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Hong Kong-based XanPool, a cross-border payments infrastructure provider for both crypto and fiat currencies, raised $41M in Q2 2022 at a $400M valuation (Jonathan Burgos/Forbes)

Hong Kong-based XanPool, a cross-border payments infrastructure...

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Jonathan Burgos / Forbes:Hong Kong-based XanPool, a cross-border payments infrastructure...

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Inside Zhengzhou's "iPhone City" lockdown, where China's zero COVID-19 policy, related propaganda and fears, and Foxconn's missteps led to the worker riots (South China Morning Post)

Inside Zhengzhou's "iPhone City" lockdown, where China's...

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South China Morning Post:Inside Zhengzhou's “iPhone City” lockdown, where China's...

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Experts and employees detail Uber's struggles in Pakistan as it discontinues service in five cities, cuts spending, and faces increased competition from inDrive (Nilesh Christopher/Rest of World)

Experts and employees detail Uber's struggles in Pakistan...

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Nilesh Christopher / Rest of World:Experts and employees detail Uber's struggles...

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Reserve Bank of India declines a payment aggregator license for Paytm parent One 97, asking it to comply with foreign direct investment guidelines and reapply (Ira Dugal/Reuters)

Reserve Bank of India declines a payment aggregator license...

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Ira Dugal / Reuters:Reserve Bank of India declines a payment aggregator license...

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Analysis: AI startup funding has been around 9%-10% of global VC investment in recent years, led by robotics, autonomous vehicles, and enterprise software (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)

Analysis: AI startup funding has been around 9%-10% of...

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Gené Teare / Crunchbase News:Analysis: AI startup funding has been around 9%-10%...

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Source: the US DOJ is investigating whether rent-setting software made by RealPage is facilitating collusion among landlords to drive up rental prices (Heather Vogell/ProPublica)

Source: the US DOJ is investigating whether rent-setting...

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Heather Vogell / ProPublica:Source: the US DOJ is investigating whether rent-setting...

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An in-depth look at the US sanctions on China's chipmakers and worries over their impact on inflation and rising costs for Western manufacturers and customers (June Yoon/Financial Times)

An in-depth look at the US sanctions on China's chipmakers...

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June Yoon / Financial Times:An in-depth look at the US sanctions on China's chipmakers...

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How live-action YouTube kids channels Vlad and Niki, Like Nastya, and Kids Diana Show, with a total of ~300M subscribers, are building global franchises (R.T. Watson/Wall Street Journal)

How live-action YouTube kids channels Vlad and Niki, Like...

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R.T. Watson / Wall Street Journal:How live-action YouTube kids channels Vlad and...

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New Delhi-based diabetes management app BeatO raised a $33M Series B led by Lightrock India, with Flipkart and others participating (Debjyoti Roy/Livemint)

New Delhi-based diabetes management app BeatO raised a...

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Debjyoti Roy / Livemint:New Delhi-based diabetes management app BeatO raised a $33M...

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Shanghai-based eRoad, which offers a cloud-based HR management service with a focus on payroll, raised a ~$140M Series D, after raising an ~$84M Series C (Eudora Wang/DealStreetAsia)

Shanghai-based eRoad, which offers a cloud-based HR management...

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Eudora Wang / DealStreetAsia:Shanghai-based eRoad, which offers a cloud-based HR...

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Elon Musk claims "all-time high" Twitter signups, averaging 2M+/day in the seven days to November 16, up 66% YoY, and user active minutes of ~8B/day, up 30% YoY (Reuters)

Elon Musk claims "all-time high" Twitter signups, averaging...

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Reuters:Elon Musk claims “all-time high” Twitter signups, averaging 2M+/day in the...

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China seems to be flooding Twitter with porn tweets mentioning places where people are protesting, overwhelming Twitter's radically reduced anti-propaganda team (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)

China seems to be flooding Twitter with porn tweets mentioning...

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Joseph Menn / Washington Post:China seems to be flooding Twitter with porn tweets...

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A look at OpenAI's Minecraft bot, which has learned to complete complex tasks in Minecraft after being trained on 70K hours of video of people playing the game (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)

A look at OpenAI's Minecraft bot, which has learned to...

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Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review:A look at OpenAI's Minecraft bot, which...

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Protests erupt across China in unprecedented challenge to Xi Jinping's zero-Covid policy

Protests erupt across China in unprecedented challenge...

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Why protesters in China are holding up white paper

Why protesters in China are holding up white paper

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Protests erupted across major cities in China in an unprecedented show of defiance...

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The search for a missing mother surfaces claims of her lover's 'life of deceit'

The search for a missing mother surfaces claims of her...

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Marion Barter won plaudits for her warmth as an elementary school teacher, but in...