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Marqeta is expanding into the consumer credit card space to help other brands launch credit card programs. The move comes just days after the payment card issuing company reportedly filed confidential
02:06 As we wave goodbye to 2020, people in China are bidding farewell to single-use plastic straws. Chinese people love drinking milk tea, and this long and wide straw would help with
The European Central Bank is set to unleash more stimulus for the eurozone at its last meeting of the year on Thursday, as the region's battered economy grapples with a second coronavirus wave.ECB ch
China’s tech circle is shifting its attention to online healthcare this week as JD Health is set to go public in one of Hong Kong’s largest IPOs this year.Like Amazon, China’s e-com
Visitors look at the skyline of Hong Kong from Victoria peak, a typically busy tourist attraction, November 12, 2020. /Getty Editor's note:Tom Fowdy is a British political and international re
Migrants who have been returned to shore in Libya after attempting to cross the sea to Europe are supported by aid workers from the IOM. /AFP The UN human rights office OHCHR, called on Friday
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday urged countries to prevent the return of the law-of-the-jungle mentality and stand by the side of multi
The CEO of Pan-African fintech unicorn, Mitchell Elegbe, is set to speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2020 on September 16. He founded the company in Lagos in 2002 to connect Nigeria’s — then — largel
A tense day-long stand-off between Ukrainian police and a heavily armed man who took 13 people hostage on board a bus in western Ukraine has ended after police detained
The European Union's top executive and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will meet this month for talks that could give new momentum to the stalled post-Brexit negot
Barcelona's Lionel Messi runs with the ball during their La Liga clash with Real Sociedad at Camp Nou, Spain, March 07, 2020. /VCG Barcelona will recommence their bid to defend the Spanish tit
Israeli researchers have found that more than 70 percent of the coronavirus patients in the country had been infected with a strain originating in the U.S., Tel Aviv University (TAU) in central Is
The economic effects of COVID-19 could delay Africa’s next big IPO — that of Nigerian fintech unicorn Interswitch.If so, it wouldn’t be the first time the Lagos-based payments company̵
Researchers from Australia's peak scientific body have found that hydraulic fracturing can have little to no environmental impact. Hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as fracking, is the process whe
Oyo is furloughing more employees globally and levying a 25% pay cut across the board through July this year as the Indian budget lodging startup looks to reduce its expenses to deal with the coronavi
The death toll of COVID-19 in Turkey surged to 2,017 on Sunday, with 86,306 confirmed cases. Meanwhile, Iran sees a slowdown in the number of new infections and fatalities in the country. Turkey s
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