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Nigerian fintech Appzone raises $10M for expansion and proprietary technology

Africa’s fintech space has gained proper attention over the past few years in investments but it is not news that startups still battle with offering high-quality products. However, they seem to

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Former cotton pickers embrace new life after mechanization in Xinjiang

02:39 Nurmangul Mehmet, 28, has been working at a China Mobile's offline store in a bazaar for about five years.Born and raised in Shaya County, one ofsouthern Xinjiang

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Fake news about Xinjiang cotton

A cotton harvesting machine works in a field in Awat County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, October 24, 2019. /Xinhua Editor's note: John Gong is a professor at the Univer

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Can market tools help China achieve carbon neutrality?

A power plant in central China's Henan Province. /CFPChina's carbon market is accelerating the country's emissions reduction efforts and helping to achieve its carbon-n

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Tweaking mindsets in pig farming key to bolstering industry

03:01 Changing mindsets plays an important role in boosting pig farming in southwestern China's Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture and prevents villagers from falling back into extreme

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Protection measures slows down decline of Yangtze finless porpoise

01:33 The decline rate of Yangtze finless porpoises, a first-class state-protected animal in China, has slowed, aided by protection efforts.The main habitat of finless

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Hotel giants eye China's upper-midscale market

04:10 The COVID-19 pandemic shook up the hospitality industry. Some giants recently unveiled their financial results for last year. Most saw their performance halved, with some seeing

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China unveils final version of the 14th Five-Year Plan

Villages in Ji'an County, east China's Jiangxi Province, February 14, 2021. /CFPChina unveiled the final version of its national development plan for the next five and

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M1 Finance raises another rapid-fire round after scaling its AUM to more than $3.5B

Months after raising a Series C worth $45 million, Chicago-based M1 Finance announced a new round of capital today. A Series D, the new $75 million investment was led by Coatue, with two prior investo

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The Product Manager asterisk

Product manager might be one of the most grey roles within a startup. However, as a company progresses and the team grows, there comes a time when a founder needs to carve out dedicated roles. Of thes

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First impressions of AppLovin’s IPO filing

AppLovin released its S-1 filing yesterday, bringing the Palo Alto-based mobile-app-focused software company a step closer to joining the public markets.The business results detailed in the document a

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Daily Crunch: Microsoft unveils Mesh for AR/VR meetings

Microsoft shows off a new AR/VR meeting platform, Uber spins out a robotics startup and Compass files to go public. This is your Daily Crunch for March 2, 2021.The big story: Microsoft unveils Mesh fo

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Kaltura files to go public on the back of accelerating revenue growth, rising losses

Kaltura, a software company focused on providing video technology to other concerns, has filed to go public.The Kaltura S-1 filing only partially surprised. TechCrunch previously covered the company a

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McDonald's links executives' bonuses to diversity goals

McDonald's is looking to become more inclusive and diverse. /CFP McDonald's on Thursday said it will link part of its executives' bonuses to new diversity targets, including reaching gender pa

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Biden said some incorrect facts during CNN town hall

President Joe Biden spoke at a CNN town hall Tuesday night and the news organization points out that he made some statements of fact that were incorrect.One of the errors was about the number of r

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Chinese send 365 million parcels during Spring Festival holiday

00:48 The Chinese courier sector delivered 365 million parcels in the first five days of the week-long Spring Festival holiday, up by 224 percent over the same period last year, data f

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Spring Festival brings uneven consumption boost across China

For major labor exporters, including the three northeast provinces, their consumption boost from the holiday is much smaller than labor importing provinces, such as Gua