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Eight Sleep raises $86M as its smart mattress and ‘sleep fitness’ technology approaches $500M valuation

The venture world is — quite literally — waking up to the potential of applying artificial intelligence to a wider variety of real-world, consumer-driven problems, and today comes the late

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Want to be a more holistic healthcare company? Add some Ginger 

When Headspace merged with on-demand mental healthcare platform Ginger, I was surprised. After all, Ginger raised $100 million in Series E funding just a few months ago — and last time I spoke to CEO

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Putin Warns of Degrading European Security System, Growing Risk of New Arms Race

Vladimir Putin has written a major article for the German newspaper Die Zeit, marking the 80th anniversary of the Nazi attack on the Soviet Union, in which he made a wa

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Apple Podcasts Subscriptions go live worldwide

Apple Podcasts Subscriptions are now live across more than 170 countries and regions, Apple announced this morning. First unveiled this spring, subscriptions allow listeners to unlock additional benef

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Germany, France support 21% global minimum corporate tax proposal

Germany and France on Tuesday voiced support for a call from the United States to impose a global minimum corporate tax of 21 percent, a move which targets huge multinationals like Amazon and Google.

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The Nord Stream 2 project will be completed despite U.S. pressure

The logo of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project is seen on a large diameter pipe at Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant in Chelyabinsk, Russia, February 26, 2020. /Reuters Editor's note:Djoomart

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German governor apologizes for ‘little Merkel’ comment

A German state governor has apologized for referring to Chancellor Angela Merkel as “little Merkel” during a recent online event, saying he had unintentionally displaye

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Merkel minus Angela

The new elected Christian Democratic Union party leader Armin Laschet speaks after being elected at the party's 33rd congress, held online because of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic,

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Who will succeed Merkel?

German Chancellor Angela Merkel holds a press conference after the EU Leaders Summit in Brussels, Belgium, December 11, 2020. /Getty Editor's note:Josef Joffe is a fellow at Stanford Universit

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EU Budget Holdouts Meet as Pressure Mounts on Rule of Law

The leaders of Poland and Hungary, who effectively vetoed the European Union’s $2 trillion spending package last week, are meeting as pressure builds on them to relent

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German police baffled as over 60 artefacts attacked in Berlin museums

The artefacts desecrated included works from Ancient Egypt. /CFP. More than 60 artworks and artefacts at some of Berlin's best-known museums were attacked, smeared with an oily liquid by an un

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Germany offers US billion-euro LNG investment deal to lift sanctions from Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline – report

Berlin has offered to invest €1 billion in US liquefied natural gas (LNG) if Washington lifts sanctions against the Russia-led Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project, newsp

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Google to pay some news publishers for content

Google on Thursday took a step to resolving its spat with publishers, saying it would pay some media groups in Australia, Brazil and Germany for high-quality content and expects to do more deals w

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Headless CMS company Strapi raises another $10 million

Strapi, the company behind the popular open-source headless CMS also called Strapi, has raised a $10 million Series A round led by Index Ventures. The company previously raised a $4 million seed round

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Checkly raises $2.25M seed round for its monitoring and testing platform

Checkly, a Berlin-based startup that is developing a monitoring and testing platform for DevOps teams, today announced that it has raised a $2.25 million seed round led by Accel. A number of angel inv

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Europe's shut borders create headache for home care amid COVID-19

Stock photo of an elderly person. /Reuters They take care of elderly or handicapped people at home, cooking and cleaning, assisting with errands, taking them for walks and providing company an

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70th Berlin film fest opens amid shootings, diversity row

Europe's first major film festival of 2020 opens in Berlin Thursday, with Helen Mirren and Hillary Clinton among those expected on the red carpet, even as a deadly shooting and diversity row threat