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Huawei says it remains 'open to discussions' with UK government

Chinese technology firm Huawei said Sunday that it remains "open to discussions" with the British government and is working closely with its customers to find ways of managing the proposed U.S. restr

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Chinese envoy asks Security Council to push for global cease-fire

A Chinese envoy on Thursday asked the Security Council to push for positive responses to the UN secretary-general's appeal for a global cease-fire amid the COVID-19 pan

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China unveils 22 areas for preservation of revolutionary heritage

China has unveiled 22 areas for the protection and utilization of cultural relics from revolutionary times, according to an official circular. The areas include renown

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Skygauge’s innovative tilting rotor drones are up for pre-order, with deliveries in 2021

I have had a few occasions to see Skygauge’s drones in-person, primarily on visits to Asia. The Canadian team is involved in HAX’s program and has spent time working out of their Shenzhen offices. In

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Fivetran snares $100M Series C on $1.2B valuation for data connectivity solution

A big problem for companies these days is finding ways to connect to various data sources to their data repositories, and Fivetran is a startup with a solution to solve that very problem. No surprise

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Facebook expands its fan subscription program

Facebook is expanding the availability of the tools it offers to help game streamers and other online creators make money.The social network first launched fan subscriptions in early 2018, giving a sm

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Carlos leads U.S. atheletes call on IOC to scrap protest ban

John Carlos, one of the two American Olympians who famously gave the Black Power salute on the podium at the 1968 Mexico Games, is leading a call for rules banning athlete protests at the Olympics

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Starbucks to pause paid ads across social media in boycott campaign

Starbucks Corp will pause advertising on all social media platforms as it explores the best ways to help stop the spread of hate speech, the company said in a statement on Sunday.The company will

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Amazon launches ‘Smart Stores’ in India to win mom and pop

For Amazon, it’s never too late to try something in India. The e-commerce giant is exploring ways to further spread its tentacles in the largely offline, technology-free neighborhood stores in one of

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Google will start paying publishers to provide content for a ‘new news experience’

Google announced today that it’s working on a “new news experience” that will launch later this year, for which it will pay publishers to license their content.Axios broke the news,

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Airtable’s Howie Liu to join us at Disrupt 2020

Collaborative enterprise software is absolutely booming, and Airtable is riding that wave in a very real way.The company, which offers a flexible, collaborative database product, has raised more than

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Unlucky Luckin faces additional delisting notice from Nasdaq

Chinese coffee brand Luckin CoffeeInc. received another delisting notice from Nasdaq citing the failure to file its annual report, the company announced on Tuesday.The company was in trouble due to a

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Hulu announces a new offer-focused ad format called GatewayGo

Hulu is unveiling a new ad unit today, which it’s calling GatewayGo. The idea is to give viewers a way to directly interact with the advertisers and receive personalized offers.This makes good

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China's mid-year online shopping spree reaps $2.4 tln: Clearing house

Total transactionsduring the just-concluded mid-year online shopping spree reached 16.91 trillion yuan (about 2.38 trillion U.S. dollars), up 42 percent from last year, according to Chinese online

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WHO hopes for hundreds of millions of vaccine doses this year

The World Health Organization (WHO) hopes hundreds of millions of doses of coronavirus vaccine can be produced this year and two billion doses by the end of 2021, chief scientist Soumya Swaminatha

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Chinese vice premier urges Beijing 2022 organizers to overcome challenges from COVID-19

Chinese Vice Premier Han Zheng instructed local governments and the Organizing Committee for the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Games on Thursday to make efforts to overcome the challenges broug

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Anthos Capital and NBA All-Star Baron Davis back LA-based college tuition savings service, UNest

UNest, a Los Angeles provider of financial planning and savings tools for parents including college savings plans and other beneficial investment vehicles for various life events, has raised $9 millio