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U.S. auto industry calls for govt help under impact of chip shortage

A worker builds a 2020 Ford Explorer car at Ford's Chicago Assembly Plant in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., June 24, 2019. /Reuters A U.S. auto industry group on Monday urged the government to help

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China says poverty alleviation always at the top of Xi's work agenda

A village in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Ethnic Autonomous Prefecture, central China's Hunan Province, March 4, 2021. /CFPPoverty alleviation is not only a solemn commitment

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The StockX EC-1

Societies are defined by their markets. What people value, what they actually buy, how they transact and who they purchase from determine not just the goods in their possession, but the very society a

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Uruguayan payments startup dLocal quadruples valuation to $5B with $150M raise

Cross-border payments startup dLocal has raised $150 million at a $5 billion valuation, less than seven months after securing $200 million at a $1.2 billion valuation.This means that the five-year-old

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Gillmor Gang: ZoomHouse

I use Feedly to work my way through each day’s stream of politics, tech, and media stories. Today, I am greeted with a picture of something called Feedly Cloud and the following message:Schedule

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Tiger Global just closed one of the biggest venture funds ever, with $6.7 billion

If you watch funding announcements as we do, you may have noticed something this year. There are a lot of mega-rounds coming together, and Tiger Global is involved in a notable number of them, often a

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America's third reconstruction

A participant seen holding a sign at the protest at Manhattan, New York City, U.S., November 19, 2020. /Getty Editor's note: Jeffrey D. Sachs, University Professor at Columbia University, is D

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Next Insurance raises $250M, doubling its valuation to $4B in under a year

Next Insurance recently announced that it has raised a $250 million round, valuing the SMB-focused insurance provider at $4 billion. The company last raised another $250 million in September 2020, at

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Collaborative iOS app Craft Docs secures $8M, led by Creandum and a ‘Skyscanner Mafia’

Launched in only November last year, the Craft Docs app — which was built from the ground up as an iOS app for collaborative documents — has secured an $8 million Series A round led by Creandum. Also

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Serbia, Portugal could have avoided Ronaldo fury, says UEFA

Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo throws away his captain's armband after his 93rd minute goal was controversially disallowed in their 2-2 draw with Serbia during a World Cup qualifier in Belgrade, Se

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'Poems from Jamaica' Review

Released in March 2020, the book Poems from Jamaica is the first Jamaican collection of poems translated and published in China. This was made possible by the collaboration between Professor Hou Tao o

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NFTs are part of a larger economic development in finance capital

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are trending hotter than pogs right now, and the number of articles published on the subject in the last few weeks has ballooned into the thousands. So a pardon must be begg

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Crypto boom continues as Chainalysis raises $100M, doubles valuation to over $2B

Chainalysis, a blockchain analysis company, announced Friday it has closed on $100 million in Series D financing, doubling its valuation to over $2 billion.The round comes just four months after the c

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Social media CEOs hedge on whether they’d boot the 12 anti-vax ‘super spreaders’ cited by states’ attorneys general

On Wednesday, a coalition of a dozen state attorneys general called on Facebook and Twitter to step up their enforcement of their community guidelines to curtail the spread of Covid-19 vaccine misinfo

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Pie Insurance raises $118M for data-driven workers’ comp coverage

Pie Insurance, a startup offering workers’ compensation insurance to small businesses, announced this morning that it has closed on $118 million in a Series C round of funding.Allianz X — invest

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As more artists and musicians turn their attention to NFTs, so do bad actors

Outlets that follow the crypto industry have been observing a trend, which is that according to Google search data, the rise in interest in non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, now almost matches the level o

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TuSimple’s IPO filing reveals roadblocks for self-driving startups with Chinese ties

While the governments of the United States and China are pushing policies for technological decoupling, private tech firms continue to tap resources from both sides. In the field of autonomous vehicle