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2020: The year of faith

04:47 I came across this headline recently and it got me wondering: How are people describing this year?The Oxford English Dictionary describes 2020 as "a year which cannot be neatly a

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Union Square Ventures and Learn Capital file paperwork indicating new funds

As 2020 comes to a long-awaited end, a series of filings indicate that venture capitalists are ending the year with fresh money. According to SEC paperwork, Learn Capital and USV have filed paperwork

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TIME's Kid of the Year says she just loves science

02:51 At age 15, Gitanjali Rao is already a promising young scientist and inventor.“This is what I love to do,” Rao told CGTN in a Zoom interview this week. “I love innovating and love

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The most embarrassing Zoom moments of 2020

03:58 In 2020 we all had to adjust to a new way of life, with online working and remote learning bringing unique challenges. From remembering to hit mute or turn off the camera mode, t

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Imagine being blind and trying to attend a virtual event. Try that next time you stage one.

How do you make a virtual event accessible for people who are blind or visually impaired?When I started work on Sight Tech Global back in June this year, I was confident that we would find the answer

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Biteable raises $7 million Series A for its template-based online video builder

Online video platform Biteable, a startup that makes it easier to create polished and professional videos using templates and a library of images and animations, has raised $7 million in Series A fund

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CommonGround raises $19M to rethink online communication

CommonGround, a startup developing technology for what its founders describe as “4D collaboration,” is announcing that it has raised $19 million in funding.This isn’t the first time

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From Zoom to Quibi, the tech winners and losers of 2020

We streamed, we Zoomed, we ordered groceries and houseplants online, we created virtual villages while navigating laptop shortcuts to work and learn from home. In many ways, 2020′s pandemic-induced i

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Prince Harry May Visit UK Seeking to Secure 'Mextension', Report Says

Things seem to be getting brighter within the Royal Family, as Harry reportedly intends to have a few "friendly" Zoom calls with his relatives before heading to the UK

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What startups can learn from this dumpster fire year

Want this newsletter in your inbox every Saturday morning? Sign up here.Remember when it was news that venture capitalists were open for business? Or when Zoom investing was only done by that one guy

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4 ways China adapted to online entertainment in year of COVID-19

There are many major events that will be written into human history in 2020, and COVID-19 is at the forefront of most of them. The outbreak has brought people to a sudd

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Five VCs discuss what surprised them the most in 2020

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture-capital-focused podcast (now on Twitter!), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.Today is our holiday look-back at the year, bringing

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Looking ahead after 2020’s epic M&A spree

When we examine any year in enterprise MA, it’s tempting to highlight the biggest, gaudiest deals — and there were plenty of those in 2020. I’ve written about 34 acquisitions so far

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Year in review: The rise and fall of companies in 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has cast a long shadow over 2020, and the global economy is still reeling from the outbreak. However, while many are still struggling to survive the year, others seem to have

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To win post-pandemic, edtech needs to start thinking big

The edtech market raked in more than $10 billion in venture capital investment globally in 2020, but for students, parents and teachers, the year was defined more by it

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Son of influential U.S. scholar Ezra Vogel pays tribute to late father

Editor's note: CGTN is publishing this obituary with permission from Ezra Vogel's son Steven Vogel, a professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley.Ezra F. Vogel, 90, on

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Despite economic downturn, space startup funding defies gravity

The COVID-19 pandemic might have upended the global economy, but according to Meagan Crawford at Spacefund and Chris Moran with Lockheed Martin Ventures, it didn’t dampen investment in space sta