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Brees responds to Trump: We can't use the U.S. flag to distract people

Drew Brees, quarterback of the New Orleans Saints, attends the Super Bowl LIV Pregame at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, February 2, 2020. /VCG Drew Brees, quarterback of the New

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The IPO window is open

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.ZoomInfo went public yesterday. After pricing its IPO $1 ahead of its proposed ra

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Slack’s new integration deal with AWS could also be about tweaking Microsoft

Slack and Amazon announced a big integration late yesterday afternoon. As part of the deal, Slack will use Amazon Chime for its call feature, while reiterating its commitment to use AWS as its prefer

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Twitter has a record-breaking week as users looked for news of protests and COVID-19

Civil unrest due to the nationwide George Floyd protests drove Twitter to see a record number of new installs this week, according to data from two app store intelligence firms, Apptopia and Sensor To

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Zoom and CrowdStrike hang onto 2020 gains despite huge earnings expectations

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.Yesterday after the bell, Zoom and CrowdStrike reported earnings. The two technol

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Daily Crunch: Facebook employees walk out virtually

Facebook staff protests the social network’s stance on Trump posts, Volkswagen finalizes its $2.6 billion investment in Argo AI and we examine complaints about the layoff process at events and t

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Tech companies mark Blackout Tuesday

Over the weekend, music industry execs Jamila Thomas and Brianna Agyemang called on fellow industry members to protest police violence against black people by pausing operations for the day. The pair

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Vroom targets nearly $2B valuation in impending IPO

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.Used-car marketplace Vroom continued its march towards going public yesterday with

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The uncertain pandemic consensus

Information about COVID-19 is displayed on a screen in Times Square in New York, U.S., on May 4. /Xinhua Editor's note: Jean Pisani-Ferry is a senior fellow at Brussels-based think tank Bruege

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Mongolia confirms 6 new COVID-19 cases, 185 in total

Mongolia reported six new cases of COVID-19 over the last 24 hours, bringing the national count to 185, the country's National Center for Communicable Disease (NCCD) said Monday. "A total of 371 test

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Watch live as SpaceX’s first astronaut-carrying spacecraft docks with the International Space Station

Today at around 10:30 AM EDT (7:30 AM PDT), SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule will dock with the International Space Station, with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley on board. The two have b

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England risks COVID-19 resurgence by ending lockdown too soon: experts

People enjoy the hot whether in Dovedala, Britain, May 30, 2020. /Reuters The UK government said on Saturday that the 2.2 millionpeople who have been "shielding"from COVID-19 in England becaus

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Afghan Government Releases 710 Taliban Militants as Fighting in Country Resumes

The Afghan government has released another 710 Taliban prisoners as part of President Ashraf Ghani's commitment to free 2,000 militants in response to the Eid ceasefire

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Aaron Levie: ‘We have way too many manual processes in businesses’

Box CEO Aaron Levie has been working to change the software world for 15 years, but the pandemic has accelerated the move to cloud services much faster than anyone imagined. As he pointed out yesterda

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Salesforce stock is taking a hit today after lighter guidance in yesterday’s earning’s report

In spite of a positive quarter with record revenue that beat analyst estimates, Salesforce stock was taking a hit today because of lighter guidance. Wall Street is a tough audience.The stock was down

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Daily Crunch: Trump takes aim at social media companies

President Trump follows through on his threat to challenge the legal protections enjoyed by social media and internet companies, Magic Leap’s CEO is stepping down and China sees its biggest auto

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China's HK security law paves way for long-term market stability

10:59 China's proposal for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) to enact a national security law may cause short-term market fluctuations but will result