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Tinder’s video series ‘Swipe Night’ gets a second season

Following a successful debut for Tinder’s first foray into original content, the company is giving its interactive video series “Swipe Night” another run. The company confirmed today

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Chinese economy will continue to grow: former Serbian president

Former Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic on Wednesday spoke highly of China's measures against the COVID-19 epidemic and is certain that the Chinese economy will continue to grow. Nikolic, who is a

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Can Fidel Castro sink Bernie Sanders?

Editor's note: Chris Hawke is a graduate of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and a journalist who has reported for over two decades from Beijing, New York, the United Nations, Tokyo, Ban

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Across China: Folk artist spreads anti-virus knowledge in Tibetan dialect

For years, stories of King Gesar, a legendary 11th-century hero who fought evil and helped the weak, were a staple in the repertoire of Tibetan folklore artist Gurnyi.

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My battle with coronavirus: Days of being "patient one" in town

For the first time in her 33 years of life, Li Yezi (pseudonym) felt her family's every move was the talk of the town. Li and her mother became two of the only three c

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Two relatives confirmed in Taiwan's latest familial cluster of COVID-19 infection

Two relatives of the 27th COVID-19 patient in Taiwan were confirmed to be infected Monday, raising the total number of COVID-19 cases to 30, according to the island's

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Venmo prototypes a debit card for teenagers

Allowance is going digital. Venmo has been spotted prototyping a new feature that would allow adult users to create a debit card connected to their account for their teenage children. That could pote

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Intuit confirms that it is buying Credit Karma for $7.1B in cash and stock

The week is kicking off with a major piece of MA in the world of financial technology startups. Today Intuit — the accounting, tax filing and financial planning software giant behind QuickBooks,

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My battle with coronavirus: A 10-day "blitz" at Leishenshan

by Xinhua writers Ma Yunfei and Chen Jian At the age of 40, Chen Gang finally fulfilled his childhood dream of proudly slipping on a "military uniform", though the cir

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Investors and startups are seeking ways to entertain and protect kids online

As streaming services like HBO Max, Netflix and Disney+ plus vie for subscription dollars and YouTube, Xumo, Kanopy, Tubi TV, Vudu and Pluto TV try to take more ad revenue from traditional television,

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The girl on the radio at a Wuhan makeshift hospital

Hua Yuchen broadcasts a radio program in the corridor of a makeshift hospital for COVID-19 patients in Wuhan. /CMGEvery morning from 8:00 a.m., patients at the makeshif

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Here’s our pick of the top six startups from Pause Fest

We’ve been dropping into the Australian startup scene increasingly over the years as the ecosystem has been building at an increasingly faster pace, most notably at our own TechCrunch Battlefield Aust

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DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward revenue of $300M, profitability

DigitalOcean, a cloud infrastructure provider targeting smaller business and younger companies, announced today that it has secured $100 million in new debt from a group of investors, bringing its 201

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Knee injury forces Roger Federer to miss 2020 French Open

Roger Federer of Switzerland celebrates after winning The Match In Africa Exhibition Match at Cape Town Stadium in Cape Town, South Africa, February 7, 2020. /VCG Roger Federer, 20-time Grand

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Breaking news and barriers: South Korea's first female anchor

Under gleamingly bright studio lights, Lee So-jeong reads straight from a teleprompter, rehearsing her lines ahead of the primetime newscast for South Korea's national

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Codeacademy has already outlived many rivals — is that enough?

Codeacademy, the New York-based online interactive platform that offers coding classes in a wide variety of programming languages, is a little like background noise; it’s been operating reliably

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Sanders hopes early strength will prove he can beat Trump

Terry Reece has long been skeptical that voters would back Bernie Sanders, a 78-year-old self-described democratic socialist who is just months removed from a heart att