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The good SaaS times will end and challenges are coming

We’ve had a great decade-long run in SaaS — abundant capital, a thriving economy and a massive existing market shift from on-premise to cloud.But the good times will end and challenges are coming.I’m

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Last COVID-19 patient cured in north China's Shanxi

The last patient infected with COVID-19 in north China's Shanxi Province was discharged from hospital on Friday, bringing existing confirmed cases to zero in the provi

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Wealth polarization in U.S. hits 50-year high: human rights report

In the United States, "the persistence of extreme poverty is a political choice made by those in power," said the report, citing Philip G. Alston, United Nation special rapporteur on extreme povert

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Scientists say Italy's 'patient zero' may be from Germany

A team of scientists in Milan believes Italy's coronavirus epidemic might have come to the country via Germany and not directly from China as many experts initially assumed.Scientists have been hu

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ECB prepares to take action on COVID-19

Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, has announced new stimulus package measures to help take control of COVID-19 as it spreads across the eurozone. /Daniel Roland/AFP Th

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New Twitter client Brizzly+ lets you ‘edit’ and auto-delete your tweets

Brizzly, the name associated with a long-gone Twitter client, and later, a goofy project highlighting our addiction to social media, is coming back. And this time, it’s focused on serving the ne

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YC-backed Giveaway is a peer-to-peer marketplace that uses virtual currency

YC-backed Giveaway lets folks give away their unused or unnecessary items in a marketplace. Unlike other buy/sell or donation platforms, Giveaway uses a virtual currency on the platform to reward peop

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Comscore partners with Twitch to bring gaming and esports viewership stats to advertisers

Measurement firm Comscore announced this morning a partnership with Amazon-owned game streaming site, Twitch. The deal will see Comscore measuring video streaming activity across Twitch, including gam

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China has passed peak of coronavirus epidemic: health commission

00:19 China has passed the peak of the novel coronavirus epidemic, said Mi Feng, a spokesman of the National Health Commission on Thursday.New cases keep declining, and

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Dow plunges over 1,400 points, ending in bear market

Volatile trading continued on Wall Street Wednesday with the Dow closing down more than 1,400 points amid coronavirus fears. The Dow Jones Industrial Average sank 1,464.94 points, or 5.86 percen

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APD | China-based Filipino workers call for exemption from travel ban

By APD writer Melo M. AcuñaMANILA - Filipino workers from the People’s Republic of China called on the House of Representatives to allow them to return to their work pl

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Virus-hit Chinese city gradually resumes normal medical services

Huanggang, a city hard-hit by the novel coronavirus outbreak, Wednesday resumed outpatient and hospitalization services for patients suffering from other diseases in s

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Xinjiang to partially resume school

High school students who are going to graduate this year will resume school Monday in northwestern China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region after the outbreak of the n

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No extra economy recovery measures needed for COVID-19 impact: Finnish minister

Finnish Finance Minister Katri Kulmuni said on Tuesday that the economic repercussions of the COVID-19 in Finland do not, at this time, require extraordinary recovery measures. Talking to the media

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Putin approves legal changes in bid to stay in power until 2036

Russia's President Vladimir Putin has opened the door to constitutional changes that would allow him to remain in power until 2036, but said he favored term limits once the country became politically

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'To hell with European constraints,' blast MEPs over COVID-19 response

A tourist wearing a facemask walks past Rome's closed Colisseum as Italy imposed unprecedented national restrictions on its 60 million people to control COVID-19. Alberto Pizzoli/AFP Some Euro

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Xi's Wuhan visit shows confidence in winning battle against COVID-19

Chinese President Xi Jinping sends regards to medical workers who have been fighting the epidemic on the front line day and night, by video calls at Huoshenshan Hospital in Wuhan, central China's