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Declining ad rates may signal a reset for startup SEM strategies

With limited prospects for growth, one of the iron laws of economic downturns is that advertising is among the first budgets to be cut. Advertising revenues have already cratered at many alt-weekly ne

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'Really scared,' says Luca Kilian, Bundesliga's first COVID-19 case

Luca Kilian of Germany during the UEFA U21 Championship Qualifying match between Wales and Germany in Wrexham, UK, September 10, 2019. /VCG The first Bundesliga player to test positive for cor

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School starts for Xinjiang students with anti-virus measures in place

Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region reopened all primary and high schools on Monday, the first provincial-level region in the country to do so amid the

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Malaysia extends comprehensive restrictive measures to contain COVID-19 outbreak: PM

Malaysia is extending the "movement control order" that includes comprehensive restrictive measures for two more weeks till April 14, in an effort to contain the COVID

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Wall Street roars on news of potential stimulus deal, Trump hints at opening economy

Wall Street came roaring back Tuesday with all major indices rising on a potential deal between Senate Democrats and Republicans to approve a new stimulus package and suggestions from President Donald

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Woody Allen memoir released amid controversy

An independent publisher released a memoir by movie director Woody Allen on Monday after it was dropped by another outlet following protests over a decades-old allegati

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China's fiscal revenue down 9.9 pct in first two months

China's fiscal revenue went down 9.9 percent year on year to 3.52 trillion yuan (about 496.2 billion U.S. dollars) in the first two months of 2020, official data showe

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Laos confirms first two COVID-19 cases

Laos has detected the first two confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country, the Lao Health Ministry officials told a press conference here Tuesday afternoon. According to

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French neighborhood stuck in 1940s amid lockdown

01:00 A Paris neighborhood is stuck in the 1940s after a film crew left its set behind when France went into COVID-19 lockdown.Adieu Monsieur Haffmann, a World War II film about a man,

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Merkel's initial coronavirus test came back negative: spokesman

German Chancellor Angela Merkel gives a media statement on the spread of the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, March 22, 2020. Michel Kappeler/Pool via REU

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Musicians pulled in $4.3M after Bandcamp waived revenue shares for 24 hours

Last week, popular music platform Bandcamp announced that it would be waiving its revenue shares from all sales for 24 hours, starting Friday morning. The move was an effort to help boost income for t

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IOC’s Dick Pound confirms plans to delay Tokyo Olympics

In an interview with USA Today, International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound confirmed suggestions that the 2020 Summer Olympic Games will be delayed. The IOC committee veteran didn’t lay out spe

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Moderna could make experimental COVID-19 vaccine available to healthcare workers by fall

There are some hard limits to the vaccine development process that mean we are not going to see any preventative immune therapies to fight the new coronavirus for at least a year to 18 months. But Mod

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China's Xinjiang reopens all elementary, high schools as epidemic wanes

Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region reopened all elementary and high schools on Monday, the first provincial-level region in the country to do so amid t

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Florida COVID-19 survivor recounts experience and local response

02:17 Gene DellaSala, 46, was the first person in Pasco County, Florida, to be diagnosed with COVID-19 on March 10.DellaSala initially thought he caught influenza or pneumonia while wa

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Roundup: Italy bans all domestic travel as virus claims more lives

Italy's interior and health ministries issued Sunday a joint ordinance banning all domestic travel as the coronavirus epidemic continued to advance in the country. "Beginning today, throughout the

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China's cultural trade up 8.9 pct in 2019

China's cultural trade registered steady and fast expansion last year, with the aggregate trade volume of cultural products up 8.9 percent year on year, official data s