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Many founders fall into the trap of believing that fundraising is a rite of passage in the startup world. But it can also be hugely distracting, discouraging, and if you are a female, the odds aren't good, to put it politely. [...]
Tim Ryan, the chair of PwC U.S. weighs in with some advice. [...]
Alphabetâs Project Loon shuts down [...]
The digital currency market is turning into a "fun casino." [...]
The bank is one of the few companies to go public with its figures. [...]
U.S. futures point to a weak open, following Europe and much of Asia lower. [...]
As the Biden administration officially takes over, it faces a massive task: Getting COVID vaccines into people's arms. [...]
A travel startup gets a $155 million upround [...]
President Joe Biden's administration now controls all official presidential accounts following his inauguration on Wednesday. [...]
President Joe Biden will sign a travel ban Monday on most non-U.S. citizens entering the country who were recently in South Africa, where a new strain of Covid-19 has been identified. [...]
Industry watchers said desperate companies wait weeks for containers and pay premium rates to get them, causing shipping costs to skyrocket. [...]
U.S. stock index futures rose during early morning trading on Monday, ahead of the busiest week of earnings on Wall Street. [...]
The funding is another sign that China's electric car market is heating up with Evergrande posing a potential challenge to Tesla, Nio and Xpeng Motors. [...]
The Biden administration aims for 100 million vaccinations within his first 100 days as president. [...]
Tonghua city in northern China, about 10 hours' drive northeast of Beijing, apologized to its residents Sunday for "untimely" delivery of daily necessities. [...]
There are concerns that the giants of American and Chinese tech could come under further regulatory scrutiny this year. [...]
Social media and e-commerce have shaken up the retail industry and raised stakes for companies trying to sell to China's increasingly price-conscious consumer. [...]
"The reality is that we're still faced with a very polarized U.S., I don't think the U.S. is out of the woods when it comes to the pandemic," Brende told CNBC. [...]
Birx said she was censored by the Trump administration but denied that she ever withheld information on the coronavirus pandemic. [...]
Latch Inc., a maker of smart locks and building-management software, plans to go public using a so-called blank-check vehicle, joining the parade of startups looking to cash in on investor interest in tech-enabled businesses. [...]
U.S. stock futures and global indexes advanced at the start of a week that will include a slew of major corporate earnings reports, offering a look at how they are faring through the pandemic. [...]
Kuaishou Technology has its eyes on the worldâs biggest initial public offering in more than a year, seeking to raise about $5 billion from a Hong Kong share sale. [...]
NCR is finalizing a takeover that would value Cardtronics at $39 a share, or around $1.7 billion, outbidding a pair of investment firms that had earlier agreed to buy the ATM operator. [...]
A 53-year-old Phoenix woman wants to get through the next few years and plan for retirement. Hereâs what a financial adviser suggests. [...]
Ripple, the San Francisco company headed by Brad Garlinghouse, says its signature product, known as XRP, is a currency that shouldnât be subject to securities laws. [...]
The similarities between the dot-com bubble and todayâs stock market have grown too strong to ignore, says columnist James Mackintosh. [...]
Some 2.7 million homeowners are still pausing their monthly mortgage bills, and more might need help in the coming months. [...]
Among them: You really do have to plan for emergencies, and your personal-finance decisions donât exist in a vacuum. [...]
Options activity in January is building on 2020âs record volumes in the latest sign of optimism. [...]
On January 1, the Supreme Peopleâs Court released the first interpretations of Chinaâs Civil Code, putting into effect the nationâs first comprehensive collection of private laws on personal and property rights. When it passed last May, public attention was fixed on long-running crises of domestic… [...]
A new investigation by China Media Project revealed how Twitterâs decision to label certain Chinese accounts as âstate-affiliatedâ throttled their reach, curbing Chinaâs âborrowed boatâ propaganda strategy yet also impacting independent Chinese media outlets. In August of 2020, Twitter attached labels to accounts connected to… [...]
Lightning âpasses throughâ the highest landmark building in Beijing like a dragon, by World Meteorological Organization/Lu Qiao (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) [...]
A week after stage three trial data from Brazil revealed lower-than-expected efficacy numbers for one of Chinaâs main coronavirus vaccines, Beijingâs spokespersons and several reputable Chinese experts have doubled down on a new tactic to promote their vaccine: sniping at competitors. From accusing Western media… [...]
