This year, the partners at Founders Fund—a prominent San Francisco venture capital firm that has backed Airbnb Inc., Palantir Technologies Inc. and other leading companies—took an informal internal poll: If the fund could open a major new office outside …
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After you’ve hung the stockings by the chimney with care and nestled the children all snug in their beds, you deserve a treat while you finish the rest of the Christmas decorating. There’s perhaps no better time to reach for a locally handcrafted beer than when …
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NPR and Spotify have been cozy since 2018, when the public radio and content powerhouse signed a deal to make select shows available through the music service. That agreement only covered the US though, so today the two partners are announcing a …
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Hong Kong (CNN Business) The C-suite of one of China’s most important tech companies has just been thrown into confusion. Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), China’s biggest chipmaker, said Wednesday it was trying to …
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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has warned for months that the agency would be forced to make draconian cuts, including slashing New York City’s subway service by 40 percent, as the pandemic plunged the nation’s largest public transit agency …
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