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Messi to break silence on shock Barca exit as PSG close in on a deal

Lionel Messi is Barcelona's record scorer with 672 goals and has won 10 La Liga titles, four Champions Leagues and seven Copa del Reys. /CFP Since Barcelona shocked the whole sporting world by

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China's Cao Yuan wins men's diving 10m platform gold at Tokyo Olympics

Cao Yuan of China poses with his gold medal after winning men's 10m platform final in the Tokyo Olympics at Tokyo Aquatics Centre in Tokyo, Japan, August 7, 2021. /CFP Cao Yuan of China won th

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Mass starvation of horses after heatwave plagues the Kazakh steppe

00:52 Dead horses lie scattered across the arid steppe of Kazakhstan's Mangistau peninsula where severe drought has left the animals without food or water, threatening the livelihoods o

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Craft your pitch deck around ‘that one thing that can really hook an investor’

Michelle Davey’s pitch to Jordan Nof of Tusk Ventures about Wheel, a startup focused on providing a full suite of virtual care solutions to clinicians, was front-loaded with early metrics. It ma

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Sequoia’s Stephanie Zhan and Rec Room’s Nick Fajt are joining us on Extra Crunch Live

Sequoia is one of the most prestigious and successful venture firms to ever exist. The firm’s portfolio includes Airbnb, 23andMe, Docker, Dropbox, Figma and GitHub — and that barely covers

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What to expect from Samsung’s next Unpacked

Foldables! Two, probably! Those are your headliners. Samsung tipped its hand with the event invite, which features a pair of geometrical objects that pretty clearly represent the new Galaxy Z Fold and

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Bulk payments startup Comma raises $6M Seed round led by Octopus and Connect

UK-based open banking bulk payment startup Comma has raised £4.34 million ($6m) in a Seed round of funding led by Octopus Ventures and Connect Ventures. They were joined by investors Village Global, a

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Apple to scan iPhones for images of child abuse

A new feature announced by Apple has provoked controversy as computer scientists warn it could lead to government surveillance of phones and laptops.

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Exhibition digs up realistic painter's celebrated art

A remake of Banyu Toujiang on show. [Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily] The late artist Wang Shenglie did a painting in 1984 depicting an old farmer walking his horse to plough the land. In the w

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Which person should you hire: A growth hacker or a digital marketer?

Ward van Gasteren embraces the “growth hacker” term, despite the fact that some in the profession prefer the term “growth marketing” or simply “growth.” What’s the difference to him? The hacking part

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ByteDance to lay off employees in education business, sources say

ByteDance staff walk past the ByteDance headquarters building in Beijing, China, July 8, 2020. /CFPTikTok owner ByteDance plans to lay off employees as the Beijing-base

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Former Facebook teammates raise $10.4M in Sequoia-led round to launch features development

Statsig is taking the A/B testing applications that drive Facebook’s growth and putting similar functionalities into the hands of any product team so that they, too, can make faster, data-informed dec

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Nigerian digital freight provider MVX lands $1.3M to help shippers move cargoes faster

In Africa, chartering vessels and processing ocean freight can be challenging. The sector is largely inefficient and fragmented. Merchants also struggle to access finance to perform cross-border trade

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As the delta variant surges, a nonprofit app lets hospital patients call home for free on any device 

COVID Tech Connect, a nonprofit created during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States, is launching a free app aimed at helping hospital patients call home. As the delta varia

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Reserve Trust raises $30.5M to become the ‘Stripe for B2B payments’

Reserve Trust, a Denver-based financial services provider, has raised $30.5 million in a Series A round led by QED Investors.FinTech Collective, Ardent Venture Partners, Flywire CEO Mike Massaro and Q

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Boeing's troubled Starliner launch scrubbed, with no new date given

An unexpected valve problem discovered after an electrical storm has added a new delay to Boeing's embattled efforts to launch astronauts to the International Space Station.

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NYC Governor Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women: Probe

FILE PIC: NYC Governor Andrew Cuomo. /Getty Images An investigation has established that Governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women inside and outside state government and worked t