Wall Street Journal:Profile of Tencent, China’s most valuable company at ~$900B, with a powerful ecosystem including WeChat, and local and overseas startup investments worth ~$259B — The tech giant has investments worth an estimated $259 billion in Chinese and overseas startups
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the need for sustainable digitization of the economy, and the UAE is accepting the challenge.
There are opportunities to be leveraged in bringing DeFi to the film industry, making the investing process easier and more transparent.
The Thai SEC says the total number of crypto accounts rose by nearly 300% over the course of the last 180 days.
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:Apple has removed all build-to-order configurations of iMac Pro from its store, signaling discontinuation; only base model is available “while supplies last” — The iMac Pro does not seem to be long for this world as the Apple Store on Friday removed all build-to-order configurations for the product.
In Food Insecurity on Campus: Action and Intervention, editors Katharine M. Broton and Clare L. Cady present background research and case studies from American college campuses that are in the fight to end hunger among their students, an issue only exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Policymakers, students and administrators are among those who can use these essays as a blueprint…
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Will Oremus / OneZero :Q&A with Twitter’s senior director of curation Joanna Geary on how her team decides which trends to summarize and how to contextualize them, more — ‘Twitter description guy’ isn’t a guy. It’s Twitter’s curation team, and I talked to the woman who runs it.
Annabelle Williams / Insider:Report: 96.9% of Bay Area tech startups remained in the region in 2020; of those that moved, 21% moved to New York, 21% to other parts of CA, and 12% to TX — – A survey from Telstra Ventures shows that the majority of startups stayed in San Francisco in 2020.
Abhay Venkatesh / Neowin:A slide from Ignite session video shows that Microsoft is working to move Edge to a common codebase for the desktop, Android, and iOS versions later this year — Microsoft has been adding a bunch of useful features to its Chromium-based Edge browser, with the latest round of updates bumping …
In the this episode of our CleanTech Talk podcast interview series, Zachary Shahan, Director and CEO of CleanTechnica, and Logan Goldie-Scot, Head of Clean Power Research at BloombergNEF, sit down to talk about the battery supply chain. You can listen to the full conversation in the embedded player below. Below that embedded SoundCloud player is…
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