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WHO says China coronavirus outbreak not yet a global health crisis

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday that it was "too early" to declare the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in China a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC)."I

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Global Business Daily: Latest from Davos

"They've taken advantage for a long time, and so we're going to have a deal, I suspect. We're going to be able to make a deal".The U.S.president Donald Trump met with many world leaders at Davos this

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Is the Doomsday Clock about to tick closer to disaster?

The new year has already brought increased tensions in the Middle East, a deadly viral outbreak, and more climate change warnings.

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IBM snaps out of revenue doldrums, breaking a five-quarter losing streak in Q4

International Business Machines is living a case study of a large, established company vying to transform. Over the last decade, the technology elder has struggled to move into areas like cloud and AI

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Bear Robotics, a company making robot waiters, just raised a $32 million round led by SoftBank

Back in August, we flagged a filing for you that we’d found interesting, one for a now 2.5-year-old, 40-person Redwood City, Calif.,-based startup called Bear Robotics that’s been developi

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Should tech giants slam the encryption door on the government?

Reuters reported yesterday, citing six sources familiar with the matter, that the FBI pressured Apple into dropping a feature that would allow users to encrypt iPhone backups stored in Apple’s c

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Iraqi PM says firing rockets on U.S. embassy harms Iraq

Iraqi caretaker Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said on Tuesday that firing rockets at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad is unacceptable and harms Iraq. "Yesterday, Katyusha

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Trump vs. Greta: Two different perspectives

Editor's note: Andrew Korybko is a Moscow-based American political analyst. The article reflects the author's opinions, and not necessarily the views of CGTN.The World Economic Forum's 50th annual

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Trump vs. Greta: Two different perspectives

Editor's note: Andrew Korybko is a Moscow-based American political analyst. The article reflects the author's opinions, and not necessarily the views of CGTN.The World Economic Forum's 50th annual

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Equity: Uber sells its Eats business in India, Qonto raises, and Tesla says no

Good morning, friends, and welcome back to TechCrunch’s Equity Monday, a short-form audio hit to kickstart your week. Equity’s regular, long-form shows still land each and every Friday, includin

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Trump, Greta and unicorns - What to watch for at Davos on Tuesday

The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum kicked off on Tuesday in the Swiss ski resort of Davos.Here’s what to watch for on the opening day:Trump: As the impeachm

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Mexico's Gaby Lopez wins LPGA season-opening tournament

Gaby Lopez of Mexico wins the LPGA Tournament of Champions at Four Seasons Golf and Sports Club Orlando in Florida, U.S., January 20, 2020. /AP Photo Mexican golfer Gaby Lopez drained a 20-foo

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Joel Matip in line to play for Liverpool against Manchester United

Joel Matip of Liverpool during a training session at Melwood Training Ground on January 17, 2020 in Liverpool, England. (Photo by Andrew Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images) Cameroonian defen

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Instagram drops IGTV button, but only 1% downloaded the app

At most, 7 million of Instagram’s 1 billion-plus users have downloaded its standalone IGTV app in the 18 months since launch. And now, Instagram’s main app is removing the annoying orange

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The paradox of 2020 VC is that the largest funds are doing the smallest rounds

I talked yesterday about how VCs are just tired these days. Too many deals, too little time per deal, and constant hyper-competition with other VCs for the same equity.VCs are just tiredOne founder fr

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Daily Crunch: NBCUniversal reveals its streaming plans

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe her

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Chrome gets global media controls

Here is a small but useful new feature in Google Chrome: global media controls that allow you to control all of the audio and video sources in your current tabs from a single widget. With this, you ca