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Diamond League announces new season calendar, China to host two events

The Diamond League released its provisional athletics calendar for the 2021 season on Tuesday with China scheduled to host two meetings in August.The new season's calendar consists of 14 meetings

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FIFA to push on with new 'cap' and rules for agents

The logo of FIFA is seen in front of its headquarters, Zurich, Switzerland, September 26, 2017. /CFP FIFA will push ahead with plans to cap commissions on transfer fees for agents and enforce

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Austrian police arrest 14 after deadly shooting rampage

Wreaths and candles are placed near the site of a gun attack in Vienna, November 3, 2020. /Reuters Austrian police raided 18 properties and arrested 14 people on Tuesday in a massive manhunt f

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Two people arrested by Swiss police in connection with Vienna attack

Heavily armed police stand outside the Vienna State Opera following shots fired in the city center on November 02, 2020 in Vienna, Austria. /Getty Images Two people were arrested in Switzerlan

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Was Quibi the good kind of startup failure?

Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. PT). Subscribe here.Startup failure is easy to hold up as a type of martyr

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9 Zurich-area investors on Switzerland’s 2020 startup outlook

European entrepreneurs who want to launch startups could do worse than Switzerland.In a report analyzing Europe’s general economic health, cost of doing business, business environment and labor

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Unemployment is world's biggest risk, business leaders say

A man wearing a protective face mask applies for a commercial vehicle driving position at an offsite tent center in Stafford, Virginia, U.S., April 21, 2020. /Reuters Unemployment is seen as t

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Cryptocurrency wallet BRD reaches 6 million users, driven by growth in Latin America and India

Mobile cryptocurrency wallet BRD announced today that it now has more than six million users worldwide, thanks to strong growth in India and Latin America. With this momentum, the company expects to r

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Global Business Daily: Apple battle, London's success, Ford closures

"There's more work ahead – including to make sure that all businesses, including digital ones, pay their fair share of tax where it is rightfully due."That was the European Union's antitrust chief, M

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Snyk acquires DeepCode to boost its code review smarts

Switzerland-based machine learning code review startup DeepCode — which bills itself as ‘Grammarly for coders’ — has been acquired by Snyk, a post-unicorn valuation cybersecuri

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From Unity to Disrupt, tech has an especially optimistic week

Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. PT). Subscribe here.While TechCrunch was busy producing our first-ever onl

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Calling VCs in Zurich & Geneva: Be featured in The Great TechCrunch Survey of European VC

TechCrunch is embarking on a major new project to survey the venture capital investors of Europe, and their cities.Our a href=”https://forms.gle/k4Ji2Ch7zdrn7o2p6”>survey of VCs in Zurich and Ge

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Alpine tunnel completes rail network linking Netherlands to Italy

01:44 The final component of a tunnel network dug beneath the Alps, connecting the industrialized hub of Northern Europe to the ports of the Mediterranean, was completed in Switzerland

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UK life insurers pay out $118m in three months over COVID-19 claims

The Association of British Insurers says that all life insurance claims related to coronavirus deaths had been accepted. /VCG UK insurance companies have already paid out $118 million in life

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FIFA confirms Infantino can remain president despite criminal probe

FIFA President Gianni Infantino speaks during a press conference at the Home of FIFA, Zurich, Switzerland, June 25, 2020. FIFA president Gianni Infantino will continue in his post, world footb

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Startups Weekly: Qualtrics IPO to be even more exciting this time around

Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7am PT). Subscribe here.German software giant SAP bought experience management pl

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The Great TechCrunch Survey of Europe’s VCs — Be featured in our survey

TechCrunch is embarking on a major new project to survey the venture capital investors of Europe.
Over the next few weeks, we will be ‘zeroing-in’ on Europe’s major cities, from A-Z, Amsterdam to Zuri