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China unveils how the future of work looks like

Editor's note: Matteo Giovannini is a finance professional at the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in Beijing and a member of the China Task Force at the Italian Ministry of Economic Develo

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Is Iran teetering on the brink of collapse?

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses the nation in a televised speech in Tehran, Iran, April 9, 2020. /AP Editor's note: Bobby Naderi is a journalist, guest contributor in print, radio and televis

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How one European VC firm is reacting to the economic crisis

Public markets around the world have been tanking for the past few weeks, and many companies simply can’t operate during a lockdown. Sheltering in place has had some terrible economic consequences, wi

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Quibi had a launch day outage

Looks like things haven’t gone completely smoothly with Quibi‘s launch.The issue appears to have been resolved, but the Quibi customer support account tweeted this afternoon that “s

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U.S. doctor with 'flu' in Jan tests positive for COVID-19 antibody

A post from a U.S. pediatric emergency medicine physician revealing he tested positive for novel coronavirus antibodies has stirred up wide discussions on Twitter in the last two days.The positive

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Bill Gates: 'Is very good news' China is not seeing a rebound in cases

When asked about which country the U.S. should be looking to for models that work and can be applied, Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder who made the company one of the world's most valuable technol

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DFL clears 'New Eto'o' Youssoufa Moukoko's way to Bundesliga

Youssoufa Moukoko of Borussia Dortmund U19 dribbles the ball in the UEFA Youth League game against Inter Milan U19 in Dortmund, Germany, November 5, 2019. /VCG The German Football League (DFL)

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Expert: Blockbuster films likely to be moved to spring/summer 2021

03:17 With theaters, movies suspended, and almost all production halted, hundreds and thousands of freelancers have been laid off. The multibillion-dollarmovie industry has taken a hea

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Facebook Messenger preps Auto Status location type sharing

Facebook Messenger could soon automatically tell your closest friends you’re at the gym, driving, or in Tokyo. Messenger has been spotted prototyping a ported version of the Instagram close frie

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Big 4 of Bundesliga donate 20 million euros to help struggling clubs

Logos of Borussia Dortmund (left top), RB Leizpig (right top), Bayer Leverkusen (left bottom) and Bayern Munich (right bottom). /VCG The COVID-19 pandemic has not only shut down the European f

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Stripe leads $20M Series A into Fast, which is building a universal checkout service for e-commerce

Early this morning, Fast, a startup building platform-agnostic login and checkout services, announced that Stripe has led a $20 million investment into its business. Prior investors Index Ventures and

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Economic crisis from coronavirus begins to bite in European football

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Economic crisis from coronavirus begins to bite in European football

The Red Bull Arena before the UEFA Champions League round of 16 match between RB Leipzig and Tottenham in Leipzig, Germany, March 10, 2020. /VCG Europe may be the financial powerhouse of globa

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Shaken market players won’t find buyers on the secondary market — yet

Seasoned secondary players were expecting it. As the markets began to plummet in recent weeks, shareholders who’d turned down earlier offers to buy this or that holding were suddenly curious to

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Be on guard for coronavirus robocalls, warns FCC

Robocalls have been targeting the vulnerable and unsuspecting for years, so it’s no surprise that the scumbags would take advantage of the current global catastrophe to enhance their scams. The

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China's NDRC says daily necessities supply remain stable amid epidemic

VCG Supply of daily necessities has remained stable in China, including the epidemic-hit Hubei Province, in spite of the ongoing novel coronavirus outbreak that clobbered daily life and factor

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World walls off as leaders warn viral pandemic will worsen

People around the world became increasingly closed off from one another Thursday as sweeping travel bans accelerated, walling regions apart as a viral pandemic unfolds