Chinese banking institutions are pooling their resources and ramping up financial support to the country's battle against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The followi
The Chinese government on Thursday pledged to upgrade Zimbabwe's main isolation center for suspected coronavirus patients in the capital Harare. Also, the Zimbabwean government announced it was step
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Italian authorities lately announced a series of measures to prevent the spreading of the COVID-19 on one side, and to support economic activities affected by this eme
Another afternoon, another round of funding for a mobile banking app. This time, it’s Empower Finance a San Francisco-based company that’s headed up by former Sequoia Capital partner Warre
Elizabeth Warren, who electrified progressives with her “plan for everything” and strong message of economic populism, dropped out of the Democratic presidential race o
Are you tired of TechCrunch reporting on the daily stock market gyrations? Well, we’re tired of writing about them. And yet here we are, because stonks yet again did wild things that we have to
We all know the disruptive stories of female-founded startups like Glossier and ezCater. And we also know how those success stories belie the much harder time thousands of other women entrepreneurs ha
The Chinese government has been removing criticism of its coronavirus response from apps like Weibo, the local equivalent of Twitter. But before it can, that content is being saved, decentralized and
General Catalyst, a well-known venture capital firm with at least $1.4 billion in funds raised over time, has backed Hubspot, Jet, Ping Identity, and Kayak over the years.And General Catalyst isn̵
Christian Yelich of the Milwaukee Brewers poses to take a photo for MLB spring training in Phoenix, Arizona, February 19, 2020. /AP If you wonder why the Milwaukee Brewers have been "economizi
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
University students are seen at La Sapienza University's campus in Rome, Italy, March 4, 2020. /Getty Images Italy has decided to close all schools and universities and take other emergency me
Iran announced on Wednesday that the international community has contributed its aid to the country's health efforts over novel coronavirus, Tasnim news agency reported on Wednesday. Iranian Foreign
Google cancels its big developer conference, Justin Kan’s legal startup shuts down and Robinhood offers more details about a recent outage. Here’s your Daily Crunch for March 4, 2020.1. G
Pakistan is feared to face acute shortage of water, among other food-related challenges by 2025 due to adverse impact of climate change on the country, local media on
The bloc of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is three seats short of a majority coalition in the 120-seat parliament, the latest figures showed Wednesday afte
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