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Hypermarkets in Asia are losing their luster

Cavernous hypermarkets aren't as crowded as before. /CGTN Photo It's not always easy to transfer a successful business concept from one side of the world to the other, or to sustain that succe

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French minister's 'impersonators' on trial for fraud

Gilbert Chikli listens to a translator in Kiev in 2017 during his trial for tricking dozens of French banks and businesses into handing over millions of euros (Credit: Sergei Supinsky/ AFP) A

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Global Business Daily

"Brexit has changed the format of how people see the SNP, see independence, a lot of people who were never interested in independence suddenly are now massively interested."Those were the words of a

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Israeli PM Netanyahu arrives in Uganda for state visit

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara are received by traditional dancers upon arriving in Entebbe on Monday 3 February 2020. /PHOTO Courtesy: Prime Minister of Israel – Twi

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Man admits hacking Nintendo and leaking details of unreleased products

Ryan Hernandez, from Palmdale in California, leaked information about the Nintendo Switch console.

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Facebook board adds Zuckerberg friend, Dropbox’s CEO

Shareholders have repeatedly tried to oust Facebook’s chairman Mark Zuckerberg. The board has repeatedly rejected that demand. Outside investors are unlikely to get much help with that push from

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Jenfi wants to solve small business lending in Southeast Asia

Small business lending is a huge market that has attracted massive attention from VC investors in recent years. Startups like Kabbage have raised more than a billion dollars in venture capital and deb

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Why this VC thinks we’re heading for a cloud slowdown

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.Today we’re talking to Alex Niehenke, a venture capitalist with Scale Ventur

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The state of the unions

Imagine that your boss calls you and your co-workers into a meeting and announces that you are all getting raises. But before any glasses are raised for a toast, you are told that you’re not getting a

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Byte tops a million downloads amid spam issues and content concerns

New short-form video app Byte, heralded as Vine’s successor, is off to a strong start despite its issues. The app, built by Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann, brings back the six-second videos made po

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Construction startup Scaled Robotics raises a €2M seed round

Industrial robots are expensive. But, then, so are construction mistakes. Being off by an inch here or there adds up quickly, and too often crews need to correctly costly errors. There’s a reason cons

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Hulu restructures under Disney, CEO Randy Freer departs

Hulu CEO Randy Freer is stepping down from his role as part of a major restructuring of Disney’s direct-to-consumer business, the company announced on Friday. Disney had acquired control of Hul

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Apple News adds coverage of 2020 US presidential election, including guides to candidates, issues & news literacy

As it has done in previous election years, Apple today has added special coverage of the 2020 US presidential election to its Apple News app. The coverage includes curated news, information, and data

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What robotics’ biggest raises tell us about the industry’s future

I visited Boston last week and met with a number of robotics researchers, startups and established companies — more on that later — in the lead up to TechCrunch’s fourth annual TC Sessions Robotics +

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Equity Monday: Stock market woes, vertical SaaS and WeWork gets serious

Good morning friends, and welcome back to TechCrunch’s Equity Monday, a short-form audio hit to kickstart your week. Regular Equity episodes still drop Friday morning, so if you’ve listened to the sho

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Rocket startup Astra emerges from stealth, aims to launch for as little as $1M per flight

There’s yet another new rocket launch startup throwing its hat in the ring — Astra, an Alameda-based company that’s actually been operating in stealth mode (though relatively openly

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Graphics: What does 'Chunyun' mean for coronavirus-hit Wuhan?

China's Spring Festival travel rush, the world's largest annual human migration, kicked off on January 10 this year, and 1 billion trips were made as of Sunday, much le