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World Bank allocates $195 million to more than 60 low-income countries to fight COVID-19

The Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility (PEF), a financing mechanism housed at the World Bank, announced on Wednesday it allocated $195.84 million to 64 of the world'

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eBay Q1 reports sales of $2.374B, active buyers up to 174M in wake of COVID-19

After a quarter in which eBay, tussling with an activist investor, completed the sell-off of its ticketing business StubHub for $4 billion and saw appointed a new CEO after its previous one departed,

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Original Content podcast: Netflix’s ‘Extraction’ combines brutal action with forgettable characters

If you think that action movies generally suffer from an excess of characterization, then “Extraction” is the movie for you.Almost everything about the film that’s not an action scen

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Hackers hit Chegg for the third time since 2018

Chegg has confirmed its third data breach in the past three years.The education tech giant, which last year was acquired by Thinkful for $80 million, said hackers stole 700 current and former employee

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UK privacy and security experts warn over coronavirus app mission creep

A number of UK computer security and privacy experts have signed an open letter raising transparency and mission creep concerns about the national approach to develop a coronavirus contacts tracing ap

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World Bank allocates $195 million to poor countries to fight COVID-19

The Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility (PEF), a financing mechanism housed at the World Bank, announced on Wednesday it allocated $195.84 million to 64 of the world's poorest countries with report

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Hulu interruption impacted small number of users, now resolved

Some Hulu customers found that the video streaming service was no longer working on their Apple devices, beginning in the early morning hours on Tuesday. According to tweets and other social media po

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Pompeo is lying about China's refusal to cooperate

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, Britain, an

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Beyond Meat stock down after UBS downgrades rating to 'sell'

COVID-19 has been a boon for Beyond Burger, but some analysts think the stock is overvalued. /Beyond Burger Beyond Meat ended in the red on Monday after Wall Street downgraded the stock from n

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Daily Crunch: What went wrong at Magic Leap

Magic Leap may be on its last legs, the next iPhone could be delayed by a month and WhatsApp says its efforts to slow the spread of misinformation are working.Here’s your Daily Crunch for April

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$4 million richer, Walrus.ai has a pitch for companies looking for QA-testing tools

The co-founders of Walrus.ai, a new software company which raised $4 million in a new round of financing fro Homebrew, Felicis Ventures and Leadout Capital, started the

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Seed investors take long view on promising enterprise startups

The job of an early-stage startup founder is challenging in good times, never mind a crash like the one we are experiencing today.While most expect private investing to slow down, it’s clear tha

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Codota picks up $12M for an AI platform that auto-completes developers’ code

Thanks to smartphones and their downsized keyboards, autocomplete has become a nearly ubiquitous feature of how we write these days. To save us precious seconds composing and (at least in my fat-thumb

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Has coronavirus exposed U.S. as 'failed state'?

Editor's note:Andrew Korybko is a Moscow-based American political analyst. The article reflects the author's opinions, and not necessarily the views of CGTN.George Packer, a staff writer at The At

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Germany ditches centralized approach to app for COVID-19 contacts tracing

Germany has U-turned on building a centralized COVID-19 contacts tracing app — and will instead adopt a decentralized architecture, Reuters reported Sunday, citing a joint statement by chancelle

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Jamaican poems published in China for first time

Poems from Jamaica, the first ever Jamaican poetry translated and published in China, was released in March 2020.The poems were written by Paulette A. Ramsay, a poet and professor at University of the

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Member of Italy's China Task Force sees coronavirus consolidate bilateral friendship, ties

The day of Jan. 23 was Matteo Giovannini's last normal working day at his office here. It was the same day that the central Chinese city of Wuhan was sealed off in response to the outbreak of a