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LinkedIn to shutter Chitu, its Chinese-language app, in July, redirects users to LinkedIn in...
LinkedIn has long eyed China as an important country to offset slowing growth in more mature markets. But now it’s calling time on a localized effort after failing to see it pick up steam. The company has announced that it will be shutting down Chitu — a Chinese-only app ...continued
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Injured Dale Steyn ruled out of World Cup, Beuran Hendricks named replacement
shares © Associated Press South Africa fast bowler Dale Steyn has been ruled out of the World Cup with a shoulder injury, le...continued
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Bose previews voice-controlled on-ear headphones and a pair of wireless earbuds – TechCrunch
Bose announced a trio of new headphones today. The company used the opportunity to primarily focus on the dryly named Noise Cancelling Headphones 700, which purport to sport “the biggest leap forward in headphones since the iconic QuietComfort.” A big claim, to be sure, e...continued
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Tottenham fans react to links with David Brooks | Sportslens
Tottenham are thought to be keen on the Bournemouth midfielder David Brooks as per the Sun. The 21-year-old has had an impressive season in the Premier League and it is no surprise tha...continued
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Report: Everton and Newcastle United are interested in OGC Nice winger Allan Saint-Maximin |...
According to Nice-Matin (via GFFN), Newcastle United and Everton have registered interest in a summer move for Nice winger Allan Saint-Maximin. The French forward is also wanted by Cr...continued
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What happens next and how does a leadership contest work?
GP: A combination of picture created in London on May 24, 2019 shows recent pictures of the six main contenders to replace Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May when she resigns on June 7: (L-R) Britain's Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt; Britain's Home Secretary Sajid Javid;...continued
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Canopy’s upscale co-working business adds a new location in SF on the heels of strategic funding...
Canopy, an upscale, profitable developer of co-working spaces, has expanded its footprint in San Francisco to a third location on the heels of a strategic financing round. Co-founded by the product designer Yves Behar; the second generation design-build developer Amir Mor...continued
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De Laet could leave Villa | Sportslens
Ritchie De Laet has an uncertain future at Aston Villa. The 30-year-old recently returned from a successful loan spell at Melbourne City, but he’s out of contract at Villa Park and has...continued
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Johns Hopkins Hospital hounds poor patients over 0.03 percent of revenue
Johns Hopkins Hospital sicced collections attorneys on thousands of patients over the past decade, often taking extraordinary measures to extract payment from patients who probably owed no money at all under the state laws governing the non-profit medical provider. Accord...continued
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Week-in-Review: Google impersonates Apple and Bezos eyes the moon – TechCrunch
After Mark Zuckerberg’s privacy mea culpa at F8 last week, Google got its turn at I/O to promise consumers that their data wasn’t going anywhere that they didn’t want it to go. In short: they aimed to take a page from Apple. For Google, a clear strategy at the event was e...continued
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UK tax office ordered to delete millions of unlawful biometric voiceprints – TechCrunch
The UK’s data protection watchdog has issued the government department responsible for collecting taxes with a final enforcement notice, after an investigation found HMRC had collected biometric data from millions of citizens without obtaining proper consent. HMRC has 28 ...continued
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China backtracked on nearly all aspects of US trade deal: Sources
The diplomatic cable from Beijing arrived in Washington late on Friday night, with systematic edits to a nearly 150-page draft trade agreement that would blow up months of negotiations between the world's two largest economies, according to three U.S. government sources a...continued
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FBI director throws Trump’s FBI ‘spying’ claims under the bus
Testifying before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee Tuesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray refuted claims from both President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr that officials spied on the president’s campaign in 2016. Wray offered his refutation in respons...continued
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New NRA president dismisses Lucy McBath as a ‘female minority’
The National Rifle Association’s (NRA) new president, Carolyn Meadows, believes — strongly — in arming teachers, and argues “Mass shooters only go where the people are weak.” Meadows also hopes to leverage the NRA’s base of supporters and organizational prowess to help re...continued
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'The center of the political universe' — Iowa is even more important than usual in the 2020 election
Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks during a rally at the Fairfield Arts and Convention Center on April 06, 2019 in Fairfield, Iowa.Scott Olson | Getty ImagesDemocratic presidential candidates swarm. A nine-term U.S. House incumbent face...continued
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A new brain study shows a better way to engage voters on climate change
The phrase “climate crisis” engages voters emotionally better than either “climate change” or “global warming.” That’s the new finding from the brain science startup SPARK Neuro, which used an electroencephalogram (EEG) and other bio-measurements to examine how 120 Democr...continued
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