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Opontia raises $20M to roll up e-commerce brands in Africa and the Middle East

Razor Group. Branded. Thrasio. These are big names in the new wave of e-commerce companies taking the world by storm. Their business of acquiring small e-commerce brands that look promising and consol

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Apple’s App Store facilitated $643 billion in commerce, up 24% from last year

In its antitrust trial with Epic Games, which has just adjourned, Apple argued it doesn’t evaluate its App Store profit and loss as a standalone business. But today, the company put out new figu

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What $10M in daily thefts tells us about crypto security

If you’re among the growing number of people interested in cryptocurrencies, you may be interested to know that nearly 7,000 people lost more than $80 million between October 2020 and March 2021 ̵

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'Fast & Furious 9' continues top box office, new films follow closely

The 9th installment of "Fast and Furious" franchise continued to top China's weekly box office in the past week (May 24 - 30), grossing 312 million yuan ($49 million) d

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Swallow your pride and drop vaccine racism

Editor's note: Timothy Kerswell is a research fellow at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen). He lived in Macao for seven years, working as an assistant profe

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Swallow your pride and drop vaccine racism

Editor's note: Timothy Kerswell is a research fellow at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen). He lived in Macao for seven years, working as an assistant profe

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Germs are part of a city's DNA and no two urban microbiomes are alike

Each city has its own DNA, and their microbial make-up isn't any different. /CFP No two cities are the same – even under the microscope.A new study investigating the communities of germs in 60

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Tencent helps Chinese students skip prohibitively low speeds for school websites overseas

Hundreds of thousands of Chinese students enrolled in overseas schools are stranded as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt life and airlines worldwide. Learning at home in China, they all face

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Bottle brush plants bloom in Sichuan

Bottle brush plants grow typically red flowers that look like bottle brushes, hence the name. The flowers' beautiful bright colors make them very attractive to nectar-f

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Video e-learning platform for MENA, Almentor, closes $6.5M Series B led by Partech

There are more than 400 million Arabic speakers globally and that number isn’t slowing down anytime soon. Arabic, to most people, is a tough language even to those who speak it. According to Duo

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The exit effect: 4 ways IPOs and acquisitions drive positive change across the global ecosystem

For many VCs, the exit is the endgame; you cash in and move on. But as we know, the startup world is evolving, and that means the impact of investment is no longer limited to how much money is made.As

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GM, Palantir-backed Wejo to go public via SPAC

Wejo, the connected vehicle data startup backed by GM and Palantir, plans to go public through a merger with special purpose acquisition company Virtuoso Acquisition Corp. The agreement, announced in

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Amazon to acquire iconic Hollywood studio MGM for $8.45B

U.S. e-commerce giant Amazon announced Wednesday it will acquire Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), one of the most iconic Hollywood studios, for 8.45 billion U.S. dollars.MGM has nearly a century of filmmaki

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Politicizing COVID-19 origin tracing gives free rein to 'political virus': Chinese embassy in U.S.

To politicize the origin tracing of COVID-19, a matter of science, will not only make it hard to find the origin of the virus, but also give free rein to the "political

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Between a rock and a farm raise

Something I think that gets lost in the conversation around robotics is just how many different tasks can — and at some point will — be automated. Here I’m talking specifically about agtec

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'Political right' in U.S. trying use COVID-19 origin to blame China

A COVID-19 mobile testing facility in Florida, U.S., August 5, 2020. /CFP CNN anchor Chris Cuomo hinted at the role of the "political right" in the U.S. in seeking to use the origin of COVID-1

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APD | Indian Variant: Most contagious and fatal

Author: Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan, Sinologist (ex-Diplomat), Editor, Analyst, Non-Resident Fellow of CCG (Center for China and Globalization), National University o