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Highly contagious UK coronavirus variant likely to become dominant strain in US by March

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday that a highly transmissible coronavirus variant circulating in the United Kingdom will become the dominant strain in the United States by ...

Mastercard Pioneers Cloud Tap on Phone, its First Pilot of Cloud Point of Sale (POS) Acceptance Technology

The FINANCIAL -- Mastercard has partnered with NMI and Global Payments Inc. to launch its first live Cloud Tap on Phone pilot with Computer Engineering Group (CEG), a Napa, Calif.-based independent ...

Georgia Among the Poorest Countries Missing COVID-19 Vaccines

The FINANCIAL -- Current models predict that there will not be enough vaccines to cover the world's population until 2023 or 2024, according to the report by The Launch and Scale Speedometer. ...

COVID-19 Death on Holidays: 44.8% above the five-year average

The FINANCIAL -- The number of deaths registered in England and Wales was affected by the Christmas Day Bank Holiday; 11,520 deaths were registered in the week ending 25 December 2020 (Week 52), ...

15 Tips & Resources To Improve The Financial Health Of Your Small Business

The start of a new year is the perfect time to think about the financial health of your business and look at making improvements. There are many ways that you can boost your finances, one option is ...

COVID-19: One year later – WHO Director-General’s new year message

The FINANCIAL -- As people around the world celebrated New Year's Eve 12 months ago, a new global threat emerged. Since that moment, the COVID-19 pandemic has taken so many lives and caused ...

Premiere on New Year’s Eve: First new S-Bahn Berlin train starts passenger service

The FINANCIAL -- The New Year is starting off with a premiere! Shortly after midnight on January 1, the first train of the new series 483/484 S-Bahn will start passenger service in Berlin. ...

Low-value deals dominated global VC funding landscape in Q4 2020, finds GlobalData

The FINANCIAL -- Big-ticket, billion-dollar deals were mostly non-existent during Q4 2020, as low-value deals (where the investment was less than or equal to $10m) accounted for the majority of ...

2020 ends earth’s warmest 10 years on record

The FINANCIAL -- The HadCRUT5 global temperature series, produced by the Met Office, University of East Anglia and UK National Centre for Atmospheric Science, shows that the average for 2020 as a ...

COVID: The survey shows two-thirds of dealmakers anticipate the market to expand this year

The FINANCIAL -- Dealmakers are overwhelmingly bullish about what lies ahead for deal activity in the technology space, annual Tech M&A Leaders’ Survey, by Morrison & Foerster, global law ...

House Impeaches Trump A 2nd Time, Citing Insurrection At U.S. Capitol, NPR

The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to impeach President Trump for "high crimes and misdemeanors" — specifically, for inciting an insurrection against the federal government at the ...

World Media: For Trump Impeachment

Spurs coach Gregg Popovich supports second Trump impeachment: 'Least that we can do'. And he made it clear on Tuesday he supports a second impeachment of President Donald ...

The Best Video Games Right Now, According to Millions of Votes on Ranker

The FiNANCIAL -- Ranker, known as the world’s leading publisher for fan-powered rankings on just about everything with over one billion votes, has announced its rankings of the top video games ...

Top 100 richest Bitcoin addresses bought 17x more BTC than sold in last 30 days

As the Bitcoin market continues to mature and gain more liquidity, a few addresses are holding large amounts of the asset. The activities of these wallets have significantly varied in the last 30 ...

Blood test shows promise for early detection of acute heart transplant rejection

The FINANCIAL -- A new blood test measures donor DNA fragments and detects acute heart transplant rejection earlier than current ...

When Is It Okay For Business To Slap Extra Charges On Customers

The very nature of business means you have to charge people for something. This will be a product or service, and customers come from far and wide to pay for it. You charge them, they pay you, and ...

US military presence in Georgia would help deter Russia and contain Iran

Iranian proxy groups' recent rocket attack on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and rallies against the U.S. military presence in Iraq have sparked fears of renewed unrest in the ...

World

Stabilizing the international oil market and jointly facing the challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic

The FINANCIAL -- The Fourth High-level Meeting of the OPEC-China Energy Dialogue was held by videoconference. The Meeting was co-chaired by HE Zhang...

Health and consumer crisis: Europeans remain cautious

The FINANCIAL -- According to BNP Paribas, for nine months now, Europe has been dealing with the Covid 19 crisis and the resulting restrictions...

DHL FREIGHT APPOINTS BAXTER FREIGHT AS ITS UK SALES PARTNER

The FINANCIAL -- DHL Freight, one of the leading road freight providers in Europe, has entered into a strategic partnership with UK logistics...

Markets

Low-value deals dominated global VC funding landscape in Q4 2020, finds GlobalData

The FINANCIAL -- Big-ticket, billion-dollar deals were mostly non-existent during Q4 2020, as low-value deals (where the investment was less than or...

IRS reminds taxpayers to make final estimated tax payment for 2020

The FINANCIAL -- Taxpayers who paid too little tax during 2020 can still avoid a tax-time bill and possible penalties by making a quarterly...

Key developed economies to see weakening labor market trends, according to proprietary employment indicator by GlobalData

The FINANCIAL -- Employment trends are expected to weaken for most countries, according to findings from GlobalData’s new proprietary employment...

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COVID-19

COVID: Improving Ventilation in Your Home Saves you from COVID

The FINANCIAL -- According to The Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention, frequent ventilation at home may decrease chances of catching covid. When...

One step closer to an at-home, rapid COVID-19 test

The FINANCIAL -- The lab of César de la Fuente is working on a paper-based biosensor that could provide results in minutes. Clinical trials began...

More than 600 journalists died from Covid-19 in ten months in 2020

The FINANCIAL – More than 600 journalists died of Covid-19 in 59 countries in ten months in 2020, that is to say 60 per month, or two per day on...

Tech

Huawei iMaster MAE Wins the 2020 Communication World Excellent Solution Award

The FINANCIAL -- Huawei iMaster MAE-MBB Automation Engine won the award of "2020 China Excellent 5G and Industry Application Solutions" held by the...

Bityard Launched Copy Trading System to Benefit Both Copiers and Traders

Bityard recently launched the copy trading system for CFD (contract for difference) trading, allowing users to copy trading activities from advanced traders,...

Samsung Introduces New HDR10+ Adaptive Feature for Better At-Home Viewing Experience

The FINANCIAL -- HDR10+ Adaptive works with Filmmaker Mode to deliver cinematic experience in any room condition. Samsung Electronics announced that the...

Business

An Introduction to the Sports Betting Business

Betting has emerged as one of the most rapidly growing and promising business ventures today. Many youths, peculiarly males, constitute a majority...

emlyon business school launches MSc in Cybersecurity & Defense Management

As of January 2021, emlyon business school is expanding its program range of Masters of Science with a new program, focused on security and defense...

American Express Launches New Offers for U.S. Consumer, Small Business, and Cobrand Card Members and Merchants

The FINANCIAL -- To kick off the new year, American Express is introducing new offers for U.S. Consumer, Small Business and Cobrand Card Members, as...

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