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Motif Foodworks preps commercial production for its first ingredient, improving the flavor of beef substitutes

Motif Foodworks, the Ginkgo Bioworks spinout focused on developing new plant-based flavorings and food ingredients, is readying commercial scale production of its first product an ingredient to improv

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Allbirds CEO Joey Zwillinger on the startup’s $100 million round, profitability, and SPAC mania

As people spend less time out and about and more time daydreaming about when a vaccine will arrive, lifestyle shoes are only gaining traction.One obvious beneficiary is Allbirds, the San Francisco-bas

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E-scooter startup Neuron Mobility adds $12M to its Series A for expansion in Australia and New Zealand

Neuron Mobility, a Singapore-based e-scooter rental startup, announced today that it has added $12 million to its Series A. Led by Square Peg, an Australian venture capital firm and GSR Ventures, this

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Disney+ adds a co-watching feature called GroupWatch

Disney+ is the latest streaming service to introduce a way for friends and family to watch movies and TV together while in different locations.With the pandemic closing movie theaters and making any k

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Top 10 | Weekly top 10 hot news ( Sep. 19 - Sep. 25 )

Every weekend, Asia Pacific Daily will provide you with a run-down of the latest hot news.This week, the following hot news you should know:Top 1 | Trump to reveal Supr

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Japan may ease virus entry restrictions next month: reports

Japan is considering loosening its coronavirus entry restrictions, local media report. /AFP Japan is considering easing strict coronavirus border restrictions from October to allow more foreig

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New Zealand's Ardern seen cruising to victory in election

New Zealand's ruling Labour Party has lost some support since July as the coronavirus resurged in Auckland, but it is still set to win the upcoming general election on

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Tik Tok deal calls Trump's bluff: Who is truly in control?

Tik Tok and U.S. flag. /CFP Editor's note:Wamika Kapur is a fellow at international think tank Global Policy Insights and an Indian PhD scholar of international relations at South Korea's Yons

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Global Business Daily: Japan growth worries, U.S. bans Chinese apps

"Our result is 178 terabits per second, so that's 30 million times faster than the UK average."That's University College London researcher Polina Bayvel, who spoke to CGTN Europe about the future of

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Sony's new $500 PlayStation 5 will launch Nov. 12

A Sony PlayStation 4 games controller on display at the Sony Corp. headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, February 4, 2020. /CFP Sony's upcoming PlayStation 5 video game console will cost 500 U.S. doll

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Global Business Daily: Spanish 'superbank' merger, China football deal

"I'm not prepared to sign off on anything. I have to see the deal."That was U.S. President Donald Trump, speaking about the deal agreed between TikTok owner ByteDance and U.S. tech firm Oracle. It wa

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New Zealand's dairy giant Fonterra posts huge profit after revamp

A Fonterra stand seen in the 2019 China International Import Expo in Shanghai. /VCG New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra posted a bumper annual profit Friday, putting the world's largest dairy exp

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New Zealand economy in deepest recession as Q2 GDP drops

A view of Oakland, New Zealand. /VCG New Zealand fell into its deepest economic slump on record in the second quarter of 2020 as its battle against the coronavirus pandemic paralyzed business

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Daily Crunch: Facebook unveils the Oculus Quest 2

Facebook makes its next steps in VR, Apple releases iOS 14 and the PlayStation 5 gets a launch date. This is your Daily Crunch for September 16, 2020.The big story: Facebook unveils the Oculus Quest 2

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PS5: Sony confirms price and release date - and Harry Potter game among new additions

Sony announced versions of the console will be available in November, with a digital edition selling for £359.

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Sony’s PlayStation 5 arrives November 12, priced at $500

If in-person events were still a thing in 2020, there’s a pretty good chance we’d know a lot more about the PlayStation 5 by now. With tech companies setting their own event schedules, how

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Indian decacorn Byju’s CEO talks about future acquisitions, coronavirus, and international expansion

Since India enforced a lockdown across the country in late March, shutting schools and other public places, Bangalore-headquartered startup Byju’s has emerged as one of the quintessential platforms fo