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Salesforce beats growth expectations, as investors digest the Slack acquisition

Today after the bell, Salesforce reported its third-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2021, a period that ended October 31, 2020. The CRM giant reported top-line revenue of $5.42 billion, up 20% from t

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WaveOne aims to make video AI-native and turn streaming upside down

Video has worked the same way for a long, long time. And because of its unique qualities, video has been largely immune to the machine learning explosion upending industry after industry. WaveOne hope

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Nigerian Ambassador Baba Ahmad Jidda: China is our second home

Nigerian Ambassador Baba Ahmad Jidda sits in an interview with CGTN reporter Wu Guoxiu at his office in Beijing. CGTN/Cai Jingxuan The Nigerian Embassy lies in Beijing's Sanlitun, an area in

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UK stocks up on vaccines, hopes to start virus shots in days

Britain said Sunday it has secured 2 million more doses of a promising coronavirus vaccine as it gears up to launch within days the country’s most ambitious inoculation

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Union Labs believes uniting VC and corporate expertise can help startups solve “hard tech” problems

Chris Kim and Nate Williams formed Union Labs with the conviction that investors and companies aren’t collaborating closely enough to ensure the success of the startups they back.Kim is the form

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Curio Wellness launches $30M fund to help women and minorities own a cannabis dispensary

“We think of diversity as a keystone issue for the cannabis industry,” said Curio WMBE Fund managing director Jerel Registre in a conversation with TechCrunch. Registre’s conviction

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Rediscovering the media through the eyes of BRI, COVID-19

A doctor giving an interview in front of the camera and journalists in a hospital. /Getty Editor's note:Stephen Ndegwa is a Nairobi-based communication expert, lecturer-scholar at the United S

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Lasting translations

Laurent Bili, French ambassador to China, delivers a speech at the award ceremony of Prix Fu Lei 2020 in Beijing on Nov 21. [Photo provided to China Daily] The legacy of venerated Chinese trans

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There’s no ‘hacker house’ geared toward undergraduate women, so they created one of their own

Hacker houses are making a comeback for entrepreneurs as remote work drags on. While founders are adapting to quarantine in style, a group of college women in their 20s aren’t waiting until they are d

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The U.S. student-debt crisis – and why it is strange to China

U.S. student debt weighs heavily on the country's economy and young people. /AP Joe Biden may have won the election as a safe centrist, but he is already challenged to a bold move no predecess

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Time to drop the Chinese COVID-19 conspiracy

A staff member disinfects a workshop in Jinjiang City of southeast China's Fujian Province, February 20, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note: Keith Lamb is a University of Oxford graduate with an MSc

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Rock-star programmer: Rivers Cuomo finds meaning in coding

“Hi, I’m Rivers from the band, Weezer,” Rivers Cuomo says with a slight smile and a wave. He turns away from the camera for a bit, before launching into his best infomercial pitch. “Imagine you’re on

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What will tomorrow’s tech look like? Ask someone who can’t see

When I was pronounced legally blind in 2009, I didn’t know one other person who called themselves blind – least of all “low vision” or “visually impaired.” Today, I manage the largest blindness commun

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Slack’s stock climbs on possible Salesforce acquisition

News that Salesforce is interested in buying Slack, the popular workplace chat company, sent shares of the smaller firm sharply higher today.Slack shares are up just under 25% at the moment, accordi

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Europe sets out the rules of the road for its data reuse plan

European Union lawmakers have laid out a major legislative proposal today to encourage the reuse of industrial data across the Single Market by creating a standardized framework of trusted tools and t

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The write stuff

Actors perform scenes from three of the winning scripts of a recent original scriptwriting competition A Shaking Building. [Photo provided to China Daily] This is a competition and the particip

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Trump allows transition, but it doesn't mean he isn't seeking revenge

U.S. President Donald Trump (R) and Vice President Mike Pence prepare to speak to the press at the White House, in Washington, D.C., November 24, 2020. /Getty Editor's note: Bradley Blankenshi