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Wolt, a food delivery app that’s expanded into groceries and retail, has raised $530 million as it tries to take on Amazon.

Moderna said it’s accelerating work on a Covid-19 booster shot to guard against the recently discovered variant in South Africa.

After quadrupling last year, bitcoin has had a wild start to 2021, climbing to $40,000 for the first time earlier this month.

EY CEO Carmine Di Sibio has suggested that the main threat to businesses under the Biden administration will be the possibility of higher corporate taxes. 

Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s comments come less than a week after the inauguration of U.S. President Joe Biden.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is speaking at a virtual event organized by the World Economic Forum.

The 1,000 richest people on the planet recouped their losses caused by the coronavirus pandemic within nine months, according to estimates from charity Oxfam.

“Coming from a superpower, one of the big emitters in the world, this is really crucial and it’s very important,” IRENA’s director-general told CNBC.

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2019 16.9 Preview 3, an update to the company’s signature integrated development environment that offers more command line tools for C++ development as well as enhancements tuned to .NET and XAML. The previous up…

There’s no question that Python is hugely popular with software developers, or that its popularity continues to rise. TIOBE, a software company that publishes a measure of the popularity of programming languages every month, reported in November tha…

Immutability makes code easier to write, test, and maintain over time. However, immutability is not supported by many programming languages. Until recently, C# did not support immutability out-of-the-box. That changes with C# 9.You can now take adva…

Open source is about community, so why can’t we get along? I’m referring to the recent fracas between Elastic and AWS, but we’ve dealt with similar issues for many years.In this most recent episode of Open Source Wars, Elastic accused AWS of “behavi…

Tonghua city in northern China, about 10 hours’ drive northeast of Beijing, apologized to its residents Sunday for “untimely” delivery of daily necessities.

Market valuations are strong, but reflect the expectation of an economic recovery in the second half of this year, Pimco’s John Studzinski said.

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 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.

Indonesia’s finance minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati said estimates by experts showed the country needs around 15 months to vaccinate 180 million people.

Seychelles this month became the first nation to welcome vaccinated travelers. But there are reasons some travelers — even vaccinated ones — may want to wait.

The relationship deteriorated last year when Australia supported a call for an international inquiry into China’s handling of the coronavirus.

Industry watchers said desperate companies wait weeks for containers and pay premium rates to get them, causing shipping costs to skyrocket.

Developments around Covid-19 were likely watched by investors, as the world races to adapt against the mutating coronavirus.

Wall Street prepares for the busiest week of earnings, which will include reports from some of the largest tech companies.

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.

Former Prudent Bear Fund manager David Tice is cautious due to Washington policies, an overvalued market and Covid-19 vaccine concerns.

The Chinese economy brought in more foreign direct investment than any other country last year, knocking the United States from its perch atop the list.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched another rocket into the record books on Sunday with the first mission of its small satellite “rideshare” program.