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No game, no life: A young woman's trailblazing entrepreneurship

05:30 "Life is like a game of chess, where every move you make has an impact on the rest of your game," Kathy Gong Xiaosi said, looking radiant. Sitting in the open are

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Buying near-expired food comes into vogue in China

Zhang Shijia first had the idea of buying food past its "best before dates" when she was browsing a dizzying array of products on Taobao.The low-price tags caught her e

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Chinese online retailer Shein takes fast fashion world by storm

Shein, the fastest-growing e-commerce company in the world, and perhaps China's most mysterious, is now taking the ultra-fast fashion market by storm. While its fast-fa

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TikTok called out for lack of ads transparency and for failing to police political payola

TikTok announced a ban on political advertising all the way back in 2019. So you’d be forgiven for thinking the ugly problem of democracy-denting political disinformation doesn’t apply ins

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Riot Games and Konvoy Ventures back games publisher Carry1st in $6M Series A

Africa is the last frontier for basically anything. Mobile gaming is no exception. For a continent that is home to more than 1 billion millennials and Gen Zers, mobile gaming has never really picked u

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From food delivery to housing: Former Favor founders raise millions for Sunroom Rentals

Real estate tech startup Sunroom Rentals, which leases units on behalf of property managers and apartment owners, has raised $11 million in a Series A round of funding led by Gigafund.Ben Doherty and

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Will Carbon and Shahry usher in a wave of buy now, pay later services in Africa?

Affirm, Afterpay, Klarna, Quadpay. These are some of the big global players in the buy now, pay later (BNPL) movement. They allow shoppers to purchase products online and pay in installments with nomi

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A look at 20 years of China's most dazzling industry

Standing outside the 15-story China Diamond Exchange Center, two darkened rectangular glass blocks are juxtaposed by the skylit atrium in between. The structure, which

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Brands building for scale should look to hypercultural Latinx consumers

As two female investors who themselves identify as hypercultural (HC) Latinx, we see much potential for brands and startups that invest in this demographic.For the purpose of this article, we will foc

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Light-weight ‘banking via messaging’ services are getting Gen-Z buzz

More evidence that Gen-Z is switching to chat platforms for just about everything, including banking emerges today in the news that Zelf, a FinTech startup offering neobank-style services, is generati

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Startups Weekly: Where social startups will get funding in the future

[Editor’s note: Want to get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that startups can use by email? Subscribe here.] While consumer tech has matured as a startup category in recent years, many inves