During a January 20 press conference, Chinaâs National Health Commission stated that all hoping to return to countryside homes for next monthâs Spring Festival must first get tested for COVID. The following day, Xinhua News followed up on the surprise announcement, writing: âPeople must produce… [...]
A gossipy breakup scandal became an internet-wide debate about the morality of surrogacy after it was revealed that a former celebrity couple secretly begat children through surrogacy in the United States. Producer Zhang Heng accused actress Zheng Shuang of denying her maternity and abandoning their… [...]
As the Hong Kong governmentâs crackdown on pro-democracy activists continues unabated, relations between Beijing and London have become increasingly frayed. Areas that have previously highlighted Hong Kongâs connectivity with the West and Londonâs positive relationship with the former colony have become stress points, affecting the… [...]
Medical researchers have developed a biosensing microneedle patch that can be applied to the skin, capture a biomarker of interest and, thanks to its unprecedented sensitivity, allow clinicians to detect its presence. [...]
Conditions inside the Shiveluch volcano include roughly 10%-14% water by weight (wt%), according to new research. Most volcanoes have less than 1% water. For subduction zone volcanoes, the average is usually 4%, rarely exceeding 8 wt%, which is considered superhydrous. [...]
Researchers have shown a way to make bulk metals by smashing tiny metal nanoparticles together, which allows for customized grain structures and improved mechanical and other properties. [...]
The enzyme that makes RNA from a DNA template is altered to slow the production of ribosomal RNA (rRNA), the most abundant type of RNA within cells, when resources are scarce and the bacteria Escherichia coli needs to slow its growth. [...]
Researchers have tested a new combination therapy in animal models to see if they could find a way to make an already effective treatment even better. Since they're using a Food and Drug Administration-approved drug to do it, this could help people sooner than later. [...]
Laser beams are used to change the properties of materials in an extremely precise way. However, the underlying processes generally take place at such unimaginably fast speeds and at such a small scale that they have so far eluded direct observation. Researchers have now managed… [...]
New research shows that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) reduced both antibody and inflammatory responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection in mice. [...]
Oceanographers fully reconciled climate and carbon cycle trends of the past 50 million years -- solving a controversy debated in the scientific literature for decades. [...]
Biomedical engineers have demonstrated that human muscle has an innate ability to ward off damaging effects of chronic inflammation when exercised. The discovery was made possible through the use of lab-grown, engineered human muscle, demonstrating the potential power of the first-of-its-kind platform in such research… [...]
New results from an atmospheric study over the Eastern North Atlantic reveal that tiny aerosol particles that seed the formation of clouds can form out of next to nothingness over the open ocean. The findings will improve how aerosols and clouds are represented in models… [...]
Israel is vaccinating against Covid-19 faster than anywhere else, but most Palestinians are waiting. [...]
Israel has vaccinated more than a quarter of its population and now high school students are eligible. [...]
It's been 10 years since Egyptians took to the streets to unseat their longest-serving President, Hosni Mubarak. [...]
A photomontage seems to show the ex-president playing in the shadow of a warplane or large drone. [...]
The jihadists say the biggest bombing in Iraq's capital for three years was aimed at Shia Muslims. [...]
Israeli businessman Beny Steinmetz is given a jail term by a Swiss court in a historic corruption case. [...]
Israel is likely to be the first country to see an impact from vaccination - but it is still too early. [...]
Protests continued for a fifth night over high unemployment and an economic crisis. [...]
People in Lebanon describe the impact of being confined to their homes for 24 hours a day. [...]
Ten years after ousting their strongman leader, some say the new system isn't working. [...]
Abu Dhabi [UAE], January 25 (ANI): Ireland skipper Andrew Balbirnie has admitted that the target of 260 runs for Afghanistan in the second ODI on a pitch that became more dead as the game progressed w [...]
By John SolomouNicosia [Cyprus], January 25 (ANI): Last Thursday morning the center of the Iraqi capital Baghdad was shaken by a twin suicide bombing which killed at least 32 people and wounded more t [...]
Rahmat Shah smashed an unbeaten century to guide Afghanistan to a seven-wicket victory over Ireland in their second one-day international in Abu Dhabi.Rahma [...]
ISLAMABAD - Authorities in Afghanistan say they have rearrested 600 members of the Taliban who were freed from imprisonment as part of a peace-building agreement between the United States and the i [...]
