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Venmo launches its first credit card, offering up to 3% cash back, personalized rewards

Last October, Venmo announced it would launch its first credit card sometime in 2020. Today, the PayPal-owned company is making good on those promises with the debut of the Venmo Credit Card, initiall

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An October surprise

Editor's note:James Rae is a professor from California State University Sacramento. He was also a Fulbright Scholar at Beijing Foreign Studies University from 2017 to 2018. The article reflects th

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Head of MI6 launches Twitter recruitment drive

Richard Moore was an active Twitter user under his old account - tweeting more than 18,000 times since joining in November 2013.

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Google takes aim at ‘beauty filters’ with design changes coming to Pixel phones

Google is taking aim at photo face filters and other “beautifying” techniques that mental health experts believe can warp a person’s self-confidence, particularly when they’re

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Mooncake brands play on packaging to attract young consumers

The annual battle to capture the mooncake has been going on since August. This year the brands played more tricks with their packaging to lure younger consumers.Xinghualou, a time-honored mooncake br

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Fashion-forward China: Advancing e-commerce with 'self-disruption'

Shanghai Fashion Week remains one of the most classic Chinese fashion events on the global stage. /CGTN While last year was characterized by cautious optimism in the fa

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TikTok launches a U.S. elections guide in its app

Though TikTok is in the middle of fighting off the Trump administration’s attempt to ban its app in the U.S. over data privacy concerns, the company today is launching a new feature focused on t

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Rally raises $17M to expand a platform that lets you invest in (but not buy) collectibles

When people ponder the investment opportunity around collectibles, they probably think about things like wine auctions, sales of very expensive, old cars or baseball cards, or maybe a pocket watch tha

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GV bets on young team behind high school social app HAGS

As high schools pivot to hybrid models and students see less in-person face time with friends, the current social app sphere seems to be missing a way to build deeper bonds with classmates. HAGS is bu

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'Leap' revives memories of China women's volleyball team

Peter Chan's much-anticipated sports film Leap eventually hit the big screen in China on Sept. 25 after its original January release date was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Produced by Ali

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Can meal replacements help you keep fit?

Beijing resident Hou Tingting started eating meal replacement products in February when she wanted to lose weight. She bought various meal replacement products online a

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New show details the history of glassmaking

Humans first began making glass more than 4,000 years ago, but glass as an art form only became recognized in the 1960s.The ongoing exhibition at Liuli China Museum in Shanghai, A Thread of Light-Coli

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China's Great Green Reset: Carbon neutrality by 2060

Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks at the 75th annual UN General Assembly, September 22, 2020. /Reuters Editor's note: Wu Changhua is executive director of the Profess

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Event discovery network IRL raises $16M Series B after refocusing on virtual events

The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the way a number of companies have had to do business. For the event discovery startup, IRL, it meant pivoting into the virtual events space. This April, the startup qui

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The numbers behind the UK's newest COVID-19 warnings

If cases keep doubling every seven days there will be 49,000 daily cases by mid-October, the government's chief advisers warned.

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Language learning service Babbel says it has now sold over 10M subscriptions

Babbel, the popular Berlin-based online language learning service, today announced that it has now sold a total of 10 million subscriptions to its service. For a language learning service, that’

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Symphony puts on outdoor show in Xi'an

Xi'an Symphony Orchestra gave an online outdoor concert near the iconic Big Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi'an, Shaanxi province on Sept 19, which attracted over 5.6 million viewers. [Photo provided to C