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Coronavirus deaths in the UK pass 26,000 as care home cases included

A total of 26,097 patients have died in hospitals, care homes and the wider community after testing positive for coronavirus in Britain as of Tuesday afternoon, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said We

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UK’s coronavirus contact-tracing app to be ready for ‘wider deployment’ in 2-3 weeks

A coronavirus contact-tracing app that alerts users when they have come into contact with people infected with Covid-19 will be ready in two to three weeks, according t

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eBay Q1 reports sales of $2.374B, active buyers up to 174M in wake of COVID-19

After a quarter in which eBay, tussling with an activist investor, completed the sell-off of its ticketing business StubHub for $4 billion and saw appointed a new CEO after its previous one departed,

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Wise locks down $5.7 million to scale its challenger bank designed for small businesses

Stripe and Shopify have transformed the face of commerce for small business users, yet when it comes to putting that cash somewhere, SMBs have found that the banking options aren’t quite as tran

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Commentary: Competence, confirmation and confidence behind time-setting of China's "two sessions"

China has decided to start the third annual session of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC), the top legislature, on May 22. The third annual session of the 13th National Committee of the Chi

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New wave of COVID-19 in Japan comes from EU, U.S.: Government research

The current wave of coronavirus outbreak in Japan is due to imported cases from the U.S. and Europe, according to Japanese researchers.The research, together with a motion graph showing the haplotype

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Beyond Meat stock down after UBS downgrades rating to 'sell'

COVID-19 has been a boon for Beyond Burger, but some analysts think the stock is overvalued. /Beyond Burger Beyond Meat ended in the red on Monday after Wall Street downgraded the stock from n

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Singapore reports 799 new coronavirus cases

Singapore's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported 799 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, bringing the total confirmed cases in the country to 14,423. Of the newly confirmed cas

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Boeing and Embraer abandon a $4.2bln deal in the face of coronavirus

A Boeing 737 MAX 8 takes off during a flight test in Renton, Washington, January 29, 2016. /Reuters Boeing Co on Saturday pulled out of a 4.2 billion U.S. dollars deal to buy Embraer's commerc

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Would Boris Johnson's return allay Britain's COVID-19 fears?

British Prime Minster Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street for Prime Minister's Questions, in London, Britain, March 25, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note: Hamzah Rifaat Hussain is a former visiti

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Would Boris Johnson's return allay Britain's COVID-19 fears?

British Prime Minster Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street for Prime Minister's Questions, in London, Britain, March 25, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note: Hamzah Rifaat Hussain is a former visiti

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U.S. oil ETF cuts July contract exposure post CME order

The United States Oil Fund LP, the largest oil-focused exchange-traded product in the country, cut its exposure to July crude futures contracts and increased its exposure to September contracts, a

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Botswana economy hit by the coronavirus pandemic

FILE PHOTO: The President of Botswana, Mokgweetsi Masisi./ AFP. Botswana's economy is set for its worst performance in a decade as a result of the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, accord

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Google is extending identity verification requirements to all advertisers

In a blog post today, Google’s Director of Product Management, Ads Integrity. John Canfield, announced that the company will be extending its identity verification policy for all advertisers. Introduc

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Paige adds $5M from Goldman Sachs to double down on AI-based cancer therapies

Paige, the Sloan-Kettering spinout that has been building an artificial intelligence platform to improve cancer pathology and subsequently use those insights to develop better drug therapies, has rais

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Neymar joins stars in COVID-19 cause, Gareth Bale to donate 1.15M USD

Paris St Germain's Neymar in action during their Coupe de France clash with Lyon at Groupama Stadium, France, March 4, 2020. /VCG Paris St Germain talisman Neymar is among the Brazilian stars

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Impact felt in Brazil where income inequality is extreme

02:55 The measures to fight the COVID-19 pandemic are already hurting economies in Latin America.And these countries may be seeing only the beginning of the problem.Our correspondent P