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Daily Crunch: Disney’s streaming chief departs for TikTok

TikTok enlists a big name from Disney as its new CEO, Walmart is shuttering its Jet e-commerce brand and EasyJet admits to a major data breach.Here’s your Daily Crunch for May 19, 2020.1. Disne

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Popping the hood on Vroom’s IPO filing

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.Yesterday afternoon, Vroom, an online car buying service, filed to go public. Base

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Europe to Facebook: Pay taxes and respect our values — or we’ll regulate

A livestreamed “debate” yesterday between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and a European commissioner shaping digital policy for the internal market, Thierry Breton, sound

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SoftBank reportedly plans to sell about $20 billion of its T-Mobile shares

SoftBank Group Corp. is currently seeking buyers for about $20 billion of its shares in T-Mobile US, according to reports in the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg. If the proposed sale goes through, i

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2016 repeat? Trump revives Clinton playbook to battle Biden

Accusations of a “deep state” conspiracy. Allegations of personal and family corruption. Painting an opponent as a Washington insider not to be trusted.It’s 2016 again.

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Dortmund past Schalke 4-0 as Bundesliga restarts with no fans

Players of Borussia Dortmund celebrate after the Bundesliga match against FC Schalke 04 at Signal Iduna Park in Dortmund, Germany, May 16, 2020. /VCG Borussia Dortmund players paid tribute aft

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The Station: Cruise cuts, Waymo snags more cash, and a VC Mobility survey

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every Saturday in your inbox.Hi and welcome back to The Station, I̵

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Hungary welcomes 100th Wizz Air plane bringing medical equipment from China: FM

Hungary welcomed the 100th Wizz Air aircraft that brought medical equipment from China to fight the novel coronavirus, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto said Saturday.

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Oil prices jump as demand shows signs of picking up

FILE PHOTO: A TORC Oil & Gas pump jack is seen near Granum, Alberta, Canada May 6, 2020. REUTERS/Todd Korol Oil prices rose on Friday, with U.S. crude jumping more than 6% to its highest since

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U.S.-China trade enters new era after overnight Huawei, Foxconn, and TSMC announcements

There has been a steady drumbeat of news on the U.S.-China trade front since the start of the Trump administration. President Trump has made decoupling from China’s economy on on-again, off-again prop

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A pandemic forces parliament to welcome digital democracy - but will it last?

An institution not known for its swift adoption of new technology has embraced democracy by Zoom.

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The West's dirty tricks on China's COVID-19 vaccine R&D show ignorance

Editor's note:CGTN's First Voice provides instant commentary on breaking stories. The daily column clarifies emerging issues and better defines the news agenda, offering a Chinese perspective on t

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WHO observes a minute's silence in memory of nurses, health workers killed

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday observed a minute of silence during a virtual press conference on COVID-19 to remember the nurses and heal

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French minister says border controls with Germany to stay in place until June 15

French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said on Wednesday that controls will stay in place on French borders with Germany until June 15. "France and Germany made progress in a coordinated wa

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At odds with Trump, Fauci says dangerous to reopen too fast

U.S. Senators listen to Dr. Antony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases speak remotely during the Senate Committee for Health, Education, Labor, and Pensio

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Trump's geopolitical confrontation creates toxic climate for Chinese

U.S. President Donald Trump points to a question as he speaks about the coronavirus during a press briefing in the Rose Garden of the White House, May 11, 2020, in Washington DC. /AP Editor's

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Snap’s Yellow accelerator debuts its third batch of investments

This morning, Snap joined a host of startup accelerators shifting its demo day online amid the COVID-19 quarantine. With its third class of startups, Yellow, Snap’s in-house startup accelerator