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Equity Monday: Kingsoft Cloud, Shiprocket, and who wants to make a contrarian investment?

Good morning friends, and welcome back to TechCrunch’s Equity Monday, a short-form audio hit to kickstart your week.Another weekend at home, another week’s starting from the same spot. How are y

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'I never imagined to be connected with China in such a way'

04:08 Editor's note: Two months after the national lockdown, Italy reopened on May 4. With COVID-19 death toll at 25,000, the country was once facing its "darkest hour." Amid the COVID

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UK research funding at risk from fall in overseas students: academics

The predicted fall in international students at British universities will have a damaging effect on the wider research and development environment, according to research and analysis by the Higher Ed

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Xi, Putin talk over phone on 75th V-Day anniversary

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday held a telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on the 75th anniversary of the victory of the Great

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Platforms scramble as ‘Plandemic’ conspiracy video spreads misinformation like wildfire

A coronavirus conspiracy video featuring a well-known vaccine conspiracist is spreading like wildfire on social media this week, even as platforms talk tough about misinformation in the midst of the p

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The United States quietly concedes defeat on Huawei's 5G

VCG Editor's note:Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations analyst and a graduate of Durham and Oxford universities. He writes on topics pertaining to China, the DPRK, Brit

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Xi urges global solidarity, cooperation against grave challenges

Chinese President Xi Jinping said Thursday that only by standing together and cooperating in the spirit of a shared future can countries around the world tackle all the difficulties and challenges of

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UK’s NHS COVID-19 app lacks robust legal safeguards against data misuse, warns committee

A UK parliamentary committee that focuses on human rights issues has called for primary legislation to be put in place to ensure that legal protections wrap around the national coronavirus contact tra

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Demon behind the failed U.S. COVID-19 response

President Donald Trump participates in a tour of a Honeywell International plant that manufactures PPE on May 5, 2020 in Phoenix, Arizona./AP Editor's Note: The following article is taken from

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Demon behind the failed U.S. COVID-19 response

President Donald Trump participates in a tour of a Honeywell International plant that manufactures PPE on May 5, 2020 in Phoenix, Arizona./AP Editor's Note: The following article is taken from

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New studio Modern Games acquires Beasts of Balance

Modern Games is a new studio working to create games that combine physical and digital play.The company was founded by husband-and-wife team Justin and Amanda Kifer — serial entrepreneurs who previous

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No cookie consent walls — and no, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body

You can’t make access to your website’s content dependant on a visitor agreeing that you can process their data — aka a ‘consent cookie wall’. Not if you need to be compl

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Banked picks up £2.35M seed to use open banking for account-to-account payments

Banked, a London-based fintech using open banking to enable account-to-account payments at checkout (and beyond), has raised £2.35 million in further seed funding.The round was led by Force Over Mass,

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Technology and ethics in the coronavirus economy

The last two decades have ushered in significant change and transformation. I believe the 2020s will be dispositive in redefining the pillars of our economy, and COVID-19 magnifies this greatly. As of

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Startups Weekly: SaaS companies should target burn to match ARR during pandemic

[Editor’s note: Get this weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use every Saturday morning by email (7am PT). Just subscribe here.] How well is SaaS overcoming business impacts of the pa

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An already struggling smartphone market takes a big hit from COVID-19

Quarter after quarter, familiar stories have appeared. The smartphone market, once seemingly bulletproof, has suffered. The list of factors is long, and I’ve written about them ad nauseam here, but th

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During a pandemic, some companies struggle to provide the community they promise

Achieving a sense of community has been the pursuit of businesses trying to attract the experience-over-items millennials and Gen Z who want their consumerism to have a positive impact on the world. “