On August 30, The United Nations Security Councilheld an emergency meeting and voted on the draft resolution on Afghanistan.Geng Shuang, China’s deputy permanent representative to the U.N., pointed o
PetloveCo, a São Paulo-based digital platform for products and services for the pet market, announced today that it has raised about $150 million (R$750 million) today in a funding round led by Riverw
The ownership of startups is often a mystery. In the absence of a public registry, it is difficult to figure out who owns what. Since most startups incorporate in Delaware, the Delaware Division of Co
01:04 China firmly opposes the report on COVID-19 origins by the U.S. intelligence community and has lodged stern representations with the U.S. side, Vice Foreign Minis
Most Chinese nationals have been evacuated from Afghanistan, the Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan Wang Yu told CGTN on Saturday.In written comments to CGTN, Wang said
In recent years, the private sector has been spurning proprietary software in favor of open source software and development approaches. For good reason: The open source avenue saves money and developm
Apple today is launching a new program that will allow subscription news organizations that participate in the Apple News app and meet certain requirements to lower their commission rate to 15% on qua
Can an old Terminal learn new tricks? Fig, a company out of Y Combinator’s S20 class, has raised a $2.2M seed round to prove that it can. Their goal: augment (but don’t try to replace) the command lin
“In order to become a better writer, read your written words out loud.”That’s one of the first, and best, writing tips I ever received. I always found the advice ironic because it required me to chang
Newly-released U.S. death records show that the first deaths related to COVID-19 in the country dated back to January 2020, weeks earlier than previously officially rep
A local hospital in Houston, Texas, has to treat patients in hallways and corridors as the emergency rooms are being overwhelmed due to the sharp increase in Delta variant cases, August 18, 2021.
Covering public companies can be a bit of a drag. They grow some modest amount each year, and their constituent analysts pester them with questions about gross margin expansion and sales rep efficienc
The U.S. embassy in China is expected to welcome a new boss, as U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday announced his intention to nominate Nicholas Burns as the next ambass
The U.S. embassy in China is expected to welcome a new boss, as U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday announced his intention to nominate Nicholas Burns as the next ambass
Samsung wasn’t quite ready to declare the Galaxy Note dead. Not just yet. When we put the question to the company again after this month’s Unpacked event, a rep told us:Samsung is constantly evaluatin
03:30 China has been committed to making its COVID-19 vaccines a global public good, with a variety of methods including donations and co-production.One benefactor is t
Disinformation, misinformation, infotainment, algowars — if the debates over the future of media the past few decades have meant anything, they’ve at least left a pungent imprint on the English langua