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Apple Maps adds COVID-19 travel guidance for over 300 airports worldwide

Apple has updated its native Maps app with more helpful information designed to assist with travel while mitigating the spread of COVID-19. Apple Maps on iPhone, iPad and Mac will now show COVID-19 he

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The case for open land-data system

A poor neighborhood in Africa. /Getty Editor's note: Tim Hanstad is CEO of the Chandler Foundation, co-founder of Landesa and recipient of Skoll Social Entrepreneur Award. The article reflects

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Apple Maps adds COVID-19 travel guidance for over 300 airports worldwide

Apple has updated its native Maps app with more helpful information designed to assist with travel while mitigating the spread of COVID-19. Apple Maps on iPhone, iPad and Mac will now show COVID-19 he

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Volkswagen really is becoming ‘Voltswagen’ in the U.S.

Automaker Volkswagen wants you to know it’s serious about electric vehicles — so serious, in fact, that it’s officially rebranding around a pun in the U.S. The company revealed in a press

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The Tonal EC-1

Back in the halcyon days of 2019, we piloted a new format for Extra Crunch we dubbed the EC-1. Modeled after the Form S-1 filing that late-stage startups submit to the SEC as part of the IPO process,

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VW eyes green road ahead with 'Voltswagen' name change

VW explains why it is changing the name of its US business as it continues to recover its reputation in the country.

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Can digitalization save Latin America?

When it comes to digitalization, the economies of Latin America and the Caribbean have a lot of catching up to do.Doing so, however, offers them the biggest avenue for significant economic transfo

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Global bank losses may top $6 billion on Archegos downfall

Global banks may lose more than $6 billion from the downfall of Archegos Capital, sources familiar with trades involving the U.S. investment firm said on Monday, as regulators and investors feared th

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U.S. mistreating minorities rekindles slavery, race relations debate

Hundreds participated in a Stop Asian Hate rally in Koreatown, March 27, 2021. /Getty Editor's note: Stephen Ndegwa is a Nairobi-based communication expert, lecturer-scholar at the United Stat

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LIVEKINDLY screams its way to the top of new plant brands with the close of a $335 million round

LIVEKINDLY Collective, the shouty parent company behind a family of plant-based food brands, has snagged cash from the global impact investing arm of $103 billion dollar investment firm TPG to close i

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Sputnik V can not only save European lives, but relations with Moscow

A doctor talks to a patient at a mobile vaccination site at Yerevan Plaza shopping mall where people can receive the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine. /Getty Editor's note: Thomas O. Falk is a Londo

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Ajaib raises $65M Series A extension led by Ribbit Capital, increasing the round’s total to $90M

Ajaib, the Indonesian investment app, has added $65 million to its Series A, bringing the round’s new total to $90 million. The extension was led by Ribbit Capital, the fintech investor that also led

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Lights out around the world for Earth Hour

Click arrows to view gallery Lights were switched off around the world Saturday for Earth Hour, a worldwide movement organized by the World Wildlife Fund for Na

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Y Combinator-backed Vue Storefront aims to be the ‘glue’ for e-commerce

“Headless commerce” is a phrase that gets thrown around lot (I’ve typed it several times today already), but Vue Storefront CEO Patrick Friday has an especially vivid way of using th

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UK 'must be clear-eyed about Chinese ambition', warns new cyber security chief

In her inaugural speech the new head of NCSC, Lindy Cameron, said cyber threats facing the UK were growing.

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Who now still dares fiddle while Rome burns?

Editor's note:Decision Makers is a global platform for decision makers to share their insights on events shaping today's world. Marco Lambertini is Director General of WWF International. The artic

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The ghastly bond: Cotton, slavery and American capitalism

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