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Starship Technologies raises $17M to roll out more delivery bots

A year ago, Starship Technologies had a couple hundred autonomous bots delivering burritos and pizzas to students on college campuses and residents in a few neighborhoods.The company — with $17 millio

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Alma raises $59.4 million for its Klarna-like payment option

French startup Alma is raising a $59.4 million Series B funding round (€49 million). The company has been building a new payment option for expensive good. You can choose to pay over three or four ins

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Watch SpaceX launch its first dedicated rideshare mission live, carrying a record-breaking number of satellites

SpaceX is set to launch the very first of its dedicated rideshare missions – an offering it introduced in 2019 that allows small satellite operators to book a portion of a payload on a Falcon 9 launch

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2020: Chinese banks dispose $467b in non-performing assets

The China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission in Beijing, China, December 5, 2020. /CFP China's banking sector disposed 3.02 trillion yuan ($466.6 billion) in non-performing assets in

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Benin's Q3 exports up 1.7 pct amid COVID-19 pandemic

VCG Despite the COVID-19 impacts on Benin's economy, Benin's foreign trade volume in the third quarter of 2020 experienced a slight increase compared to the previous quarter, according to the

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Desktop Metal buys fellow 3D printing company EnvisionTEC for $300M

Desktop Metal this morning announced its intention to purchase fellow 3D printing company EnvisionTEC. Founded in Germany in 2002, EnvisionTEC specializes in photopolymer additive manufacturing, putti

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Noopl’s iPhone plug-in is designed to improve hearing in noisy environments

Noopl looks like one of the more interesting hardware startups to come out of CES day one. The Sacramento-based company has designed an accessory that it says can help drown out background noise for

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2020: China's service trade deficit drops sharply in first 11 months

China's trade structure has further improved as the country's service trade deficit shrank significantly in the first 11 months of 2020,datafrom the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) showed on Friday.Dur

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China's total imports and exports expected to hit $4.9t this year

China's total volume of imports and exports is expected to reach 32 trillion yuan (about $4.9 trillion) this year, an increase of 30 percent over the number in 2015, Xinhua reported on Saturday, q

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Turkish ambassador: freight train becomes more important amid COVID-19

02:27 The first freight train from Turkey to China departed Istanbul on December 4, and is set to arrive in the Chinese city of Xi'an this week. The train, carrying 42 shipping contain

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Ambassadors' China Story: Imron Cotan

04:49 Editor's note:"Ambassadors' China Story" is a series about former ambassadors to China who share their China stories through old photos and mementos, providing de

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Apple announces $549 over-hear headphones, the AirPods Max

The AirPods Max are joining the AirPods and AirPods Pro in Apple’s audio accessory lineup. As you can see on the photo, Apple is releasing its first over-ear headphones under the AirPods brand.The wi

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China-EU trade volume 'shows resilience' of bilateral relations

China replaced the U.S. and became the largest trading partner of the EU in the first three quarters of the year amid COVID-19, demonstrating the resilience and potential of China-EU economic and

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The Trump administration will add SMIC, China’s largest chipmaker, to its defense blacklist: report

SMIC, one of largest chip makers in the world, is among several companies that the Department of Defense plans to designate as being owned or controlled by the Chinese military, reports Reuters. Earli

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China's bicycle exports surge amid COVID-19 precautions

With heightened awareness of social distancing amid the coronavirus pandemic, many have turned to bicycling. China exported a total of 41.66 million bikes during the first nine months of this year

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China's auto imports, exports further expand

A cargo ship at the port of Lianyungang, east China's Jiangsu Province, alongside vehicles set to be exported to Belgium, September 3, 2020. /CFPChina's automobile impo

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1st volume of biography on famed US economist released

The first volume of a biography about American economist Paul Samuelson, Founder of Modern Economics: Paul A. Samuelson, was recently published by Beijing-based CITIC Press Group.As the first American