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Lenskart said this week it received $220 million in funds, led by Singapore state investor Temasek and Falcon Edge Capital.

Chinese tech shares in Hong Kong fell on Friday after Bloomberg News reported that Beijing is considering harsh penalties on ride-hailing giant Didi.

Chetan Seth of Nomura says the relative outperformance of Singapore stocks regionally has been driven by the country's banks.

The night time economy is re-opening just as coronavirus cases soar, particularly among the young.

The University of Exeter is offering students who want to study medicine a £10,000 ($13,735) bursary and free first-year accommodation to defer their place.

Though experts warn that bitcoin can be a risky, speculative investment, many agree that Elon Musk's long-term holding strategy may be the best practice.

"It’s possible to make very, extremely safe nuclear," Elon Musk said at The B-Word conference hosted by the Crypto Council for Innovation.

Bloomberg News reported China is planning a slew of punishments against Didi, including a fine likely bigger than the record $2.8 billion that Alibaba paid.

Dr. Ashish Jha explains why he thinks people are underestimating how bad the Covid surge is going to get as a result of the delta variant.

Covid hospitalizations are up 32% from last week at about 3,500 per day and deaths have also increased 19% in the same time frame to about 240 per day.

A Chinese prosecutor and a former NYPD detective are among those charged in a plot to harass U.S. residents in an effort to get one of them to return to China.

The strikes are the first known since U.S. Army Gen. Scott Miller stepped down from his role last week.

CEO Pat Gelsinger has announced plans for Intel to transform itself by manufacturing chips for other companies.

"There's going to be a peak sometime probably around late August, early September," former FDA chief Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Thursday.

Investors jumped back into their favorite tech stocks as worries about the economy resurfaced.

The CEO of Ben & Jerry's parent company Unilever sought to distance it from the ice cream maker's decision to stop its sales in occupied Palestinian territories.

The United States and Germany reached an agreement on the $11 billion Nord Stream 2 pipeline, a thorny, long-standing point of contention.

The Biden administration imposed sanctions on Cuba's defense minister and the communist nation's special forces brigade.

A host of automotive companies have announced plans to expand their offering of low and zero-emission vehicles.

Several of the affected services blamed Akamai, a content delivery network.