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Desperate to exit, a $10B price tag for Magic Leap is crazy

Augmented reality headset maker Magic Leap has struggled with the laws of physics and failed to get to market. Now it’s seeking an acquirer, but talks with Facebook and medical goods giant John

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Establishing an emergency relief fund, Amazon commits to two-week pay for workers affected by COVID-19

Amazon has instituted a new policy which will see all Amazon employees diagnosed with COVID-19 or placed into quarantine receiving up to two-weeks of pay.The additional pay is to “ensure employ

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Google expands work from home recommendation to all North American employees, establishes ‘COVID-19 fund’

Last week, Google sent out a memo to staff recommending that Washington State-based employees work remotely, in order to mitigate the potential spread of COVID-19. Today, the suggestion has been dram

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Hitachi Vantara acquires what’s left of Containership

Hitachi Vantara, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi that focuses on building hardware and software to help companies manage their data, today announced that it has acquired the assets of Container

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Electric reopens Series B to make room for Dick Costolo and Adam Bain

Electric, the platform that delivers IT services to small and medium businesses, has today announced that it has raised an additional $14.5 million on its Series B from 01 Advisors, the fund led by Tw

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Black Monday questions the resilience of Western economies

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European Parliament tells vulnerable staff to telework to shrink COVID-19 risk

The European Parliament has instructed vulnerable staff with a pre-existing health condition to work from home on account of increased personal risk related to the outbreak of the COVID-19 novel coro

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How U.S. war against China extends to the internet

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China's COVID-19 containment model is gaining traction

Editor's note: Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations analyst and a graduate of Durham and Oxford universities. He writes on topics pertaining to China, the DPRK, Britain, an

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Why Biden won and can Sanders make a comeback?

Editor's note: Azhar Azam works in a private organization as a market business analyst and writes about geopolitical issues and regional conflicts. The article reflects the author's opinions, and

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China is not to blame for America's COVID-19 mistakes

Doctors check a patient's CT image at a temporary hospital in Jiangxia District in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, February 25, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note:Tom Fowdy is a British politi

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COVID-19 really China's 'Chernobyl moment'?

11:41 Is politicizing COVID-19, the new virus spreading in the media? Are some media putting politics before people?There's no doubt the coronavirus has gone global. Regardless of thei

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U.S. is steadily disregarding the one-China policy

The White House, Washington DC, U.S. Editor's note:Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations analyst and a graduate of Durham and Oxford universities. He writes on topics pe

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SXSW cancels its 400K-person conference due to coronavirus

SXSW has officially announced it will cancel its tech and music conference slated for March 13th to 22nd in Austin, TX due to concerns around coronavirus, though it’s exploring rescheduling. 

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‘Thinking out loud’ with TechCrunch senior editor Alex Wilhelm

Extra Crunch is now past its first birthday. Over the past year, we’ve learned a lot, made some changes and generally found our groove.Toward the end of 2019, former TechCrunch writer Alex Wilh

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Airbnb and three other p2p rental platforms agree to share limited pan-EU data

The European Commission announced yesterday it’s reached a data-sharing agreement with vacation rental platforms Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia Group and Tripadvisor — trumpeting the arrang

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The world needs China to fully get back to work

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