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Emerging as an Eastern powerhouse, Earlybird Digital East Fund launches new $242M fund

Earlybird Digital East Fund — a fund associated with Germany’s Earlybird VC, but operating separately — has launched a €200m ($242m) successor fund. The fund’s focus will remain the same as before: a

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Daily Crunch: Facebook cuts off news-sharing in Australia

Facebook plays hardball in Australia, Epic Games expands its fight against Apple and New York’s attorney general sues Amazon. This is your Daily Crunch for February 17, 2021.The big story: Faceb

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Microsoft’s Dapr open-source project to help developers build cloud-native apps hits 1.0

Dapr, the Microsoft-incubated open-source project that aims to make it easier for developers to build event-driven, distributed cloud-native applications, hit its 1.0 milestone today, signifying the p

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Investors’ SPAC push could revamp the private market money game

Since last year, we’ve been tracking the growing list of capitalists who got into the SPAC game. You can read an interview we conducted with Amish Jani, the co-founder of FirstMark Capital, abou

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Chinese culture has enduring vitality

A boy plays with his sister next to red lanterns that were put up for Chinese New Year to mark the Year of the Ox in a commercial area in Beijing, February 11, 2021. /Getty Editor's note: Timo

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Planning 500,000 charging points for EVs by 2025, Shell becomes the latest company swept up in EV charging boom

Shell’s plan to roll out 500,000 electric charging station in just four years is the latest sign of an EV charging infrastructure boom that has prompted investors to pour cash into the industry

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EV charging stations, biofuels, the hydrogen transition and chemicals are pillars of Shell’s climate plan

Royal Dutch Shell Group, one of the largest publicly traded oil producers in the world, just laid out its plan for how the company will survive in a zero-emission, climate conscious world.It’s a

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Pngme, a financial data platform, closes $3M seed to accelerate growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Since M-Pesa’s mobile money infrastructure came into play in 2007, there has been a proliferation of fintech services ranging from wallets to savings and loans. With this mobile money ecosystem

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EU’s lead data supervisor for most of big tech is still using Lotus Notes

The lead data supervisor for a slew of tech giants in the European Union, including Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, TikTok and Twitter, is still relying on Lotus Notes to manage complaints and inve

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A former NEA partner and a former Uber exec just closed their $140 million debut VC fund

In hindsight, Dayna Grayson and Rachel Holt didn’t have the best timing. It was late in 2019 when the two, both Washingtonians who met six years ago through a mutual acquaintance, decided to act

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Trump impeachment trial to open with sense of urgency, speed

Donald Trump’s historic second impeachment trial is opening this week with a sense of urgency — by Democrats who want to hold the former president accountable for the v

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SoftBank kills half the performance incentive for its Vision Fund execs

SoftBank reported earnings today, including the performance of its $98.6 billion Vision Fund. The numbers were enticing given the recent exit of DoorDash, which returned billions to SoftBank and repre

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Thoughts on China's fight against COVID-19

Editor's note: Siddharth Chatterjee is the United Nations Resident Coordinator (designated) to China. The article reflects the author's opinions and not necessarily the views of CGTN.As 2021 begin

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Ofcom versus CGTN – is the ban really justifiable?

A scene from a programme on CGTN. /Getty Editor's note:Jonathan Arnott is a former member of the European Parliament. The article reflects the author's opinions, and not necessarily the views

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Xi Jinping replies to CPC members' letter at old revolutionary base

Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, has urged

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Gab's CEO says Trump doesn't use the platform, after reports wrongly suggest he returned to social media

Gab CEO Andrew Torba said Donald Trump does not use the platform, after false reports suggested otherwise.Multiple media outlets, including Insider, incorrectly reporte

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Evaluate vaccines based upon science not prejudice

A health worker takes selfie after receiving a dose of China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine during mass vaccination program for health workers as the main priority group in Jakarta, Indonesia, Februa