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Los Angeles’ Gento wants to build an on-demand healthcare staffing marketplace

With a fresh commitment of $5 million for its on-demand staffing and care management service for at-home health care and nursing facilities, Los Angeles-based Gento is looking to grow.The new financin

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Gen Z fav photo editing app VSCO further expands into video

VSCO, the photo-sharing app that became a Gen Z meme, is expanding further into video. The company already supported video editing via its app, but users couldn’t publish and share the results o

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Tier Mobility, the European e-scooter rentals startup, adds new COO and CCO to executive team

Following Tier Mobility’s $60 million Series B late last year, the e-scooter rentals startup has been busy bolstering its C-suite.The Berlin-based company is announcing that Moritz Werner has jo

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Lionel Messi fires back at Barca sporting director Abidal after jibe

Lionel Messi has hit back at Barcelona sporting director Eric Abidal after the Frenchman blamed slackness in the dressing room for the departure of recently-fired coach Ernesto Valverde.In an inte

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Mainland steps up services for Taiwan compatriots amid virus outbreak: spokesperson

The Chinese mainland has stepped up services for Taiwan compatriots and businesses on the mainland amid the novel coronavirus outbreak, a mainland official said Wednes

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Messenger Kids adds expanded parental controls, details how much kids’ data Facebook collects

Facebook’s messaging app for families with children, Messenger Kids, is being updated today with new tools and features to give parents more oversight and control over their kids’ chats. N

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N26’s head of product is building a better bank

Fintech startup N26 recently reached a new milestone as it now has five million customers. The company launched onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt five years ago.The premise was simple. A young startup wan

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Online-to-offline platform Sendoso raises $40M after growing 330% in 2019

Email is garbage and we’re all buried in the stuff. Actually getting someone’s attention given the constraints that digital missives present is difficult. How do you snag someone’s e

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Nomagic, a startup out of Poland, picks up $8.6M for its pick-and-place warehouse robots

Factories and warehouses have been two of the biggest markets for robots in the last several years, with machines taking on mundane, if limited, processes to speed up work and free up humans to do oth

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A Rapid Rail to 2022

The high-speed railway line connecting Beijing and Zhangjiakou, the co-host city of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, was put into operation on Dec. 3, 2019, marking another important step ahead of t

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Coronavirus: Second new hospital in epicenter Wuhan nears completion

Second new hospital in Wuhan Leishenshan to be completed. /CGTN Photo A second hospital to combat the coronavirus epidemic could be completed in Wuhan in record time on Wednesday. Construction

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Sarkozy aide charged as France pushes with Gaddafi funding probe

France's then president Nicolas Sarkozy (L) greets Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi upon his arrival at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, December 10, 2007. /AP Photo A former aide to Nicolas Sarkozy

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Remote work platforms attract new users as coronavirus spreads

Chinese business has turned to remote mode in recent days due to the impact of the coronavirus epidemic, which greatly stimulates the use of remote work platforms that are eyeing for more business

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Teenage climate activist nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Two lawmakers in Sweden have nominated Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize.Jens Holm and Hakan Svenneling, who are both membe

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Post-Brexit trade talks: EU sets out terms of its 'exceptional offer'

Europe's top Brexit negotiator says there can be an ambitious trade deal between the EU and former member Britain, but only if certain conditions are met. Michel Barnier laid out the bloc's draft neg

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AI startup Cresta launches from stealth with millions from Greylock and a16z

As Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurs cluster around the worldview that artificial intelligence is poised to change how we work, investors are deciding which use cases make the most sense to pump mo

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Why this VC thinks we’re heading for a cloud slowdown

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.Today we’re talking to Alex Niehenke, a venture capitalist with Scale Ventur