No COVID-19 death in nine days, says NCDC
The Nigerian Center for Disease Control reported zero COVID-19-related death for the ninth consecutive days as the nation’s fatality toll remains 2,061. The NCD...
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The rise of the next Coinbase, thanks to Coinbase
 Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. For this week’s deep dive...
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SoftBank bets big on a ‘digital Ellis Island’
Welcome Tech, which has built a digital platform aimed at immigrants and their families, has raised $35 million in a Series B funding round co-led by TTV Capita...
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Shadow and Bone’s Leigh Bardugo and Eric Heisserer talk necessary diversity in the series
If you look at the first Shadow and Bone novel, you'll notice very little diversity. That's changing in the show. Author and executive producer Leigh Bardugo an...
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Amazon is bringing its Amazon One palm scanner to select Whole Foods as a payment option
Amazon is bringing its new biometric device, the Amazon One scanner, to Whole Foods store. The retail giant this past fall first introduced the Amazon One scann...
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Bank of Canada to give outlook on economy, update on key interest rate
The Bank of Canada will say Wednesday how it sees the economy faring over the coming months and the path for inflation amid the third wave of the COVID-19 pande...
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AppOmni raises $40M for tools to secure enterprise SaaS apps
Enterprises are adopting an ever-wider range of SaaS applications to work and interface with customers, and that is proving to be a major security concern: it's...
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Authzed scores $3.9M seed to build permissions API service
Authzed, an early stage startup that wants to make it easier for developers to build permissions in their applications, announced a $3.9 million seed round toda...
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COVID-19: Critical care nurses in high demand in Ontario as 3rd wave puts pressure on hospitals
It's eerily quiet in the halls of the intensive care unit at Humber River Hospital, except for the beeping and ringing sounds of the many patient monitoring mac...
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These new Canadians left Brazil for Halifax before COVID-19, and they have a warning for others
While Atlantic Canadians have been in a relatively good position during the global pandemic, a couple in Halifax knows all too well how dire the situation can b...
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MMA2 returns passenger’s bag containing N2.3m
The aviation security team at the Murtala Muhammed Airport Terminal 2 has returned lost baggage of an Uyo-bound passenger on Ibom Airline, George Etuk, containi...
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Gogoro partners with India’s Hero MotoCorp, one of the world’s largest two-wheel vehicle makers
Electric scooters powered by Gogoro’s swappable, rechargeable batteries now account for nearly a quarter of monthly sales in Taiwan, its home market. But one of...
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