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Asian stocks follow Wall Street lower, nervous wait for U.S. jobs data

Asia's stock markets had their worst session in two weeks on Friday following a tech-led plunge on Wall Street, though gains in safer assets like bonds and dollars were muted as investors awaited U.S

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Apple blocks Fortnite maker from game developer tools

A gamer plays the video game 'Fortnite Battle Royale' developed by Epic Games on a Samsung Galaxy Note 9 smartphone during the 'Paris Games Week' on October 26, 2018 in Paris, France./VCG Photo

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Christopher Ward’s C1 Moonglow moonphase automatic watch is perfect for space lovers

The moonphase watch is a long-standing marvel of the analog watch industry – featuring a complication that allows it to accurately track the phases of the Moon across a long period (provided the watch

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Trump — ‘No Mr. Nice Guy’ — shows softer side to win voters

President Donald Trump kicked off his reelection campaign with a swaggering World Series ad that declared he’s “No Mr. Nice Guy,” but his campaign has taken pains to hi

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Visual collaboration startup MURAL raises huge $118M Series B

This morning MURAL announced that it has raised $118 million in an outsized Series B. The visual collaboration startup provides a whiteboard-like digital environment that allows for users to cooperate

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Microsoft says Apple blocking Epic will hurt its games

Microsoft Corp. on Sunday said in a court filing that Apple Inc.'s threat to cut off the creator of "Fortnite" from Apple's developer tools would hurt Microsoft's gaming business, as well as other ga

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No parties allowed at the Airbnb IPO

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast (now on Twitter!), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.What happens when the entire podcast crew is a bit ti

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Two weeks of Beirut blast: A crisis on top of a crisis

Two weeks ago, the cataclysmic explosion, which killed nearly 180 people and injured 6,000, ripped Beirut apart. It opened a Pandora's box with a humanitarian crisis coming on top of a pre-existin

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Honey better for coughs and sore throats than conventional medicine

Research suggests symptoms lasted one to two days less among those treated with honey.

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Belarus leader says Russia willing to help counter protests

Thousands of demonstrators in Belarus took to the streets again Saturday to demand that the country's authoritarian leader resign after a presidential vote they called

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Corp card startup Ramp launches expense management software

TechCrunch caught wind of corporate card startup Ramp back in August of 2019, when the company raised an early round of $7 million. Corp card rival Brex had put togethe

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Mux raises $37M Series C as its API-based video-streaming service scales

This morning, Mux, a startup that provides API-based video-streaming tooling and analytics, announced that it has closed a $37 million Series C round of capital.Andreessen Horowitz led the round, whi

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Across China: Abandoned stone mine turns into mine of enjoyment

A newly-opened amusement park in the city of Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province, has recently become a hot topic among local residents. Although the p

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AgentSync raises $4.4M for its insurtech compliance service

Today AgentSync announced that it has closed a $4.4 million Seed round, co-led by Elad Gil and Caffeinated Capital. Other well-known names from the Silicon Valley scene took part in its funding round,

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U.S. should not repeat the tragedy of McCarthyism

U.S. President Donald Trump addresses a news conference at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 13, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note: Sun Chenghao is an assistant research professor at

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China says to penalize Luckin Coffee for accounting fraud

A woman leaves a store of the Chinese coffee house chain Luckin Coffee in Beijing, China, July 8, 2020. /Reuters Chinese regulators said they would penalize Luckin Coffee after confirming acco

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One killed in shooting during anti-racism protest in U.S. state of Texas

One man was killed in a shooting during a "Black Lives Matter" protest in downtown Austin in the U.S. state of Texas on Saturday, authorities said. "One adult male vic