YouTube has acquired social commerce startup Simsim, the Google-owned firm said on Tuesday. Neither of the firms disclosed the terms of the deal, but two people with knowledge of the matter told TechC
At our recent Early Stage event, we had the opportunity to talk at length with Arvind Purushotham, the managing director and global head of Citi Ventures, about how startups should think about corpora
Many shops have been picked clean or destroyed following five days of riots and looting in the South African city of Durban.What began as protests against the prison sen
02:54 The wheels are turning for Venezuelans tired of the long wait for a public bus. One group of entrepreneurs has put a private bus service on the road, with plans for a fleet of bus
People pass by the Palais des Festivals ahead of the film festival in Cannes, southern France, July 5, 2021. /Xinhua The 74th edition ofthe Cannes Film Festival opened Tuesday in France with 2
Children, who fled the violence in Ethiopia's Tigray region, wait in line for breakfast in Mekelle, the regional capital, Ethiopia, June 23, 2021. /CFP Preparing to step up relief efforts in E
03:07 As vaccines roll out in Brazil it was time for our correspondent Paulo Cabral to get his shot. See what it was like.Vaccinations are still slow in coming in Brazil but in recent w
01:48 These are some of the dogs helping in Miami, Florida. Oreo is a search and rescue dog, trained in Mexico.Because of her size, Oreo can fit in places larger dogs can’t.Other canin
Authorities in the Mexican border state of Baja California say they will include migrants in the new COVID-19 vaccination plan for border cities, which is aimed at acce
Asylum-seeking children wait to be transported to a U.S. border patrol processing facility in Texas, U.S., May 6, 2021. /Reuters An effort by U.S. President Joe Biden to reunite migrant famili
Apple is rolling out some updates to iCloud under the name iCloud+. The company is announcing those features at its developer conference. Existing paid iCloud users are going to get those iCloud+ feat
03:20 Venezuela’s organ transplant crisis has been deepening for years.Even before thecoronaviruspandemic, the wait list for transplant patients meant an agonizing daily reality for tho
The UK has recorded another three coronavirus-related deaths and a further 2,439 cases, the latest government figures show. It comes after five deaths were recorded on Sunday, along with a furthe
People wearing masks wait to receive their second dose of COVISHIELD, a COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by Serum Institute of India, in Kolkata, India, May 12, 2021. /Reuters India on Friday rep
An electric vehicle charging station in Haikou, south China's Hainan Province, March 31, 2021. /CFP Electric cars will be cheaper to build than fossil fuel vehicles across Europe within six ye
FILE PHOTO: Medical staff in personal protective equipment wait to conduct novel coronavirus tests for people at Dharavi, Asia's largest slum, in Mumbai, India, April 18, 2020. /Xinhua India r
Nurses and midwives in Uganda on Thursday started their sit-down strike after they failed to reach a consensus with government over payment of their lunch allowance. /Xinhua Nurses and midwive