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Trip.com Group CEO: Hong Kong secondary listing a natural choice

03:14 Trip.comGroup, the largest online travel agency in China, debuted in Hong Kong on Monday, following the company's Nasdaq listing in 2003.The parent company of booking sites Trip.

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MIIT: China has built world's largest 5G network

China has built the world's largest 5G network with around 260 million users connected, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on Monday.

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How one founder build a startup around compassion and care facilitated by AI

In the second episode of our new podcast Found, our guest is Brie Code. Code is the founder and CEO of TRU LUV, a startup based out of Toronto that has its roots in the game industry, but that is taki

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1Password acquires SecretHub and launches new enterprise secrets management tool

1Password, the password management service that competes with the likes of LastPass and BitWarden, today announced a major push beyond the basics of password management and into the infrastructure sec

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Clubhouse CEO denies company was hacked after user data leak

The denial addressed only claims the company was hacked, not whether 1.3 million Clubhouse users' data was actually leaked online.

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Facebook: Data on 530 million users 'scraped' before September 2019

A reported data leak affected 530 million Facebook users. /CFP Facebook Inc. on Tuesday said a recently reported data leak affecting potentially 530 million users stemmed from a misuse of a fe

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Russia extends punitive Twitter slowdown until mid-May

A logo of Twitter. /Reuters Russia said on Monday it would extend a punitive slowdown of Twitter until May 15, but wouldn't block the social media platform for now because it has started to re

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Japan's central bank kicks off experiments in issuing digital currency

The Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. /CFP The Bank of Japan (BOJ) began experiments on Monday to study the feasibility of issuing its own digital currency, joining efforts by other

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Data from 500m Facebook accounts posted online

Facebook logo is seen displayed on a phone screen in this illustration photo taken in Poland, November 29, 2020. /CFP Data affecting more than 500 million Facebook users that was originally le

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Free Extra Crunch membership included with TC Early Stage tickets

TechCrunch Early Stage is coming up soon, and all attendees can get 3 months of free access to Extra Crunch as a part of a ticket purchase. Extra Crunch is our members-only community focused on founde

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Capitolis lands a16z-led $90M Series C for fintech SaaS platform

Capitolis, which makes technology for capital markets players such as investment and merchant banks, has closed on a $90 million Series C funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).The financing

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Amid pandemic, Middle East adtech startups play essential role in business growth

The pandemic’s impact on the business world encouraged adtech startups and digital marketing agencies to collaborate more, helping brands survive the pandemic by bringing businesses closer to consumer

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Digital banking solutions provider Meniga closes additional €10M investment

Meniga, the London fintech that provides digital banking technology to leading banks, has closed €10 million in additional funding.The round is led by Velocity Capital and Frumtak Ventures. Also parti

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SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink satellites, making 240 launched this month alone

SpaceX has added yet more Starlink satellites to its existing constellation on orbit, with a successful delivery of 60 spacecraft this morning from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The mission used a Falcon

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China to ban apps from collecting excessive user data starting May

Starting May 1, apps in China can no longer force users into providing excessive personal data, according to a document jointly released by a group of the country’s top regulators, the Cyberspac

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Indonesian savings and investment app Pluang gets $20M in pre-Series B funding

Indonesia-based fintech Pluang announced today it has raised $20 million in a pre-Series B round led by Openspace Ventures, with participation from Go Ventures and other returning investors. The compa

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YouTube brings TikTok-style 'Shorts' to U.S.

YouTube started rolling out an early version of its Shorts quick-clip feature in the United States. /CFP YouTube on Thursday started rolling out an early version of its Shorts quick-clip featu