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Jumia adapts Pan-African e-commerce network in response to COVID-19

Pan-African e-commerce company Jumia is adapting its digital retail network to curb the spread of COVID-19.The Nigeria headquartered operation — with online goods and services verticals in 11 African

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Iran's Khamenei rejects U.S. help offer, vows to defeat coronavirus

The United States’ offer to help Iran in its fight against the new coronavirus pandemic is strange, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a televised spe

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APD | Pakistani students satisfied with their look after in China

By APD writer Imdad HussainPakistani students specially in Wuhan are all praise for the Chinese leadership for their look after and contrary to their earlier reaction a

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‘Cloud-first’ game studio Mainframe raises $8.1M led by Andreessen Horowitz

With most new social media startups seeming to dial in on specific communities to thrive in a still Facebook-dominated sphere, some of the more broadly focused social investments from top VCs are goin

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Why Wuhan is significant to China's high-tech industry

03:53 Editor's note: With COVID-19 spanning across the world, CGTN has introduced a five-episode series "Adapting in Adversity" to explore China's endeavors and strides in the fight ag

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Why Wuhan is significant to China's high-tech industry

03:53 Editor's note: With COVID-19 spanning across the world, CGTN has introduced a five-episode series "Adapting in Adversity" to explore China's endeavors and strides in the fight ag

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CPC praised by foreign parties over sharing China's anti-virus experience

A number of overseas political parties have recently expressed gratitude to the Communist Party of China (CPC) for sharing China's experience and practices in its combat against COVID-19. While makin

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France holds local elections amid COVID-19 outbreak

02:41 Is it a wise decision?France has decided to go on with local elections despite a major sanitary crisis due to the outbreak of coronavirus. Mayors and local leaders will be select

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Swiss govt under fire for slow COVID-19 reaction despite mass outbreak

Fans wave Swiss flags at an alpine skiing World Cup race in Crans Montana, Switzerland, February 21, 2020. /AP While much of Europe has resorted to dramatic measures to contain the COVID-19 ep

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Science behind the virus: How did the storm of fear hit us?

05:14 In the past two months, we have been experiencing two epidemics at the same time: The COVID-19 epidemic and a fear epidemic. The disease is new, but the fear is not. But what mak

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CPC shares China's anti-virus experience with foreign parties

The Communist Party of China (CPC) has shared its experience from China's fight against COVID-19 with political parties around the world, bolstering its efforts to aid countries in stemming the virus

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Russian trolls are outsourcing to Africa to stoke US racial tensions

With tech companies wise to many of the tactics that Russia’s now-infamous troll farms used to seed disinformation during the 2016 election, those campaigns are getting creative.According to a p

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Dell spent $67B buying EMC — more than 3 years later, was it worth the debt?

Dell’s 2015 decision to buy EMC for $67 billion remains the largest pure tech deal in history, but a transaction of such magnitude created a mountain of debt for the Texas-based company and its

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Credit Sesame launches a digital banking service focused on improving credit scores

Credit Sesame is getting into digital banking. The credit and loans company, first launched at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2010, has since grown to 15 million registered users and, in 2016, achieved profita

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Coursedog lands $4.2 million to make class scheduling smarter

Two years ago, dormmates Justin Wenig and Nicholas Diao struggled to get into a popular computer science class at Columbia University . The duo eventually got into that class, but after the initial fr

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German minister advises cancelation of major events as COVID-19 cases hit 902

Federal health minister recommended that events with more than 1,000 participants be canceled for the time being due to the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus in Germany. The number of confirmed

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Crude loses, gold gains as investors seek safe havens amid COVID-19

00:40 Concern and fear resulting from the COVID-19 outbreak have pushed investment into safe-haven assets.The oil market has recently experienced turmoil and chaos as both Brent crude