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Trends
With fresh support from its billionaire backers Pivot Bio is ushering in a farming revolution
In the first decade of the twentieth century two German chemists, Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch, invented fertilizer — the…
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Twitter Q1: Sales up 3% to $808M as it swigs to a loss on COVID-19, mDAUS hit record 166M
Twitter reported quarterly earnings that bore this trend out Despite traffic for many online properties being at an all-time high,…
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Stories
Many Japanese defy appeals to stay home to curb virus
Under Japan’s coronavirus state of emergency, people have been asked to stay home. Many are not. Some still have to…
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Asian shares rise on hopes for the drug to treat coronavirus
Asian shares advanced on Thursday, riding a wave of optimism about a possible treatment for the coronavirus that set off…
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Trump says he won’t extend social distancing guidelines
President Donald Trump said Wednesday the federal government will not be extending its coronavirus social distancing guidelines once they expire…
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Stories
Nearly half of global workforce at risk of losing livelihoods due to COVID: ILO
Almost 1.6 billion workers in the informal economy, nearly half of the global workforce, face an immediate danger of losing…
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African fintech firm Flutterwave launches SME e-commerce portal
San Francisco and Lagos-based fintech startup Flutterwave has launched Flutterwave Store, a portal for African merchants to create digital shops to sell…
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Finance
Index and Credo lead a $2.75M seed in anti-fraud tech, Resistant AI
Prague based Resistant AI has nabbed a $2.75M seed round. The security startup’s machine learning technology is designed to be…
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