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As losses expand, Asana is confident it has the ticket for a successful public listing

Asana, the project management software developer, dropped its filing for a direct listing on one of the busiest days of a surprisingly busy late summer.The task management toolkit provider started by

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Sutter Hill strikes ice-cold, $2.5B pre-market return with Snowflake’s IPO filing

Today is the day for huge VC returns.We talked a bit about Sequoia’s coming huge win with the IPO of game engine Unity this morning. Now, Sequoia might actually have the second largest return among co

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Sequoia strikes gold with Unity’s IPO filing

A big payday is on the way for Sequoia and its partners, assuming they beat the final boss.Today after much anticipation, video game engine Unity filed its Form S-1 with the SEC as it prepares a roads

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Youth Olympic champion Chen takes surprising victory in China's street high jump contest

2020 Chinese Athletics Street Tour (CAST) high jump competition was held in a downtown area in Beijing on Saturday night. BEIJING, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- 2018 Youth Olympi

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InVision refreshes its Design System Manager, brings on Eleanor Morgan as CPO

InVision, the design firm that’s raised more than $350 million from investors FirstMark, Spark, Battery and Tiger Global Management, has today announced the appointment of Eleanor Morgan as chie

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Tune in tomorrow and watch five startups compete at Pitchers & Pitches

Ever hear the expression, “every master was once a disaster?” Now apply that to developing a well-crafted pitch. It takes practice and honest feedback to make a masterful pitch, and that’s exactly wha

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India’s first private space launch startup Skyroot succeeds with upper stage engine fire test

The private space launch industry has expanded significantly since the debut of SpaceX, but some markets, like India, are just now getting the regulatory support to clear the way for private players

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Ronaldinho set for August 24 release: judicial sources

Brazil great Ronaldinho could be freed on August 24 following a five-month detention in Paraguay over a forged passport, judicial sources told AFP on Monday.The former Barcelona, AC Milan and Pari

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Tensions high after controversial election in Belarus

Alexander Lukashenko called demonstrators "sheep" under foreign control and vowed not to allow the country "to be torn apart," after widespread protests greeted his vic

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Watch the trailer for Netflix’s new family space drama about a mission to Mars

As deep space missions and Mars colonies continue to shift from science fiction to potential near future reality, it’s not surprising to see Hollywood think about different types of stories to t

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President Alexander Lukashenko wins sixth term

Alexander Lukashenko won the presidentil election with 79.7 percent of the votes. /AFP Alexander Lukashenko has been declared the winner of the 2020 Belarus presidential election with 79.7 per

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Kenya Olympic champion Kipruto tests positive for COVID-19

Conseslus Kipruto of Kenya celebrates after the Men's 3,000m Steeplechase Final at the 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, Oct. 4, 2019. (Xinhua/Jia Yuchen)Kenya's Olympic and worl

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Top UN officials call for creating future free from nuclear threat

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wearing a protective face mask, offers a wreath to the cenotaph for the victims of the U.S. 1945 atomic bombing, at Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Jap

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Jakobsen in coma after Tour of Poland crash branded 'criminal act'

Dutch cyclist Fabio Jakobsen was in a coma fighting for his life on Wednesday after he was thrown into and over a barrier at 80 kilometers per hour in a sickening conclusion to the opening stage o

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Why is Fulham vs Brentford football's most valuable game?

Brentford's Danish head coach Thomas Frank has turned around the club's fortunes since arriving in 2018. /Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP While almost 400 million people regularly watch UEFA's Champion

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Trump claims authority to issue order on mail-in votes

President Donald Trump claimed Monday that he has the authority to issue an executive order on mail-in ballots, whose increasing use, he argues, could increase election

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Chinese speech contest for foreign secondary school students concludes in New Zealand

The New Zealand final of the 13th "Chinese Bridge" Speech Contest for World Secondary School Students ended here on Sunday at the Confucius Institute at Victoria University of Wellington (VUW). Th