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President Donald Trump said Friday the U.S. will manufacture at least 100 million coronavirus vaccine doses before the end of the year with enough to inoculate every American by April.

Stocks fell on Friday to end a volatile week as tech struggled once again to find its footing recover from its September losses. 

The coronavirus has infected more than 30.2 million people globally as of Friday, killing at least 946,685 people so far.

Shares of Unity, a video game software developer, jumped in its market debut Friday. 

The Commerce Department announced it will ban U.S. business transactions with China-owned social apps WeChat and TikTok on Sunday.

"The energy has not gone out of this pandemic," Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO's emergencies program, warned Friday.

A senior Trump administration official told CNBC there is still a chance for a deal that would allow Chinese-owned social media app TikTok to remain operating in the U.S.

While Elon Musk and Steve Jobs contributed important innovations to society, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said that the way they operate is pretty different, in an interview with Bloomberg. "You wouldn't walk into a room and confuse them with each other," Gates said.

Social media users are re-evaluating whether they should have accounts on platforms like Facebook and Instagram after a new documentary-drama called "The Social Dilemma" dropped on Netflix.

Former F1 world champion, Nico Rosberg, has told CNBC that global governments need to "up their game" to tackle the "shocking" impact of climate change.

Around the world, technology and new ideas are changing the way urban environments operate.

Japan's new prime minister Yoshihide Suga will likely pull out all stops to revive the economy badly hit by the coronavirus pandemic but still continue the policies of outgoing leader Shinzo Abe.

Oracle would own less than 20% of TikTok as the deal is structured now.

While the move to "average inflation targeting" is in a respect historic for the Fed, market participants remain largely skeptical that the central bank can achieve its newly defined goal.

The sector could be set for a significant expansion over the next few years.

The UN's top food official has urged billionaires and businesses to help save 30 million people around the world who are at risk of dying from hunger this year without aid.

The decline continues a trend of the last three years, reversing a flurry of mergers and acquisitions by Chinese conglomerates in the U.S. that included purchases such as the Waldorf Astoria in New York.

CNBC's Sustainable Energy takes a look at how chemistry can take its cues from nature.

The next phase of the economic recovery is likely to be driven by commodity-intensive infrastructure investment, analysts have told CNBC.

The onshore Chinese yuan, which strengthened significantly against the greenback in recent days, traded at 6.7587 per dollar in the afternoon of Asian trading hours following levels above 6.81 seen earlier this week.