Google today launched an update to its Duo video chat app (which you definitely shouldn’t confuse with Hangouts or Google Meet, Google’s other video, audio and text chat apps). There are plenty of jokes to be made about Google’s plethora of chat options, but Duo is trying to be a bit different from Hangouts and […]

Pillar of country’s economy resumes operations despite concerns over workers’ health

Keeping cinemas open will not stop operators from falling into a sea of red ink

Producers overwhelmed as supply chain disruption fuels fears of shortages

Companies lean heavily on equity in effort to dent blow from coronavirus

Canberra’s call for an inquiry into the origins of coronavirus has provoked threats from Beijing

The outlook looks weak for shares exposed to the local economy

Boost for world’s largest producer of the canned fish as consumers stockpile long-life goods

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Chinese ecommerce giant to help expand 50-floor Axa Tower

Catering and ground-handling company excluded from Canberra’s coronavirus support scheme

Banks try to limit fallout from collapse of Singapore commodities trader Hin Leong

The fallout for Asian banks’ exposed to the oil and trading sector has just begun

Vice-chairman Lee Jae-yong’s claim that family will release control over tech giant met with scepticism

Coronavirus has added months to game console’s lifespan, but not years

Jump in downloads helps Japanese video game group score 41% rise in profit

Bank alleges collapsed Singaporean company raised money through duplicate invoices

Charles Li will not seek reappointment when contract expires in October 2021

Phone-based system controls entry and exit to neighbourhoods and taxi cabs

Research finds WeChat analyses messages from users registered outside China to train its algorithms

Kingdom offers crude to US at a premium but shows reluctance to lose Asian market share

Executive decree set to prop up prices in hopes of saving domestic shale industry

Washington’s stance is alarming US allies when a joint approach is needed

Government clarifies report that 400,000 garments were unusable

Central bank of Latin America’s largest economy can now engage in monetary financing

Investment in Reliance tech and telecoms division follows Facebook and Silver Lake agreements

A collapse in global car-booking demand was offset by a surge in food delivery at Uber

Two sides hold call on ‘phase one’ deal in rare easing of war of words over pandemic

Government’s travel ban due to coronavirus makes it nearly impossible for citizens to return home

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US asset manager apologises following comments by company’s president over debt rules

As with other industries reeling in the wake of the pandemic, watchmakers were facing battles long before the virus struck

China’s example suggests that life will not snap back to normal, strategists say

The taciturn lawyer’s corruption-busting career has also paved a path to power

Trust between the countries has deteriorated during the pandemic and is close to its lowest point since 1979

Cheaper parts of the market can lag a lot more before the current global downturn ends

Prices fall as farmers struggle to sell fruit seen as national delicacy

Bondholders await government’s next move as fears of default intensify

Founders plan for further expansion in Wuhan and beyond

Popular programme is sparking debate about social change during holy month of Ramadan

President Lukashenko under fire from neighbouring countries for lax approach to pandemic

Orca Security, an Israeli cloud security firm that focuses on giving enterprises better visibility into their multi-cloud deployments on AWS, Azure and GCP, today announced that it has raised a $20 million Series A round led by GGV Capital. YL Ventures and Silicon Valley CISO Investments also participated in this round. Together with its seed […]

Cockroach Labs, the NYC enterprise database company, announced an $86.6 million Series D funding round today. The company was in no mood to talk valuations, but was happy to have a big chunk of money to help build on its recent success and ride out the current economic malaise. Altimeter Capital and Bond co-led the […]

M&A activity has generally slowed down in the weeks since the novel coronavirus took a grip on the world, but there have been some pockets of activity in the tech industry when the price is right or when the divestment/acquisition just makes sense. The world of messaging brings us the latest development in that theme: SAP, […]

Sleuth, an early stage startup from three former Atlassian employees, wants to bring some much-needed order to the continuous delivery process. Today, the company announced it has raised a $3 million seed round. ​CRV led the round with participation from angel investors from New Relic, Atlassian and LaunchDarkly. “Sleuth is a deployment tracker built to […]

In the early 2000s, VMware introduced the world to virtual servers that allowed IT to make more efficient use of idle server capacity. Today, Run:AI is introducing that same concept to GPUs running containerized machine learning projects on Kubernetes. This should enable data science teams to have access to more resources than they would normally […]

Under different circumstances, GitHub would be hosting its Satellite conference in Paris this week. Like so many other events, GitHub decided to switch Satellite to a virtual event, but that isn’t stopping the Microsoft-owned company from announcing quite a bit of news this week. The highlight of GitHub’s announcement is surely the launch of GitHub […]

In spite of being in the midst of a pandemic sowing economic uncertainty, one area that continues to thrive is cloud computing. Perhaps that explains why Microsoft, which saw Azure grow 59% in its most recent earnings report, announced plans to open a new data center in New Zealand once it receives approval from the […]

We find ourselves in a time when certain businesses are being asked to scale to levels they never imagined. Sometimes that increased usage comes in bursts, which means you don’t want to pay for permanent extra capacity you might not always need. Today, Confluent introduced a new scale-on-demand feature for its Apache Kafka cloud service […]

There’s something to be said for consistency through good times and bad, and one company that has had a staggeringly consistent track record is international data center vendor, Equinix. It just recorded its 69th straight positive quarter, according to the company. That’s an astonishing record, and covers over 17 years of positive returns. That means […]