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U.S. futures point to a positive open ahead of big week for tech earnings. [...]
We tend to be guided by ideas and theories devised to explain an economy that no longer exists. [...]
Many founders fall into the trap of believing that fundraising is a rite of passage in the startup world. But it can also be hugely distracting, discouraging, and if you are a female, the odds aren't good, to put it politely. [...]
Tim Ryan, the chair of PwC U.S. weighs in with some advice. [...]
Alphabet’s Project Loon shuts down [...]
The digital currency market is turning into a "fun casino." [...]
The bank is one of the few companies to go public with its figures. [...]
U.S. futures point to a weak open, following Europe and much of Asia lower. [...]
As the Biden administration officially takes over, it faces a massive task: Getting COVID vaccines into people's arms. [...]
President Joe Biden will sign a travel ban Monday on most non-U.S. citizens entering the country who were recently in South Africa, where a new strain of Covid-19 has been identified. [...]
Industry watchers said desperate companies wait weeks for containers and pay premium rates to get them, causing shipping costs to skyrocket. [...]
Massive short covering and internet-driven momentum keeps pushing GameStop stock higher. [...]
President Joe Biden will take steps to harness the U.S. purchasing power to increase domestic manufacturing and create markets for new technologies. [...]
Merck will end development of its two Covid-19 vaccines, and will focus pandemic research on treatments. [...]
Digital media companies may be the latest industry to use SPACs as instruments to go public. [...]
Digital ad company Taboola says it plans to go public via a merger with ION Acquisition Corp, a special acquisition corporation. [...]
It's one of the busiest stretches of the earnings season. Craig Johnson of Piper Sandler and Danielle Shay of Simpler Trading take a look at Apple and Tesla. [...]
There are concerns that the giants of American and Chinese tech could come under further regulatory scrutiny this year. [...]
The funding is another sign that China's electric car market is heating up with Evergrande posing a potential challenge to Tesla, Nio and Xpeng Motors. [...]
GameStop shares surged ahead of the opening bell, in the latest sign that frenetic trading by individual investors is leading to outsize stock-market moves. [...]
Technology shares led U.S. stock futures higher ahead of a blockbuster week in earnings, with investors awaiting results from companies such as Apple, Tesla and Facebook. [...]
Technology shares were leading gains premarket. [...]
The software giant’s results will reflect a big gaming quarter, though console production constraints and low margins complicate the story. [...]
Small-investor trading activity has stayed super hot in 2021, highlighting the opportunity for big banks to tap into a rare source of growth. [...]
Since Democrats won control of the Senate earlier this month, many in the cannabis industry are betting on a more rapid path to full federal legalization and a pickup in deal making as companies rush to scale up. [...]
Estimates that China will soon overtake the U.S. in total economic heft depend on it maintaining current growth trends, and poor demographics will make it difficult to hold the lead. [...]
Holdings in fossil-fuel businesses pressure companies that Berkshire Hathaway took a 5% stake in. [...]
Sany Heavy and Zoomlion have gained market share in China while their foreign competitors have been hobbled by Covid-19. [...]
Kuaishou Technology has its eyes on the world’s biggest initial public offering in more than a year, seeking to raise about $5 billion from a Hong Kong share sale. [...]
On January 1, the Supreme People’s Court released the first interpretations of China’s Civil Code, putting into effect the nation’s first comprehensive collection of private laws on personal and property rights. When it passed last May, public attention was fixed on long-running crises of domestic… [...]
A new investigation by China Media Project revealed how Twitter’s decision to label certain Chinese accounts as “state-affiliated” throttled their reach, curbing China’s “borrowed boat” propaganda strategy yet also impacting independent Chinese media outlets. In August of 2020, Twitter attached labels to accounts connected to… [...]
Lightning “passes through” the highest landmark building in Beijing like a dragon, by World Meteorological Organization/Lu Qiao (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) [...]
A week after stage three trial data from Brazil revealed lower-than-expected efficacy numbers for one of China’s main coronavirus vaccines, Beijing’s spokespersons and several reputable Chinese experts have doubled down on a new tactic to promote their vaccine: sniping at competitors. From accusing Western media… [...]
During a January 20 press conference, China’s National Health Commission stated that all hoping to return to countryside homes for next month’s Spring Festival must first get tested for COVID. The following day, Xinhua News followed up on the surprise announcement, writing: “People must produce… [...]