BEIJING, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Snow and sleet accompanied by gusts will hit parts of northern China from Sunday evening to Tuesday, the country's top meteorological authority said Sunday. Temp [...]
FARAH, Afghanistan -- A total of eight militants have been confirmed dead as fighting planes struck the Taliban hideout in Balablock district of the western Farah province on Saturday, said an army [...]
Rescue teams in China have brought to the surface 11 miners trapped in a gold mine by an explosion Jan. 10.Local media said the first miner was rescued from the mine in Qixia City in Shandon [...]
Faryab [Afghanistan], January 24 (ANI): As many as six Taliban terrorists were killed and five others were wounded by the Afghan Air Force in Afghanistan's Faryab province on Saturday. "Afghan Air For [...]
FARAH, Afghanistan, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- A total of eight militants have been confirmed dead as fighting planes struck the Taliban hideout in Balablock district of the western Farah province on Satu [...]
ULAN BATOR, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Mongolia has reported 16 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, taking its total tally to 1,627, the country's National Center for Communicable Diseases (NCCD) [...]
[allAfrica] Cape Town -- As of January 25, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 3,437,638. Reported deaths in Africa reached 85,184Â and 2,892,407Â people have recovered. [...]
[allAfrica] Cape Town -- United States President Joe Biden is set to ban most non-U.S. citizens who have recently been in South Africa from entering the country, in a bid to contain the spread of a new variant of Covid-19, a senior U.S. public health… [...]
[The Herald] At least 60kg of gold worth millions of dollars could be smuggled from Zimbabwe to Dubai monthly, prejudicing the country of the much-needed foreign currency earnings, Prosecutor-General Mr Kumbirai Hodzi estimates. [...]
[East African] Sierra Leone's capital Freetown goes into a two-week lockdown starting Monday, as the government revises measures to contain the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. [...]
[East African] Kenya is bracing for a surge in toxic political rhetoric in the coming months amid renewed agitation for a rotational presidency. [...]
[Daily News] THE executive and the judiciary have agreed to fully switch the country's legal system and legal materials from English to Kiswahili language, a centenary since the establishment of the High Court in the country. [...]
[East African] Ethiopia has joined Somalia in refuting claims that Mogadishu sent troops to fight in the Tigray war under a secret plan. [...]
[Nation] Findings of a study by a team of researchers indicates that Kenyan men on antiretroviral therapy (ART) succumbed earlier to HIV-related illnesses, compared to female patients. [...]
[DW] Ten years after the Arab Spring uprising overthrew the former military-backed president, prisons in Egypt are just as bad as ever, Amnesty International has reported. [...]
[Nation] Three more political parties are in the process of registering to join a crowded field of political parties ahead of the General Election in 2022. [...]
Moldova has long played a major role in the illicit trade in anabolic steroids. But was the countryâs envoy to Russia also in on the act? [...]
âPredictive justiceâ might just be the tool to accelerate Serbiaâs sluggish justice system. But experts are warning of considerable dangers and say the public must have a say. [...]
With the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue currently at a standstill, a new report by the International Crisis Group, ICG, proposes three possible options for ending a logjam that is holding both sides back from EU membership. [...]
A round-up of Balkan Insight's favourite photographs of the week. [...]
Croatian President Zoran Milanovic refused to go to a commemoration of a 1993 victory over rebel Serbs when he learned that participants from a former paramilitary unit were wearing WWII-era fascist symbols. [...]
While Most Central and Southeast European countries put their faith in Western-made COVID vaccines â Turkey, Hungary, Bosnia and Serbia are also investing in Russian and Chinese jabs â despite concerns about their reliability. [...]
Wartime fighter Senad Dzananovicâs lawyer said he should be acquitted of unlawfully detaining, raping and killing Serbs in Sarajevo in 1992 during the siege of the city. [...]
As Moldova and Russia spar again over Moscowâs military presence in the breakaway region of Transnistria, BIRN looks at what it would take to end this decades-long dispute. [...]
The seven-month armed conflict that erupted between rebels and security forces in North Macedonia in January 2001 is now seen as a turning point for ethnic relations between the countryâs Macedonian majority and Albanian minority. [...]
Sakib Mahmuljin, former commander of the Third Corps of the Bosnian Army, was sentenced to ten years in prison for failing to stop Islamic volunteer fighters torturing and killing Serb prisoners. [...]
