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A glint of hope for India’s food delivery market as Zomato projects monthly cash burn of less than $1M

Food delivery startups in India have been struggling to make financial sense for years. They have each lost as much as $50 million a month to win and sustain customers by offering discounts. And unlik

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Update: UN chief urges efforts to tackle health effects of COVID-19 pandemic in LAC

Video: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on July 9, 2020 calls for efforts to tackle the health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). (Xinhua) "As COVID-19 con

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As pandemic drags on, interest in automation surges

Today, the U.S. exceeded three million COVID-19 cases and 132,000 deaths. In several states, new hotspots have rolled back plans to reopen businesses. The novel coronavirus has — and will continue — t

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IMF says teleworking puts the poor, the young, women at disadvantage amid pandemic

Workers in food and accommodation, and wholesale and retail trade, are the hardest hit for having the least "teleworkable" jobs, with the poor, the young and women bei

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Airbus first-half deliveries hit 16-year low despite June bounce

Airbus deliveries rose by 50 percent in June compared with May and reached their highest level since the coronavirus crisis spread to Europe in March, but the accelerating recovery failed to preve

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Global Business Daily: Bleak eurozone outlook, Deutsche's Epstein fine

"In the matter of three months, we have wiped out all the improvements in the labor market [which] took 10 years to achieve."That's the OECD's Stefano Scarpetta, who we spoke to after the development

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Fewer medical graduates from Muslim countries entering U.S. in Trump-era

The number of foreign medical graduates from Muslim-majority countries coming to the United States to become doctors has declined by 15 percent under the Trump administ

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With partnerships at major children’s hospitals, Manatee seeks clinical validation of its CBT-based app

When Manatee founder Damayanti Dipayana’s brother was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, the family took all the steps to ensure that he was properly cared for. All of the things that coul

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COVID-19 crisis to cast a long shadow over labor market: OECD

Editor's note: COVID-19: Economic Analysis is a series of articles comprising experts' views on developing micro and macroeconomic situations around the globe amid the COVID-19 pandemic.The COVID-

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Fewer medical graduates from Muslim countries entering 'Trump's U.S.'

Members of the New York Immigration Coalition hold a news conference in Foley Square, to talk about the U.S. Supreme Court decision to uphold U.S. President Donald Trump's Muslim ban, in June 201

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Northflank announces $2.6M seed to create end-to-end DevOps workflow in cloud

Northflank, a startup from a couple of guys in their 20s, has been working on a full-stack DevOps platform in the cloud since their first year at university in 2016. Today the startup announced a $2.6

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OwnBackup lands $50M as backup for Salesforce ecosystem thrives

OwnBackup has made a name for itself primarily as a backup and disaster recovery system for the Salesforce ecosystem, and today the company announced a $50 million investment.Insight Partners led the

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UK government responds to call for social care reform

The UK government has responded to a call from the chief executive of the National Health Service in England for urgent reform to the social care sector.Sir Simon Steve

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Report highlights "strong social cohesion" in Italy during COVID-19 lockdown

Italy has demonstrated strong cohesion in its social fabric during the coronavirus pandemic, the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) stated on Friday. Despite the over 240,000 positive cases re

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U.S. farmers scramble for help as COVID-19 scuttles immigrant

The novel coronavirus delayed the arrival of seasonal immigrants who normally help harvest U.S. wheat, leaving farmers to depend on high school students, school bus drivers, laid-off oilfield work

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DoubleVerify names adtech exec Mark Zagorski as new CEO

Ad measurement company DoubleVerify announced this morning that it has a new: CEO Mark Zagorski, who was most recently president and COO of adtech company Rubicon Project.DoubleVerify’s previou

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Economic Watch: China fleshes out Hainan free trade port plan

Lowering taxes and raising duty-free quotas, China has taken concrete steps in line with a master plan released on June 1 to build the southern island province of Hain