China's rural policy bank has offered loans worth 805 million yuan (about 115.23 million U.S. dollars) using special re-lending funds for national efforts to contain a
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba and fintech firm Ant Financial announced 20 measures Monday to mitigate the impact of the novel coronavirus outbreak on small and medi
FIFA President Gianni Infantino (L) and CAF President Ahmad Ahmad shake hands at the 2019 CAF Ordinary General Assembly in Cairo, Egypt, July 18, 2019. /VCG Photo Financial irregularities acro
Convertible notes are not just for early stage startups any more.These promissory notes, which are structured as debt that convert into equity upon a specific event such as a certain date or the closi
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[Editor’s note: Want to get this weekly review of news that startups can use? Just subscribe here.] Asana may get more attention than the average SaaS company due to the Facebook pedigrees and o
Shanghai on Saturday rolled out 28 measures to cushion companies against the impact of the novel coronavirus epidemic, according to a press conference of the municipal
By APD writer Muhammad SohailIran’s production of shrimps has doubled since the beginning of the current Iranian calendar year on March 21, 2019, as compared to the sam
Anthony Davis is LeBron James' teammate in Los Angeles, and they'll be teammates at the All-Star Game in Chicago as well.James took his fellow Lakers All-Star with the No. 1 overall pick of the Fe
B Capital Group, formed in in 2015 by Facebook cofounder Eduardo Saverin and Raj Ganguly, formerly of Bain Capital, has been quietly building its business since closing its first fund with $360 millio
With Casper’s public offering earlier this week, we’ve closed the book on the first two venture-backed IPOs of note in 2020. Casper, joined by One Medical, carried over $870 million of pr
A startup called Our.News is working to make its users smarter consumers of the news.In other words, it’s confronting some big, seemingly intractable problems. For one thing, there’s a tre
Fundraising is the single most important thing you can do for your business, but I know very few founders who enjoy the process.It’s inherently stressful: you’re running out of capital, which is why y
The CIA is ready to update its cloud technology, and multiple reports this week indicated that the agency has begun a multi-billion-dollar procurement process. A CIA spokesperson was tight-lipped when
Motorola’s long been a kind of quiet workhorse on the mobile scene. Aside from the occasional razzle-dazzle of a Moto Z or Razr, the Lenovo subsidiary mostly trades in budget handsets. The G line is p
The Golden State Warriors have traded D'Angelo Russell (R) to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Andrew Wiggins (L). /VCG Photos Despite a long period of inactivity on the NBA trade market, multip
Editor's note: Chris Hawke is a graduate of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. As a journalist, he has reported for over two decades from Beijing, New York, the United Nations, Tokyo, Ban