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Yearning for a vacation? The destination: Nowhere

"I'll definitely give it a try since I'm in desperate need of some refreshment from coronavirus restrictions and working overtime every day," Ben Peng, a Beijing-based software developer, said of

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2022 Beijing Winter Olympics holds online world press briefing

The virtual World Press Briefing (WPB) for the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games kicked off on Monday.The four-day conference, held online due to the COV

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Vectary, a design platform for 3D and AR, raises $7.3M from EQT and Blueyard

Vectary, a design platform for 3D and Augmented Reality (AR), has raised a $7.3 million round led by European fund EQT Ventures. Existing investor BlueYard (Berlin) also participated.Vectary makes hig

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Trump's 'Lock Him Up' Rally Attacks on Biden Echo 2016 Campaign Against Clinton

President Donald Trump called the Biden family a "criminal enterprise" and "corrupt" as supporters chanted "lock him up" at two rallies over the weekend, echoing his at

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Singapore tech-based real estate agency Propseller raises $1.2 million seed round

Propseller, a Singapore-based real estate agency that combines a tech platform with in-house agents to close transactions more quickly, announced today it has raised $1.2 million in seed funding.The r

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Cirque du Soleil upgrades new digital platform

Cirque du Soleil on Wednesday unveiled its fall programming along with a brand-new look for its CirqueConnect content hub.Featuring an enhanced library of titles, the newly revamped CirqueConnect plat

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Sales tumble but that's the least of LVMH's luxury troubles

03:56 Recovering sales of fashion and leather goods helped luxury group LVMH weather the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic during the third quarter, according to quarterly results

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Europe telecoms lobby group 'denounces' banning Chinese suppliers

A customer browses mobile handsets on display inside a Telefonica SA store in Madrid, Spain. /CFP A business group representing challenger telecoms operators in Europe warned on Friday against

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Pear hosted its invite-only demo day online year; here’s what you might have missed

Pear, the eight-year-old, Palo Alto, Calif.-based seed-stage venture firm that has, from its outset, attracted the attention of VCs who think the firm has an eye for nascent talent, staged its seventh

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IMF official says China has fiscal space to support economy

Beijing, China. /VCG China does have the fiscal space to support its economic recovery, an International Monetary Fund (IMF) official has said, urging the country to strengthen its macro fisca

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Twitter service restored following global platform outage

Twitter service appeared to be restored Thursday evening after a technical problem caused a global outage of nearly two hours on the social media platform used by hundreds of millions worldwide.Th

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News that Calm seeks more funding at a higher valuation is not transcendental thinking

Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported that meditation app Calm is looking into raising $150 million more at a valuation of around $2.2 billion, more than double its last private price. This should not

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Popmenu earns raves from investors for its marketing and delivery software for restaurants

Brendan Sweeney didn’t know anything about the restaurant business before he and his co-founders launched the Atlanta-based startup Popmenu.What Sweeney did know was that it was nuts that while

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Harley-Davidson should keep making e-motorcycles

Harley-Davidson should continue to make electric motorcycles. That’s my big takeaway after taking home the company’s LiveWire for three weeks.I’d ridden it on a closed course in 2019

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Getaround raises a $140 million Series E amid rebound in short-distance travel

Amid a rebound in short-distance travel, Getaround, a Silicon Valley car rental startup, has raised some new money to meet demand. The startup, which allows customers to instantly rent cars near them

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Hong Kong and New York-based Easyship joins Shopify Plus’ tech partner program

Easyship, a logistics startup that allows e-commerce sellers to add multiple carriers to their stores, announced it has joined the Shopify Plus Technology Partner Program. Easyship is headquartered i

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Herd immunity against COVID-19 'simply unethical' : WHO chief

01:15 The chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday termed herd immunity against COVID-19 "scientifically and ethically problematic."Speaking at a press briefing, WHO Dire