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Confirmed COVID-19 cases in UK jumps to 273

As of Sunday morning, a total of 273 patients have been tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Britain, according to the latest figures released Sunday afternoon by the Department of Health an

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Stocks fall again on continued coronavirus worries

Is it good news to say that stocks fell less sharply than they had on previous days?That’s the bright side of another turbulent trading day across the Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchange. The ma

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Daily Crunch: Jack Dorsey defends his work as Twitter CEO

Twitter’s CEO defends himself from activist investors, Google takes additional coronavirus precautions and a fizzy drink maker raises $30 million. Here’s your Daily Crunch for March 6, 20

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Airbnb and three other p2p rental platforms agree to share limited pan-EU data

The European Commission announced yesterday it’s reached a data-sharing agreement with vacation rental platforms Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia Group and Tripadvisor — trumpeting the arrang

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APD | COVID-19 scare tightens grip over India

By APD writer Rishika ChauhanIn the last few weeks, a renewed COVID-19 scare has tightened its grip over India. New cases have been reported from the capital, as well a

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Spotlight: U.S. Democratic candidate Biden endorsed by Bloomberg, to clash with Sanders

WASHINGTON, March 4 (Xinhua) -- Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, who won most states in critical Super Tuesday's Democratic primaries, grabbed the endorsement of former New York City Mayor Micha

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Twitter CEO’s weak argument why investors shouldn’t fire him

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey might not spend six months a year in Africa, claims the real product development is under the hood, and gives an excuse for deleting Vine before it could become TikTok. Today h

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Veteran healthcare VC Camille Samuels explains why trying to cure infectious disease is a lousy business

Camille Samuels has spent the last five years as a partner with the healthcare venture firm Venrock and a dozen years before that with Versant Ventures, where she was a managing director. This self-d

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Feds investigate nursing home as U.S. death toll hits 11

The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus climbed to 11 on Wednesday with a patient succumbing in California — the first reported fatality outside Washington state — as

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Spotlight: U.S. Democratic candidate Biden endorsed by Bloomberg, to clash with Sanders

WASHINGTON, March 4 (Xinhua) -- Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, who won most states in critical Super Tuesday's Democratic primaries, grabbed the endorsement of former New York City Mayor Micha

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Bloomberg suspends presidential campaign, endorses Biden

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced on Wednesday that he's suspending his presidential campaign and is endorsing former Vice President Joe Biden. The announcement came after a dis

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Bach: IOC not discussing cancellation or postponement of Tokyo 2020

Thomas Bach, president of the IOC, chairs the press conference at a meeting concerning preparations of Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Olympic House, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 3, 2020. /VCG Int

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Bach: IOC not discussing cancellation or postponement of Tokyo 2020

Thomas Bach, president of the IOC, chairs the press conference at a meeting concerning preparations of Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Olympic House, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 3, 2020. /VCG Int

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Robinhood blames record trade volume & itself for outages

It wasn’t the leap year, a coding blip, or a hack that caused Robinhood’s massive outages yesterday and today that left customers unable to trade stocks. Instead, the co-CEOs write that &#

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Hulu with Live TV belatedly arrives on PlayStation 4

Hulu’s Live TV service, which allows users to watch both live and on-demand programming, including Hulu Originals, has finally arrived on the PlayStation 4 — close to three years after the

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Confirmed: Managed by Q sells to rival Eden for just 11% of what WeWork paid for it last year

Managed by Q co-founder Dan Teran had a plan. After selling his office management company to WeWork last year for tidy $220 million — $100 million in cash and the rest in stock — he wanted

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Robinhood will offer “case-by-case” compensation for its outage on the day markets gained $1.1 trillion

Robinhood, the popular trading app with a purported 10-million-strong user base and a $7.6 billion valuation, said it will offer compensation for yesterday’s outage on a case-by-case basis, acco