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Renewable power represents almost 90% of total global power capacity added in 2020

Bucking the slowdown in most of the power sector caused by responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, renewable energy actually grew in 2020, and will represent about 90% of the total power capacity added fo

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Pfizer says COVID-19 vaccine is looking 90% effective

Pfizer said Monday that early results from its coronavirus vaccine suggest the shots may be a surprisingly robust 90% effective at preventing COVID-19, putting the comp

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Biden cheers vaccine progress but says masks remain a must

President-elect Joe Biden on Monday cheered news about the promising development of a coronavirus vaccine but cautioned Americans to need to be aggressive about mask-we

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Adobe acquires marketing workflow startup Workfront for $1.5B

Adobe just announced that it is acquiring marketing workflow management startup Workfront for $1.5 billion. Bloomberg first reported the sale would be happening earlier today.Workfront was founded ba

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McDonald’s to launch a McPlant vegetarian option

McDonalds is developing what it calls a plant-based platform called the McPlant that will debut in markets around the world early next year, according to a report in USA Today.In an investor meeting M

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Weed stocks are hitting new highs after Biden win

Cannabis was a big winner from the results of the United States’ election, and industry stocks are soaring on both the voting results and recent earnings. Companies such as Canopy Growth Corpora

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Positive vaccine news punishes pandemic-boosted companies like Zoom, Peloton, Etsy

Stock markets worldwide are soaring on news that a vaccine candidate is 90% effective at preventing COVID-19, and could start coming to market in a matter of months. This is upending the stock market,

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Cellwize raises $32M to help carriers and their partners adopt and run 5G services

As 5G slowly moves from being a theoretical to an active part of the coverage map for the mobile industry — if not for consumers themselves — companies that are helping carriers make the m

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CIIE, a strong engine for Renminbi internationalization

Editor's note: He Weiwen is a senior fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies and former economic and commercial counselor of Chinese consulates in San Francisco and New York. The artic

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How CIIE and the Belt and Road Initiative complement each other

Editor's note:Stephen Ndegwa is a Nairobi-based communication expert, lecturer-scholar at the United States International University-Africa, author, and international affairs columnist. The articl

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'Emergency action' needed to prevent major polio, measles epidemics

A child smiles while receiving a Measles and Rubella vaccination during a UNICEF-supported mobile vaccination campaign in Aden, Yemen, February 2019./AFP Globally, millions of children are at

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Death in a digital world

/VCG "We used to talk every day but she hasn't been online for a long time. I'm worried she got Covid and died," Humberto said, aimlessly scouring for clues about a friend he had only known on

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Global Business: Japanese car boom, airline cuts, Brexit 'disruption'

"Tesla says that their recipe will be the standard in the future, but what Toyota has is a real kitchen and a real chef ... we make real food."That was Akio Toyoda, the current president of Toyota Mo

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Daily Crunch: Netflix tests a linear video channel

Netflix takes an old-fashioned approach for its latest feature, Amazon plans a new data center in India and we review the PlayStation 5. This is your Daily Crunch for November 6, 2020.The big story:

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Swedish PM self-isolates as nation sees rising virus cases

Sweden’s leader has gone into protective self-isolation even after a person close to him tested negative for COVID-19, as Sweden experiences its own fall surge of coron

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BMW reports strong Q3 growth backed by China's recovery

German luxury carmaker BMW reported on Wednesday a better-than-expected profit growth for the third quarter, thanks to the rebounding demands, especially China's strong recovery from the COVID-19

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China and the U.S.: A tale of the two biggest economies

04:06 The world has been observing the ebb and flow of trade negotiations between China and the United States with anxiety and hope. The trade war was triggered in 2018 when U.S. Presi