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Anyline, the Austrian startup that provides OCR tech, picks up $12M Series A and heads to the US

Anyline, the Vienna-based provider of optical character recognition (OCR) technology that developers use to build OCR functions into their websites and apps, has raised $12 million in Series A funding

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Additional 40 mln USD in funding to support Australian bushfire victims

The Australian government has announced an additional 58 million Australian dollars (39.9 million U.S. dollars) in support funding for bushfire-affected communities. Prime Minister Scott Morrison and

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Largest student supercomputer challenge launched in China

02:13 Supercomputer sounds like a serious thing that ordinary people shouldn't have access to. But college students with a passion for high-level computing can still get their hands on

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APD | Iranian president calls for special court to investigate plane crash

By APD writer Muhammad Sohail Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday calls on the country’s Judiciary to form a special court headed by a high-ranking judge and as

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U.S. House to vote to send Trump impeachment articles to Senate

The U.S. House of Representatives will vote on Wednesday to send the Senate two impeachment articles against President Donald Trump, allowing a long-awaited trial to begin, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said

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Chinese coronavirus patient shows signs of improvement

Thai Deputy Prime Minister and Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul on late Tuesday paid a visit to a Thai hospital to see a Chinese woman who was being treated with the new coronavirus. Anutin

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Is Instacart’s wider rollout of Pickup an attempt to sidestep labor laws?

Earlier today, Instacart more widely rolled out its Pickup product, which enables customers to retrieve groceries directly from stores. The move comes just a day after Instacart shoppers unveiled thei

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Four years after being acquired, Hipmunk is shutting down

If you’re still using Hipmunk for trip planning, it’s time to find another site. Sooner than later, really.The Hipmunk team announced this afternoon that it’ll be shutting down in j

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Xi gathers with non-Communist party leaders, personages ahead of Spring Festival

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday gathered with leaders from non-Communist parties and the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, as well as personages w

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China, Sri Lanka vow to further promote cooperation, ties

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa met separately with Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi here on Tuesday,

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Tianjin to step up Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development

North China's Tianjin Municipality has planned to accelerate the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, as the development strategy enters its si

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China-Vietnam port handles over 840,000 people in 2019

Tianbao, a land port in southwest China's Yunnan Province to Vietnam, cleared 841,000 people for entry and exit last year, official statistics showed. The port is an i

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China continues to carry out anti-graft work

Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, stressed anti-corruption work at the fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Commis

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APD | Russia to continue arms trade with Sri Lanka

By APD writer EaswaranCOLOMBO, Oct. 14 (APD) -- Russia on Tuesday said that it will continue its arms trade with Sri Lanka by providing weapons to the military and help

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South Sudan announces tender for oilfields audit

The Heglig oil facility in South Sudan. The country has announced a tender to audit its oilfields. PHOTO | AFP South Sudan has announced a tender for a comprehensive environmental audit of all

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Britain's Birmingham unveils radical traffic plan to cut pollution

Birmingham, Britain's biggest city outside London, unveiled a draft plan Monday to tackle traffic pollution in its downtown area. City Hall published the plan, which sets out its vision for the futur

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Google brings IBM Power Systems to its cloud

As Google Cloud looks to convince more enterprises to move to its platform, it needs to be able to give businesses an onramp for their existing legacy infrastructure and workloads that they can’