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Et tu, Brute – Who needs friends like this?

The Chinese and Australian national flags at a celebration event in Sydney, Australia, September 8, 2019. /Xinhua Editor's note:Daryl Guppy is an international financial technical analyst. He

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Confusion over WhatsApp’s new T&Cs triggers privacy warning from Italy

Confusion over an update to Facebook-owned chat platform WhatsApp’s terms and conditions has triggered an intervention by Italy’s data protection agency.The Italian GPDP said today it has

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Reddit ‘taking action’ on site violations as rioters storm US Capitol

As chaos and violence have erupted in Washington D.C., social media platforms are grappling with the fallout. A spokesperson for Reddit tells TechCrunch,Reddit’s site-wide policies prohibit content t

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UK, EU negotiators reach outline of post-Brexit trade agreement

The deal still needs to be approved by the bloc and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson. /Getty Images U.K. and the European Union negotiators have reached the outline of a post-Brexit trade agr

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Paris Agreement turns 5: Is the world doing enough to save itself?

Hours before the Paris Agreement came to fruition, there were still doubts if it was going to happen.After all, too many things could go wrong in any treaty that involves 196 countries, especially

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Nikola shares drop as GM pulls plug on investment deal

GM is backing away from an agreement to take a stake in electric automaker Nikola Corp, marking the collapse of a deal that has been problematic since it was announced just two months ago.Shares of Ni

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Twitter restricts Trump’s tweet claiming that foes would ‘steal’ the election

With key wins notched in a few states, Trump didn’t declare victory prematurely on election night as social media companies feared — but he did baselessly raise the specter of voter fraud.“

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Facebook: Trump can’t recruit ‘army’ of poll watchers under new voter intimidation rules

In a blog post Wednesday, Facebook said it will no longer allow content that encourages poll watching that uses “militarized” language or intends to “intimidate, exert control, or d

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Nikola disputes fraud claims in carefully worded rebuttal

Nikola Corp., the hydrogen electric vehicle startup that went public this year through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company, released Monday a point-by-point rebuttal that attempts to d

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CDC's COVID-19 reports have too much truth for Trump government: Media

Logo of the U.S. CDC. /Screenshot from CDC official website The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the U.S. government release weekly reports on the country's public health in

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Trump: Deadline for TikTok sale won't be extended - and app could be banned

TikTok is currently suing the US administration to prevent the forced sale and claims it will never share data with Beijing.

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Airbnb has confidentially filed to go public

In a turn of fortune, Airbnb today announced that it has filed to go public, albeit confidentially.The move puts the home-sharing service on a path to a public offering sooner rather than later, and

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UK life insurers pay out $118m in three months over COVID-19 claims

The Association of British Insurers says that all life insurance claims related to coronavirus deaths had been accepted. /VCG UK insurance companies have already paid out $118 million in life

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French constitutional authority rejects law forcing online platforms to delete hate-speech content

French regulation on hate speech on online platforms has been widely deemed as unconstitutional by France’s Constitutional Council, the top authority in charge of ruling whether a new law complies wit

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S. Africa hopes to ease access to COVID-19 loans amid low payouts

FILE PHOTO: South African Finance Minister Tito Mboweni. /Reuters South African banks and the government are looking for ways to boost take up of an up to 200 billion rand ($11.58 billion) loa

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Twitter starts putting fact-checking labels on tweets about 5G and COVID-19

Conspiracy theories claiming a connection between 5G technology and the coronavirus have been around since the pandemic’s early days and apparently they’re still going strong.So strong, in

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Unpacking ZoomInfo’s IPO as the firm starts to trade

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.The ZoomInfo IPO slipped through our fingers in the last news cycle, so we’r