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'Wonder Woman 1984': Hollywood's last stand for 2020

Warner Bros. superhero movie Wonder Woman 1984, the final Hollywood blockbuster to be released in 2020, took the top spot at the North American box office this week, taking an estimated $16.7 million

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Lionel Messi opens up on Man City rumors, Barcelona struggles and Bartomeu 'lies'

Lionel Messi pulled no punches when he gave a scathing assessment of Barcelona's current predicament in an interview with Spanish media. The Catalan giants have suffere

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Messi opens up on Man City rumors, Barca struggles and Bartomeu 'lies'

Barcelona's Lionel Messi during the La Liga clash with Real Valladolid, Spain, December 22, 2020. /CFP Lionel Messi pulled no punches when he gave a scathing assessment of Barcelona's current

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Lionel Messi opens up on Man City rumors, Barcelona struggles and Bartomeu 'lies'

Lionel Messi pulled no punches when he gave a scathing assessment of Barcelona's current predicament in an interview with Spanish media. The Catalan giants have suffere

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Disaster action film 'The Rescue' continues to lead Chinese box office

Chinese disaster action blockbuster The Rescue continued to top the Chinese box office chart with a daily box office of 62.7 million yuan (about 9.57 million U.S. dollars) on Sunday, according to data

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'The Rescue' to meet 'Wonder Woman 1984' in China's year-end screening season

The Rescue, a highly anticipated disaster action film by Dante Lam, the award-winning helmsman of the 2018 blockbuster film Operation Red Sea, is set to meet the latest American superhero feature Wond

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Whatnot raises $4M as it gets into livestreamed auctions and Pokémon cards

Whatnot, a company I first wrote about back in February, has spent the months since growing rapidly — both in terms of feature set and userbase. This morning the company is announcing it has raised a

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As COVID vaccine rolls out, many are still hesitant

02:47 Injections of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine have begun in the United States providing some light at the end of a very long and dark tunnel. But many challenges remain including convi

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China carries G20 economic flag amid COVID-19 challenge

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HBO Max will finally land on Roku devices tomorrow

It took an unusually long time, but HBO Max is set to launch on Roku devices tomorrow.Roku users make up a massive chunk of the cord-cutting market, so the absence of an HBO Max app for Roku nearly s

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Equity Monday: IPO delays and mega-deals kickstart the week

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest big new

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Facebook publicly launches its collaborative music video app, Collab

Collab, Facebook’s experimental app for making collaborative music videos, is today launching out of private beta testing with a public release on the App Store. The app is one of now many proje

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Twitter app code indicates that live video broadcasting app Periscope may get shut down

Twitter has been doubling down on video services within its app, building out Twitter Live and recently launching Fleets so that users can share more moving media alongside their pithy 180-word obser

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Sports Talk: Is Haaland the next superstar after Messi and Ronaldo?

CGTN Sports Talk EP14 Haaland.mp3 00:00 CGTN Sports Talk host Hu Zhicheng is joined by senior sports editor Josh McNally to deliberate about the 20-year-old Norwegian hotshot Er

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Twitch updates its hateful content and harassment policy after company called out for its own abuses

Following several reports of a toxic workplace and abuse this year, Twitch today announced the introduction of a new hateful content and harassment policy for its streamer community that will go into

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Anna Palmer just became the first female general partner at Flybridge Capital Partners

Better late than never. So it might be said of the Boston- and New York-based seed-stage firm Flybridge Capital Partners, which is today announcing that Anna Palmer has been promoted to general partne

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Is 2020 bringing more edtech rounds than ever, or does it simply feel that way?

Venture capital activity is high at the moment, making it difficult to keep up with the influx of new rounds that are being announced.Our cup runneth over, and I would much rather be busy than bored,