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Can Fidel Castro sink Bernie Sanders?

Editor's note: Chris Hawke is a graduate of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and a journalist who has reported for over two decades from Beijing, New York, the United Nations, Tokyo, Ban

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B-Social, the UK fintech building a ‘social bank’, raises additional £7.8M ahead of rebrand

B-Social, the London-based fintech building what it calls a “social bank,” is announcing that it has raised a further £7.8 million in seed funding.Once again the injection of capital comes

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A security mishap left Remine wide open to hackers

Security is all too often focused on keeping hackers out and breaches at bay. But in the case of Remine, a real estate intelligence startup, it left its doors wide open for anyone to run rampant.Remi

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Troubled Eaze finally closes $35M funding to roll out a new vertical model selling its own cannabis

Six weeks after we broke the news that cannabis startup Eaze was running out of money, laying off more employees and scrambling to pay its bills and stay afloat as it worked on a pivot to selling its

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What benefits will India get from Trump's visit?

U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are welcomed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi after their arrival at the Ahmedabad airport, India, February 24, 2020. /Xinhua Edi

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The haunting of 'The Ugly American'

Editor's note: Jia Wenshan is a professor at the School of Communication of Chapman University and an adjunct professor at Shandong University in China. The article reflects the author's views, an

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Trump: US Looks Forward to Providing ‘Best, Most Feared Military Equipment’ to India

Donald Trump is currently on a visit to India, a major regional ally he sees as a counterbalance to China's influence in Southeast Asia. He has teased the prospect of a

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Mirantis co-founder launches FreedomFi to bring private LTE networks to enterprises

Boris Renski, the co-founder of Mirantis, one of the earliest and best-funded players in the OpenStack space a few years ago (which then mostly pivoted to Kubernetes and DevOps), has left his role a

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Facebook’s Creator Studio gains a mobile companion

Facebook’s Creator Studio has added a mobile companion. The insights dashboard for creators and publishers, which debuted globally in August 2018, is now available as a mobile app for both iOS a

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Target breaks into the top 10 list of US e-commerce retailers

Target’s investments in store remodels, same-day delivery and drive-up services are paying off. The retailer, which used to rank No. 11 in U.S. e-commerce sales, is now forecast to jump three sp

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China's insurers make donations to frontline personnel fighting COVID-19

Chinese insurers have donated 11.58 trillion yuan (about 1.65 trillion U.S. dollars) worth of insurance to frontline personnel fighting the novel coronavirus disease (

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Commentary: "Two sessions" postponed for better advancement

China will postpone the "two sessions," a key event in the country's political calendar, amid concerted efforts to contain the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic and boost economic and social dev

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Honeywell trusts resilience of China's economy

01:06 The multinational high-tech and manufacturing company Honeywell believes in the power of "Made in China" and resilience of China's economy, according to Honeywell China President

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AIIB donates 1 mln USD worth of medical supplies to help China contain epidemic

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) said Monday that it is contributing 1 million U.S. dollars worth of medical supplies to help China's battle against the novel coronavirus epidemic. Th

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S. Africa has enough resources for universal healthcare: president

South Africa has enough resources to enable every man, woman and child to receive appropriate standardized quality healthcare, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday. The introduction of National

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Locust outbreak threatens food security in East Africa

The locust outbreak plaguing East Africa calls for a concerted international response as the most dreaded insects devour millions of hectares of vegetation in their cross-border migration, exacerbati

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Profile: Israel's longest-serving PM struggles for political future

Israel's longest-serving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing the battle of his life, with crucial national elections to take place on March 2 and a corruption