A gossipy breakup scandal became an internet-wide debate about the morality of surrogacy after it was revealed that a former celebrity couple secretly begat children through surrogacy in the United States. Producer Zhang Heng accused actress Zheng Shuang of denying her maternity and abandoning their… [...]
As the Hong Kong government’s crackdown on pro-democracy activists continues unabated, relations between Beijing and London have become increasingly frayed. Areas that have previously highlighted Hong Kong’s connectivity with the West and London’s positive relationship with the former colony have become stress points, affecting the… [...]
Medical researchers have developed a biosensing microneedle patch that can be applied to the skin, capture a biomarker of interest and, thanks to its unprecedented sensitivity, allow clinicians to detect its presence. [...]
Conditions inside the Shiveluch volcano include roughly 10%-14% water by weight (wt%), according to new research. Most volcanoes have less than 1% water. For subduction zone volcanoes, the average is usually 4%, rarely exceeding 8 wt%, which is considered superhydrous. [...]
Researchers have shown a way to make bulk metals by smashing tiny metal nanoparticles together, which allows for customized grain structures and improved mechanical and other properties. [...]
The enzyme that makes RNA from a DNA template is altered to slow the production of ribosomal RNA (rRNA), the most abundant type of RNA within cells, when resources are scarce and the bacteria Escherichia coli needs to slow its growth. [...]
Researchers have tested a new combination therapy in animal models to see if they could find a way to make an already effective treatment even better. Since they're using a Food and Drug Administration-approved drug to do it, this could help people sooner than later. [...]
Laser beams are used to change the properties of materials in an extremely precise way. However, the underlying processes generally take place at such unimaginably fast speeds and at such a small scale that they have so far eluded direct observation. Researchers have now managed… [...]
New research shows that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) reduced both antibody and inflammatory responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection in mice. [...]
Oceanographers fully reconciled climate and carbon cycle trends of the past 50 million years -- solving a controversy debated in the scientific literature for decades. [...]
Biomedical engineers have demonstrated that human muscle has an innate ability to ward off damaging effects of chronic inflammation when exercised. The discovery was made possible through the use of lab-grown, engineered human muscle, demonstrating the potential power of the first-of-its-kind platform in such research… [...]
New results from an atmospheric study over the Eastern North Atlantic reveal that tiny aerosol particles that seed the formation of clouds can form out of next to nothingness over the open ocean. The findings will improve how aerosols and clouds are represented in models… [...]
Israel is vaccinating against Covid-19 faster than anywhere else, but most Palestinians are waiting. [...]
Malka Leifer is being flown to Australia, where she is accused of sexually assaulting schoolgirls. [...]
Israel has vaccinated more than a quarter of its population and now high school students are eligible. [...]
It's been 10 years since Egyptians took to the streets to unseat their longest-serving President, Hosni Mubarak. [...]
A photomontage seems to show the ex-president playing in the shadow of a warplane or large drone. [...]
The jihadists say the biggest bombing in Iraq's capital for three years was aimed at Shia Muslims. [...]
Israeli businessman Beny Steinmetz is given a jail term by a Swiss court in a historic corruption case. [...]
Israel is likely to be the first country to see an impact from vaccination - but it is still too early. [...]
Protests continued for a fifth night over high unemployment and an economic crisis. [...]
People in Lebanon describe the impact of being confined to their homes for 24 hours a day. [...]
Abu Dhabi [UAE], January 25 (ANI): Ireland skipper Andrew Balbirnie has admitted that the target of 260 runs for Afghanistan in the second ODI on a pitch that became more dead as the game progressed w [...]
By John SolomouNicosia [Cyprus], January 25 (ANI): Last Thursday morning the center of the Iraqi capital Baghdad was shaken by a twin suicide bombing which killed at least 32 people and wounded more t [...]
Rahmat Shah smashed an unbeaten century to guide Afghanistan to a seven-wicket victory over Ireland in their second one-day international in Abu Dhabi.Rahma [...]
ISLAMABAD - Authorities in Afghanistan say they have rearrested 600 members of the Taliban who were freed from imprisonment as part of a peace-building agreement between the United States and the i [...]
