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Spend management startup Ramp confirms $115M raise at a $1.6B valuation

This morning, Ramp, which provides corporate cards and spend management software, announced that it has closed $115 million across two investments, the latter of which valued the company at $1.6 billi

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Patreon triples valuation to $4 billion in new raise

Patreon has tripled its valuation to $4 billion in a $155 million funding round led by Tiger Global, the company confirmed to the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. The creator economy platform, which al

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Hong Kong police seize 700kg of cocaine in record-breaking bust

Hong Kong police announced a record-breaking 700kg seizure of cocaine on Sunday, with officers suspecting the huge shipment was smuggled into the city on speedboats.The

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Equity Monday: Edtech consolidation, and Amazon continues to make you like it less

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private

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Over 11,000 tonnes of COVID vaccine shipped from Beijing to the world

02:08 Beijing Capital International Airport is at the forefront of China's efforts to ship the coronavirus vaccine around the world.Workers for Beijing Aviation Ground

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Not a new cold war

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India: Narendra Modi Hails 'World’s Biggest Vaccination Drive', Urges Everyone To Take Vaccine

In the 75th episode of his monthly radio programme "Mann Ki Baat" (from the Heart) on Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke about the one-year anniversary of the "

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Does U.S. intelligence have a role in Xinjiang?

Editor's note: Bradley Blankenship is a Prague-based American journalist, political analyst and freelance reporter. The article reflects the author's opinions and not necessarily the views of CGTN

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Technical preparations for RCEP agreement well underway: MOFCOM

China is fully prepared to fulfill its obligations when the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)agreement enters into force, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce said on Thursday.China has

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U.S. should cultivate diplomacy by rising above Trump drama

03:50 Drama, drama, drama and more drama, that's all we had, watching what the Trump administration conducted with its foreign policy. Among which, China-U.S. relations went downstream

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China: China-U.S. talks was candid, constructive and beneficial

02:39 The first face-to-face meeting between senior Chinese and U.S. Biden administration officials has wrapped up in Anchorage, Alaska.The two-day dialogue marked the first high-level

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China, U.S. conclude high-level strategic dialogue in 'candid, constructive' manner

The first face-to-face meeting between senior Chinese and U.S. officials from the Biden administration has wrapped up in Alaska.The two-day dialogue marked the first hi

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Analyst on U.S.-China meeting: At least we have some results

01:41 A face-to-face meeting is worth a thousand other forms of communication, said an expert of Chinese affairs on the China-U.S. high-level meeting."Even though there could be some a

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Meeting between senior Chinese and U.S. officials wraps up

Thefirst face-to-face meeting between senior Chinese and U.S. officials from the Biden administration has wrapped up in Alaska. The Chinese delegation is expected to hold press conference soon. As

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AI fintech products are operating at scale and investor interest is maturing

Recently public unicorn Upstart announced earnings that blew the socks off of Wall Street this week. After closing on Wednesday at around $61 per share, Upstart wrapped Thursday worth $115 per share.

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Talking robots with Ford

Before we get too far into this week’s roundup, I want to kick things off with an interview we haven’t published anywhere else. Earlier this week, we noted that Ford wi

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Okay, the GPT-3 hype seems pretty reasonable

This morning TechCrunch covered an interesting round for Copy.ai, a startup that employs GPT-3 to help other companies with their writing projects. GPT-3, or Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3, is a