Lockdowns not only turbo-charged the growth of digital businesses like Zoom and Netflix – they also gave a jolt to the world’s largest electric guitar maker. The factory floor is humming as mast...
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Delta gives employees 4% raises, first pay increase since before the pandemic
Flight attendants hand out refreshments to a packed Delta Airlines flight traveling from Ronald Regan National Airport to MinneapolisSaint Paul International Airport on Friday, May 21, 2021. Kent Nish...
Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel has sold more than $400 million of company stock during the pandemic
Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel Steven Ferdman | Getty Images Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel has sold $408 million in company stock since the beginning of the pandemic — averaging roughly $3.6 million a week...
French Stock Market Added 150K Retail Traders in Early Pandemic Months
The French financial market supervisor, locally known as Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), revealed that retail investors traded more than €67 billion in French equities between December 2019 and...
White House says U.S. will run out of money to fight pandemic
A healthcare worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic in the Peabody Institute Library in Peabody, Massachusetts, on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. Vanessa Ler...
Anthony Fauci warns not to forget pandemic
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, arrives for a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing to discuss the on-going federal r...
Netflix shares hit lowest point since March 2020, when Covid pandemic started
Netflix‘s stock has now given up all its pandemic gains. On Monday, the streaming service’s shares fell more than 2% to around $332 each, a 52-week low. That’s more than 50% down fro...
Oracle’s Latest Earnings Call Indicated Its Next Frontier: Healthcare
Famed technology and software giant Oracle took a bold step late last year when it announced its acquisition of Cerner, an electronic health records (EHR) company. This valiant purchase signaled a new...
True Covid Pandemic Death Toll Could Be Three Times Higher Than Official Count, Study Finds
Topline Covid-19 may have claimed far more lives than official records indicate, according to a new study published in the Lancet medical journal, a sobering figure that marks exactly two years since ...
Covid declared a pandemic two years ago. Health experts warn it’s still not over
Medical staff treat a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patient in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Providence Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, California, January 25, 2022. Shannon Stapleton | Reu...
Moderna CEO’s golden parachute soared by hundreds of millions over the pandemic
Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel Steven Ferdman | Getty Images Moderna’s board of directors approved a golden parachute for CEO Stephane Bancel worth more than $926 million at the end of last year, u...
Pandemic leads crypto entrepreneur to new business headquarters
Life gave crypto businessman Ilman Shazhaev lemons when he got stuck in Dubai in the wake of the COVID-19 lockdowns. However, like the old adage, he “made lemonades” by recognizing the opportunities i...
NYC Health Commissioner Chokshi says Covid pandemic has left U.S. with new epidemic of loneliness
Dr. Dave Chokshi is the Commissioner of New York City’s Department of Health & Mental Hygiene. As another Covid-19 wave recedes across the country, the full toll of the pandemic on our emoti...
AMC debuts The Batman as pandemic woes cool. Should you buy the stock?
The Batman (2022) was released exclusively through theaters on March 4th. The debut was just in time for AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:AMC), which announced its Q4 and annual results on March...
YachtX Coin – Transforming Traveling Post Pandemic To Be Affordable And Better With Crypto – Coinpedia – Fintech & Cryptocurreny News Media
No matter how much one desires to travel, the ground reality is that no trip ever starts without hunting for the best discounts over the web. Advertisement Many have accepted that a good deal demands ...
More Than 6 Million People Have Now Died With Covid
Topline The global death toll from Covid-19 passed 6 million Monday, a bleak milestone as a growing number of countries around the world drop all pandemic restrictions and prepare to live with the vir...
The Film & TV Charity Produces Study On Mental Health Post Pandemic In The Industry
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – MARCH 29: A camera crew prepare to film a scene on the streets of Sydney during … [+] production of the film sequel Mask II March 29, 2004 in Sydney, Australia. Major s...
The Growth Of The Beauty Industry In Film And TV Through The Pandemic
Turkisk actor Dogu Demirkol speaks during an interview with AFP speaks on how TV sets work, in … [+] Beykoz, in the outskirts of Istanbul on May 20, 2020. – Turkey is known for its obsessi...
Plus500 Revenue Falls Following the Pandemic Last Year
The pandemic has not been kind to businesses across the world. Many small-scale startups both in crypto and mainstream industries have gone out of business, and established firms have faced a signific...
Thailand’s Central Retail Says Revenue Hit $6 Billion Last Year Despite Prolonged Pandemic
Central Group is led by Tos Chirathivat, grandson of the group’s founder. Charlesworth/LightRocket via Getty Images Thailand’s largest retailer released quarterly results that show it’s well on ...
Low earners hit hardest by inflation as savings and pandemic aid dwindle
Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Inflation Consumer prices in January rose 7.5% from a year earlier, the fastest annual pace in 40 years. However, households don’t feel those price shock...
Healthcare Is Slowly Moving Out Of Hospitals & Into Homes
The Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic has reshaped society’s understanding of ideal healthcare delivery. During the height of the pandemic and amidst sweeping social isolation measures, billions of people...
Air rage during the pandemic – where it is and isn’t happening
The videos light up social media and dominate news headlines. From verbal confrontations to all-out brawls, scenes of airplane passengers behaving badly have become increasingly familiar in Covid-era ...
Why HTC Invested In A Hong Kong Events Platform Startup In The Middle Of The Pandemic
An employee wearing HTC Corp. Vive virtual reality headsets at the T.UM showroom in the SK Telecom … [+] Co. headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, on June 11, 2021. SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg When Ev...
Covid infections plummet 90% from U.S. pandemic high, states lift mask mandates
A resident receives a Covid-19 swab test during a mobile clinic at Saint Paul MB Church in Cleveland, Mississippi, on Saturday, Jan. 8, 2022. Rory Doyle | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. health official...
Haidilao Sees Up To $710 Mln Loss
The logo for the Haidilao hotpot restaurant, China’s biggest hotpot restaurant chain. Photographer: … [+] Anthony Kwan/Bloomberg © 2018 Bloomberg Finance LP Following Yum China and Starbuc...
As We Emerge From The Covid-19 Pandemic, We Must Build Back Better
Over the last two years, the global Covid-19 pandemic has proven that no part of our lives is immune to its destructive forces. A complete economic and social moratorium has been the standard governme...
E-Commerce Sales Grew 50% to $870 Billion During The Pandemic
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Covid risks have reduced but another pandemic will come
Bill Gates said Friday that the risks of severe disease from Covid-19 have “dramatically reduced” but another pandemic is all but certain. Speaking to CNBC’s Hadley Gamble at Germany...
Charlie Munger explains why Berkshire didn’t make any big acquisitions during the pandemic
Global mergers and acquisitions activity hit record highs during the pandemic as companies took significant steps to shape the trajectory of their futures in a post-COVID world. However, Berkshire Hat...