments at $29.5 million, led by Lakestar and Jungle Ventures, with participation from SoftBank’s DeepCore. The company’s platform, whi
02:00 As the COVID-19 pandemic ripples across the globe, the UN World Food Program recently warned of security problems in the near future.Dr. Maximo Torero, Chief Economist Assistant
The head of the European Union’s top science organization has resigned in frustration at the height of the coronavirus crisis.Mauro Ferrari had only become president of
Public health experts on the White House's coronavirus response team confirmed Tuesday that while the COVID-19 pandemic poses threat to everyone, the disease shows a r
Cloud Bigtable has long been Google Cloud’s fully-managed NoSQL’s database for massive, petabyte-sized analytical and operational workloads. At $0.65 per hour and node, it was never a chea
Samsung overnight released its earnings guidance for the first quarter of 2020, stating that it expected sales of $45.4 billion and an operating profit of roughly $5.3 billion. The company’s fiscal ye
Airbnb turns to private equity for new funding, WhatsApp takes new steps to fight disinformation and another potential COVID-19 vaccine enters human trials. Here’s your Daily Crunch for April 7,
Even though official statistics still indicates that fatalities related to COVID-19 across the United States are on an escalating course on a daily basis, those counts
The COVID-19 outbreak has closed schools across most of the U.S., impacting over 55 million students who are now learning at home. That’s created an increased demand for homeschool resources. To
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