BEIJING, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Snow and sleet accompanied by gusts will hit parts of northern China from Sunday evening to Tuesday, the country's top meteorological authority said Sunday. Temp [...]
FARAH, Afghanistan -- A total of eight militants have been confirmed dead as fighting planes struck the Taliban hideout in Balablock district of the western Farah province on Saturday, said an army [...]
Rescue teams in China have brought to the surface 11 miners trapped in a gold mine by an explosion Jan. 10.Local media said the first miner was rescued from the mine in Qixia City in Shandon [...]
Faryab [Afghanistan], January 24 (ANI): As many as six Taliban terrorists were killed and five others were wounded by the Afghan Air Force in Afghanistan's Faryab province on Saturday. "Afghan Air For [...]
FARAH, Afghanistan, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- A total of eight militants have been confirmed dead as fighting planes struck the Taliban hideout in Balablock district of the western Farah province on Satu [...]
ULAN BATOR, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Mongolia has reported 16 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, taking its total tally to 1,627, the country's National Center for Communicable Diseases (NCCD) [...]
[allAfrica] Cape Town -- As of January 25, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 3,437,638. Reported deaths in Africa reached 85,184 and 2,892,407 people have recovered. [...]
[allAfrica] Cape Town -- United States President Joe Biden is set to ban most non-U.S. citizens who have recently been in South Africa from entering the country, in a bid to contain the spread of a new variant of Covid-19, a senior U.S. public health… [...]
[Monitor] The High Court in Kampala has ordered security operatives to vacate former presidential candidate, Robert Kyagulanyi's home in Magere, Wakiso District. [...]
[The Herald] Herald Reporter [...]
[New Zimbabwe] ZIMBABWE Warriors star Marvelous Nakamba marked his return to the Aston Villa starting line-up in style with an impressive performance to inspire his side to a comfortable victory over Newcastle at Villa Park on Saturday night. [...]
[Nation] A mysterious cross has been discovered underneath the City Market in Nairobi, triggering interest by archaeologists and architectural historians on what could be beneath the crucifix-like concrete. [...]
[The Herald] At least 60kg of gold worth millions of dollars could be smuggled from Zimbabwe to Dubai monthly, prejudicing the country of the much-needed foreign currency earnings, Prosecutor-General Mr Kumbirai Hodzi estimates. [...]
[East African] Sierra Leone's capital Freetown goes into a two-week lockdown starting Monday, as the government revises measures to contain the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. [...]
[East African] Kenya is bracing for a surge in toxic political rhetoric in the coming months amid renewed agitation for a rotational presidency. [...]
[Daily News] THE executive and the judiciary have agreed to fully switch the country's legal system and legal materials from English to Kiswahili language, a centenary since the establishment of the High Court in the country. [...]
Montenegrin Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapic on Monday said the last government's expulsion of the Serbian ambassador should not damage relations between the two countries – and again urged the Serbian PM to pay a visit. [...]
Local versions of Facebook have been launched in Poland and Hungary, though experience shows that technology ventures conceived with politically biased and nationalistic motives rarely succeed. [...]
Moldova has long played a major role in the illicit trade in anabolic steroids. But was the country’s envoy to Russia also in on the act? [...]
‘Predictive justice’ might just be the tool to accelerate Serbia’s sluggish justice system. But experts are warning of considerable dangers and say the public must have a say. [...]
With the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue currently at a standstill, a new report by the International Crisis Group, ICG, proposes three possible options for ending a logjam that is holding both sides back from EU membership. [...]
A round-up of Balkan Insight's favourite photographs of the week. [...]
Croatian President Zoran Milanovic refused to go to a commemoration of a 1993 victory over rebel Serbs when he learned that participants from a former paramilitary unit were wearing WWII-era fascist symbols. [...]
While Most Central and Southeast European countries put their faith in Western-made COVID vaccines – Turkey, Hungary, Bosnia and Serbia are also investing in Russian and Chinese jabs – despite concerns about their reliability. [...]
Wartime fighter Senad Dzananovic’s lawyer said he should be acquitted of unlawfully detaining, raping and killing Serbs in Sarajevo in 1992 during the siege of the city. [...]
As Moldova and Russia spar again over Moscow’s military presence in the breakaway region of Transnistria, BIRN looks at what it would take to end this decades-long dispute. [...]