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Xi Focus: Sitting down with the president before Chinese New Year

As the Year of the Pig is coming to an end, pig farmer Li Fashun received an unusual visitor at his village house in southwest China -- President Xi Jinping. Xi, also

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U.S. Democrats make opening arguments against Trump in impeachment trial

U.S. House impeachment managers, a group of seven House Democrats acting as prosecutors, started making their opening arguments Wednesday on why President Donald Trump

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Davos 2020: How to best tackle poverty?

Leaders and pioneers gathered in the sidelines of Davos on Wednesday to share their experiences over poverty alleviation to uncover how to best tackle the worldwide issue. They had an in-depth con

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Global Business Daily: Latest from Davos

"They've taken advantage for a long time, and so we're going to have a deal, I suspect. We're going to be able to make a deal".The U.S.president Donald Trump met with many world leaders at Davos this

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Beijing 2022 organizers send Chinese New Year regards to volunteer applicants

The Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games sent a letter to prospective Games volunteers on Thursday ahead of the Chinese New Year. "Dear applicant," the let

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Here are the six startups in Betaworks’ new Audiocamp

Back in September, Betaworks put out a call for startups to participate in its latest “camp,” this one focused on audio.Danika Laszuk, the head of Betaworks Camp, told me at the time that

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Google’s Collections feature now pushes people to save recipes & products, using A.I.

Google is giving an A.I. upgrade to its Collections feature — basically Google’s own take on Pinterest, but built into Google Search. Originally a name given to organizing images, the Coll

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Disney sells mobile game studio FoxNet Games to Scopely

Disney announced today it has sold the game studio FoxNet Games Los Angeles, the makers of “MARVEL Strike Force” and other titles, as well as Cold Iron Studios in San Jose, to the interact

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Dear Sophie: I live in Europe but want to move my startup to the US

“Dear Sophie” is a collaborative forum hosted by Extra Crunch and curated by Sophie Alcorn, who is certified as a specialist attorney in immigration and nationality law by the State Bar of

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Bear Robotics, a company making robot waiters, just raised a $32 million round led by SoftBank

Back in August, we flagged a filing for you that we’d found interesting, one for a now 2.5-year-old, 40-person Redwood City, Calif.,-based startup called Bear Robotics that’s been developi

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Can a time machine offer us the meaning of life?

We are continuing our discussion of Ted Chiang’s Exhalations. Today (and one day late thanks to the MLK holiday), I give some thoughts on the first short story of the collection, “The Merchant and the

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Should tech giants slam the encryption door on the government?

Reuters reported yesterday, citing six sources familiar with the matter, that the FBI pressured Apple into dropping a feature that would allow users to encrypt iPhone backups stored in Apple’s c

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Daily Crunch: Saudis probably hacked Bezos’ phone

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe her

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Unearth the future of agriculture at TC Sessions: Robotics+AI with the CEOs of Traptic, Farmwise and Pyka

Farming is one of the oldest professions, but today those amber waves of grain (and soy) are a test bed for sophisticated robotic solutions to problems farmers have had for millennia. Learn about the

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Shared inbox startup Front raises $59 million round led by other tech CEOs

Front is raising a $59 million Series C funding round. Interestingly, the startup hasn’t raised with a traditional VC firm leading the round. A handful of super business angels are investing directly

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JLL: Real estate remains strong but with easing momentum

02:06 The fundamentals of real estate markets remain healthy with momentum easing, according to the CEO of global real estate service company Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL).Christian Ulbrich

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Gu Ailing Eileen claims 2nd gold for China at Winter Youth Olympics

China's Gu Ailing Eileen grabbed gold in the women's halfpipe event at the Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Monday.The Chinese youngster secured the win with her second run