text

Canada confirms first COVID-19 death

Canada confirmed its COVID-19 death in Vancouver of British Columbia province Monday. One of the residents of a care center in north Vancouver's Lynn Valley, whose cas

text

Reddit takes on Twitter with its first trending ad product

Reddit, the popular discussion site visited by over 430 million people per month, is opening up some of its most valuable screen real estate to advertisers with the launch of its first trending ad pr

text

Silver Lake makes $1B investment into Twitter; Twitter, Elliott call truce as Dorsey remains CEO

After a week in which it looked like activist investor Elliott Management might try to force out Jack Dorsey as CEO of Twitter to help boost the social platform’s flagging growth, it looks lik

text

TFLiving, with $4.8M in seed funding, wants to be the Uber for amenities

TFLiving, looking to bring amenities to residential and commercial spaces, has today announced the close of a $4.8 million seed financing led by Camber Creek. Courtside Ventures, and other strategic i

text

Uptrust raises new money to fight mass incarceration with technology

While most technology companies are building up a surveillance state to serve political powers and private profiteering, Uptrust is using some of those same tools to make it easier to move people out

text

Calmer You fills in the gaps in meditation apps for anxiety sufferers

Meditation and mindfulness apps are booming. The top 10 apps pulled in $195 million in 2019, up 52% from the year before. Now, top meditation app Headspace’s former head of research, Nick Begley

text

Interview: Vital for African countries not to miss first COVID-19 cases, says WHO official

The first goal for African countries in the fight against COVID-19 is to not miss the first cases when detecting, an official with the World Health Organization's Africa office has said. Countries m

text

Australia sues Facebook over Cambridge Analytica, fine could scale to $529BN

Australia’s privacy watchdog is suing Facebook over the Cambridge Analytica data breach — which, back in 2018, became a global scandal that wiped billions off the tech

text

China's COVID-19 containment model is gaining traction

Editor's note: Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations analyst and a graduate of Durham and Oxford universities. He writes on topics pertaining to China, the DPRK, Britain, an

text

Gates Foundation-backed program will soon be issuing home testing kits for COVID-19 in Seattle

A project funded by the Gates Foundation will soon begin issuing at-home testing kits for the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, according to a report in the Seattle Times.The study, based on a nose-swab sh

text

Commentary: A salute to female medical staff in anti-virus fight

This year's International Women's Day comes at a crucial stage in China's fight against the COVID-19 virus. Female medical staff have played a critical role in this ba

text

Feature: Overseas Chinese donate medical supplies to coronavirus-affected German town

A volunteer stands next to packages containing protective suits in Heinsberg, Germany, on March 6, 2020.(Photo by Liu Yang/Xinhua) The fast development of the COVID-19 situation in Germany and rep

text

New York governor declares state of emergency as COVID-19 cases soar to 76 statewide

Governor of the U.S. state of New York declared a state of emergency on Saturday as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the northeastern state rose to 76. At a press conference, Governor An

text

Xi Focus: Xi extends solicitude to females fighting epidemic on Int'l Women's Day

President Xi Jinping extended sincere solicitude to women fighting COVID-19 at frontline and in other fields on Sunday, the International Women's Day. Xi, general secr

text

GM reveals an EV for (almost) every purse and purpose

General Motors’ EV day didn’t just mark the launch of a new flexible battery architecture and an ambitious plan to deploy this underlying foundation across all of the automaker’s bra

text

Romney will support GOP effort to investigate Biden

Utah Sen. Mitt Romney says he will support a subpoena to interview a witness and obtain records related to Burisma, the gas company in Ukraine linked to former Vice Pre

text

Xi leads China to win against COVID-19 through a centralized system

Editor's note:CGTN's First Voice provides instant commentary on breaking stories. The daily column clarifies emerging issues and better defines the news agenda, offering a Chinese perspective on t