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The new Davos challenge

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The paradox of 2020 VC is that the largest funds are doing the smallest rounds

I talked yesterday about how VCs are just tired these days. Too many deals, too little time per deal, and constant hyper-competition with other VCs for the same equity.VCs are just tiredOne founder fr

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Australian bushfires to have "dramatic effect" on native wildlife: ecologist

Australia's wildlife are likely to be the hardest hit by the country's ongoing and unprecedented bushfire crisis, according to an ecologist. Prof. Christopher Dickman, an ecologist from the Universi

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'Terrible' hip pain forces U.S. Olympic fencer Prescod to retire

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Pollution crisis: The Balkans' breathing problem

01:39 Until recently, nobody in Belgrade could have imagined the Serbian capital would be one of the most polluted towns in the world. That it would top huge industrial cities across t

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Here is the first stable release of Microsoft’s new Edge browser

Right on schedule, Microsoft today released the first stable version of its new Chromium-based Edge browser, just over a year after it first announced that it would stop developing its own browser en

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Undercover researchers expose illegal antibiotic sales in China

Pharmacists in China are illegally selling antibiotics without prescriptions, putting a large population at the risk of developing antimicrobial resistance.925 out of 1,106 pharmacies checked in 1

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In The Spotlight: Curious case of Carlos Ghosn, conman or scapegoat?

AP Photo The fallen boss of the Nissan-Renault alliance, Carlos Ghosn, said in a 2006 interview: "You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success

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Google wants to phase out support for third-party cookies in Chrome within two years

Google today announced its plans to phase out support for third-party cookies in Chrome within the next two years. The fact that Google will drop support for these cookies, which are typically used t

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The digital tax dispute: A new front in Trump's trade war?

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Trump's near miss with Iran

Editor's note: Elizabeth Drew is a Washington-based journalist and the author, most recently, of Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon's Downfall. The article reflects the auth

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Protect 30% of planet by 2030: UN's rescue plan

Thirty percent of the Earth's surface across land and sea should become protected areas by 2030 to ensure the viability of ecosystems essential to human well being, according to a UN plan released Mo

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Trump's near miss with Iran

Editor's note: Elizabeth Drew is a Washington-based journalist and the author, most recently, of Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon's Downfall. The article reflects the auth

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Transforming #MeToo into the industry’s first investor clause

“Keep your head high and give them hell.”My grandma, Opal Thompson, once wrote that to me in a letter, like the dyed-in-the-wool, strong Texan woman she was. It is now tattooed on my forearm for all t

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"1917" tops North American weekend box office in wake of Golden Globes victory

Universal's World War I epic "1917" sprinted to the top of North American box office as it expanded nationwide this weekend following two weeks in limited release, dethroning the epic space-opera fil

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Policy more important than technology in putting out Australia's fires

Editor's note: CGTN's First Voice goes beyond the headlines to dissect, examine and analyze hot-off-the-press issues and break down breaking news into simple parts. The daily column offers a Chine

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Australian bushfire crisis could worsen: military commander

Fire photo: Photo taken on Dec. 20, 2019 shows fire trucks working at Lexton bush fire site in western Victoria, Australia.(Wayne Riggs/CFA/Handout via Xinhua) The head of the Australian Defence Fo