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This low-flying growth equity firm, with payments and logistics bets, just closed a $255 million fund

Activant Capital, a seven-year-old, Greenwich, Ct.-based growth equity firm that’s still making a name for itself, has managed to secure $255 million in fresh capital commitments, despite that t

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Across China: Foreigners laud Chinese for discipline amid epidemic

Steven Forster, a German teacher, felt that he had walked into the set of a disaster movie when returning to north China's Shanxi Province from his motherland in early February. Shanxi's capital city

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Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson on shifting a 3,000-person company to fully remote

What’s it like to take a company with 3,000 employees distributed across 25 offices and make it fully remote with just a few weeks’ notice?I hopped on a call with Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson t

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Contact tracing – on which Singapore's COVID-19 strategy rests

On Friday, April 3, Singapore went ahead and announced its strictest measures to date – asking most workplaces to operate remotely, home-based learning for schools and educational institutions, an

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APD | Asia raises 'shields' against imported Covid-19 wave

By APD writer AliceAfter the initial success of efforts to control COVID-19, Asian countries and territories have imposed stricter measures against the wave of infectio

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Malawi president, ministers take 10% salary cut to fight coronavirus

Malawi's President Peter Mutharika addresses guests during his inauguration ceremony in Blantyre, Malawi, May 31, 2019./Reuters Malawi's president and cabinet will take a 10% salary cut and re

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Tech for good during COVID-19: Texts for frontline workers, a crisis prevention hotline and more

What do a heating filter company, a robotics startup and an architecture startup have in common? Usually, nothing. But right now, as COVID-19 sweeps the world and jeopardizes the lives of millions, co

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Interview: World expects solid cooperation in fighting COVID-19, says former Indonesian official

The world needs stronger cooperation in the face of the pandemic, a former Indonesian ambassador to the United States told Xinhua in a recent interview. "Faced with th

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Chinese women association in Nigeria donates food to orphanage for COVID-19 fight

The Association of Chinese Women in Nigeria on Saturday said it has distributed food items to an orphanage in southwest Ogun to support its COVID-19 fight. The donations, presented by Zhou Jun, pres

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Costa Rica farmers destroy flowers as coronavirus spoils exports

Costa Rican flower farmers have started destroying the lilies, roses and chrysanthemums they have lovingly tended to for months after the coronavirus outbreak led to the suspension of flights to mark

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Popular Chinese restaurant hit hard by coronavirus

03:11 As anaward-winningchef, Peter Chang has 12 popular restaurants in Washington, D.C. area.Since the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S.,local governments havesuspended all restaurants

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Cloudflare CEO pledges to double 2020 internship class

Internet security company Cloudflare has pledged to double its Summer 2020 internship class, and make the entire program remote if necessary, in response to cancellations of internships programs acro

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Extremists see global chaos from virus as an opportunity

Both the Islamic State group and al-Qaida see the coronavirus as a threat, but some of their fighters also see the upheaval from the pandemic as an opportunity to win o

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Self-driving car engineer Anthony Levandowski files motion to force Uber into arbitration

Anthony Levandowski, the star self-driving car engineer who was at the center of a trade secrets lawsuit, has filed a motion to compel Uber into arbitration in the hopes that his former employee wil

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Euro zone factory activity crashed in March as coronavirus spread

A container ship travels along the Elbe to the container port on March 31, 2020 in Hamburg, Germany. /VCG Euro zone manufacturing activity collapsed last month as breaks in global supply chain

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'Astounding': Johnson cabinet using Zoom video for meetings despite MOD ban

Images of the PM using the app with colleagues so they comply with coronavirus social-distancing rules were released by Number 10.

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Reporter's Dairy: Panic-buying of guns in the U.S.

The gun store owned by James Janya is crowded with gun buyers amid the coronavirus outbreak. Ediz Tiyansan/CGTN When the number of COVID-19 cases took a sudden exponential growth in Los Angele