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Cisco to acquire internet monitoring solution ThousandEyes

When Cisco bought AppDynamics in 2017 for $3.7 billion just before the IPO, the company sent a clear signal it wanted to move beyond its pure network hardware roots into the software monitoring side o

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Twitter screens Trump’s Minneapolis threat-tweet for glorifying violence

After applying a fact-checking label Tuesday to a misleading vote-by-mail tweet made by US president Donald Trump, Twitter is on a roll and has labeled another of the president’s tweets —

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Japan deploys cluster response team to southwestern city due to spike in COVID-19 cases

The Japanese health ministry dispatched a cluster response team to Kitakyushu City in southwestern Japan due to a spike in COVID-19 cases there, Japan's top government

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Global Business Daily: Nissan cull, easyJet job cuts, euro high

"There was no viable solution for the future of the Barcelona factory."These words from the chairman of Nissan in Europe, Gianluca De Ficchy, offered no consolation to the hundreds of workers protest

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Pompeo's 'designation' is disingenuous opportunism

Editor's note:Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations analyst and a graduate of Durham and Oxford universities. He writes on topics pertaining to China, the DPRK, Britain and

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Jack Dorsey explains why Twitter fact-checked Trump’s false voting claims

After Twitter flagged a pair of President Trump’s tweets with a fact-checking label on Tuesday, tensions between the president and his favored social media platform ar

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An hourly home-sharing startup in San Francisco finds itself in the city’s crosshairs

Emmanuel Bamfo is used to fighting uphill battles. Still, his latest fight, with the city of San Francisco, may well destroy his business if he doesn’t win it and quickly.Bamfo is the cofounder

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Facebook launches Collab, a mix-and-match app for making collaborative music videos

Facebook’s internal RD group, NPE Team, is rolling out yet another new app today called Collab after having just launched a new group audio calling app, CatchUp, on Tuesday. With Collab, the foc

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Daily Crunch: SpaceX’s first astronaut launch is a ‘go’

SpaceX is giving astronauts a lift to the International Space Station, a new jailbreak can unlock any iPhone and a startup raises $250 million to reduce food waste.Here’s your Daily Crunch for

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China may be the 'first in and first out' from COVID-19 recession

08:33 China will be the first in and first out of the global COVID-19 recession, experts said Saturday, as the country's authorities balance dynamics between monetary a

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Death toll from Pakistan airliner crash 97, black box found

The flight data recorder from the Pakistani airliner that crashed into a residential neighbourhood of Karachi has been found, an official said on Saturday, as the death

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Global Business Daily: No China target, Locust loan, Burberry sales

"I think we will see a new type of globalization… Airlines will suffer, but maybe the digital industry will flourish.”That was the response from Michele Geraci, former Italian Undersecretary for Stat

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An eighth Amazon warehouse employee has died from COVID-19

An eighth Amazon employee has died of COVID-19. The news comes as the company is under scrutiny for failing to be more transparent about the wider number of infections among its warehouse workers. A s

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Startup Battlefield is going virtual with TechCrunch Disrupt 2020

You read that right. The big announcement came yesterday – TechCrunch Disrupt is now fully virtual. What does this mean for Startup Battlefield? More opportunity. The best companies from across

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Mass COVID-19 screening possible in 'weeks'

The portable device analyses swabs within an hour avoiding the time-consuming process of sending them to a laboratory.

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Former Stitch Fix COO Julie Bornstein just took the wraps off her app-only e-commerce startup, The Yes

After teasing the launch of their new startup last year, e-commerce veteran Julie Bornstein and her technical co-founder, Amit Aggarwal, are today launching The Yes, a women’s shopping platform

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Big Sky Health raises $8 million to nurture its intermittent fasting, meditation, and alcohol consumption apps

Mike Maser, a serial entrepreneur, has been focused on longevity since well before being diagnosed with stage 4 non-Hodgkins lymphoma more than five years ago. But he understandably took much greater